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Product-Led Summit Conference: A Product Manager’s Experience
As a product manager, attending conferences is not just a part of professional development but an invaluable source of inspiration and learning. Recently, I had the opportunity to attend the Product-Led Summit hosted by the Product-Led...
Misfits, Geniuses, and Ringleaders: Why Product Management May Be Perfect for You
This article is for recent graduates with an entrepreneurial mindset who are thinking about what would be the perfect job...
Marc Foglino on Bringing a Mobile Payments Product to Market at Amazon
In this episode of Product Lessons Learned, Marc Foglino (formerly of Amazon, Telefónica and Samsung) walks us through the...
A Non-Designer’s Guide for Hiring a UX Designer
Technology and design are in the midst of an exciting crossroads, where businesses are becoming aware that the products and...
Product Lessons Learned: Interview with Hassan Khajeh-Hosseini, Co-Founder of AbarCloud
This post is part of a series of interviews that we are conducting with product leaders across various industries. In this...
Building a Software Company: A Conversation With Jim Semick
We recently teamed up with Pivotal Tracker and Notion to host a product management networking event in Los Angeles called...
5 Ways to Become a Better Product Advocate Within Your Company
I recently did a webinar with Pragmatic Marketing on the topic of thought leadership for product managers. One of the most...
Data-Driven Product Roadmaps: Choosing the Right Metrics
Developing an effective product roadmap requires more than a product manager’s intuition and vision, although those...
Product Lessons Learned: Interview With Chris Leckie, Product Design Director at FanDuel
This post is part of a series of interviews that we are conducting with product leaders across various industries. In this...
A Customer Journey Map of the ProductPlan First Time User Experience
How do you make a customer journey map for a first-time user experience? Let’s show you how to develop the right customer journey map.
5 Hidden Prioritization Pitfalls That Product Managers Should Avoid
Product management can often be a difficult balancing act, in which you find yourself constantly trying to satisfy many...
Product Management Lessons: Interview With Brian Crofts, VP of Product at Namely
This post is part of a series of interviews that we are conducting with product leaders across various industries. In...
Product Managers: Are you a Thought Leader or Follower?
I was recently featured on a Pragmatic Marketing webinar about how product managers can become thought leaders. There was a...
Product Lessons Learned: Interview With Julie Cabinaw, VP of Sales & Marketing Technology & Innovation at Scentsy
This post is part of a series of interviews that we are conducting with product leaders across various industries. In this...
Our Most Popular Product Management Articles in 2016
As 2016 comes to an end, we’ve looked back and reviewed over 70 product management articles that we’ve written and...
How to Build an IoT Product Roadmap
Let’s face it. Building an IoT product roadmap is hard — much harder than building roadmaps for “normal” technology...
Product Lessons Learned: Interview With Lea Hickman, VP of Product Management, InVision
This post is part of our product lessons learned series of interviews that we are conducting with product leaders across...
Product Management Chalk Talk: How Do I Build Shared Understanding?
One of the central roles of a product manager is to drive shared understanding. With shared understanding, a team is more...
The 5 Ways to Know if Your Product Idea is a Winner
Thousands of new products launch every month. Yet only a fraction of those gets enough traction to be considered...
What the 2016 DDoS Attack Can Teach Product Managers About Disaster Preparedness
Chances are you weren’t giving much thought to the global stability or security of the Internet on Friday, October 21,...
Why User Onboarding Never Ends (And Why Product Managers Should Care)
The traditional approach to user onboarding When software companies reference user onboarding, they are typically referring...
Help! I’ve Been Handed a Bad Product Strategy
On our blog we often discuss the challenges of being a product manager. One recurring theme is that although you are...
Product Lessons Learned: Interview With Shivan Bindal, Director of Product Management
This is the second in a series of interviews that we are conducting with product managers across various industries. We’re...
Product Lessons Learned: Interview With Ronnie Regev, Sr. Product Manager (Part 2)
This is the second part of our conversation with Ronnie Regev, Sr. Product Manager at AppFolio (check out the first part of...
Product Management Trends You Should Act on Today
Tools, technology and talent to develop innovative new products are more abundant and accessible today than they’ve ever...
Product Lessons Learned: Interview With Ronnie Regev, Sr. Product Manager (Part 1)
This is the first in a series of interviews that we’ll be conducting with product managers across various industries. We’re...
iPhone 7 Launch Day: Are Apple’s Product Teams Still Innovating?
Criticism can uncover important truths. This is one reason that product managers have such a difficult job: Sometimes the...
Aligning Sales and Product Teams on Your Roadmap
One of the biggest challenges product managers face is working with diverse stakeholders and managing their conflicting...
Effective Use of Product Roadmap Software to Align Your Product Strategy
Vital to delivering successful products at Clickatell, an effective product roadmap can quell the confusion and missteps...
5 Ways ProductPlan Helps Standardize Your Roadmaps
Sometimes you don’t know you have a problem until something breaks. Young companies are often scrappy by design. Their...
Implementing an Effective Product Transformation Strategy for the New Year
The new year is right around the corner, and digital transformation continues to be the rage as companies evolve to seek...
Lead with Context, Not Control
Acquiring a consensus on product direction remains the number one challenge for product professionals, according to...
How to Retroactively Measure Product Vision Success
A 2020 study conducted by Clutch surveyed over 500 businesses. Only 5% of companies identified that they accomplished all...
ProductPlan Named Fortune’s Great Places To Work Top 100 Small Businesses in 2021
On behalf of the ProductPlan team, we are excited and honored to share some exciting news. Along with the honor of getting...
6 Product Leadership Interview Questions and Answers
Every hire is essential, but a new product leader's impact ranges far beyond their contributions. They’ll have a major...
Creating Equitable User Experience for Your Customers with Brittany Edwards
Every individual has a unique way they perceive and interact with the world around them. Recent reports claim that diverse...
Conduct Better Roadmap Communication with Shared Legends
You may have experienced issues when combining more than one roadmap into a single view. If so, you know how difficult it...
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