Thriving as a Lone Ranger: 7 Tips to Working as a Product Team of One
Product managers are usually outnumbered in an organization. There will always be far more salespeople, technical types, operations folks, and administrative staff due to...
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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...
Pharmaceutical Product Managers’ Unique Roles and Responsibilities
What All Industries Expect from Their Product Managers Whether the industry is pharmaceuticals, furniture, or food, product managers representing all types of products share...
The Unique Work of a Product Executive at a Mid-Size Company
In between “scrappy startup” and “enterprise behemoth” lies the mid-size company. With hundreds—or maybe even one or two thousand employees—organizations in this size range...
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...
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...
How Does an MBA Fit into your Product Management Career?
If there’s one degree that is most beneficial to product management types, it’s likely a Masters in Business Administration. An MBA program, much like...
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...
How to Escape the Product Manager Hustle Culture
Crazy-busy. Hustle culture. These loaded terms have risen to become a badge of workplace honor. They describe a state of professional fervor that’s not...
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...
Product Manager to VC: How a Product Background Makes You a Better Investor
From product manager… to a venture capitalist? Let’s state the obvious first: Historically, that has not been the typical career path for a product...
4 Product Management Certifications that are Worth Your Time
Continuing education plays a crucial role in long-term career success in just about any profession. Product management is certainly no exception. Product managers and...
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...
6 Product Manager Mistakes and Missteps Sabotaging Your Promotion
Promotions are considered the ultimate form of recognition that you’re doing a great job, and your company values you. It signals to everyone in...
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...
Happiness Insights for Successful Product Management Careers
What’s the secret to happiness? We’d tell you if we knew. But when it comes to finding happiness in your product management career, we’ve...
The Art of Communication: 7 Tiny Tweaks That Deliver Big Impact
In our fifth annual Product Management report, communication ranked the most important skill absolutely essential to the role of product management. When we cross-referenced...
So You Dislike Your Product Management Job
Product management isn’t for everyone. For example, some product managers might love hearing product management is “responsibility without authority.” For others, this can send...
Product Metrics Are Affecting Your Happiness
Happiness can be hard to find, especially in the workplace. Yet product managers generally love what they do and find the role quite fulfilling....
The High Cost of Context Switching for Product Managers
In computer programming, context switching refers to storing an active process in its current state so the system’s CPU can shift its resources to...
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...
The 8 Biggest Challenges for Product Leaders
If you lead a product management team, you know firsthand just how challenging it can be — balancing being a member of the executive...
7 Internal Politics Situations You’ll Encounter as a Product Manager
National politics might dominate the headlines and dinner table conversations. But office internal politics impact your everyday life in a completely different manner. These...
