Customer-Centricity
Customer Interview Tool Box
Interviewing customers and prospects is one of the best ways to validate your product or idea. Learn best practices for...
Shaun Juncal
Prioritization and Backlog
The Product Manager’s Complete Guide to Prioritization
Download our free Prioritization Guide and learn how product managers around the world source ideas, prioritize new features and communicate...
Roadmap and Roadmap Management
Strategic Roadmap Planning Guide
In our Strategic Roadmap Planning Guide, we dive into roadmap planning and how it connects to your high-level product strategy....
Templates and Workbooks
Roadmap Template Guide
Not sure how to start building a roadmap? Need some inspiration? We put together a collection of templates to give...
Career and Interviews
Career Guide for Product Managers
Our Career Guide for Product Managed is pack with 139 pages of insights and best practices for advancing in your...
Roadmap and Roadmap Management
Product Roadmaps Book
In Product Roadmaps: Your Guide to Planning and Selling Your Strategy, we walk you through the basics of building and...
Trends
2019 Product Planning Report
For the 2019 edition of our annual Product Planning Report, we surveyed over 1,300 product managers to understand how they...
Product Strategy
Sticky from the Start: How to Create Products that Stick
Creating a sticky product experience means recurring revenue and more time to win over new customers instead of trying to...
Product Managers
What to Expect When You’re Expecting (to Be Acquired)
Short of going public, the goal of many companies is being acquired by a deep-pocketed, larger company with a complementary...
Roadmap and Roadmap Management
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....
Roadmap and Roadmap Management
Are North Star Metrics Leading You Astray?
Alignment is essential for any organization and a challenge that many grapple with regularly. Ensuring everyone is striving toward the...
Product Metrics and Analytics
Forget about Growth. Here’s the Metric that Really Matters.
There's a more important product metric you should be keeping an eye on— churn. Learn how to prioritize saas churn...
Product Leadership
How Product Teams Can Build Trust with Internal Teams
For a product manager to be successful, they must be viewed as both credible and trustworthy. Without that confidence, product...
Product Leadership
Scalable Decision Making: How Product Teams can Make Group Decisions at Scale
Scalable decision making frameworks improve your product team's efficiency, and productivity. Read more to learn six popular frameworks.
Product Leadership
What is the Ideal Product Team Size?
What should your product team size be? Let's take a look at different approaches to determining how many product managers...
Product Leadership
How to Measure Product Manager Performance
Product management is a role primarily comprised of soft skills and strategy, which, at first glance, would make it challenging...
Product Strategy
What is Product Management’s Role in Promoting Innovation?
In this post we’ll discuss how product management can help to promote innovation—by making it the company-wide effort it should...
Roadmap and Roadmap Management
Using Process Mapping to Document your Roadmapping Process
When a company hires a fancy management consulting firm to help them “optimize” operations, one of the first things they’ll...
Product Strategy
Should You Structure Your Product Team Like Amazon, Spotify, or Something Else Entirely?
Effectively scaling a product team requires more than hiring additional product managers. You also need to consider the big picture....
Product Management Email Courses
Here at ProductPlan, we’re on a mission to help product managers become more successful at work. As part of that...
Product Management
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,...
Prioritization and Backlog
How to Use Google’s HEART Framework to Make Product Decisions
Need help prioritizing the many features and other initiatives competing for space on your product roadmap? One way to make...
Product Management
Dealing with Dealbreakers: How to Handle Feature Requests from Prospects
For many first-timers with great ideas, the process is exciting but also a bit intimidating.Most product teams have their own...
Roadmap and Roadmap Management
5 Reasons to Organize Your Roadmap by Themes
If you’re a product manager, your roadmap should always remain high level. Here's 5 reasons why you should organize your...