A human mind is a pattern-seeking machine. Our species has evolved an impressive ability to spot small, subtle clues to… Read →

A carefully constructed roadmap can be a powerful tool that can align stakeholders and motivate coworkers. It can even jumpstart… Read →

We write a lot about the skills that product managers need to be effective. The skills are wide-ranging, from ruthless… Read →

If you lead a product management team, you know firsthand just how challenging it can be — balancing being a… Read →

Technology pricing can be tricky, particularly for software and services. When there’s no traditional cost of goods sold (COGS) to… Read →

At ProductPlan, we’re pretty obsessed with user feedback. We gather as much feedback as possible, intending to learn more about… Read →

Windows of opportunity are fleeting. Sometimes there’s only a short amount of time to do something before its benefits diminish…. Read →

What a year. There are so many changes happening in product management as I write this, and the evolution only… Read →

Should a product manager accompany the sales rep to prospect meetings to demo the product? When a customer calls their… Read →

National politics might dominate the headlines and dinner table conversations. But office internal politics impact your everyday life in a… Read →

Your customers don’t want to buy your product. I mean, sure, they’re willing to hand over the cash (or credit… Read →

Roadmaps are scary. For product managers, a roadmap is the most widely discussed and circulated document. Despite being one of… Read →

Regardless of your company structure, goal-setting strategy, or philosophical stance, at some point, the work you do on your product… Read →

Imagine this scenario. You’re a product manager working for a software startup, and you’ve come up with an idea for… Read →

Project managers are responsible for executing the plans handed off from product management. This hand-off means delivering on schedule and… Read →

In product management, there are many ways to build a roadmap and many types of roadmaps you can make. Some… Read →

When we’re new at something, we turn to trusted experts. Sure, we also glean all we can from the resources… Read →

Hiring product managers is one of the most challenging and important tasks for product team leaders. There’s no perfect template… Read →

Hiring a good product manager is hard to do. Think about how lucky your company is to have you! Augmenting… Read →

Security is someone else’s problem. It’s up to IT. The developers will handle it. We use AWS or Azure, so… Read →

Product management is one of the least-defined roles in the professional world. But you can identify many of the skills… Read →

Think being a product manager requires a lot of strategic thinking and long-term planning? You’re right. But you’ll need to… Read →

Implementing a successful enterprise architecture (EA) transformation requires stakeholder buy-in. Hearing that may make you frustrated and worried about the… Read →

As a product manager who now sits on the other side of the table as an executive, I’ve had lots… Read →

Making a sale deserves celebration, but ringing that bell is only the start of the customer journey. Now it’s time… Read →

We spend lots of time praising the savvy strategic moves of winning products and companies. But for every success story,… Read →

No business can survive without their customers. Too often, organizations get caught up in their own priorities. While the company… Read →

Until real users get their hands on your product, you can never be 100% sure it works. That’s why product… Read →

No matter how far into your career you might be, you’re never too old for imposter syndrome to make an… Read →

Let’s face it, IT Services doesn’t get the glory it deserves. Most large organizations would quickly grind to a halt… Read →

Product management used to be a “fuzzy” discipline within an organization, without a ton of metrics and scrutiny directly applied… Read →

Thanks to open floor plan offices, it’s common to see rows of knowledge workers heads down in their laptops with… Read →

Any good goal is measurable, so organizations with properly defined objectives will establish metrics and KPIs to track their progress… Read →

We are excited to welcome guest writer Carlos González de Villaumbrosia to the ProductPlan blog. Carlos González de Villaumbrosia is… Read →

Ask a room full of agile product managers what comes out of a sprint planning meeting, and most will list… Read →

Often here at the ProductPlan blog, you’ll find us writing about why it’s great to be a product manager. But… Read →

We are excited to welcome guest writer John Cutler to the ProductPlan blog. John is a product coach with Amplitude,… Read →

There is no shortage of prominent male product leaders populating social media with their wisdom. But well-rounded product managers should… Read →

As a product manager, you spend a lot of time trying to dig into the minds of your customers and… Read →

Product managers receive a lot of advice. You should prioritize this feature. Here’s a new market worth investigating. Some of… Read →

Leaders in technical organizations that want to advance their agendas must be able to communicate a strong vision and rationale… Read →

Product managers should not create their product roadmaps with a one-size-fits-all approach; each audience needs roadmaps with varying levels of… Read →