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Getting Real about Customer Delight: The Strategy of Emotional Outcomes

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

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How Do You Know Your R&D Spend is Appropriate?

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

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Top 7 Reasons You Need to Conduct a Squad Calibration With Your Product Team

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

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Aligning Your Roadmap Themes to the Customer Journey

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

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My Experience Transitioning From Engineering to Product Leadership

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

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Your MVP is Not the Minimum Product

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

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Your Dev Squads Shouldn’t Be Hitting 100% of Their Sprint Goals

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

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4 Useful Real-Life Customer Interview Email Templates

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

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Resilient Leadership During Challenging Times

A crisis can bring out the best (and worst) in people. Throughout my career, I’ve seen a spectrum of responses… Read →

Rethink Innovation: Making Experimentation and Learning a Fact of Life

In today’s world, the only thing you can count on is that things keep changing. Evolution is on permanent fast-forward… Read →

Proof Over Opinion: 8 Strategies for Selling a Roadmap to a Skeptic

Proof Over Opinion: 8 Strategies for Selling a Roadmap to a Skeptic Here you are up to your eyeballs, creating… Read →

8 Reasons to Love Your Product Roadmap as a Gaming Product Manager

The world is made up of two types of people: Gamers and everybody else. Here at the ProductPlan blog, we… Read →

My 9 Lessons Learned for Remote Success from Across Time Zones

I joined ProductPlan in the summer of 2019, excited to sink my teeth into creating product management content. However, joining… Read →

Roadmap What Matters Most

Product management turns chaos into order. We face down indecision, molding it into a concrete strategy. We sideline shiny objects…. Read →

The Ultimate Motivation: What Gets Product Managers Out of Bed Every Morning?

No matter how much we love our career, we all have some days when we’d rather stay in bed. So… Read →

5 Key Responsibilities of Intentional Leadership of a Remote Product Team

5 Key Responsibilities of Intentional Leadership of a Remote Product Team As many people have come to realize in recent… Read →

The Essentialist’s Way to Building Better Products

“Am I working on the right things?” “How can I fit it all in?” I find myself asking these questions… Read →

6 Things Product Managers Can Do with Qualitative Research

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

6 Remote Product Management Strategies to Implement for the Long-Term

Remote product management strategies are no longer a “niche” topic. The importance of working effectively from afar has become paramount… Read →

5 Roadmap Best Practices for Remote Product Managers

One of the biggest challenges facing any product team is internal communication. ProductPlan’s industry research illustrates this point. We surveyed… Read →

7 Roadmap Changes That Will Make a Big Difference to Computer Software Product Managers

In a world of browser-based solutions, experimentation and rapid iteration are sometimes taken for granted. Some products get released multiple… Read →

6 Product Manager Mistakes and Missteps Sabotaging Your Promotion

Promotions are considered the ultimate form of recognition that you’re doing a great job, and your company values you. It… Read →

How to Maintain Good Roadmapping Habits

Have you reviewed your list of New Year’s Resolutions recently? Statistically speaking, you won’t like what you see. According to… Read →

10 Ways a Feature-Less Roadmap Helps Your Product Strategy

Since releasing both a webinar and book on the impact of feature-less roadmaps on your product strategy recently, we’ve gotten… Read →

AI Product Management: Why Software Product Managers Need to Understand AI and Machine Learning

Artificial intelligence (AI) (and its subset, machine learning (ML)) is indisputably a rising star on the world’s technology stage. The… Read →

Prepare Yourself Against Executive Shiny Object Syndrome

Do you find yourself continually diverted from your product’s itinerary to delve into your boss’s new favorite subject? Are you… Read →

The Activities of a Strategic Product Manager

A strategic product manager (PM) is responsible for shaping and sharing a strategic vision for a product, and yet—oddly enough—finding… Read →

How I Learned to Embrace Uncertainty: Tips for Product Managers

I’ll admit it, in the past, I’ve wrestled with needing to control uncertainty. For years I thoroughly planned most everything… Read →

Happiness Insights for Successful Product Management Careers

What’s the secret to happiness? We’d tell you if we knew. But when it comes to finding happiness in your… Read →

Your Product Outcomes Need to Impact Company KPIs (Otherwise You’re Doing it Wrong)

We live in the age of quantifiable measurability. Data abounds, analysis is cheap, and numbers are harder to dispute than… Read →

The Art of Communication: 7 Tiny Tweaks That Deliver Big Impact

In our fifth annual Product Management report, communication ranked the most important skill absolutely essential to the role of product… Read →

I’m Predictable in an Agile Environment

“Being Agile” and “being predictable” may seem mutually exclusive, at least when it comes to product management. A good sprint… Read →

So You Dislike Your Product Management Job

Product management isn’t for everyone. For example, some product managers might love hearing product management is “responsibility without authority.” For… Read →

Patterns of Pain: How Product Managers Solve High-Value Problems

The most successful product managers think of themselves as finders of pain, not finders of products. In my experience launching… Read →

Product Metrics Are Affecting Your Happiness

Happiness can be hard to find, especially in the workplace. Yet product managers generally love what they do and find… Read →

The Number One Thing Product Managers Want This Year

Despite general happiness with their jobs, many product managers are still looking to improve some things, and there are some… Read →

Are Product Managers Really Happy?

Product management roles offer opportunities for autonomy, creativity, and innovation. Variety is the spice of life; therefore, this should result… Read →

Your Product Roadmaps Aren’t For Everyone

Your roadmaps aren’t for everyone. It’s essential to tailor your product roadmaps for your audience. One-size-fits-all might sound more manageable,… Read →

Staying Ahead: The Most Popular Prioritization Frameworks for 2020

The toughest part of product management might be prioritization. It’s where data and logic meet intuition and judgment. It’s easy… Read →

When to Declare Backlog Bankruptcy

A few years ago, I was the acting product manager at a startup, developing an enterprise software product. Building the… Read →

The Key to Defeating Analysis Paralysis on Your Roadmap

Thanks to the Internet, there is no unfindable fact. As information is always at the ready, there’s no excuse not… Read →

The High Cost of Context Switching for Product Managers

In computer programming, context switching refers to storing an active process in its current state so the system’s CPU can… Read →

What Happens When Customers Have a Negative Product Experience

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

6 Crucial Conversations to Have Before You Start Your Roadmap

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

The Most Under-Appreciated Product Management Skill

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

The 8 Biggest Challenges for Product Leaders

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

Demystifying Product Management’s Role in Pricing Strategy

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

6 Types of Churn Feedback (and What to Do About It)

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

Without Justifying Opportunity Costs, You Might Prioritize the Wrong Features

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

Product Management 2019: Year In Review

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

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