Category: Agile & Development
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 →
Why Software Product Managers Need to 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 →
Systems Thinking for Product Managers
This is the first in a two-part series on systems thinking based on a recent exchange between veteran product manager… Read →
How Product and UX Teams Collaborate to Build Great Products
In many ways, product management is process management. Product managers shepherd products through a development process that involves multiple stages,… Read →
Can Agile Product Management Work in a Non-Agile Company?
Now that it’s been around for a number of years and many businesses have been able to use it to… Read →
Embed Your Roadmap Directly into MS SharePoint
Microsoft SharePoint is a useful tool for facilitating collaboration and keeping team members in sync across an organization. SharePoint pages allows… Read →
Is Agile Project Management a Good Idea?
The idea of agile project management might strike you as wishful thinking at first. It’s like the notion of limiting… Read →
What Does the Goldilocks Cross-Functional Product Team Look Like?
Astronomers sometimes refer to Earth as being situated in the Goldilocks zone, meaning we are lucky enough to be orbiting… Read →
Should Product Managers and Engineers Get Along?
Ever notice that you don’t see many executive titles like Vice President of Innovation and Compliance? Or Chief Marketing and… Read →
How Product Managers Should Work with Agile Development Teams
What do you think it means to be a product owner — not simply the product manager, but a true… Read →
How Product Managers Can Translate Developer-Speak
Ah, product management. The all-important liaison. The bridge. Bringing together many professionals and departments across the company, each with their… Read →