The 5 Ways to Know if Your Product Idea is a Winner
Thousands of new products launch every month. Yet only a fraction of those gets enough traction to be considered successful....
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What the 2016 DDoS Attack Can Teach Product Managers About Disaster Preparedness
Chances are you weren’t giving much thought to the global stability or security of the Internet on Friday, October 21,...
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Why User Onboarding Never Ends (And Why Product Managers Should Care)
The traditional approach to user onboarding When software companies reference user onboarding, they are typically referring to the user’s initial...
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Help! I’ve Been Handed a Bad Product Strategy
On our blog we often discuss the challenges of being a product manager. One recurring theme is that although you...
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Product Lessons Learned: Interview With Shivan Bindal, Director of Product Management
This is the second in a series of interviews that we are conducting with product managers across various industries. We’re...
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Product Lessons Learned: Interview With Ronnie Regev, Sr. Product Manager (Part 2)
This is the second part of our conversation with Ronnie Regev, Sr. Product Manager at AppFolio (check out the first...
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Product Management Trends You Should Act on Today
Tools, technology and talent to develop innovative new products are more abundant and accessible today than they’ve ever been. Even...
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Product Lessons Learned: Interview With Ronnie Regev, Sr. Product Manager (Part 1)
This is the first in a series of interviews that we’ll be conducting with product managers across various industries. We’re...
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iPhone 7 Launch Day: Are Apple’s Product Teams Still Innovating?
Criticism can uncover important truths. This is one reason that product managers have such a difficult job: Sometimes the only...
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Aligning Sales and Product Teams on Your Roadmap
One of the biggest challenges product managers face is working with diverse stakeholders and managing their conflicting priorities. You’re pulled...
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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?...
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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...
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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 disconnected...
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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 indicator.” And it...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 insight into the...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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.
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