The Role Roadmaps Play in Managing Product Design
In modern software development, product designers tend to be embedded on a cross-functional squad or scrum team. That team’s collective...
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How to Shift to Product-Led Growth, Featuring Wes Bush
Making a shift to product-led growth sounds pretty appealing, especially to product managers. Knowing your baby is the driving engine...
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Declaring Roadmap Bankruptcy
Is it Time to Declare Roadmap Bankruptcy? Whether your product finds a market or falls flat, your team needs to...
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Getting to Know Jim Semick
I met Jim Semick the first day I started ProductPlan. We took a walk outside the office to talk about...
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The 5 Top Trends in Product Management to Watch in 2021
The year 2020 shifted the world in fundamental ways. It changed the way we work, learn, play, travel, and socialize....
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Gathering Feedback From Unengaged Customers, Featuring Brian Tan
Customer feedback is the lifeblood of customer-centricity. It’s impossible to create and improve products without understanding customers’ experience, especially when...
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3 Reasons You Should Hire a Senior Product Manager
Once you’re blessed with the opportunity to expand your product management team with a new hire, you have options to...
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The Journey from Customer Success to Product Manager
There are many roles where your career path is clear. But, product management is a different story. People have transitioned...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Product Strategy Doesn’t Work in a Vacuum, featuring Hadrien Raffalli
rIn our webinar Product Managers: Treat your Strategy as a Product, Hadrien Raffalli discusses the importance of tracking market activity...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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