Once you’re blessed with the opportunity to expand your product management team with a new hire, you have options to consider. You can hire a senior product manager who will bring their years of real-world experience and savviness to the table, or you can bring on new...
Ocean’s 11. “The A-Team.” All those Fast & Furious movies... US popular culture is littered with examples of assembling all-star teams to overcome the odds and combine their unique skill sets to save the day or pull off a heist. Although your organization may not...
When I started my career as an engineer, I didn’t set my sights on becoming a product manager. Flash forward fifteen years later, and I’m the Director of Product Management at HG Insights. Working in startups and big technology companies, I’ve encountered one question...
I’ve worked exclusively on digital products for over 14 years, primarily in product and design-centric roles. Thinking back, it’s surprising that it was only about five years ago that I had an important epiphany that would alter the trajectory of our company’s product...
There is no going back to “normal” for product teams. The idea of simply translating what we did in the office can’t be matched in our distributed world. At a minimum, I believe we need to start thinking remote-first. While we will eventually head back to our offices,...
"If you're a growth stage company then you have to be able to make strategy decisions very rapidly. If you don't have the data then you can't make secure decisions and alter course." A key insight shared by Melissa Perri, CEO of Produx Labs and author of Escaping the...
A crisis can bring out the best (and worst) in people. Throughout my career, I've seen a spectrum of responses from leaders that have shaped my views on which strategies work and which ones don’t. I had no idea that a crisis would unfold so quickly into the start of...
“Am I working on the right things?” “How can I fit it all in?” I find myself asking these questions almost daily, both in my personal and professional life. How can I spend my time working on the things that matter most? Even with the world in upheaval and our shift...
No matter how far into your career you might be, you’re never too old for imposter syndrome to make an appearance. Imposter syndrome is a feeling of inadequacy that persists despite the evident success, according to Harvard Business Review. 'Imposters' suffer from...
We are excited to welcome guest writer Carlos González de Villaumbrosia to the ProductPlan blog. Carlos González de Villaumbrosia is the Founder of Product School, originally based in San Francisco. Product School was founded in 2014 and now maintains 20 campuses...
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, and often express gratitude for the friends, family, and coworkers we have around us. We've tried to foster a culture of "thank you" at...
I recently did a webinar with Pragmatic Marketing on the topic of thought leadership for product managers. One of the most interesting questions I received from our audience was actually not about thought leadership at all, but about about internal product advocacy....
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