You can be a successful product manager without any tools. Unlike a maintenance worker, a carpenter, a lumberjack, or a chef, you don't require any specialized equipment to do your job, aside from a computer with a decent Internet connection. Heck, thanks to companies...
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...
As product management continues to evolve, many new practices have been put in place to optimize product teams. Agile, Kanban, and similar methodologies have helped shape the landscape of product management in the 21st century. And the landscape continues to change at...
The most successful products I've been involved within my career came about when the entire cross-functional team opened the door to the mission at the same time, with similar expectations, and on equal footing. In other words, these teams started together. Not in...
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...
Last week, I had the pleasure of attending HubSpot’s INBOUND conference in Boston. The conference marked my first trip to Boston (go Sox!) and was a delightful mix of education, networking, and hot buttered lobster rolls. All three were immensely satisfying. INBOUND...
Mind the Product has certainly established itself as a premier event for product people to connect, share, and learn from their peers. For 6 years now, the conference has drawn product people together from all corners of the globe. Last year, we were thrilled to...
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...
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...
This has been quite a year for the ProductPlan blog. We’ve published more than 100 articles on a variety of product management-related topics like roadmapping, product strategy, agile development, and more! As the year comes to a close and the holidays approach—and...
This blog follows up on a previous post introducing the concept of systems thinking for product managers. Both posts feature a recent conversation between veteran product manager and friend of ProductPlan, John Cutler, and ProductPlan’s Director of Product Management,...
Why Do Product Managers Assemble a Roadmap? As a product manager (PM), you need to know where you are, where you're going, and what needs to be done along the way. A good PM moves fluidly between the resolutions of now, next, and later to avoid getting stuck in...
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