Category: Career
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 →
Does a Software Product Manager Need to be Technical?
Let’s skip right to the punchline: Yes, if you’re a product manager or hoping to begin a career in product… Read →
5 Goals for Product Managers to Focus on in the New Year
There’s a fairly well-known phenomenon in social psychology called the fresh-start effect. Essentially, it’s the idea that individuals are more… Read →
6 Book Recommendations From Product Managers
There are many fantastic books out there for product managers. We know this because when we published our own list… Read →
When Someone On Your Cross-Functional Product Team Won’t Cooperate
You’ve kicked off the development phase of your new product. Your executive team seems enthusiastic about the product’s potential. Your… Read →
What is the Product Manager Career Path?
The product manager career path is an exciting one with lots of possible on- and off-ramps. At ProductPlan, we’ve spoken… Read →
How to Manage Stakeholder Expectations for Your Product
Optimism can be a great asset, and enthusiasm for your product is invaluable. But super-high expectations? Not so much. As… Read →