One of the product roadmap’s primary goals is to bring a company’s teams and departments together around a shared strategy… Read →

Making a shift to product-led growth sounds pretty appealing, especially to product managers. Knowing your baby is the driving engine… Read →

You’re a product manager, and you need to run a collaborative roadmapping exercise with various teams across your company. Not… Read →

What All Industries Expect from Their Product Managers Whether the industry is pharmaceuticals, furniture, or food, product managers representing all… Read →

How Cognitive Bias Threatens Product Success The human brain is a vast storehouse of accumulated knowledge, memories, and experience. All… Read →

I met Jim Semick the first day I started ProductPlan. We took a walk outside the office to talk about… Read →

The year 2020 shifted the world in fundamental ways. It changed the way we work, learn, play, travel, and socialize…. Read →

Product managers are all about prioritization. The items that deliver the most value to a product’s reputation, help the product… Read →

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 →

Customer feedback is the lifeblood of customer-centricity. It’s impossible to create and improve products without understanding customers’ experience, especially when… Read →

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

When you’re new to a product management role, you enter the situation with minimal credibility, name recognition, or trust beyond… Read →

Roadmaps are a unique tool for creating and maintaining stakeholder alignment, resource planning, and budgeting purposes. But what happens when… Read →

If there’s a more widely misunderstood job title than “product owner,” we’d like to see it. As a professional in… Read →

Much has been written over the last few years on the idea of the featureless roadmap, which challenges product teams… Read →

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

As a Customer Success Manager at ProductPlan for the past two years, I’ve worked with hundreds of our customers on… Read →

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

Proof Over Opinion: 8 Strategies for Selling a Roadmap to a Skeptic Here you are up to your eyeballs, creating… Read →

The world is made up of two types of people: Gamers and everybody else. Here at the ProductPlan blog, we… Read →

Product management turns chaos into order. We face down indecision, molding it into a concrete strategy. We sideline shiny objects…. Read →

One of the biggest challenges facing any product team is internal communication. ProductPlan’s industry research illustrates this point. We surveyed… Read →

In a world of browser-based solutions, experimentation and rapid iteration are sometimes taken for granted. Some products get released multiple… Read →

Have you reviewed your list of New Year’s Resolutions recently? Statistically speaking, you won’t like what you see. According to… Read →

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

Product management roles offer opportunities for autonomy, creativity, and innovation. Variety is the spice of life; therefore, this should result… Read →

Your roadmaps aren’t for everyone. It’s essential to tailor your product roadmaps for your audience. One-size-fits-all might sound more manageable,… Read →

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

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

Roadmaps are scary. For product managers, a roadmap is the most widely discussed and circulated document. Despite being one of… Read →

Regardless of your company structure, goal-setting strategy, or philosophical stance, at some point, the work you do on your product… 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 →

As a product manager who now sits on the other side of the table as an executive, I’ve had lots… Read →

We are excited to welcome guest writer John Cutler to the ProductPlan blog. John is a product coach with Amplitude,… Read →

Product managers receive a lot of advice. You should prioritize this feature. Here’s a new market worth investigating. Some of… Read →

Product managers should not create their product roadmaps with a one-size-fits-all approach; each audience needs roadmaps with varying levels of… Read →

Technological evolution doesn’t stop. It doesn’t go on vacation, it doesn’t take a victory lap, it rarely even pauses long… Read →

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

When we plan out our lives, it’s always a balance between our immediate needs and our distant objectives. Our product… Read →