Product Management & Roadmapping Best Practices

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Why Strategic Product Teams Focus on Outcome-Based Roadmaps

When product teams use roadmaps as checklists, they reduce roadmaps to a formality, not a strategic tool. They make mechanical updates or even abandon roadmaps altogether. But strategic product teams that focus outcome-based (or ‘outcome-driven’) roadmaps have, uncoincidentally, better long-term outcomes. Instead of checking boxes as work is done, these teams align on long-term objectives. […]

Introducing the ProductPlan Diversity & Inclusion Task Force

Diversity and inclusion is a high-priority topic for many organizations worldwide. And it’s no different at ProductPlan. For years, our team has been working to build a…
What are the benefits of having your launch plan in the same tool as your roadmap?

As a product marketer, I’ve run a good number of launches throughout my career. Product launches. Feature launches. Some were quite big, requiring a tidal wave of…
Launch Management: A Tour of ProductPlan’s New Solution for Bringing Products to Market

The ugly truth is product launches are a messy business. At times, they can be overwhelming, impossible nightmares. There are launch activities to track, expectations to manage,…
The Benefits of Adding More Product Roadmap Viewers in ProductPlan

From a product’s ideation to market, adding more viewers to your roadmap can assist you in guiding your team through a product launch.
Roadmapping Frameworks: How to Set Goals for Growth

A sense of your roadmap framework goals for your product launch helps determine which framework can help your team fulfill its product vision.
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…
6 Tips for Building Your First Launch Checklist in ProductPlan

There is no one size fits all product launch plan, so to help we have provided six tips for building a launch checklist in ProductPlan.
How To Build a Customer-Facing Roadmap That Communicates Your Product Vision

Through this exercise, we have uncovered helpful best practices and tips for creating your own customer-facing roadmap.
Product Managers Give Too Much Context

Product managers balance between providing too little or too much context in order to gain stakeholder alignment. How much is enough?
The Product Trust Communication Curve

The product trust communication curve suggests that trust between a product team and stakeholders, lessens the need on-one-on communication.
What ProductPlan’s Integrations Can Do for Your Company

ProductPlan integrations help your team extend the value of your roadmapping app by syncing your roadmap data with your stakeholder’s data.
Lessons from a Product Launch: Rivian

Lessons from a Product Launch: Rivian Ask any product manager, and they will tell you that product launches are equal parts daunting and exciting. “Go, go, go”…
Kicking Off a Greenfield Project: What Product Managers Need to Know

Kicking off a greenfield project presents unique challenges and requires a different approach from other types of product development.
5 Things Your Product Leader Doesn’t Want to See on Your Roadmap

Explore the 5 things that your product leader doesn’t want to see on your team’s roadmap and ways to mitigate miscommunication.
Your Digital Transformation Program is Wasting Your Money

Implementing product-led techniques can help your organization improve their chances of transformation success.
The 7 Ts of Product-Led Transformation

$900 billion was wasted in ineffective product-led transformation strategies. The 7 Ts of Product-Led Transformation can change that.
Benefits of Roadmap Metrics

With the help of roadmap metrics, product leaders can analyze their roadmap to identify the progress of a product and stakeholder alignment.
The Difference Between Thought Leadership vs. People Leadership

Thought leadership vs people leadership, the two terms are interchangeable. The former have proven themselves as effective people leaders.
How to Handle Resistance to Change Management

Resistance to change management in a business is difficult because significant changes can affect various departments and the organization.
Your Product Team’s Communication is Making or Breaking Your Product

Effective product team communication is not about talking more often to your team or giving them more granular task details.
Thinking Beyond Roadmapping to Elevate and Revolutionize Product Organizations

At ProductPlan we have the privilege of working with and listening to tens of thousands of product leaders and their organizations.
Finding Your True Career IMPACT Within the Product Field

Learn how IMPACT can provide a structure for identifying your strengths and weaknesses to find your true career impact in the field.
The Secret to Product Planning

What is the secret to product planning? The answer: It depends on your team’s overall vision and whether you can achieve alignment.
The Critical Importance of Finding Time for Strategic Thinking and Planning

Learn how strategic thinking and planning can help your product team develop strategies to hit targets and align organizational objectives.
Employ an IMPACT Prioritization Strategy to Your Product

Discover how an IMPACT mindset can help you implement an effective prioritization strategy that addresses the needs of your customers.
Effective Use of Product Roadmap Software to Align Your Product Strategy

Product roadmaps align your product team with stakeholders. Yet many teams don’t implement effective product roadmap strategies.
5 Ways ProductPlan Helps Standardize Your Roadmaps

Does your product team need help to standardize their product roadmaps? Learn how ProductPlan’s roadmap software can help align your team.
Implementing an Effective Product Transformation Strategy for the New Year

What is product transformation? Product transformation requires product leaders to embrace and prepare for transformation scenarios.
Lead with Context, Not Control

Discover how effective product leader communication can help you effectively manage your product roadmap and product team.
How to Retroactively Measure Product Vision Success

Does your product vision impede your product team’s success? Learn how to measure product vision in retrospectives in this blog.
ProductPlan Named Fortune’s Great Places To Work Top 100 Small Businesses in 2021

ProductPlan is excited to announce that we have ranked on Fortune’s great places to work in 2021. Explore how we got here as an organization.
6 Product Leadership Interview Questions and Answers

How do you know if a candidate will fill the position well? Here are 6 product leadership interview questions to ask and ideal answers.
Creating Equitable User Experience for Your Customers with Brittany Edwards

Discover how to create an equitable user experience for your customers. And learn strategies to broaden your product’s horizons.
Conduct Better Roadmap Communication with Shared Legends

Explore how ProductPlan’s shared legends roadmap can help you standardize your team’s product roadmaps into a single view.
What is the Learning Center?

Find your favorite product management topics within one place, the Learning Center. Explore the pieces that keep readers coming back.
The Key to Achieving Change Management Buy-In

The bigger the company, the harder it can be to make even the smallest fundamental shifts. Larger companies have so much more at stake that failing to…