Category: Agile & Development
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… Read →
Product Management’s Role in a Modern Cross-Functional Team
Would it surprise you to learn that in the early days of scrum, the product manager was not generally considered… Read →
Why In-App Onboarding Deserves a Spot on Your Roadmap
If you work for a SaaS company, you probably regard in-app onboarding and training the way many software product managers… Read →
Growing Pains: 5 Challenges Faced by Product Managers at Rapidly Scaling Companies
Product managers at rapidly growing companies are a unique breed that require different skills to be successful. Just as a… Read →
Creating a Roadmap: How Long Should it Take?
A successful product roadmap is, in a sense, a work of art. So to answer the question, “How long should… Read →
5 Ways Product Managers Can Reduce Scope Creep
It would be great if the problem always showed up as “scope giant leap,” wouldn’t it? You were planning to… Read →
6 Tips for Better Product Retrospective Meetings
Product retrospective meetings, also sometimes called sprint retrospectives, can help your team find strengths and weaknesses in your current processes…. Read →
Why Product Managers Should Use Design Thinking
Educators are in the education profession. Police are in the business of policing. Obvious, right? But what about product managers?… Read →
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… Read →
Product Management Book Recommendation: Product Leadership
Can you describe the difference between a product manager and a product leader? Can you think of three aspects of… Read →
How Software Product Managers Can Budget Resources for Refactoring
After they’ve started using their very first credit card, many young people have a similar reaction when they review their… Read →
6 Ways to Prioritize Your Product Backlog
Let’s talk tactics. How do you maintain your product backlog today? If you’re like most product managers (read: busy!), you… Read →
#prodmgmt: 2017’s Most Interesting Product Management Tweets
At ProductPlan, we’re lucky to work with product managers on a regular basis. One thing we’ve noticed is that product… Read →
5 Agile Best Practices Many Product Teams Neglect
People can get very philosophical when talking about agile development. And often, a product manager’s discussion of their company’s agile… Read →
Leveraging Kanban in your Product Management Process
Product managers rely on a variety of specialized tools to get their work done, including everything from issue tracking and… Read →
6 Ways Product Managers Can Help Manage Technical Debt
In software development, technical debt refers to the accumulation of work that builds up when developers implement quicker, short-term solutions… Read →
How to Manage Multiple Development Tracks
Funny thing about juggling: It looks far more complicated and impressive to the untrained eye—or, more accurately, to the untrained… Read →
Environments, Teams, and Success in the Product System
This blog follows up on a previous post introducing the concept of systems thinking for product managers. Both posts feature… Read →