How to Run a Collaborative Roadmapping Exercise with Your Team
You’re a product manager, and you need to run a collaborative roadmapping exercise with various teams across your company. Not sure where to start?…
Thriving as a Lone Ranger: 7 Tips to Working as a Product Team of One
Product managers are usually outnumbered in an organization. There will always be far more salespeople, technical types, operations folks, and administrative staff due to...
If You’re Hitting All the Dates on Your Roadmap, You’re Doing It Wrong
Imagine a product team out for dinner and drinks. They’re celebrating a big win. The product manager, development team, product owner, maybe even a...
Shifting Your Business and Product Strategy During a Crisis, Featuring Adrienne Tan
In March 2020, many organizations found themselves suddenly plunged into crisis. A global pandemic sparked radical, immediate shifts with lasting effects. Companies had to...
Growing Sales in a Product-Led Company
The move towards product-led growth is on the rise, in part because potential customers increasingly prefer to experience a product or service first-hand before...
How Do You Know You’re Hiring a Good Product Team Member?
Product leaders don’t often get many chances for hiring product team members. It’s not overstating things to label bringing on new talent as critically...
Strategy is Important But It Isn’t Everything
In an ideal, data-driven world, every product, project, and program would come gift wrapped with its own precise set of goals, objectives, and KPIs....
The Roadmap Revolution: A Chance to Hit “Reset”
It’s that time of year where I’m both overwhelmed and excited to work on my roadmap. Maybe it’s the feeling of a fresh start...
Lean Market Validation: 10 Ways to Rapidly Test Your Startup Idea
In 2016 I gave a talk on lean market validation at the opening night of Startup Weekend at the University of California, Santa Barbara....
The Role Roadmaps Play in Managing Product Design
In modern software development, product designers tend to be embedded on a cross-functional squad or scrum team. That team’s collective work is often represented,...
4 Ways Portfolio Roadmap Views Help Directors Keep the End in Mind
No man—or product—is an island. Everything exists within a larger context and must fit into a bigger picture. But when it comes to product...
The Biggest Mistake When Rolling Out a New Roadmapping Tool — and How to Avoid it
One of the product roadmap’s primary goals is to bring a company’s teams and departments together around a shared strategy for product success. The...
How to Shift to Product-Led Growth, Featuring Wes Bush
Making a shift to product-led growth sounds pretty appealing, especially to product managers. Knowing your baby is the driving engine behind the entire company’s...
Declaring Roadmap Bankruptcy
Is it Time to Declare Roadmap Bankruptcy? Whether your product finds a market or falls flat, your team needs to understand why this outcome...
How to Run a Collaborative Roadmapping Exercise with Your Team
You’re a product manager, and you need to run a collaborative roadmapping exercise with various teams across your company. Not sure where to start?...
Pharmaceutical Product Managers’ Unique Roles and Responsibilities
What All Industries Expect from Their Product Managers Whether the industry is pharmaceuticals, furniture, or food, product managers representing all types of products share...
Overcoming Cognitive Bias as a Product Manager
How Cognitive Bias Threatens Product Success The human brain is a vast storehouse of accumulated knowledge, memories, and experience. All these help us make...
Getting to Know Jim Semick
I met Jim Semick the first day I started ProductPlan. We took a walk outside the office to talk about the values that drive...
The 5 Top Trends in Product Management to Watch in 2021
The year 2020 shifted the world in fundamental ways. It changed the way we work, learn, play, travel, and socialize. It catapulted some industries...
Missed Details That Can Cause Huge Product Reputation Ramifications
Product managers are all about prioritization. The items that deliver the most value to a product’s reputation, help the product achieve its goals and...
When Is it Safe to Remove Functionality from Your Product? (Is it Ever?)
When do you even want to remove product functionality? Think about your car’s interior or the interior of the last car you sat in....
The Unique Work of a Product Executive at a Mid-Size Company
In between “scrappy startup” and “enterprise behemoth” lies the mid-size company. With hundreds—or maybe even one or two thousand employees—organizations in this size range...
5 Key Skills of Outstanding eCommerce Product Managers
Marketplaces like Amazon and eBay have built such outstanding online shopping experiences that consumers now take these experiences for granted. Creating a world-class eCommerce...
Gathering Feedback From Unengaged Customers, Featuring Brian Tan
Customer feedback is the lifeblood of customer-centricity. It’s impossible to create and improve products without understanding customers’ experience, especially when customers have unengaged and...
How to Support a Change Management Process Using Roadmaps
Change is hard. It’s an uphill battle against the familiar, the routine, complacency, and inertia. Even when people agree, change is needed. Figuring out...
