What Your Executives Want to See When You’re Presenting Your Roadmap
As a product manager who now sits on the other side of the table as an executive, I’ve had lots of experience both presenting...
How I Overcame Imposter Syndrome as a Product Manager
No matter how far into your career you might be, you’re never too old for imposter syndrome to make an appearance. Imposter syndrome is...
4 Phases of a Successful One-on-One with Your Product Team
We are excited to welcome guest writer Carlos González de Villaumbrosia to the ProductPlan blog. Carlos González de Villaumbrosia is the Founder of Product...
Grounding Your Product Roadmap With Themes and a North Star
We are excited to welcome guest writer John Cutler to the ProductPlan blog. John is a product coach with Amplitude, where he collaborates with...
Top 5 Ways to Mine Your Digital Customer Experience to Strike Insight Gold
As a product manager, you spend a lot of time trying to dig into the minds of your customers and unearth exactly what the...
Product Managers: Learn to Let Go
Sometimes it’s hard to let go of something after discovering it no longer works as you expect. Especially if it’s something you were passionate...
Feature Flags: A Product Manager’s Best Friend
Today, software development is all about the need for speed. Feature updates, UI changes and bug fixes are all done in near real time,...
7 Takeaways from ProductCraft 2019
Last week I had the pleasure of attending the ProductCraft conference, a one-day event for product managers in San Francisco. For those of you...
3 Useful Analytics Hacks for Mobile Product Managers
Product managers are also problem managers. Crashes after a new version launch? It happens. Users dropping off after initial download? That happens too. Rather...
How to Get Budget for Product Management Tools
You can be a successful product manager without any tools. Unlike a maintenance worker, a carpenter, a lumberjack, or a chef, you don’t require...
3 Things Product Managers Owe to Internal Constituents
If you’re a product manager, then you probably have a lot on your plate. Meeting deadlines. Making customers happy. Keeping your team on track…all...
The Rise of Product Ops: the New Discipline Powering Product Excellence
As product management continues to evolve, many new practices have been put in place to optimize product teams. Agile, Kanban, and similar methodologies have...
3 Questions to Ask About Every Potential Product Feature
If you’re a product manager, then you know that demands for new features come from all directions. Sometimes these demands come from key customers...
Why Business Teams Need to Start Together, Work Together, and Finish Together
The most successful products I’ve been involved within my career came about when the entire cross-functional team opened the door to the mission at...
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. However, even agile teams...
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 for in our own...
Why Transparency Matters When Prioritizing Product Features
Product management is about making informed, strategic decisions and ensuring product aligns with organizational goals and customer needs. But a product manager’s duties don’t...
5 Product Marketing Lessons I Learned at INBOUND 2018
Last week, I had the pleasure of attending HubSpot’s INBOUND conference in Boston. The conference marked my first trip to Boston (go Sox!) and...
4 Themes to Take Away From Mind the Product 2018
Mind the Product has certainly established itself as a premier event for product people to connect, share, and learn from their peers. For 6...
4 Myths About Scaling Your Business
When I joined Sonos in 2005, I was the only software product manager. The company, known for its wireless smart speakers, was founded 3...
Product Management Lessons I’ve Learned From Cave Diving
After working in the product management space for a few years, I realized that I needed to take some classic product management advice and...
Define Your Own Product Management Career Path
Many companies provide a single career path up the proverbial corporate ladder where the only way to get ahead is by moving up in...
Getting to the MVP: 5 Tips for Launching New Products
If launching new products were easy, you’d probably be reading this post through your Google Glass or on an Amazon Fire Phone. But there’s...
Four Steps to Creating a Strategy-Based Team Roadmap: Why Starting with Vision Matters
In my 12 years as a software product manager for Sonos, I benefited from an established company vision and strategy-based team roadmap, upon which...
