Product Leadership
Hiring Product Managers? Here Are 8 Places to Share Your Listing
Evaluating and hiring a good product manager can be a difficult challenge. So, where are the best places to post...
Andre Theus
Former VP of Marketing
IT
Building Your Roadmap with Cybersecurity in Mind
Security is someone else’s problem. It’s up to IT. The developers will handle it. We use AWS or Azure, so...
SOFTWARE AS A SERVICE AGREEMENT
SOFTWARE AS A SERVICE AGREEMENT This SOFTWARE AS A SERVICE AGREEMENT, effective as of the Effective Date identified on the...
Product Management
The Biggest Problem with Customer Delight Expectations
Converting a prospect to a customer requires delightful experiences along the way. How can you meet customer delight expectations?
Product Management
When is Your Product Ready to Remove the “Beta” Tag?
Until real users get their hands on your product, you can never be 100% sure it works. That’s why product...
IT
How to Make a Compelling IT Services Roadmap
Let’s face it, IT Services doesn’t get the glory it deserves. Most large organizations would quickly grind to a halt...
Product Management
Why Product Managers Should Listen to Music at Work
How can music increase a product managers’ productivity? Learn of its benefits and how to utilize music to improve your...
Product Managers
6 Ways for Product Managers to Manage their Time Off (and Still Drive their Roadmap Forward)
Product managers receive a lot of advice. You should prioritize this feature. Here’s a new market worth investigating. Some of...
Product Management
8 Tips for Building an Executive-Facing Roadmap
When it comes to an executive-facing roadmap, it’s all about staying high level. Here's 8 tips on how to build...
Product Management
Should You Try to Extend Your Mature Product’s Life, or Build a New One?
Should you extend a mature product’s lifecycle by taking it into new markets? Or should you focus on building new...
Product Management
5 Ways to Build Credibility as a Product Manager
Earning product management credibility is tough, especially with your stakeholders. Learn 5 simple ways to build trust and credibility.
Product Leadership
5 Ways to Make Time for Strategic Thinking
Can't find time for strategic thinking? Here are five tips to make it happen on a regular basis and to...
Product Management
7 Tips for Creating Your Customer Advisory Board
A Customer Advisory Board is a group of customers who meet on a regular basis to share insights and advice...
Product Management
From Awareness to Adoption: Keys to a Successful New Feature Launch
Product teams must not only create a fantastic product, but they also need to set the stage for the product...
Roadmap and Roadmap Management
Tips for Presenting Your Product Roadmap to Investors and the Board
As a product leader, face time with the company’s executive team is to be expected. Although product managers may not...
Product Leadership
How to Be a Great Mentor to Product Managers
Being a mentor to product managers is the ultimate form of paying it forward. When you’ve amassed years or decades...
Product Management
Conduct an Effective Competitive Analysis Everytime
Competitors make our own products better—they create urgency and drive innovation by providing both motivation and a measuring stick. If...
Product Leadership
From PM to CEO: How Sundar Pichai’s Background in Product Paved the Way for Becoming CEO at Google
Sundar Pichai went from unknown product manager to CEO of Google. Here, we explore how Pichai's background in product propelled...
Product Management
How to Get Budget for Product Management Tools
You can be a successful product manager without any tools. Unlike a maintenance worker, a carpenter, a lumberjack, or a...
Product Management
Treat Your Product Team Like a Sports Team, Not a Family
In this post, we discuss how modeling your product team culture after a sports team might just be the answer...
Roadmap and Roadmap Management
5 Mistakes You’re Making When Sharing Your Product Roadmap
Roadmap presentations are the culmination of weeks, months, or possibly years of work. They sum up your entire vision for...
Product Management
Transitioning from Managing Products to Head of Product Management
Considering the leap from being a product manager to head of product management, but not sure what’s involved in managing...
Product Management
How to Include Stakeholders in the Product Planning Process
Unless your company is literally a one-person show, your role as a product leader includes stakeholder management. And including stakeholders...
Product Leadership
When is it Time to Scale the Product Team?
When you find yourself wondering if it’s time to scale your product team, you have what we’d call a high-quality...