Product Managers
What Should Every Product Manager Do in Their First 90 Days?
When you start a new product management position, you can’t afford to “ease in slowly.” In your first days in...
Product Managers
When you start a new product management position, you can’t afford to “ease in slowly.” In your first days in...
Roadmap and Roadmap Management
This book isn’t about ditching features all together; it’s about finding the right time and place for them. Feature-less Roadmaps:...
How can your team be more outcome focused? Transition to a feature-less roadmap to ship initiatives that provide real user...
What is the Hook Model? The Hook Model is a four-phase process that businesses can use to create products or...
Roadmap and Roadmap Management
A marketing strategy roadmap conveys your high-level marketing plan to stakeholders. Learn how to create your own in 5 steps.
Product Management
Transform your ideas into real products and bring those products to market with real life examples from Jim Semick's experience...
Product Management
Effectively understanding product manager communication streams can help your team examine why they’re different and how to optimize each.
What is a Shipyard Engine? A shipyard engine describes a product team’s process to keep its organization informed about the...
IT
What is a Technology Roadmap? A technology roadmap is a high-level visual summary that maps out the vision and plans...
Agile & Product Development
The Waterfall to Agile transition can be downright disrupting. Discover what needs to change in your roadmap process to make...
What is the Shape Up Method? The Shape Up Method describes the specific processes used by product development teams to...
Product Management
Product pricing can make or break a product. It’s not just the sticker price, either. The packaging of features and...
Trends
Our report is based on the candid responses we received from over 2,500 product managers. We learned which product managers...
Product leaders are responsible for discovering and recruiting the right people for the product team. To do so, they need...
Technical debt (also known as tech debt or code debt) describes what results when development teams take actions to expedite...
Product Management
Product Management for the Enterprise Customer is Different The role of a product manager can differ by industry, company culture,...
A product feature kickoff is a meeting in which a product manager and stakeholders set plans, goals, and responsibilities for...
The HEART framework is a methodology to improve the user experience (UX) of software. The framework helps a company evaluate...
Planning poker (also called Scrum poker) helps agile teams estimate the time and effort needed to complete each initiative on...
What is Product Architecture? Product architecture is the organization (or chunking) of a product’s functional elements. It’s the ways these...
Roadmap and Roadmap Management
This article will get into the specifics of why one might select a timeline vs. kanban roadmap. This choice represents...
Prioritization and Backlog
When prioritizing features, you need to justify opportunity costs. Here are our tips for bringing this up in conversation.
Prioritization and Backlog
What is a 2×2 Prioritization matrix? The 2×2 prioritization method gives professionals and teams a visual framework to identify which...
Cost of delay (CoD) is a prioritization framework that helps a business quantify the economic value of completing a project...