Adrian Crabtree, ProductPlan’s Director of Product Design, shares our entire product design process from inception through delivery.
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What Does a Lead Engineer at ProductPlan Do in a Day?
I’m writing for the first time on the ProductPlan blog! Long-time reader, first-time writer. I’m currently a remote Lead Software Engineer at ProductPlan, where I head up a team of four engineers focused on bringing you List View, among other things. Our team is...
I’m Predictable in an Agile Environment
“Being Agile” and “being predictable” may seem mutually exclusive, at least when it comes to product management. A good sprint cadence creates a predictable frequency of software releases but divining what’s actually in them feels harder. Isn’t the whole point of...
When to Declare Backlog Bankruptcy
A few years ago, I was the acting product manager at a startup, developing an enterprise software product. Building the product was hard: it was taking longer to develop than everyone expected (of course). The complexity of what we were trying to accomplish became...
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 your team on track...all while trying to stay one step ahead of the competition can be draining. With everything competing for your time and...
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, even agile teams need a disciplined approach to planning. Teams who invest time in proper planning tend to have a better understanding of...
Why Transparency Matters When Prioritizing Product Features
Product management is about making informed, strategic decisions and ensuring product aligns with organizational goals and customer needs. But a product manager’s duties don’t begin and end with building a product roadmap. Successful product managers know even the...
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 management advice and apply it to my own life—nothing good happens in a vacuum. I’d been spending far too much time living strictly within the small...
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.
#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 managers are pretty avid consumers of content: books, blogs, podcasts, etc. Often, they’ll distill their learnings and insights from all these sources...
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 planning with short-term agility? This was an especially hot topic on a recent webinar we hosted. I thought I’d elaborate on some of my answers in this...
Can Product Squads Improve Your Agile Development Process?
Product squads are a relatively new methodology for product development popularized by Spotify. Actually, popularized might be too strong a term for it. Since 2012, when Spotify restructured its development organization into functional, eight-person squads —...
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