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 to delight our customers...
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 teams to overcome the...
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 to present their plans...
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 fifteen years later, and...
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 getting products to market...
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 our product roadmaps, give...
What Does a Lead Engineer at ProductPlan Do in a Day?
I’m writing for the first time on the ProductPlan blog! Long time reader, first time writer. I’m currently a remote Lead Software Engineer at...
5 Ways Product Teams Can Drive an Exceptional Customer Experience Strategy
I’ve worked exclusively on digital products for over 14 years, primarily in product and design-centric roles. Thinking back, it’s surprising that it was only...
Product Strategy Doesn’t Work in a Vacuum, featuring Hadrien Raffalli
In our webinar Product Managers: Treat your Strategy as a Product, Hadrien Raffalli discusses the importance of tracking market activity and tweaking plans accordingly....
6 Tips to Creating Roadmap Accountability with Your Team
As a Customer Success Manager at ProductPlan for the past two years, I’ve worked with hundreds of our customers on establishing their roadmapping processes....
Why Distributed Product Teams are Here to Stay
There is no going back to “normal” for product teams. The idea of simply translating what we did in the office can’t be matched...
Your Scaling Team Needs Product Ops, featuring Melissa Perri
“If you’re a growth stage company then you have to be able to make strategy decisions very rapidly. If you don’t have the data...
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 from leaders that have...
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 the team came with...
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 what motivates product managers...
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 almost daily, both in...
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 over 10 years of...
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 and felt the need...
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 cadence creates a predictable...
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 ProductPlan and prior products,...
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 product was hard: it...
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 to check sources, find...
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 prioritization, the ability to...
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 seems to be accelerating....
