If You’re Hitting All the Dates on Your Roadmap, You’re Doing It Wrong
Imagine a product team out for dinner and drinks. They’re celebrating a big win. The product manager, development team, product owner, maybe even a...
Category Product Strategy
Shifting Your Business and Product Strategy During a Crisis, Featuring Adrienne Tan
In March 2020, many organizations found themselves suddenly plunged into crisis. A global pandemic sparked radical, immediate shifts with lasting effects. Companies had to...
The Roadmap Revolution: A Chance to Hit “Reset”
It’s that time of year where I’m both overwhelmed and excited to work on my roadmap. Maybe it’s the feeling of a fresh start...
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 that it was only...
Product Strategy Doesn’t Work in a Vacuum, featuring Hadrien Raffalli
In our webinar Product Managers: Treat your Strategy as a Product, Hadrien Raffalli discusses the importance of tracking market activity and tweaking plans accordingly....
6 Things Product Managers Can Do with Qualitative Research
We are excited to welcome guest writer Carlos González de Villaumbrosia to the ProductPlan blog. Carlos González de Villaumbrosia has over 10 years of...
Patterns of Pain: How Product Managers Solve High-Value Problems
The most successful product managers think of themselves as finders of pain, not finders of products. In my experience launching ProductPlan and prior products,...
3 Questions to Ask About Every Potential Product Feature
If you’re a product manager, then you know that demands for new features come from all directions. Sometimes these demands come from key customers...
4 Myths About Scaling Your Business
When I joined Sonos in 2005, I was the only software product manager. The company, known for its wireless smart speakers, was founded 3...
Four Steps to Creating a Strategy-Based Team Roadmap: Why Starting with Vision Matters
In my 12 years as a software product manager for Sonos, I benefited from an established company vision and strategy-based team roadmap, upon which...
2017 in Review: ProductPlan’s Top 10 Blog Posts of the Year
This has been quite a year for the ProductPlan blog. We’ve published more than 100 articles on a variety of product management-related topics like...
A Non-Designer’s Guide for Hiring a UX Designer
Technology and design are in the midst of an exciting crossroads, where businesses are becoming aware that the products and services they provide, no...
Building a Software Company: A Conversation With Jim Semick
We recently teamed up with Pivotal Tracker and Notion to host a product management networking event in Los Angeles called “Product Stack”. Over drinks...
A Customer Journey Map of the ProductPlan First Time User Experience
I was asked by ProductPlan to create a journey map that maps out their customers’ experience during the 30 day free trial. In this...
5 Hidden Prioritization Pitfalls That Product Managers Should Avoid
Product management can often be a difficult balancing act, in which you find yourself constantly trying to satisfy many competing agendas for your product....
The 5 Ways to Know if Your Product Idea is a Winner
Thousands of new products launch every month. Yet only a fraction of those gets enough traction to be considered successful. Of course, there are...
What the 2016 DDoS Attack Can Teach Product Managers About Disaster Preparedness
Chances are you weren’t giving much thought to the global stability or security of the Internet on Friday, October 21, 2016. Even if you...
Why User Onboarding Never Ends (And Why Product Managers Should Care)
The Traditional Approach to User Onboarding When software companies reference user onboarding, they are typically referring to the user’s initial experience in the application....
Help! I’ve Been Handed a Bad Product Strategy
On our blog we often discuss the challenges of being a product manager. One recurring theme is that although you are ultimately responsible for...
iPhone 7 Launch Day: Are Apple’s Product Teams Still Innovating?
Criticism can uncover important truths. This is one reason that product managers have such a difficult job: Sometimes the only way to learn what...
Can Product Squads Improve Your Agile Development Process?
Product squads are a relatively new methodology for product development popularized by Spotify. Actually, popularized might be too strong a term for it. Since...
Better Product Strategy Meetings in 5 Steps
Ah, a free exchange of ideas. Sounds nice, doesn’t it? Until you’ve got five stakeholders sitting in an enclosed space spitting out “Must Haves”...
A Four-Tier Approach to Combating Feature Bloat
Most product people are familiar with the sticky problem of feature bloat. You may also recognize the issue by its other uncomfortable names: feature...
10 Lessons for Pricing SaaS Products
Pricing is such a core part of a SaaS product’s business model that you need to get it right. In this series, I’m writing...
