Zapier: My Personal Product Management Assistant
As a product manager at ProductPlan, I’m particularly proud of our new integration with Zapier because of the impact I...
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6 Rules of Product Design According to Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
In this blog, we will discuss the applications of Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs to the world of product design and...
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Why It Is Essential to Put Customers First with a Customer-Led Product Strategy
At its most basic level, a customer-led product strategy means that your customers are the top priority at all times....
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How Leadership Can Foster an Authentic Virtual Event for Your Employees
When you think of company-sponsored events, a few scenes may come to mind. There’s the holiday party where coworkers schmooze...
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3 Tips to Make Your Product Manager Resume Stand Out From the Rest
According to LinkedIn, interest in product management has doubled in the United States in the past 5 years. ProductPlan’s State...
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A Product Manager’s Guide to Roadmapping as an Essentialist
This article tackles one of the areas that gets the most interest from product managers: how can they use an...
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The Key to Driving Alignment is Remote Collaborative Exercises, Featuring Isabelle Berner VP of Product
Collaboration” and “remote work” may not seem like a perfect match. But teams can’t skimp on group work because the...
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ProductPlan vs. Roadmunk
Comparing the two roadmapping softwares, ProductPlan vs. Roadmunk. Which is the best for functionality, feature set, design, and price?
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If You’re Hitting All the Dates on Your Roadmap, You’re Doing It Wrong
Imagine a product team out for dinner and drinks. They’re celebrating a big win. The product manager, development team, product...
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Shifting Your Business and Product Strategy During a Crisis, Featuring Adrienne Tan
In March 2020, many organizations found themselves suddenly plunged into crisis. A global pandemic sparked radical, immediate shifts with lasting...
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Growing Sales in a Product-Led Company
The move towards product-led growth is on the rise, in part because potential customers increasingly prefer to experience a product...
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How Do You Know You’re Hiring a Good Product Team Member?
Product leaders don’t often get many chances for hiring product team members. It’s not overstating things to label bringing on...
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Strategy is Important But It Isn’t Everything
In an ideal, data-driven world, every product, project, and program would come gift wrapped with its own precise set of...
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The Roadmap Revolution: A Chance to Hit “Reset”
It’s that time of year where I’m both overwhelmed and excited to work on my roadmap. Maybe it’s the feeling...
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Lean Market Validation: 10 Ways to Rapidly Test Your Startup Idea
This article outlines the advice I gave students and includes updates on some of the concepts to my current thinking...
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The Role Roadmaps Play in Managing Product Design
In modern software development, product designers tend to be embedded on a cross-functional squad or scrum team. That team’s collective...
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How to Shift to Product-Led Growth, Featuring Wes Bush
Making a shift to product-led growth sounds pretty appealing, especially to product managers. Knowing your baby is the driving engine...
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Declaring Roadmap Bankruptcy
Is it Time to Declare Roadmap Bankruptcy? Whether your product finds a market or falls flat, your team needs to...
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Getting to Know Jim Semick
I met Jim Semick the first day I started ProductPlan. We took a walk outside the office to talk about...
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The 5 Top Trends in Product Management to Watch in 2021
The year 2020 shifted the world in fundamental ways. It changed the way we work, learn, play, travel, and socialize....
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Gathering Feedback From Unengaged Customers, Featuring Brian Tan
Customer feedback is the lifeblood of customer-centricity. It’s impossible to create and improve products without understanding customers’ experience, especially when...
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3 Reasons You Should Hire a Senior Product Manager
Once you’re blessed with the opportunity to expand your product management team with a new hire, you have options to...
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The Journey from Customer Success to Product Manager
There are many roles where your career path is clear. But, product management is a different story. People have transitioned...
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Getting Real about Customer Delight: The Strategy of Emotional Outcomes
It’s all the rage, and is often the reason we get out of the bed each day – we want...
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