Getting Real about Customer Delight: The Strategy of Emotional Outcomes
It’s all the rage, and is often the reason we get out of the bed each day – we want... Read →
How Do You Know Your R&D Spend is Appropriate?
There is no more measurable part of an organization than the sales team. They have targets and quotas, and they... Read →
Top 7 Reasons You Need to Conduct a Squad Calibration With Your Product Team
Ocean’s 11. “The A-Team.” All those Fast & Furious movies… US popular culture is littered with examples of assembling all-star... Read →
Aligning Your Roadmap Themes to the Customer Journey
Much has been written over the last few years on the idea of the featureless roadmap, which challenges product teams... Read →
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... Read →
Your MVP is Not the Minimum Product
If you’re a product manager or part of a startup, you’ve likely heard about the Minimum Viable Product concept for... Read →
Your Dev Squads Shouldn’t Be Hitting 100% of Their Sprint Goals
Goals are a good thing. Without setting goals, we have don’t know what we’re trying to accomplish and have no... Read →
4 Useful Real-Life Customer Interview Email Templates
Communication is a vital skill for product managers. We spend lots of time thinking about the best way to deliver... Read →
Category: Product Leadership
How to Run a Collaborative Roadmapping Exercise with Your Team
You’re a product manager, and you need to run a collaborative roadmapping exercise with various teams across your company. Not… Read →
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… Read →
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… Read →
14 Can’t Miss Conferences for Product Leaders
Product managers, product leaders, and product executives have no shortage of educational opportunities. From books, podcasts, and blogs to earning… Read →
How Do You Know Your R&D Spend is Appropriate?
There is no more measurable part of an organization than the sales team. They have targets and quotas, and they… Read →
7 Product Leaders to Follow on LinkedIn
Most of us think of LinkedIn as our always-updated Rolodex. Our professional contacts and connections are stored in there, with… Read →
Top 7 Reasons You Need to Conduct a Squad Calibration With Your Product Team
Ocean’s 11. “The A-Team.” All those Fast & Furious movies… US popular culture is littered with examples of assembling all-star… Read →
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… Read →
Your MVP is Not the Minimum Product
If you’re a product manager or part of a startup, you’ve likely heard about the Minimum Viable Product concept for… Read →
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… Read →
5 Strategies for Burning Down Silos and Building Bridges
As organizations grow and expand, keeping stakeholders and employees on the same page to drive alignment with your product strategy… Read →
5 Ways Product Teams Can Drive an Exceptional Customer Experience Strategy
I’ve worked exclusively on digital products for over 14 years, primarily in product and design-centric roles. Thinking back, it’s surprising… Read →
From Chaos to Cohesion: Implementing Lightweight Processes
When you’re just getting things started, an anything-goes, Wild West attitude can sometimes be a positive. There’s so much new… Read →
How can Product Leaders Build Trust with Remote Teams?
We build up trust in others based on our own experiences, or the recommendations of those who already have our… Read →
Why Distributed Product Teams are Here to Stay
There is no going back to “normal” for product teams. The idea of simply translating what we did in the… Read →
Your Scaling Team Needs Product Ops, featuring Melissa Perri
“If you’re a growth stage company then you have to be able to make strategy decisions very rapidly. If you… Read →
Resilient Leadership During Challenging Times
A crisis can bring out the best (and worst) in people. Throughout my career, I’ve seen a spectrum of responses… Read →
5 Key Responsibilities of Intentional Leadership of a Remote Product Team
5 Key Responsibilities of Intentional Leadership of a Remote Product Team As many people have come to realize in recent… Read →
The Essentialist’s Way to Building Better Products
“Am I working on the right things?” “How can I fit it all in?” I find myself asking these questions… Read →
8 Product Management Trends That Are Here to Stay
Velcro sneakers are relegated to the senior citizens’ section of shoe stores. Plasma TVs are collecting dust. Vine’s six seconds… Read →
