Environments, Teams, and Success in the Product System
This blog follows up on a previous post introducing the concept of systems thinking for product managers. Both posts feature...
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A Guide to Assembling a Product Roadmap
Why Do Product Managers Assemble a Roadmap? As a product manager (PM), you need to know where you are, where...
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12 Product Managers Lessons You Can Learn from Kids
You’ve carefully curated your product management career trajectory. You’re a full-grown professional with valuable life experience. You know what makes...
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Mastering Communication: Why Product Managers Should Understand Personality Types
A cornerstone of being a successful product manager is effective communication. Given the number of individuals, teams, and stakeholders a...
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Atlassian Summit 2017: 8 Event Takeaways for Product Managers
This week, more than 3,500 attendees from 50 different countries arrived in San Jose, California for the 2017 Atlassian Summit....
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What I Learned From My Product Management Internship
Product management isn’t a very well-known occupation—at least among college students. On top of that, it seems like unless someone...
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2017 Product Planning Survey: The Results are In!
ProductPlan asked product managers from hundreds of companies about their product planning process. We collected their responses and crunched the...
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Misfits, Geniuses, and Ringleaders: Why Product Management May Be Perfect for You
This article is for recent graduates with an entrepreneurial mindset who are thinking about what would be the perfect job...
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Marc Foglino on Bringing a Mobile Payments Product to Market at Amazon
In this episode of Product Lessons Learned, Marc Foglino (formerly of Amazon, Telefónica and Samsung) walks us through the process...
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A Non-Designer’s Guide for Hiring a UX Designer
Technology and design are in the midst of an exciting crossroads, where businesses are becoming aware that the products and...
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Product Lessons Learned: Interview with Hassan Khajeh-Hosseini, Co-Founder of AbarCloud
This post is part of a series of interviews that we are conducting with product leaders across various industries. In...
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Building a Software Company: A Conversation With Jim Semick
We recently teamed up with Pivotal Tracker and Notion to host a product management networking event in Los Angeles called...
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5 Ways to Become a Better Product Advocate Within Your Company
I recently did a webinar with Pragmatic Marketing on the topic of thought leadership for product managers. One of the...
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Data-Driven Product Roadmaps: Choosing the Right Metrics
Developing an effective product roadmap requires more than a product manager’s intuition and vision, although those elements are crucial. But...
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Product Lessons Learned: Interview With Chris Leckie, Product Design Director at FanDuel
This post is part of a series of interviews that we are conducting with product leaders across various industries. In...
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A Customer Journey Map of the ProductPlan First Time User Experience
How do you make a customer journey map for a first-time user experience? Let's show you how to develop the...
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5 Hidden Prioritization Pitfalls That Product Managers Should Avoid
Product management can often be a difficult balancing act, in which you find yourself constantly trying to satisfy many competing...
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Product Management Lessons: Interview With Brian Crofts, VP of Product at Namely
This post is part of a series of interviews that we are conducting with product leaders across various industries. In...
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Product Managers: Are you a Thought Leader or Follower?
I was recently featured on a Pragmatic Marketing webinar about how product managers can become thought leaders. There was a...
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Product Lessons Learned: Interview With Julie Cabinaw, VP of Sales & Marketing Technology & Innovation at Scentsy
This post is part of a series of interviews that we are conducting with product leaders across various industries. In...
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Our Most Popular Product Management Articles in 2016
As 2016 comes to an end, we’ve looked back and reviewed over 70 product management articles that we’ve written and...
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How to Build an IoT Product Roadmap
Let’s face it. Building an IoT product roadmap is hard — much harder than building roadmaps for “normal” technology products....
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Product Lessons Learned: Interview With Lea Hickman, VP of Product Management, InVision
This post is part of our product lessons learned series of interviews that we are conducting with product leaders across...
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Product Management Chalk Talk: How Do I Build Shared Understanding?
One of the central roles of a product manager is to drive shared understanding. With shared understanding, a team is...
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