5 Things all IT Managers Should do to get Stakeholder Buy-In
Implementing a successful enterprise architecture (EA) transformation requires stakeholder buy-in. Hearing that may make you frustrated and worried about the... Read →
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What Your Executives Want to See When You’re Presenting Your Roadmap
As a product manager who now sits on the other side of the table as an executive, I’ve had lots... Read →
The Biggest Problem with Customer Delight Expectations
Making a sale deserves celebration, but ringing that bell is only the start of the customer journey. Now it’s time... Read →
Category: Roadmaps
What Your Executives Want to See When You’re Presenting Your Roadmap
As a product manager who now sits on the other side of the table as an executive, I’ve had lots… Read →
4 Phases of a Successful One-on-One with Your Product Team
We are excited to welcome guest writer Carlos González de Villaumbrosia to the ProductPlan blog. Carlos González de Villaumbrosia is… 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 →
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 →
Don’t Let Technology Changes Turn into Technical Debt
Technological evolution doesn’t stop. It doesn’t go on vacation, it doesn’t take a victory lap, it rarely even pauses long… Read →
From Awareness to Adoption: Keys to a Successful New Feature Launch
Product teams must not only create an amazing product, they also need to set the stage for the product getting… 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 →
Tips for Presenting Your Product Roadmap to Investors and the Board
As a product leader, face time with the company’s executive team is to be expected. Although product managers may not… Read →
Why Most Outcome-Based Roadmaps Fail (and How to Keep Yours From Doing the Same)
An outcome-based roadmap sounds like a good idea. Instead of a long list of context-free features and enhancements the roadmap… Read →
How to Choose the Right Feature Prioritization Framework
Prioritizing features is such a critical task for product managers and there’s no single “right” way to do it. Instead,… Read →
What to Expect When You’re Expecting (to Be Acquired)
Short of going public, the goal of many companies is being acquired by a deep-pocketed, larger company with a complementary… Read →
7 Takeaways from ProductCraft 2019
Last week I had the pleasure of attending the ProductCraft conference, a one-day event for product managers in San Francisco…. Read →
The Myth of First-Mover Advantage
First-mover advantage is a real thing. It even has its own TLA (its three-letter acronym being FMA, obviously). The common… Read →
3 Useful Analytics Hacks for Mobile Product Managers
Product managers are also problem managers. Crashes after a new version launch? It happens. Users dropping off after initial download?… Read →
Are North Star Metrics Leading You Astray?
Alignment is essential for any organization and a challenge that many grapple with regularly. Ensuring everyone is striving toward the… Read →
Why Cost of Delay is a Product Manager’s Secret Weapon
Product management receives a constant barrage of requests from a variety of sources. Whether you’re talking to customers, salespeople, executives,… Read →
How Product Managers can Leverage All-Hands Meetings to Foster Alignment
As companies grow, informal conversations and emails aren’t sufficient to ensure the entire staff is properly informed and motivated. To… Read →