Unless your product management stack includes a crystal ball, all those goals and resolutions we made way back in January… Read →

In our webinar Product Managers: Treat your Strategy as a Product, Hadrien Raffalli discusses the importance of tracking market activity… Read →

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

Since releasing both a webinar and book on the impact of feature-less roadmaps on your product strategy recently, we’ve gotten… 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 →

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

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

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

Technology pricing can be tricky, particularly for software and services. When there’s no traditional cost of goods sold (COGS) to… Read →

Windows of opportunity are fleeting. Sometimes there’s only a short amount of time to do something before its benefits diminish…. Read →

What a year. There are so many changes happening in product management as I write this, and the evolution only… Read →

Your customers don’t want to buy your product. I mean, sure, they’re willing to hand over the cash (or credit… Read →

Imagine this scenario. You’re a product manager working for a software startup, and you’ve come up with an idea for… Read →

In product management, there are many ways to build a roadmap and many types of roadmaps you can make. Some… Read →

Security is someone else’s problem. It’s up to IT. The developers will handle it. We use AWS or Azure, so… Read →

We spend lots of time praising the savvy strategic moves of winning products and companies. But for every success story,… Read →

Until real users get their hands on your product, you can never be 100% sure it works. That’s why product… Read →

Any good goal is measurable, so organizations with properly defined objectives will establish metrics and KPIs to track their progress… Read →

In a world where advertising-supported products, SaaS products with monthly renewals, and free trials are de rigueur, customers don’t have… Read →

Product managers will encounter many forks on the road to growth and product success. Those forks always require answering difficult… Read →

Product managers wear many hats, but one of the most uncomfortable ones they’re forced to occasionally don is that of… Read →

The daily demands of product management make it challenging to carve out time for strategic thinking. But if we’re only… Read →

Product teams must not only create an amazing product, but they also need to set the stage for the product… Read →

It should be counterintuitive, but one thing many “unicorns” and scrappy startups have in common is a whole lot of… Read →

Working with beta testers is a great way to ensure a new product or feature is ready for “prime time”… Read →

“Stickiness” isn’t always a good thing—but when it comes to products, we generally prefer users stick around and keep using… Read →

You’ve probably heard the old adage “success is not a destination, but a journey.” Clearly its authors were not product… Read →

Competitors make our own products better—they create urgency and drive innovation by providing both motivation and a measuring stick. If… Read →

Product management receives a constant barrage of requests from a variety of sources. Whether you’re talking to customers, salespeople, executives,… Read →

Product managers often think of project managers as tactical professionals. This is only partially true, but it’s an understandable misconception…. Read →

Ask any SaaS company about their key metrics, and growth will inevitably come up quickly. Whether they’re exceeding expectations or… Read →

Are we there yet? This is a difficult question to answer when no one agrees on where exactly “there” is…. Read →

Most aspects of our lives are about achieving specific goals. We want to eat, so we make a meal. We… Read →

Every product has a lifecycle which consists of various phases. And the demands placed upon a product manager often vary… Read →

One of the biggest challenges product managers face is including the entire organization in product planning while avoiding a phenomenon… Read →

Unless your company is literally a one-person show, your role as a product leader includes stakeholder management. And including stakeholders… Read →

The path to the product-market fit is not clearly paved for all products. Today we’ll explore a few ways you… Read →

Need help prioritizing the many features and other initiatives competing for space on your product roadmap? One way to make… Read →

If you’re a product manager, then you know that demands for new features come from all directions. Sometimes these demands… Read →

Are organizational silos preventing your team (and your organization as a whole) from realizing its full potential? You’re not alone…. Read →

Most product teams have their own processes for handling customer requests. But what about would-be customers and their “dealbreaker” requests?… Read →