When do you even want to remove product functionality? Think about your car’s interior or the interior of the last… Read →

In between “scrappy startup” and “enterprise behemoth” lies the mid-size company. With hundreds—or maybe even one or two thousand employees—organizations… Read →

Marketplaces like Amazon and eBay have built such outstanding online shopping experiences that consumers now take these experiences for granted…. Read →

Change is hard. It’s an uphill battle against the familiar, the routine, complacency, and inertia. Even when people agree, change… Read →

Once you’re blessed with the opportunity to expand your product management team with a new hire, you have options to… Read →

If there’s one degree that is most beneficial to product management types, it’s likely a Masters in Business Administration. An… Read →

There are many roles where your career path is clear. But, product management is a different story. People have transitioned… Read →

It’s all the rage, and is often the reason we get out of the bed each day – we want… Read →

There is no more measurable part of an organization than the sales team. They have targets and quotas, and they… Read →

Crazy-busy. Hustle culture. These loaded terms have risen to become a badge of workplace honor. They describe a state of… Read →

If you’re a product manager or part of a startup, you’ve likely heard about the Minimum Viable Product concept for… Read →

Goals are a good thing. Without setting goals, we have don’t know what we’re trying to accomplish and have no… Read →

Communication is a vital skill for product managers. We spend lots of time thinking about the best way to deliver… Read →

I’ve worked exclusively on digital products for over 14 years, primarily in product and design-centric roles. Thinking back, it’s surprising… Read →

When you’re just getting things started, an anything-goes, Wild West attitude can sometimes be a positive. There’s so much new… Read →

We build up trust in others based on our own experiences, or the recommendations of those who already have our… Read →

There is no going back to “normal” for product teams. The idea of simply translating what we did in the… Read →

Continuing education plays a crucial role in long-term career success in just about any profession. Product management is certainly no… Read →

In today’s world, the only thing you can count on is that things keep changing. Evolution is on permanent fast-forward… Read →

I joined ProductPlan in the summer of 2019, excited to sink my teeth into creating product management content. However, joining… Read →

5 Key Responsibilities of Intentional Leadership of a Remote Product Team As many people have come to realize in recent… Read →

We are excited to welcome guest writer Carlos González de Villaumbrosia to the ProductPlan blog. Carlos González de Villaumbrosia has… Read →

Remote product management strategies are no longer a “niche” topic. The importance of working effectively from afar has become paramount… Read →

Artificial intelligence (AI) (and its subset, machine learning (ML)) is indisputably a rising star on the world’s technology stage. The… Read →

Do you find yourself continually diverted from your product’s itinerary to delve into your boss’s new favorite subject? Are you… Read →

A strategic product manager (PM) is responsible for shaping and sharing a strategic vision for a product, and yet—oddly enough—finding… Read →

I’ll admit it, in the past, I’ve wrestled with needing to control uncertainty. For years I thoroughly planned most everything… Read →

What’s the secret to happiness? We’d tell you if we knew. But when it comes to finding happiness in your… Read →

We live in the age of quantifiable measurability. Data abounds, analysis is cheap, and numbers are harder to dispute than… Read →

In our fifth annual Product Management report, communication ranked the most important skill absolutely essential to the role of product… Read →

“Being Agile” and “being predictable” may seem mutually exclusive, at least when it comes to product management. A good sprint… Read →

Product management isn’t for everyone. For example, some product managers might love hearing product management is “responsibility without authority.” For… Read →

The most successful product managers think of themselves as finders of pain, not finders of products. In my experience launching… Read →

Happiness can be hard to find, especially in the workplace. Yet product managers generally love what they do and find… Read →

Despite general happiness with their jobs, many product managers are still looking to improve some things, and there are some… Read →

The toughest part of product management might be prioritization. It’s where data and logic meet intuition and judgment. It’s easy… Read →

A few years ago, I was the acting product manager at a startup, developing an enterprise software product. Building the… Read →

Thanks to the Internet, there is no unfindable fact. As information is always at the ready, there’s no excuse not… Read →

A human mind is a pattern-seeking machine. Our species has evolved an impressive ability to spot small, subtle clues to… Read →

A carefully constructed roadmap can be a powerful tool that can align stakeholders and motivate coworkers. It can even jumpstart… Read →

We write a lot about the skills that product managers need to be effective. The skills are wide-ranging, from ruthless… Read →

If you lead a product management team, you know firsthand just how challenging it can be — balancing being a… Read →