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In Product Management the Most Painful Lessons Are Those Found First

Adam Seubert — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 18:05:17 +0000

Product managers face a steady stream of situations they must learn to deal with that are outside their direct control. A product management core competency is learning to take in, process, and deal with setbacks.

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How ProductPlan Engineers Tested ChatGPT in the ProductPlan Platform

Adam Seubert — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 22:24:39 +0000

ProductPlan's CTO, Mark Barbir, explores ChatGPT and discusses his experiment using the tool to assist in building an Agile roadmap.

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ChatGPT and Product Management: A ProductPlan Engineering Experiment

Adam Seubert — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 22:21:25 +0000

ProductPlan's CTO, Mark Barbir, explores ChatGPT and discusses his experiment using the tool to assist in building an Agile roadmap.

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How to survive the SaaS Winter

Adam Seubert — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 23:43:57 +0000

Don't allow your product team to succumb to the SaaS Winter. Learn strategies to keep your team afloat during a SaaS Winter.

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10 Tips for New Product Research and Discovery

Adam Seubert — Thu, 06 Oct 2022 14:00:12 +0000

A blank page, much like the one I’m using to write this article, used to scare me. A new product can feel the same way. There’s nothing to build on and so many more risks. There is a place between nothing and a great product that’s full of uncertainty. Earlier in my career, this was […]

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How Zoom’s Product Strategy Evolved to Keep Pace with an Unprecedented Surge

Adam Seubert — Fri, 02 Apr 2021 17:18:46 +0000

An analysis of how Zoom's product strategy scaled to meet connectivity demands with an unexpected, unprecedented influx of users during a worldwide pandemic.

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A Product Manager’s Guide to Roadmapping as an Essentialist

Jim Semick — Fri, 05 Mar 2021 20:42:49 +0000

This article tackles one of the areas that gets the most interest from product managers: how can they use an essentialist approach to create and communicate better product roadmaps?

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Lean Market Validation: 10 Ways to Rapidly Test Your Startup Idea

Jim Semick — Thu, 21 Jan 2021 23:25:13 +0000

This article outlines the advice I gave students and includes updates on some of the concepts to my current thinking on lean market validation. For many first-timers with great ideas, the process is exciting but also a bit intimidating. I believe that the tactics can help both entrepreneurs and product managers launch better products with […]

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The Journey from Customer Success to Product Manager

Adam Seubert — Wed, 14 Oct 2020 16:00:11 +0000

There are many roles where your career path is clear. But, product management is a different story. People have transitioned to successful careers as product managers (PM) from every background. I know this experience firsthand and I’m thrilled to say, ProductPlan itself recently made a similar hire: from customer success to product manager. That new […]

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Your MVP is Not the Minimum Product

Jim Semick — Tue, 04 Aug 2020 10:16:38 +0000

If you’re a product manager or part of a startup, you’ve likely heard about the Minimum Viable Product concept for getting products to market faster. In my opinion, the definition of an MVP is often misunderstood, and I’ve seen entrepreneurs and product teams misinterpret it with unfortunate results. Those that take the concept of “minimum” […]

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My 9 Lessons Learned for Remote Success from Across Time Zones

Adam Seubert — Mon, 04 May 2020 15:59:32 +0000

I joined ProductPlan in the summer of 2019, excited to sink my teeth into creating product management content. However, joining the team came with one small twist — Thanksgiving of that year my journey would take me to South East Asia for four months where I would work remotely from the rest of my core […]

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How I Learned to Embrace Uncertainty: Tips for Product Managers

Jim Semick — Wed, 11 Mar 2020 17:10:18 +0000

I’ll admit it, in the past, I’ve wrestled with needing to control uncertainty. For years I thoroughly planned most everything and felt the need to know the eventual outcome of decisions. I had expectations, and if the expectations weren’t met, I was disappointed. Whether it was a product I managed or a vacation I took, […]

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