In 2016 I gave a talk on lean market validation at the opening night of Startup Weekend at the University… Read →

In modern software development, product designers tend to be embedded on a cross-functional squad or scrum team. That team’s collective… Read →

No man—or product—is an island. Everything exists within a larger context and must fit into a bigger picture. But when… Read →

One of the product roadmap’s primary goals is to bring a company’s teams and departments together around a shared strategy… Read →

Making a shift to product-led growth sounds pretty appealing, especially to product managers. Knowing your baby is the driving engine… Read →

Is it Time to Declare Roadmap Bankruptcy? Whether your product finds a market or falls flat, your team needs to… Read →

You’re a product manager, and you need to run a collaborative roadmapping exercise with various teams across your company. Not… Read →

What All Industries Expect from Their Product Managers Whether the industry is pharmaceuticals, furniture, or food, product managers representing all… Read →

How Cognitive Bias Threatens Product Success The human brain is a vast storehouse of accumulated knowledge, memories, and experience. All… Read →

I met Jim Semick the first day I started ProductPlan. We took a walk outside the office to talk about… Read →

The year 2020 shifted the world in fundamental ways. It changed the way we work, learn, play, travel, and socialize…. Read →

Product managers are all about prioritization. The items that deliver the most value to a product’s reputation, help the product… Read →

When do you even want to remove product functionality? Think about your car’s interior or the interior of the last… Read →

In between “scrappy startup” and “enterprise behemoth” lies the mid-size company. With hundreds—or maybe even one or two thousand employees—organizations… Read →

Marketplaces like Amazon and eBay have built such outstanding online shopping experiences that consumers now take these experiences for granted…. Read →

Customer feedback is the lifeblood of customer-centricity. It’s impossible to create and improve products without understanding customers’ experience, especially when… Read →

Change is hard. It’s an uphill battle against the familiar, the routine, complacency, and inertia. Even when people agree, change… Read →

Once you’re blessed with the opportunity to expand your product management team with a new hire, you have options to… Read →

When you’re new to a product management role, you enter the situation with minimal credibility, name recognition, or trust beyond… Read →

If there’s one degree that is most beneficial to product management types, it’s likely a Masters in Business Administration. An… Read →

There are many roles where your career path is clear. But, product management is a different story. People have transitioned… Read →

Roadmaps are a unique tool for creating and maintaining stakeholder alignment, resource planning, and budgeting purposes. But what happens when… Read →

If there’s a more widely misunderstood job title than “product owner,” we’d like to see it. As a professional in… Read →

Product managers, product leaders, and product executives have no shortage of educational opportunities. From books, podcasts, and blogs to earning… Read →

It’s all the rage, and is often the reason we get out of the bed each day – we want… Read →

There is no more measurable part of an organization than the sales team. They have targets and quotas, and they… Read →

Most of us think of LinkedIn as our always-updated Rolodex. Our professional contacts and connections are stored in there, with… Read →

Crazy-busy. Hustle culture. These loaded terms have risen to become a badge of workplace honor. They describe a state of… Read →

Ocean’s 11. “The A-Team.” All those Fast & Furious movies… US popular culture is littered with examples of assembling all-star… Read →

Much has been written over the last few years on the idea of the featureless roadmap, which challenges product teams… Read →

When I started my career as an engineer, I didn’t set my sights on becoming a product manager. Flash forward… Read →

If you’re a product manager or part of a startup, you’ve likely heard about the Minimum Viable Product concept for… Read →

Goals are a good thing. Without setting goals, we have don’t know what we’re trying to accomplish and have no… Read →

Communication is a vital skill for product managers. We spend lots of time thinking about the best way to deliver… Read →

I’m writing for the first time on the ProductPlan blog! Long time reader, first time writer. I’m currently a remote… Read →

As organizations grow and expand, keeping stakeholders and employees on the same page to drive alignment with your product strategy… Read →

I’ve worked exclusively on digital products for over 14 years, primarily in product and design-centric roles. Thinking back, it’s surprising… Read →

When you’re just getting things started, an anything-goes, Wild West attitude can sometimes be a positive. There’s so much new… Read →

Unless your product management stack includes a crystal ball, all those goals and resolutions we made way back in January… Read →

We build up trust in others based on our own experiences, or the recommendations of those who already have our… Read →

In our webinar Product Managers: Treat your Strategy as a Product, Hadrien Raffalli discusses the importance of tracking market activity… Read →

As a Customer Success Manager at ProductPlan for the past two years, I’ve worked with hundreds of our customers on… Read →