If you're a product manager, then you know that demands for new features come from all directions. Sometimes these demands come from key customers asking for a specific feature to support a workflow unique to them. Other times they might come from your sales team...
Why Do Product Managers Assemble a Roadmap? As a product manager (PM), you need to know where you are, where you're going, and what needs to be done along the way. A good PM moves fluidly between the resolutions of now, next, and later to avoid getting stuck in...
ProductPlan asked product managers from hundreds of companies about their product planning process. We collected their responses and crunched the numbers to give you an exciting glimpse into the current state of product planning with our 2017 Product Planning Report....
This post is part of a series of interviews that we are conducting with product leaders across various industries. In this interview series, product leaders share advice with their fellow product managers. We hope this series will shed light on trends and challenges...
Developing an effective product roadmap requires more than a product manager’s intuition and vision, although those elements are crucial. But equally important for an effective roadmap will be evidence, real-world data, and a scientific approach to analyzing that...
Let’s face it. Building an IoT product roadmap is hard — much harder than building roadmaps for “normal” technology products. That’s because IoT products are complex systems. To create a working solution, all layers of the IoT Technology Stack — device hardware,...
One of the biggest challenges product managers face is working with diverse stakeholders and managing their conflicting priorities. You’re pulled in a hundred different directions, and often it’s the sales team applying pressure on your roadmap priorities. At times...
A few years ago the UK government’s publicly available online information was spread out across hundreds of individual and disconnected websites. So the Government Digital Service (GDS), a department within UK’s Cabinet Office, set out to consolidate this information...
Magoosh, an online test prep company based in Berkeley, California, calls Net Promoter Score their “reliable referral indicator.” And it is. But that’s not all it is. Although many people think of NPS as a customer success or support metric, product developers in...
Most product managers know the product roadmap can be your best friend, or your worst nightmare. When used in the right way, the roadmap can help explain how you’ll achieve your vision. And when used in the wrong way, the roadmap can sink you with endless PowerPoint...
I still cringe when I think back to the first roadmap I put together. Like most of us who find ourselves in product management, at the time I didn’t even realize I was doing “product management.” I was the lead of a UX team and saw a bottleneck between our work is...
New product managers will find themselves asking this question a lot: “How do we build a prioritized product roadmap so that we have the best chance of making something people want?” Purposeful Prioritization of Features In order to achieve our goals, we need to be...
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