How to Manage Stakeholder Expectations for Your Product
Optimism can be a great asset, and enthusiasm for your product is invaluable. But super-high expectations? Not so much. As we’ve written here on...
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Could You Explain Your Product’s Mission in Under 10 Words?
Think of this as a pop quiz. If you’re a product manager or other product management professional, you spend hours every day driving your...
Can You Ever Stop Improving Your Product?
You’d probably think that the standard cranberry wouldn’t have much room for new features or product enhancements. (In case you’re wondering, no, “cranberry” isn’t...
5 Lessons from IDEO for Unlocking Your Team’s Creative Potential
If you’re not familiar with IDEO, the global design company founded in Palo Alto, California in 1991, you probably know some of its work....
What Game of Thrones (and the Rest of Hollywood) Can Teach You About Product Management
In his controversial bestseller Everything Bad is Good for You, author Steven Johnson made the case that TV, movies, video games and the rest...
Do Product Managers Make Good Startup Founders?
Do product managers make good startup founders? The short answer is (probably) yes, product managers are well equipped to transition to startup founders. The...
Product Management Training: 5 Excellent Resources
If you want to become a software developer, one option is to major in computer science or software engineering in college. You probably won’t...
Four Product Management Skills You Might Not Know You Need
If you’ve worked as a product manager, or even researched job postings looking for your first product management position, you’re probably familiar with most...
How to Support a Change Management Process Using Roadmaps
Change is hard. It’s an uphill battle against the familiar, the routine, complacency, and inertia. Even when people agree, change is needed. Figuring out...
How to Write a Product One-Pager People Will Actually Read
When asking yourself how you can write a product one-pager that people will actually read, it’s important to note its purpose. Somewhere between coming...
How Does an MBA Fit into your Product Management Career?
If there’s one degree that is most beneficial to product management types, it’s likely a Masters in Business Administration. An MBA program, much like...
The Best Product Management Conferences’ Talks Through the Years
Product management conferences allow us to step back from the office and connect with people for a fresh perspective. Enter 2020. The pandemic is...
5 Roadmap Templates for SaaS Businesses
Roadmaps are a unique tool for creating and maintaining stakeholder alignment, resource planning, and budgeting purposes. But what happens when you’re managing a product...
5 Key Responsibilities of a Product Owner
If there’s a more widely misunderstood job title than “product owner,” we’d like to see it. As a professional in the product field, you...
14 Can’t Miss Conferences for Product Leaders
Product managers, product leaders, and product executives have no shortage of educational opportunities. From books, podcasts, and blogs to earning certificates and joining online...
How Do You Know Your R&D Spend is Appropriate?
There is no more measurable part of an organization than the sales team. They have targets and quotas, and they either hit them, or...
7 Product Leaders to Follow on LinkedIn
Most of us think of LinkedIn as our always-updated Rolodex. Our professional contacts and connections are stored in there, with promotions, job changes, and...
The Main Stages of the Product Management Process
Just because it’s a great idea doesn’t mean it will automatically turn into a great product. Not all ideas are all that great to...
How to Escape the Product Manager Hustle Culture
Crazy-busy. Hustle culture. These loaded terms have risen to become a badge of workplace honor. They describe a state of professional fervor that’s not...
5 Roadmap Templates for Product Executives
Product roadmaps shouldn’t be a one-size-fits-all proposition, as different stakeholders care about various elements and require different levels of detail. With this in mind,...
How to Evaluate Top Roadmapping Solutions
You’ve got a new feature or product to build. You need to evaluate an effective roadmapping tool to help you stay on track. But...
5 Steps for Integrating GitHub with Your Roadmap Tool
A product roadmap is a blueprint that communicates your team’s strategic plans and goals for the product. Your development team’s day-to-day progress will inform...
How to Create a DevOps Roadmap
In this article, we’ll discuss how a DevOps roadmap can help a software company build and release products more quickly and efficiently. We’ll also...
Agile vs. Waterfall
There’s no shortage of processes, frameworks, and philosophies when it comes to project management, but they ultimately fall into one of two camps: Agile...
