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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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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?...
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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...
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