4 Phases of a Successful One-on-One with Your Product Team
We are excited to welcome guest writer Carlos González de Villaumbrosia to the ProductPlan blog. Carlos González de Villaumbrosia is...
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Grounding Your Product Roadmap With Themes and a North Star
We are excited to welcome guest writer John Cutler to the ProductPlan blog. John is a product coach with Amplitude,...
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Top 5 Ways to Mine Your Digital Customer Experience to Strike Insight Gold
As a product manager, you spend a lot of time trying to dig into the minds of your customers and...
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Product Managers: Learn to Let Go
Sometimes it’s hard to let go of something after discovering it no longer works as you expect. Especially if it’s...
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Feature Flags: A Product Manager’s Best Friend
Today, software development is all about the need for speed. Feature updates, UI changes and bug fixes are all done...
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7 Takeaways from ProductCraft 2019
Last week I had the pleasure of attending the ProductCraft conference, a one-day event for product managers in San Francisco....
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3 Useful Analytics Hacks for Mobile Product Managers
Product managers are also problem managers. Crashes after a new version launch? It happens. Users dropping off after initial download?...
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How to Get Budget for Product Management Tools
You can be a successful product manager without any tools. Unlike a maintenance worker, a carpenter, a lumberjack, or a...
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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...
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The Rise of Product Ops: the New Discipline Powering Product Excellence
As product management continues to evolve, many new practices have been put in place to optimize product teams. Agile, Kanban,...
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3 Questions to Ask About Every Potential Product Feature
If you’re a product manager, then you know that demands for new features come from all directions. Sometimes these demands...
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Why Business Teams Need to Start Together, Work Together, and Finish Together
The most successful products I’ve been involved within my career came about when the entire cross-functional team opened the door...
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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....
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How to Foster a Culture of Gratitude
As we head into a new year, we tend to talk more about gratitude. We talk about what we’re grateful...
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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...
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5 Product Marketing Lessons I Learned at INBOUND 2018
Last week, I had the pleasure of attending HubSpot’s INBOUND conference in Boston. The conference marked my first trip to...
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4 Themes to Take Away From Mind the Product 2018
Mind the Product has certainly established itself as a premier event for product people to connect, share, and learn from...
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4 Myths About Scaling Your Business
When I joined Sonos in 2005, I was the only software product manager. The company, known for its wireless smart...
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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...
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Define Your Own Product Management Career Path
Many companies provide a single career path up the proverbial corporate ladder where the only way to get ahead is...
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Getting to the MVP: 5 Tips for Launching New Products
If launching new products were easy, you’d probably be reading this post through your Google Glass or on an Amazon...
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Four Steps to Creating a Strategy-Based Team Roadmap: Why Starting with Vision Matters
Keep your eyes focused on the bigger, strategic picture, wave your flag proudly, and make sure everyone is following you...
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#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...
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2017 in Review: ProductPlan’s Top 10 Blog Posts of the Year
This has been quite a year for the ProductPlan blog. We’ve published more than 100 articles on a variety of...
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