Product Strategy
How to Find Opportunities in Design Flaws
Design flaws can represent great opportunities for your product team to innovate. Here’s how to find design flaws and capitalize...
Shaun Juncal
Product Managers
How Product Managers Can Use Wireframes
Have you ever tried to communicate with developers about a user story and found yourself stumbling over your description? Have...
Product Management
5 Product Marketing Lessons I Learned at INBOUND 2018
Last week, I had the pleasure of attending HubSpot’s INBOUND conference in Boston. The conference marked my first trip to...
Roadmap and Roadmap Management
Why In-App Onboarding Deserves a Spot on Your Roadmap
If you work for a SaaS company, you probably regard in-app onboarding and training the way many software product managers...
Prioritization and Backlog
The Product Manager’s Checklist for Prioritizing Features
Prioritizing features for your product is a difficult task. Here’s an 8 step checklist for prioritizing features the right way.
Roadmap and Roadmap Management
How to Build a Product Roadmap Based on a Business Model Canvas
Could you list all of the key building blocks you need to develop, manage, maintain, market, and sell a product...
Roadmap and Roadmap Management
How and When to Share Your Product Roadmap
Do you share your product roadmap with different internal stakeholders? Learn best practices for tailoring product roadmap presentations.
Roadmap and Roadmap Management
How to Tame the Product Roadmap Chaos
Your product roadmap should be like the Zen garden of your working materials. That means your roadmap shouldn’t contain too...
Agile & Product Development
Why Product Managers Should Use Design Thinking
Educators are in the education profession. Police are in the business of policing. Obvious, right? But what about product managers?...
Roadmap and Roadmap Management
Should Your Product Roadmap Go All the Way to Your Product’s Completion?
Your product roadmap is not your backlog, a list of features, or a project-management tool to capture all tasks related...
Product Strategy
5 Successful Products and their Secrets to Success
What makes successful products, successful? Learn what factors were at play to make companies like Netflix and Dropbox so wildly...
Product Metrics and Analytics
The SaaS Product Metrics Pyramid
We provide an overview of the most common SaaS product metrics for product managers and the SaaS product metric pyramid.
Roadmap and Roadmap Management
How Should You Set Your Product Roadmap Timeframes?
When it comes to product roadmap timelines, there must be a strategic sweet spot. A timeframe not so short-term that...
Roadmap and Roadmap Management
How to Defend Your Product Roadmap When HiPPOs Attack
A HiPPO, or “highest-paid person in the room’s opinion,” is something all product managers face multiple times throughout their careers,...
Product Management
Product Management Book Recommendation: Product Leadership
Can you describe the difference between a product manager and a product leader? Can you think of three aspects of...
IT
What is an IT Roadmap?
An IT roadmap is a type of technology roadmap. Learn how to develop and share a strategic-level plan for IT...
Customer-Centricity
How to Collect Customer Feedback When You Don’t Have Any Customers
Customer feedback is useful at every stage of the product development lifecycle. But how do you gather feedback for a...
Prioritization and Backlog
7 Ways to Prioritize Your Product Backlog
Let’s talk tactics. How do you prioritize your product backlog today? If you’re like most product managers (read: busy!), you...
Product Managers
Product Managers: Why Your Next Coffee Date Should Be with Your Director of Customer Success
Product managers, customer success, and coffee dates? Learn how to use the real-world knowledge your success reps are continuously collecting.
Product Leadership
Psychological Safety: How to Build and Promote Team Psychological Safety
Google “psychological safety” and you’ll see a ton of results. But, for such an important and widely discussed concept, it’s...
Career and Interviews
6 Book Recommendations From Product Managers
There are many fantastic books out there for product managers. We know this because when we published our own list...
Agile & Product Development
How to Manage Multiple Development Tracks
Multitasking is a way of life, not only for individuals but for companies as well. Most organizations create, nurture, and...
Product Strategy
When It’s Time to Pivot Your Product
“#@$&!” Something went wrong. Despite your product team’s flawlessly executed strategic plan—diligent market research, thoughtful iterative development based on real-world...
Customer-Centricity
5 Things You Should Never Say to Your Customers
As a product manager, you are your product’s primary spokesperson both to internal audiences and to the general public. What...