5 Things That Can Ruin Your Roadmap
Most product managers know the product roadmap can be your best friend, or your worst nightmare. When used in the right way, the roadmap...
Product Management Lessons: Interview with a Dell Software PM
At ProductPlan, we meet hundreds of product managers across virtually every industry. Their experience gives us invaluable insight into the profession, its challenges and...
My Journey to a Data-Driven Roadmap
I still cringe when I think back to the first roadmap I put together. Like most of us who find ourselves in product management,...
How to Become a Better Public Speaker: Public Speaking Tips to Use Today
Public speaking isn’t usually included as a required skill in a typical product manager job description. But it should be. Today’s article on public...
A Four-Tier Approach to Combating Feature Bloat
Most product people are familiar with the sticky problem of feature bloat. You may also recognize the issue by its other uncomfortable names: feature...
4 Key Responsibilities of Outstanding Product Managers
Your role as the product’s strategist and evangelist will be central to your success and the success of your products.
Looking for a Product Management Job in 2016? 5 Trends you Need to Know
Like you, we have now seen a dozen articles predicting the top trends for product managers in 2016. Yes, we know that better communication...
4 Steps to a Prioritized Product Roadmap
New product managers will find themselves asking this question a lot: “How do we build a prioritized product roadmap so that we have the...
Customer Spotlight: Orion Health
Orion Health develops software solutions for healthcare organizations worldwide, helping to improve the care of 35 million patients. Founded in New Zealand in 1993,...
Customer Spotlight: Henry Schein Inc.
Henry Schein, Inc. is the world’s largest provider of health care products and services to dental, animal health and medical practitioners. Teams at Henry Schein...
10 Lessons for Pricing SaaS Products
Pricing is such a core part of a SaaS product’s business model that you need to get it right. In this series, I’m writing...
How to Choose a Great SaaS Pricing Model
It’s a brave new world for pricing software-as-a-service products. Gone are the days of simply setting a per-seat fee and launching. How can you...
The Best Way to Price SaaS Products
Pricing SaaS products presents unique challenges—and opportunities—for product and marketing teams. In the past few years, I’ve had a hand in setting pricing for...
Why Product Teams Should Care about the Internet of Things
No doubt you’ve heard of the coming Internet of Things (IoT) and how it’s going to change our lives through billions of Internet-connected devices...
The Empathetic Product Manager
Empathy. You’ve heard it’s an important skill for product managers, marketing managers, and UX teams. But how can you put empathy into practice when...
7 Steps for Testing if Your Product Will Fail
Recently I spoke to a class at the UCSB Technology Management Program about market validation and failure testing – the process of testing...
Product Managers: Is Your MVP Truly Compelling?
More product teams are taking advantage of the Minimum Viable Product concept—deploying products early to customers in order to learn and iterate. MVP is...
How to Avoid Putting Dead Weight Product Features On Your Roadmap
A few days ago I had lunch with the product team of a mid-sized software company, and one of the product managers had a conundrum: “Sometimes...
10 Great Questions Product Managers Should Ask Customers
A few well-phrased questions can yield fantastic customer insights. But knowing the right questions to ask during customer conversations and win-loss interviews takes a...
Why Agile Teams Need a Product Roadmap
“We’re agile, so why do we need a long-term product roadmap?” I hear this question regularly. At first blush, the terms agile and product roadmap seem like a...
Benefit versus Cost: How to Prioritize Your Product Roadmap
Deciding which initiatives to include in your future product releases can be daunting. Product prioritization is even more difficult when there are too many opportunities...
Should You Flip Your Product Roadmap Process Around?
If your product team is like most, you have software for capturing issues, managing requirements, and tracking projects. After all, it’s essential to manage...
Building Your Sphere of Influence, Featuring Roxanne Mustafa
When you’re new to a product management role, you enter the situation with minimal credibility, name recognition, or trust beyond your hiring manager. When...
