6 Ways for Product Managers to Manage their Time Off (and Still Drive their Roadmap Forward)
Product managers receive a lot of advice. You should prioritize this feature. Here’s a new market worth investigating. Some of... Read →
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Why Enterprise Architects Need to Be Great Storytellers
Leaders in technical organizations that want to advance their agendas must be able to communicate a strong vision and rationale... Read →
8 Tips for Building an Executive-Facing Roadmap
Product managers should not create their roadmaps with a one-size-fits-all approach; each audience needs varying levels of detail and transparency.... Read →
Tips for Presenting Your Product Roadmap to Investors and the Board
As a product leader, face time with the company’s executive team is to be expected. Although product managers may not… Read →
11 Online Communities Product Managers Should Join
As product managers, there are some things we just have to learn through experience. You’ll never know what it really… Read →
How to Recruit Beta Testers
Working with beta testers is a great way to ensure a new product or feature is ready for “prime time”… Read →
Why Most Outcome-Based Roadmaps Fail (and How to Keep Yours From Doing the Same)
An outcome-based roadmap sounds like a good idea. Instead of a long list of context-free features and enhancements the roadmap… Read →
Sticky from the Start: How to Create Products that Stick
“Stickiness” isn’t always a good thing—but when it comes to products, we generally prefer users stick around and keep using… Read →
How to Be a Great Mentor to Product Managers
Being a mentor to product managers is the ultimate form of paying it forward. When you’ve amassed years or decades… Read →
Why the Most Forward-Thinking Product Teams Work Backwards
You’ve probably heard the old adage “success is not a destination, but a journey.” Clearly its authors were not product… Read →
Making the Move from Project Management to Product Management (Yes, it Can Be Done)
So, you’re a project manager interested in transitioning to a product management career. You’re not alone. We speak with a… Read →
How to Choose the Right Feature Prioritization Framework
Prioritizing features is such a critical task for product managers and there’s no single “right” way to do it. Instead,… Read →
What to Expect When You’re Expecting (to Be Acquired)
Short of going public, the goal of many companies is being acquired by a deep-pocketed, larger company with a complementary… Read →
7 Takeaways from ProductCraft 2019
Last week I had the pleasure of attending the ProductCraft conference, a one-day event for product managers in San Francisco…. Read →
The Myth of First-Mover Advantage
First-mover advantage is a real thing. It even has its own TLA (its three-letter acronym being FMA, obviously). The common… Read →
3 Useful Analytics Hacks for Mobile Product Managers
Product managers are also problem managers. Crashes after a new version launch? It happens. Users dropping off after initial download?… Read →
Are North Star Metrics Leading You Astray?
Alignment is essential for any organization and a challenge that many grapple with regularly. Ensuring everyone is striving toward the… Read →
How to Conduct an Effective Competitive Analysis
Competitors make our own products better—they create urgency and drive innovation by providing both motivation and a measuring stick. If… Read →
Why Cost of Delay is a Product Manager’s Secret Weapon
Product management receives a constant barrage of requests from a variety of sources. Whether you’re talking to customers, salespeople, executives,… Read →
7 Project Management Principles Product Managers Can Learn From
Product managers often think of project managers as tactical professionals. This is only partially true, but it’s an understandable misconception…. Read →
How Product Managers can Leverage All-Hands Meetings to Foster Alignment
As companies grow, informal conversations and emails aren’t sufficient to ensure the entire staff is properly informed and motivated. To… Read →