Product Management
How to Liven Up Your Excel-based Roadmap Meetings (if You’re Really Stuck with Excel)
Caution: Satirical post. Reduce seriousness ahead. There is one recorded instance in world history of a PowerPoint presentation bringing an...
Andre Theus
Former VP of Marketing
Roadmap and Roadmap Management
Roadmap Timelines: Do You Need Them? When?
Product managers debate whether to include a roadmap timeline, when and at what level of detail. Here’s our take.
Roadmap and Roadmap Management
When is it Smart to Share Your Roadmap Publicly? And When Would it be a Disaster?
Economist Arthur Laffer became famous—well, as famous as an economist can become—when he introduced his Laffer Curve to explain how...
Product Strategy
5 Steps to a Winning Product Strategy
If you’re responsible for developing a product strategy roadmap, you need a plan. Here’s the battle-tested product strategy formula we...
Product Leadership
The Anatomy of a Roadmap
Let’s talk product roadmap nuts and bolts. It can be easy, especially for product roadmap proponents like us, to talk...
Roadmap and Roadmap Management
Are You Thinking About Your Roadmap Document All Wrong?
There’s a powerful mental tool used in elite weightlifting and strength-training circles, called the “cue.” In this context, a cue...
Product Management
How to Build an Amazing Relationship Between Product Management and Marketing
Why is there so often conflict, friction, and even an outright adversarial relationship between a company’s product management and marketing...
Tools and Resources
How a Roadmap App Fits into the Product Management Ecosystem
Imagine the perfect word processing application: intuitive interface. Excellent functionality. Easy workflow. But now imagine this app has one major...
Product Strategy
5 Lessons from IDEO for Unlocking Your Team’s Creative Potential
If you’re not familiar with IDEO, the global design company founded in Palo Alto, California in 1991, you probably know...
Product Management
My Product Failed. Now What?
Your product failed, and now you’re wondering what to do. First things first: Don’t panic. (Unless your executive team is...
Career and Interviews
Why Post-It Notes Might be the Most Important Tool for Product Managers
Here’s a funny exchange from NBC’s sitcom The Office. The CFO of the show’s fictional company Dunder Mifflin says to...
Agile & Product Development
5 Design Principles From The World’s Most Product-Centric Companies
The global marketplace is a crowded, noisy place. There’s lots to choose from and competition at every turn. If you’re...
Roadmap and Roadmap Management
Product Lessons Learned: Interview with Hassan Khajeh-Hosseini, Co-Founder of AbarCloud
This post is part of a series of interviews that we are conducting with product leaders across various industries. In...
Agile & Product Development
What Does the Goldilocks Cross-Functional Product Team Look Like?
Cross-functional product teams vary by company, however, here are best practices for building the right team with the right people.
Customer-Centricity
Dear Customer (a Letter from Your Product Managers)
What all product managers want their customers to know… Dear Customer, As product managers, it’s our job to bring products...
Product Management
8 Product Management Trends That Are Here to Stay
Velcro sneakers are relegated to the senior citizens’ section of shoe stores. Plasma TVs are collecting dust. Vine’s six seconds...
Career and Interviews
Should Product Managers and Engineers Get Along?
Ever notice that you don’t see many executive titles like Vice President of Innovation and Compliance? Or Chief Marketing and...
Product Management
How to Develop a Product Strategy Your Competitors Will Love
Developing a product strategy doesn’t need to be a challenge. Let us show you how to cut corners. Your competitors...
Career and Interviews
What Makes a Great Product Manager?
What makes a great product manager? We get this question a lot, and if we had to distill our answer...
Roadmap and Roadmap Management
Building Your First Product Roadmap from Scratch in 4 Steps
A product roadmap is a high-level visual summary that maps out your product offering’s vision and direction over time. Building...
Product Management
Product Lessons Learned: Interview With Chris Leckie, Product Design Director at FanDuel
This post is part of a series of interviews that we are conducting with product leaders across various industries. In...
Product Management
5 Hidden Prioritization Pitfalls That Product Managers Should Avoid
Product management can often be a difficult balancing act, in which you find yourself constantly trying to satisfy many competing...
Product Management
Developer-Speak: What a product manager needs to know
Product managers and developers don’t quite speak the same language. Here are some developer-speak examples you should learn.
Roadmap and Roadmap Management
Why “Product Roadmap Priorities” Doesn’t Mean What You Think it Does
Every product manager has product roadmap priorities. But should that be the case? Learn the 3 problems PMs face having...