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ProductPlan Platform Recap: Q1 2024
Let’s jump in and check out the latest and greatest updates from the past few months, brought to you by ProductPlan’s product team! At the heart of these updates is our unwavering commitment to elevating your experience with ProductPlan....
Feature Flags: A Product Manager’s Best Friend
Today, software development is all about the need for speed. Feature updates, UI changes and bug fixes are all done in near...
7 Takeaways from ProductCraft 2019
Last week I had the pleasure of attending the ProductCraft conference, a one-day event for product managers in San...
3 Useful Analytics Hacks for Mobile Product Managers
Product managers are also problem managers. Crashes after a new version launch? It happens. Users dropping off after...
How to Get Budget for Product Management Tools
You can be a successful product manager without any tools. Unlike a maintenance worker, a carpenter, a lumberjack, or a...
3 Things Product Managers Owe to Internal Constituents
If you're a product manager, then you probably have a lot on your plate. Meeting deadlines. Making customers happy. Keeping...
The Rise of Product Ops: the New Discipline Powering Product Excellence
As product management continues to evolve, many new practices have been put in place to optimize product teams. Agile,...
3 Questions to Ask About Every Potential Product Feature
If you're a product manager, then you know that demands for new features come from all directions. Sometimes these demands...
Why Business Teams Need to Start Together, Work Together, and Finish Together
The most successful products I've been involved within my career came about when the entire cross-functional team opened...
Making Sense of Planning in an Agile World
"But we're agile. We don't plan." If you've ever worked with an agile team, chances are you've heard this excuse. However,...
How to Foster a Culture of Gratitude
As we head into a new year, we tend to talk more about gratitude. We talk about what we're grateful for in our own lives,...
Why Transparency Matters When Prioritizing Product Features
Product management is about making informed, strategic decisions and ensuring product aligns with organizational goals and...
5 Product Marketing Lessons I Learned at INBOUND 2018
Last week, I had the pleasure of attending HubSpot’s INBOUND conference in Boston. The conference marked my first trip to...
4 Themes to Take Away From Mind the Product 2018
Mind the Product has certainly established itself as a premier event for product people to connect, share, and learn from...
4 Myths About Scaling Your Business
When I joined Sonos in 2005, I was the only software product manager. The company, known for its wireless smart speakers,...
Product Management Lessons I’ve Learned From Cave Diving
After working in the product management space for a few years, I realized that I needed to take some classic product...
Define Your Own Product Management Career Path
Many companies provide a single career path up the proverbial corporate ladder where the only way to get ahead is by moving...
Getting to the MVP: 5 Tips for Launching New Products
There’s no universally effective plan for launching new products. So, here are the five most valuable lessons I’ve learned.
Four Steps to Creating a Strategy-Based Team Roadmap: Why Starting with Vision Matters
Keep your eyes focused on the bigger, strategic picture, wave your flag proudly, and make sure everyone is following you on your path to success with a strategy-based roadmap.
#prodmgmt: 2017’s Most Interesting Product Management Tweets
At ProductPlan, we’re lucky to work with product managers on a regular basis. One thing we’ve noticed is that product...
2017 in Review: ProductPlan’s Top 10 Blog Posts of the Year
This has been quite a year for the ProductPlan blog. We’ve published more than 100 articles on a variety of product...
Environments, Teams, and Success in the Product System
This blog follows up on a previous post introducing the concept of systems thinking for product managers. Both posts...
A Guide to Assembling a Product Roadmap
Why Do Product Managers Assemble a Roadmap? As a product manager (PM), you need to know where you are, where you're going,...
12 Product Managers Lessons You Can Learn from Kids
You’ve carefully curated your product management career trajectory. You’re a full-grown professional with valuable life...
Mastering Communication: Why Product Managers Should Understand Personality Types
A cornerstone of being a successful product manager is effective communication. Given the number of individuals, teams, and...
Atlassian Summit 2017: 8 Event Takeaways for Product Managers
This week, more than 3,500 attendees from 50 different countries arrived in San Jose, California for the 2017 Atlassian...
What I Learned From My Product Management Internship
Product management isn’t a very well-known occupation—at least among college students. On top of that, it seems like unless...
2017 Product Planning Survey: The Results are In!
ProductPlan asked product managers from hundreds of companies about their product planning process. We collected their...
The 7 Ts of Product-Led Transformation
Transformation is a word that isn’t commonly favored by the Product community because Transformation Programs rarely allow...
Benefits of Roadmap Metrics
A tool is only helpful if people are using it. We've all got exercise equipment, cooking gadgets, or crafting supplies...
The Difference Between Thought Leadership vs. People Leadership
At times, product professionals fail to realize the similarities and differences between thought leadership vs people...
How to Handle Resistance to Change Management
If you're responsible for change management at your company, you have my respect. My sympathies, too. Because the...
Your Product Team’s Communication is Making or Breaking Your Product
Effective product team communication is not about talking to your team more often or providing them with more granular...
Thinking Beyond Roadmapping to Elevate and Revolutionize Product Organizations
At ProductPlan, we have the tremendous privilege of working with and listening to tens of thousands of product leaders. Our...
Finding Your True Career IMPACT Within the Product Field
Product professionals get paid to manage products and services. Delighting customers and creating innovative solutions for...
The Secret to Product Planning
The secret to product planning starts with "why." In some cases, product planning focuses on what we're building,...
The Critical Importance of Finding Time for Strategic Thinking and Planning
In our 2021 State of Product Management report, 97% of senior leaders said being strategic is the most important thing for...
Employ an IMPACT Prioritization Strategy to Your Product
What drives product professionals? They are driven with a hyperfocus on doing things that matter. Product professionals...
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