How to Run a Collaborative Roadmapping Exercise with Your Team
You’re a product manager, and you need to run a collaborative roadmapping exercise with various teams across your company. Not sure where to start?…
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4 Product Management Certifications that are Worth Your Time
Continuing education plays a crucial role in long-term career success in just about any profession. Product management is certainly no exception. Product managers and…
The Ultimate Guide to Product Strategy
Your product strategy is the key to connecting business objectives with the product. Read the Guide to Product Strategy to learn how a great...…
7 Ways to Prioritize Your Product Backlog
Let’s talk tactics. How do you prioritize your product backlog today? If you’re like most product managers (read: busy!), you probably don’t have much…
Product Management Tools: What Should Your Product Stack Include?
When talking about tools for product managers, we’re usually referring to the standard few that most product managers use every day. These product management…
The Ultimate Guide to Product Management
One reason the “What is product management?” question comes up so often, even from experienced business people, is that product management encompasses a wide-ranging...…
The Ultimate Guide to Product Management Prioritization Frameworks
As a product manager (PM), how do you decide what to work on next? What product management frameworks do you use to figure out...…
The Ultimate Guide to Agile Product Management
Agile product management may not be perfect, but it has permanently changed how organizations approach product development and going to market. Along the way,...…
The Ultimate Guide to Product Roadmaps
A product roadmap is a high-level visual summary that maps out the vision and direction of your product offering over time. A product roadmap...…
The Ultimate Guide to Product Management vs. Project Management
Product management and project management are often used interchangeably, but they are different disciplines that require different skills and tools. Product managers drive the...…
What is a Product Manager’s Job?
What does a product manager job description look like? Ask 10 product managers to describe their jobs, and you’re likely to hear 10 different...…
The Ultimate Guide to Resources for Product Managers
At ProductPlan, we’ve had the opportunity to interact with hundreds of product managers and learn what makes them tick. From these conversations, we’ve compiled...…
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How Zoom’s Product Strategy Evolved to Keep Pace with an Unprecedented Surge
An analysis of how Zoom's product strategy scaled to meet connectivity demands with an unexpected, unprecedented influx of users during a worldwide pandemic.
6 Ways Roadmaps Help You Be Better at Your Job (and Your Career)
As product managers, creating and maintaining product roadmaps are regular duties. Product roadmaps enable us to do our entire jobs easier. It only requires...
What Does Strategic Misalignment Look Like (& How Can Product Managers Avoid it?)
For a product professional guiding the work of a team, strategic alignment should be the holy grail. Achieving it won’t be easy. To get...
What is the Product Manager Career Path?
The product manager career path is an exciting one with lots of possible on- and off-ramps. According to LinkedIn, interest in product management has...
5 Ways Your Product Team Lacks Standardization (& How to Improve)
Product teams that let everyone do their own thing think they’re facilitating creativity, flexibility, and independence. But in reality, a lack of consistency and...
Thriving as a Lone Ranger: 7 Tips to Working as a Product Team of One
Product managers are usually outnumbered in an organization. There will always be far more salespeople, technical types, operations folks, and administrative staff due to...
Why You Need Product Roadmap Software to Succeed
If you can’t bring your team together around a shared product strategy, you’re going to have difficulty building a successful product. Product managers must...
What Is Your Earning Potential? Discover Product Manager Salary Trends in 2021
ProductPlan's annual report pulled powerful information on product manager salary to support career decisions and offer letters. Read more
A Product Manager’s Role in SAFe®
Agile started with software development. Although many organizations have found the principles beneficial. The ability to quickly assess, adjust, and organize teams has benefits...
The 7 Strategic Phases of the Product Planning Process
The product planning process is a sequential set of steps encapsulating the entire lifecycle of a given product. The first step is ideation, the...
4 Ways Portfolio Roadmap Views Help Directors Keep the End in Mind
No man—or product—is an island. Everything exists within a larger context and must fit into a bigger picture. But when it comes to product...
Top 10 Most Frequently Asked Product Roadmap Questions
Product roadmaps are a hot topic for everyone in the product development process. There are many ways to create roadmaps. There are also many...
Gantt Chart vs. Roadmap: What’s the Difference?
Gantt charts and roadmaps are different tools with different strategic purposes. We’ll explain those differences and how to use them together.
The Biggest Mistake When Rolling Out a New Roadmapping Tool — and How to Avoid it
One of the product roadmap’s primary goals is to bring a company’s teams and departments together around a shared strategy for product success. The...
Going Overboard on a Data-Driven Approach (How to Avoid the Trap)
These days, product management and a data-driven approach are unshakeably tied together. Most want decisions based on a solid foundation of facts with experiments...
How to Run a Collaborative Roadmapping Exercise with Your Team
You’re a product manager, and you need to run a collaborative roadmapping exercise with various teams across your company. Not sure where to start?...
What is a Roadmap Template?
A roadmap template can serve as a helpful guide for product managers. Especially when looking for a broad-strokes idea of what the final output...
Pharmaceutical Product Managers’ Unique Roles and Responsibilities
What All Industries Expect from Their Product Managers Whether the industry is pharmaceuticals, furniture, or food, product managers representing all types of products share...
Overcoming Cognitive Bias as a Product Manager
How Cognitive Bias Threatens Product Success The human brain is a vast storehouse of accumulated knowledge, memories, and experience. All these help us make...
Who Should Participate in Product Roadmap Planning?
Product roadmap planning can involve many people from various teams across a company. First, we’ll review who the typical participants are. Then we will...
Missed Details That Can Cause Huge Product Reputation Ramifications
Product managers are all about prioritization. The items that deliver the most value to a product’s reputation, help the product achieve its goals and...
When Is it Safe to Remove Functionality from Your Product? (Is it Ever?)
When do you even want to remove product functionality? Think about your car’s interior or the interior of the last car you sat in....
The Unique Work of a Product Executive at a Mid-Size Company
In between “scrappy startup” and “enterprise behemoth” lies the mid-size company. With hundreds—or maybe even one or two thousand employees—organizations in this size range...
5 Key Skills of Outstanding eCommerce Product Managers
Marketplaces like Amazon and eBay have built such outstanding online shopping experiences that consumers now take these experiences for granted. Creating a world-class eCommerce...
