Roadmap and Roadmap Management
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...
Jim Semick
Co-founder, Board Member
Product Leadership
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...
Product Strategy
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....
Product Strategy
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...
Product Management
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...
Product Management
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...
Roadmap and Roadmap Management
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...
Agile & Product Development
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?...
Product Management
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...
Product Management
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....
Product Strategy
Why a Top-Down Product Strategy is the Best Way to Plan Your Roadmap
A top down product strategy remains a vital step in the process of building a product, as well as producting...
Roadmap and Roadmap Management
The Ultimate Guide to Product Roadmaps
A product roadmap is a high-level visual summary that maps out the vision and direction of your product offering over...
Product Management
Looking for a Product Management Job in 2016? 5 Trends you Need to Know
Like you, we have now seen a dozen articles predicting the top trends for product managers in 2016. Yes, we...
Product Managers
Product Managers: 12 Great Customer Interview Questions
As product managers we all know to talk with our customers more – but it’s never quite enough. You can...
Product Strategy
How Product Roadmap Software Aligns Product Strategy Across the Company
Watch how product roadmap software from ProductPlan helps AppFolio align its product strategy across the entire company. Product Roadmap Software...
Roadmap and Roadmap Management
Eating Dogfood: How we use ProductPlan to Prioritize our Product Roadmap
Prioritize your product roadmap with our in-app Prioritization Board. Learn how we use our product roadmap internally amongst our teams.
Roadmap and Roadmap Management
How to Align Your Product Roadmap across Multiple Products
Learn some quick tips for getting consistency across your cross-functional teams when planning and presenting your product roadmap.
Product Management
Customer Spotlight: Henry Schein Inc.
Henry Schein, Inc. is the world’s largest provider of health care products and services to dental, animal health and medical...
Product Strategy
10 Lessons for Pricing SaaS Products
Pricing is such a core part of a SaaS product’s business model that you need to get it right. In...
Product Strategy
How to Choose a Great SaaS Pricing Model
It’s a brave new world for pricing software-as-a-service products. Gone are the days of simply setting a per-seat fee and...
Product Strategy
The Best Way to Price SaaS Products
Pricing SaaS products presents unique challenges—and opportunities—for product and marketing teams. In the past few years, I’ve had a hand...
Pricing
Product Management
Why Product Teams Should Care about the Internet of Things
No doubt you’ve heard of the coming Internet of Things (IoT) and how it’s going to change our lives through...
Product Management
The Empathetic Product Manager
Empathy. You’ve heard it’s an essential skill for product managers, marketing managers, and UX teams. But how can you put...