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The Best Product Management Content of 2018
At ProductPlan, we love content. Especially product management content. That’s why we’ve published hundreds of blog posts and product management… Read →
Why Technical Debt Roadmaps Don’t Work
To understand the problem with technical debt roadmaps, we’ll start with a quote from renowned philosopher, Homer Simpson. “If you… Read →
How to Use Google’s OKR Framework to Prioritize Your Product Roadmap
If you haven’t found the right objective goal-setting framework for setting roadmap priorities, consider Objectives and Key Results (OKRs). The… Read →
4 Steps to Managing Unplanned Work
No matter how much you plan, there’s always going to be some level of uncertainty. As Dwight D. Eisenhower famously… Read →
Why Business Teams Need to Start Together, Work Together, and Finish Together
The most successful products I’ve been involved with in my career came about when the entire team opened the door… Read →
The Introverted Product Manager
Can introverts be successful as product managers? No matter what you may have heard, we believe the answer to this… Read →
Making Sense of Planning in an Agile World
“But we’re agile. We don’t plan.” If you’ve ever worked with an agile team, chances are you’ve heard this excuse…. Read →
How to Foster a Culture of Gratitude
As we head into a new year, we tend to talk more about gratitude. We talk about what we’re grateful… Read →
6 Key Hard Skills in Product Management
You hear a lot about the need for soft skills in product management, but product managers also need hard skills…. Read →
5 Reasons to Organize Your Roadmap by Themes
The goal of any roadmap, whether it’s a product roadmap, IT roadmap, or marketing roadmap, is to capture and communicate… Read →
Why Soft Skills Are a Hard Requirement for Product Management Career Growth
When we think about the skills required for just about any role, it’s only natural to first think about technical… Read →
5 Hacks for Better Product Roadmap Presentations
Are you prepared for your next product roadmap presentation? As product managers, the product roadmap is at the core of… Read →
7 Steps to Determine Whether a Customer Request is Actionable
While customer feedback is the gold standard of insight for product managers, not every customer request is actionable. Today we’ll… Read →
How Product Managers Should Deal with Different Stakeholder Types
The product management community often uses the term stakeholder management as shorthand for how product managers communicate with executives and… Read →
3 Key Traits of Successful Product Designers
What exactly is product design? And how do you differentiate between a good product designer and a great one? Today… Read →
7 Horrible Things to Say to Executive Stakeholders
Your executive stakeholders have life-and-death power over your products. In most companies, they have the final vote about which product… Read →
4 Mistakes Your Company Might Be Making with Your Product Culture
If we asked you right now to describe your organization’s product culture, what would you say? Don’t be too hard… Read →
3 Products That Capitalized on Excitement Features
No matter how dull you think your product is, there’s always a way to add some excitement to it and… Read →
