How to Make a Compelling IT Services Roadmap
Let’s face it, IT Services doesn’t get the glory it deserves. Most large organizations would quickly grind to a halt... Read →
How to Create a Product Operations Dashboard in 4 Steps
Product management used to be a “fuzzy” discipline within an organization, without a ton of metrics and scrutiny directly applied... Read →
Why Product Managers Should Listen to Music at Work
Thanks to open floor plan offices, it’s common to see rows of knowledge workers heads down in their laptops with... Read →
Category: Product Management
How to Create a Product Operations Dashboard in 4 Steps
Product management used to be a “fuzzy” discipline within an organization, without a ton of metrics and scrutiny directly applied… Read →
Why Product Managers Should Listen to Music at Work
Thanks to open floor plan offices, it’s common to see rows of knowledge workers heads down in their laptops with… Read →
4 Reasons You Must Use Metrics to Determine Feature Decisions
Any good goal is measurable, so organizations with properly defined objectives will establish metrics and KPIs to track their progress… Read →
5 Harsh Realities for Product Managers
Often here at the ProductPlan blog, you’ll find us writing about why it’s great to be a product manager. But… Read →
Grounding Your Product Roadmap With Themes and a North Star
We are excited to welcome guest writer John Cutler to the ProductPlan blog. John is a product coach with Amplitude,… Read →
The Women In Product Everyone Should Be Following
There is no shortage of prominent male product leaders populating social media with their wisdom. But well-rounded product managers should… Read →
Top 5 Ways to Mine Your Digital Customer Experience to Strike Insight Gold
As a product manager, you spend a lot of time trying to dig into the minds of your customers and… Read →
6 Ways for Product Managers to Manage their Time Off (and Still Drive their Roadmap Forward)
Product managers receive a lot of advice. You should prioritize this feature. Here’s a new market worth investigating. Some of… Read →
8 Tips for Building an Executive-Facing Roadmap
Product managers should not create their roadmaps with a one-size-fits-all approach; each audience needs varying levels of detail and transparency…. Read →
A Product Manager’s Guide to Building Customer Loyalty
In a world where advertising-supported products, SaaS products with monthly renewals, and free trials are de rigueur, customers don’t have… Read →
Should You Try to Extend Your Mature Product’s Life, or Build a New One?
Product managers will encounter many forks on the road to growth and product success. Those forks always require answering difficult… Read →
5 Ways to Build Credibility as a Product Manager
In product management, there’s no universal measure of your worth and accomplishments that speaks for itself. If you want credibility… Read →
Sticking to Your Product Vision Means Saying “No”
Product managers wear many hats, but one of the most uncomfortable ones they’re forced to occasionally don is that of… Read →
Product Managers: Learn to Let Go
I spent the last couple days in San Francisco attending my first Mind the Product conference. On top of marveling… Read →
5 Ways to Make Time for Strategic Thinking
The daily demands of product management make it challenging to carve out time for strategic thinking. But if we’re only… Read →
7 Tips for Creating Your Customer Advisory Board
A Customer Advisory Board is a group of customers who meet on a regular basis to share insights and advice… Read →
Product Accessibility Shouldn’t Be an Afterthought
I recently attended a presentation by Benjamin Evans, Inclusive Design Lead at Airbnb, on product accessibility and his experience with… Read →
A Well-Balanced Roadmap: Combining Near-Term Priorities with Long-Term Goals
When we plan out our lives, it’s always a balance between our immediate needs and our distant objectives. Our product… Read →