Blog
Read about ProductPlan’s culture, product releases, and thought-leadership. For product education check out the Learning Center.
The Busy Product Manager’s Guide to The 2024 State of Product Management Report
Calling busy product professionals! We get it–your days are packed with roadmap review meetings, brainstorming sessions, and making (what sometimes feels like) too many PowerPoint presentations. That's why we're here to lend a helping...
Agile Roadmap Planning: How to Balance Long Term Uncertainty
At ProductPlan, I frequently get questions about agile roadmap planning. How should you balance long-term strategic...
Can Product Squads Improve Your Agile Development Process?
Product squads are a relatively new methodology for product development popularized by Spotify. Actually, popularized might...
How a Public Roadmap is Helping ProductPlan Customer GOV.UK, and its Customers
A few years ago the UK government’s publicly available online information was spread out across hundreds of individual and...
Using Net Promoter Score to Guide Your Product Roadmap
Magoosh, an online test prep company based in Berkeley, California, calls Net Promoter Score their “reliable referral...
Better Product Strategy Meetings in 5 Steps
Ah, a free exchange of ideas. Sounds nice, doesn’t it? Until you’ve got five stakeholders sitting in an enclosed space...
3 Reasons Product Managers Should Care About Content Marketing
Be a hero, follow the money, and market yourself. Got it? Really? On top of everything I am responsible for as a product...
5 Ways to Build Relationships in Product Development Teams
I have been a part of two successful startups and product development teams for the past 17 years. The first was acquired...
5 Things That Can Ruin Your Roadmap
Most product managers know the product roadmap can be your best friend, or your worst nightmare. When used in the right...
Product Management Lessons: Interview with a Dell Software PM
At ProductPlan, we meet hundreds of product managers across virtually every industry. Their experience gives us invaluable...
Our 6 Best Product Management Tips
Learn about the 6 best product management tips and how to apply them to your professional life as a product professional.
My Journey to a Data-Driven Roadmap
I still cringe when I think back to the first roadmap I put together. Like most of us who find ourselves in product...
How to Become a Better Public Speaker: Public Speaking Tips to Use Today
Public speaking isn’t usually included as a required skill in a typical product manager job description. But it should be....
A Four-Tier Approach to Combating Feature Bloat
Most product people are familiar with the sticky problem of feature bloat. You may also recognize the issue by its other...
4 Key Responsibilities of Outstanding Product Managers
Your role as the product’s strategist and evangelist will be central to your success and the success of your products.
Looking for a Product Management Job in 2016? 5 Trends you Need to Know
Like you, we have now seen a dozen articles predicting the top trends for product managers in 2016. Yes, we know that...
4 Steps to a Prioritized Product Roadmap
New product managers will find themselves asking this question a lot: “How do we build a prioritized product roadmap so...
Customer Spotlight: Orion Health
Orion Health develops software solutions for healthcare organizations worldwide, helping to improve the care of 35 million...
Customer Spotlight: Henry Schein Inc.
Henry Schein, Inc. is the world's largest provider of health care products and services to dental, animal health and...
10 Lessons for Pricing SaaS Products
Pricing is such a core part of a SaaS product's business model that you need to get it right. In this series, I'm writing...
How to Choose a Great SaaS Pricing Model
It's a brave new world for pricing software-as-a-service products. Gone are the days of simply setting a per-seat fee and...
The Best Way to Price SaaS Products
Pricing SaaS products presents unique challenges—and opportunities—for product and marketing teams. In the past few years,...
Why Product Teams Should Care about the Internet of Things
No doubt you’ve heard of the coming Internet of Things (IoT) and how it’s going to change our lives through billions of...
The Empathetic Product Manager
Empathy. You’ve heard it’s an essential skill for product managers, marketing managers, and UX teams. But how can you put...
7 Steps for Testing if Your Product Will Fail
Recently I spoke to a class at the UCSB Technology Management Program about market validation and failure testing -...
Product Managers: Is Your MVP Truly Compelling?
More product teams are taking advantage of the Minimum Viable Product concept—deploying products early to customers in...
How to Avoid Putting Dead Weight Product Features On Your Roadmap
A few days ago I had lunch with the product team of a mid-sized software company, and one of the product managers had a...
10 Great Questions Product Managers Should Ask Customers
A few well-phrased questions can yield fantastic customer insights. But knowing the right questions to ask during customer...
The Key to Achieving Change Management Buy-In
Getting change management buy-in is not easy, but we’re only delaying the inescapable when we resist change. Whether it’s...
Roadmapping with an IMPACT Mindset
The IMPACT approach to product management’s primary goal is creating the maximum value for the broadest target audience...
Why Gender Diversity Leads to Better Products
In the 2021 State of Product Management Report, our annual collection of data designed to bring to life the trends driving...
Meaningful Product Processes with IMPACT
After reading a blog or a book or attending a conference or talk on product management, I’m always excited to try out the...
How to Hire with an Impact Mindset
When prioritizing items for our product roadmaps, we sort and select them based on their ability to influence key metrics,...
An Alive Strategy vs. Dead Strategy
Product Strategy is Important One of the most important roles of a product manager (PM) is setting the product strategy....
Why I Switched From Spreadsheets to a Roadmap Tool, Featuring Product Director Jay Hum
Not every product manager is lucky enough to work with a purpose-built roadmapping tool. But those that do seldom return to...
5 Ways ProductPlan’s Table Will Make a Product Manager’s Work Easier
TLDR: The Newest Version of ProductPlan’s Roadmap App, with an Enhanced Table Can Be Your All-in-One Roadmapping Solution...
The Evolution of Product-Led Growth
The evolution of product-led growth may seem to be a recent trend at software companies, but the underlying concepts have...
Is It Time to Dump Your Product Frameworks?
Great products come from great product teams—not from frameworks. Using the right product framework can help guide a team’s...
Continue exploring
You can search or explore specific categories.