Taking the Leap: Why Product Managers Make Better Entrepreneurs
I’ve spoken with so many product managers who have a dream of becoming an entrepreneur or launching their own product one day. Every one...
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How Do You Know You’re Hiring a Good Product Team Member?
Product leaders don’t often get many chances for hiring product team members. It’s not overstating things to label bringing on new talent as critically...
3 Reasons You Should Hire a Senior Product Manager
Once you’re blessed with the opportunity to expand your product management team with a new hire, you have options to consider. You can hire...
The Journey from Customer Success to Product Manager
There are many roles where your career path is clear. But, product management is a different story. People have transitioned to successful careers as...
My Experience Transitioning From Engineering to Product Leadership
When I started my career as an engineer, I didn’t set my sights on becoming a product manager. Flash forward fifteen years later, and...
What Does a Lead Engineer at ProductPlan Do in a Day?
I’m writing for the first time on the ProductPlan blog! Long time reader, first time writer. I’m currently a remote Lead Software Engineer at...
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 what motivates product managers...
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 and felt the need...
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 prioritization, the ability to...
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 chef, you don’t require...
The Rise of Product Ops: the New Discipline Powering Product Excellence
As product management continues to evolve, many new practices have been put in place to optimize product teams. Agile, Kanban, and similar methodologies have...
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 their peers. For 6...
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 product management advice and...
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 by moving up in...
What I Learned From My Product Management Internship
Product management isn’t a very well-known occupation—at least among college students. On top of that, it seems like unless someone has been a product...
Misfits, Geniuses, and Ringleaders: Why Product Management May Be Perfect for You
This article is for recent graduates with an entrepreneurial mindset who are thinking about what would be the perfect job for them. It’s also...
A Non-Designer’s Guide for Hiring a UX Designer
Technology and design are in the midst of an exciting crossroads, where businesses are becoming aware that the products and services they provide, no...
Product Management Chalk Talk: How Do I Build Shared Understanding?
One of the central roles of a product manager is to drive shared understanding. With shared understanding, a team is more effective, resilient, and...
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...
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...
4 Key Responsibilities of Outstanding Product Managers
For such a vital and pivotal position within many companies, the product manager’s job description is often not well defined. Product manager responsibilities often...
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...
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...
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...
