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...
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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...
4 Key Responsibilities of Outstanding Scrum Masters
Scrum master. It’s one of those terms that has become commonly used in product and development circles. So much so that people assume everyone...
5 Important Ways Product Managers Can Refocus on Goals in 2020
Unless your product management stack includes a crystal ball, all those goals and resolutions we made way back in January likely didn’t take global...
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...
6 Product Manager Mistakes and Missteps Sabotaging Your Promotion
Promotions are considered the ultimate form of recognition that you’re doing a great job, and your company values you. It signals to everyone in...
Your Product Outcomes Need to Impact Company KPIs (Otherwise You’re Doing it Wrong)
We live in the age of quantifiable measurability. Data abounds, analysis is cheap, and numbers are harder to dispute than hunches and feelings. Figuring...
The Art of Communication: 7 Tiny Tweaks That Deliver Big Impact
In our fifth annual Product Management report, communication ranked the most important skill absolutely essential to the role of product management. When we cross-referenced...
The Number One Thing Product Managers Want This Year
Despite general happiness with their jobs, many product managers are still looking to improve some things, and there are some key things they want...
Staying Ahead: The Most Popular Prioritization Frameworks for 2020
The toughest part of product management might be prioritization. It’s where data and logic meet intuition and judgment. It’s easy to be wrong and...
The 8 Biggest Challenges for Product Leaders
If you lead a product management team, you know firsthand just how challenging it can be — balancing being a member of the executive...
Need a Product Manager Mentor? Here’s How to Find a Great One
When we’re new at something, we turn to trusted experts. Sure, we also glean all we can from the resources available to us, but...
The Definition of Done: What Product Managers Need to Know
Are we there yet? This is a difficult question to answer when no one agrees on where exactly “there” is. In an Agile world...
3 Reasons Product Managers Quit (and How to Prevent It)
When an employee leaves a company, there’s more walking out the door than a salary and a nameplate. They take with them institutional knowledge,...
Treat Your Product Team Like a Sports Team, Not a Family
Cultural fit is a relatively new concept in hiring and team building. While organizations have always had culture, the long-held expectation was that new...
5 Product Management Books to Read in 2019
One of the greatest things about the product management space is the wide availability of game-changing information out there. We’re thrilled by the sheer...
How Lazy Marketing Leaves Your Product Vulnerable
Amidst the laundry list of existing threats to your business, lazy marketing rarely comes to mind as a top concern. Things like competition, market...
The Best Product Management Content of 2018
At ProductPlan, we love content. Especially product management content. That’s why we’ve published hundreds of blog posts and product management resources over the past...
4 Steps to Managing Unplanned Work
No matter how much you plan, there’s always going to be some level of uncertainty. As Dwight D. Eisenhower famously said, “Plans are useless,...
7 Horrible Things to Say to Executive Stakeholders
Your executive stakeholders have life-and-death power over your products. In most companies, they have the final vote about which product initiatives get the green...
Product Managers: 5 Tips for Dealing with Different Personality Types
If you were running a focus group for a new product and you knew a few members of the group were very introverted, would...
The Impact of Human Psychology on Product Pricing
Before we get into specific tips for product pricing, let’s get one important point out there right away: A successful pricing strategy is often...
Books for the Product Manager’s Summer Reading List
A Pew Research study released in 2018 found that one in four Americans hadn’t read a single book in the previous year—and that includes...
Should Product Managers Focus More on High-Level Strategy or the Tactical Details?
A reporter once asked renowned behavioral psychologist Donald Hebb—the man credited with introducing the field of neuropsychology—a variation of the standard nature vs. nurture...
