
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...
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It’s all the rage, and is often the reason we get out of the bed each day – we want to delight our customers...
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...
Much has been written over the last few years on the idea of the featureless roadmap, which challenges product teams to present their plans...
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...
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...
Communication is a vital skill for product managers. We spend lots of time thinking about the best way to deliver our product roadmaps, give...
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...
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...
In our webinar Product Managers: Treat your Strategy as a Product, Hadrien Raffalli discusses the importance of tracking market activity and tweaking plans accordingly....
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....
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...
“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...
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...
I joined ProductPlan in the summer of 2019, excited to sink my teeth into creating product management content. However, joining the team came with...
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...
“Am I working on the right things?” “How can I fit it all in?” I find myself asking these questions almost daily, both in...
We are excited to welcome guest writer Carlos González de Villaumbrosia to the ProductPlan blog. Carlos González de Villaumbrosia has over 10 years of...
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...
“Being Agile” and “being predictable” may seem mutually exclusive, at least when it comes to product management. A good sprint cadence creates a predictable...
The most successful product managers think of themselves as finders of pain, not finders of products. In my experience launching ProductPlan and prior products,...
A few years ago, I was the acting product manager at a startup, developing an enterprise software product. Building the product was hard: it...
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...
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...
What a year. There are so many changes happening in product management as I write this, and the evolution only seems to be accelerating....