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 an amazing 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 →

As a product leader, face time with the company’s executive team is to be expected. Although product managers may not… Read →

An outcome-based roadmap sounds like a good idea. Instead of a long list of context-free features and enhancements, the roadmap… Read →

Prioritizing features is such a critical task for product managers and there’s no single “right” way to do it. Instead,… Read →

Short of going public, the goal of many companies is being acquired by a deep-pocketed, larger company with a complementary… Read →

Last week I had the pleasure of attending the ProductCraft conference, a one-day event for product managers in San Francisco…. Read →

First-mover advantage is a real thing. It even has its own TLA (its three-letter acronym being FMA, obviously). The common… Read →

Product managers are also problem managers. Crashes after a new version launch? It happens. Users dropping off after initial download?… Read →

Alignment is essential for any organization and a challenge that many grapple with regularly. Ensuring everyone is striving toward the… Read →

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

As companies grow, informal conversations and emails aren’t sufficient to ensure the entire staff is properly informed and motivated. To… Read →

Product management owns the roadmap. They spend more time than anyone in the company poring over this important strategic blueprint…. Read →

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

When you’re continually shipping code, how do you plan, build, and communicate your roadmap? In this post, we’ll outline the… Read →

Getting the green light to hire product managers is almost always a good sign. It means your company is growing,… Read →

Product management interacts with many parts of the organization on a regular basis, but it’s usually either asking for specific… Read →

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

When a company hires a fancy management consulting firm to help them “optimize” operations, one of the first things they’ll… Read →