The Benefits of Adding More Product Roadmap Viewers in ProductPlan

The Benefits of Adding More Product Roadmap Viewers in ProductPlan Product leaders across industries—software, finance, and healthcare—want a centralized location to house product initiatives and updates. However, many waste valuable time updating inflexible spreadsheets or slide decks that fail to capture a product strategy effectively. Instead, product...

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Product Critique

What is a Product Critique A product critique objectively analyzes a product’s functionality, design, and user experience. A product critique aims to understand if a product is meeting its goals and working well for users. Effectively critiquing a product is an essential skill for product designers and product managers. When you understand the nature...

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How to Pitch Product Operations to Your Executive Team

Product management seldom requests big-ticket items from the management team. Sure, there’s the one-off request for a new addition to the product stack or travel for a product management conference. Eventually, the product management team may realize it needs to level up and add product operations to its organization. But how do you pitch product operations...

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Product Launch Manager

What is a Product Launch Manager? A product launch manager coordinates all efforts across the company related to releasing new products to the market. In the lead-up to a product launch, many teams—product management, sales, marketing, development, customer success, etc.—will work on various projects to support the release. Moreover, the launch manager’s...

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Roadmapping Frameworks: How to Set Goals for Growth

Let’s imagine you’re planning a trip across the country. You know where you’re departing from, where you want to get to, and what resources you have available (like the vehicle, budget, traveling gear, etc.), so all that is left to do is to map your way there. There are a couple of ways you can do this: you can plan your trip according to the time...

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When you’re the Product Owner and the Product Manager

According to Agile and Scrum best practices, product owners and product managers should be two different people. As many have written before, the two jobs have notably different goals and areas of focus. In an idealized vision of product development in an Agile setting, product owners handle the tactical execution of product strategy while product...

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Product Operations: How Do We Know if it is Even Working

Product operations may be the new kid on the block for product teams, but they’re becoming a much more common fixture. According to our 2022 survey, 32% of all companies now have a product operations person or team on their staff, trending even higher for larger organizations. Moreover, our survey concluded that improving communication between the product...

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Change Enablement

What Is Change Enablement? Change enablement, called change management, refers to providing people with the necessary information and support–alongside tools, processes, and strategies– to help them adapt and transition to change within an organization. Whether it be crisis-driven change to avert disaster, transformation change, or organization-wide...

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Why Product Launch Communication is a Two-Way Street

Launching a product is not for the faint of heart. So many things, both large and small, can go wrong. In 1985 Coca-Cola canceled New Coke because the product team didn’t confirm that Coca-Cola drinkers would accept a change to their favorite soft drink. Samsung had to recall its Note 7 smartphones because they were exploding. And Google Glass suffered...

Jul 2022

Product Mindset vs. Project Mindset

“Products” and “projects” may look alike—only two letters differ—and sound alike, but they’re quite different. Yet the same mental conflagration that necessitates a clarification between product managers and project managers also plagues products and projects. This dilemma extends far beyond misused terminology. It also impacts our mindsets as well....

Jul 2022