Category: Career
The Introverted Product Manager
Can introverts be successful as product managers? No matter what you may have heard, we believe the answer to this… Read →
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… Read →
6 Key Hard Skills in Product Management
You hear a lot about the need for soft skills in product management, but product managers also need hard skills…. Read →
Why Soft Skills Are a Hard Requirement for Product Management Career Growth
When we think about the skills required for just about any role, it’s only natural to first think about technical… Read →
How Product Managers Should Deal with Different Stakeholder Types
The product management community often uses the term stakeholder management as shorthand for how product managers communicate with executives and… Read →
7 Horrible Things to Say to Executive Stakeholders
Your executive stakeholders have life-and-death power over your products. In most companies, they have the final vote about which product… Read →
5 Product Management Career Mistakes to Avoid
Product management roles demand the ability to think about both strategy and tactics. Ironically, the most common product management career… Read →
How to Land a Product Management Job at Google, Amazon, Facebook, or Apple
How do I get hired as a product manager at Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, or other top companies? This is… Read →
Product Managers: 5 Tips for Dealing with Different Personality Types
If you were running a focus group for a new product and you knew a few members of the group… Read →
How to Be a Well-Rounded Product Manager
Alaska Airlines used to have an unofficial policy of temporarily rotating employees into different areas of the company every couple… Read →
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… Read →
Books for the Product Manager’s Summer Reading List
A Pew Research study released in 2018 found that one in four Americans hadn’t read a single book in the… 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 →
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… Read →
Product Management or Sales: Who’s Responsible for the Product Demo?
Imagine: One of your sales reps pings you to ask if you’ll hop on a sales call to give a… Read →
6 Tips to Manage a Product Team That Spans Time Zones (Without Pulling Your Hair Out)
Here’s a conundrum for you. The first tenet of the Agile Manifesto states that teams developing software should value “individuals… Read →
Psychological Safety: How to Build and Promote Team Psychological Safety
Google “psychological safety” and you’ll see a ton of results. But, for such an important and widely discussed concept, it’s… Read →
8 Blogs Product Managers Should Bookmark Immediately
At ProductPlan, we’re big fans of blogs. We publish hundreds of articles a year on our own blog, and regularly… Read →