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What We’ve Learned from User Feedback: Enhancing Our Platform
At ProductPlan, we’re constantly striving to improve our products and services to better meet user needs. That’s why we were so excited to release our first-ever customer survey last month. Our customer survey was a pivotal step in our...
Zapier: My Personal Product Management Assistant
As a product manager at ProductPlan, I’m particularly proud of our new integration with Zapier because of the impact I know...
6 Rules of Product Design According to Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
In this blog, we will discuss the applications of Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs to the world of product design and tips to...
Why It Is Essential to Put Customers First with a Customer-Led Product Strategy
At its most basic level, a customer-led product strategy means that your customers are the top priority at all times....
How Leadership Can Foster an Authentic Virtual Event for Your Employees
When you think of company-sponsored events, a few scenes may come to mind. There’s the holiday party where coworkers...
3 Tips to Make Your Product Manager Resume Stand Out From the Rest
According to LinkedIn, interest in product management has doubled in the United States in the past 5 years. ProductPlan's...
A Product Manager’s Guide to Roadmapping as an Essentialist
This article tackles one of the areas that gets the most interest from product managers: how can they use an essentialist approach to create and communicate better product roadmaps?
The Key to Driving Alignment is Remote Collaborative Exercises, Featuring Isabelle Berner VP of Product
Collaboration” and “remote work” may not seem like a perfect match. But teams can’t skimp on group work because the days of...
ProductPlan vs. Roadmunk
Comparing the two roadmapping softwares, ProductPlan vs. Roadmunk. Which is the best for functionality, feature set, design, and price?
If You’re Hitting All the Dates on Your Roadmap, You’re Doing It Wrong
Imagine a product team out for dinner and drinks. They’re celebrating a big win. The product manager, development team,...
Shifting Your Business and Product Strategy During a Crisis, Featuring Adrienne Tan
In March 2020, many organizations found themselves suddenly plunged into crisis. A global pandemic sparked radical,...
Growing Sales in a Product-Led Company
The move towards product-led growth is on the rise, in part because potential customers increasingly prefer to experience a...
How Do You Know You’re Hiring a Good Product Team Member?
Product leaders don’t often get many chances for hiring product team members. It's not overstating things to label bringing...
Strategy is Important But It Isn’t Everything
In an ideal, data-driven world, every product, project, and program would come gift wrapped with its own precise set of...
The Roadmap Revolution: A Chance to Hit “Reset”
It's that time of year where I'm both overwhelmed and excited to work on my roadmap. Maybe it’s the feeling of a fresh...
Lean Market Validation: 10 Ways to Rapidly Test Your Startup Idea
This article outlines the advice I gave students and includes updates on some of the concepts to my current thinking on...
The Role Roadmaps Play in Managing Product Design
In modern software development, product designers tend to be embedded on a cross-functional squad or scrum team. That...
How to Shift to Product-Led Growth, Featuring Wes Bush
Making a shift to product-led growth sounds pretty appealing, especially to product managers. Knowing your baby is the...
Declaring Roadmap Bankruptcy
Is it Time to Declare Roadmap Bankruptcy? Whether your product finds a market or falls flat, your team needs to understand...
Getting to Know Jim Semick
I met Jim Semick the first day I started ProductPlan. We took a walk outside the office to talk about the values that drive...
The 5 Top Trends in Product Management to Watch in 2021
The year 2020 shifted the world in fundamental ways. It changed the way we work, learn, play, travel, and socialize. It...
Gathering Feedback From Unengaged Customers, Featuring Brian Tan
Customer feedback is the lifeblood of customer-centricity. It's impossible to create and improve products without...
3 Reasons You Should Hire a Senior Product Manager
Once you’re blessed with the opportunity to expand your product management team with a new hire, you have options to...
Building Your Sphere of Influence, Featuring Roxanne Mustafa
When you’re new to a product management role, you enter the situation with minimal credibility, name recognition, or trust...
The Journey from Customer Success to Product Manager
There are many roles where your career path is clear. But, product management is a different story. People have...
Getting Real about Customer Delight: The Strategy of Emotional Outcomes
It’s all the rage, and is often the reason we get out of the bed each day - we want to delight our customers in everything...
Top 7 Reasons You Need to Conduct a Squad Calibration With Your Product Team
Ocean’s 11. “The A-Team.” All those Fast & Furious movies... US popular culture is littered with examples of assembling...
Aligning Your Roadmap Themes to the Customer Journey
Much has been written over the last few years on the idea of the featureless roadmap, which challenges product teams to...
How We’re Turning Feedback into Strategic Product Decisions
There is no shortage of product ideas. They come from everywhere. Customer feedback, feature requests, and new ideas born...
ProductPlan Cares: Q&A with the Equal Learning Fund
Heart, humility, and hustle. These core values aren’t just central to how ProductPlan operates as a business. They also...
Fostering Collective Development, Bonding, and Connection at Product Plan Fest 2022
Many of us have been to a corporate event at some point in our careers. Often they focused on lengthy training sessions,...
Roadmapping Isn’t Just for Product Managers Anymore
As your IT department changes, the nature of your department's role may transition to a strategic partner. You will find...
10 Tips for New Product Research and Discovery
A blank page, much like the one I’m using to write this article, used to scare me. A new product can feel the same way....
Introducing the ProductPlan Diversity & Inclusion Task Force
Diversity and inclusion is a high-priority topic for many organizations worldwide. And it’s no different at ProductPlan....
What are the benefits of having your launch plan in the same tool as your roadmap?
As a product marketer, I’ve run a good number of launches throughout my career. Product launches. Feature launches. Some...
Launch Management: A Tour of ProductPlan’s New Solution for Bringing Products to Market
The ugly truth is product launches are a messy business. At times, they can be overwhelming, impossible nightmares. There...
The Benefits of Adding More Product Roadmap Viewers in ProductPlan
The Benefits of Adding More Product Roadmap Viewers in ProductPlan Product leaders across industries—software, finance, and...
Roadmapping Frameworks: How to Set Goals for Growth
Let’s imagine you’re planning a trip across the country. You know where you’re departing from, where you want to get to,...
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