Can’t get your boss to part ways with a time-based feature roadmap? Then sell them on the risk. I wonder what it is about feature roadmaps that is comforting to the C-suite. Is it the false sense of security that you’re setting yourself up to deliver a list of features based on untested assumptions and […]
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We’re shaking up our plans and pricing next month. Don’t panic. If you’re a current ProdPad customer, you will get to keep the plan and price you’re on as long as you want. You’ve been with us from the start and we’re eternally grateful. Your plan is safe! But going forward, our new customers will […]
Today, we’ve flipped the switch on a new, more beautiful ProdPad. It’s the latest iteration of our persistent product vision: to help you become a better and more confident product manager. Making you a badass product manager was at the top of our minds as we designed and tested the beta version last year – […]
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This is the first of a two-part series that looks into the rules we broke and the risks we took to build out our new user onboarding flow at ProdPad. We’ve been experimenting with our new user onboarding since we launched ProdPad, but our latest iteration is getting us quite a bit of attention. It’s unexpected. […]
Are you locked in an uncomfortable power struggle with a HiPPO (hilarious acronym for “highest paid person in the office”) over your product roadmap? Have you been taking the heat from your team for letting the HiPPOs take over? Is your HiPPO full of legitimately bad ideas? Although I’m a big fan of the “just […]
“Oh yeah! Good to know you definitely need this. I’m sure we can make it happen, Mr.Prospect. We’ll let Dan know.” Ugh, you are Dan. This is basically what ends up in your inbox next: ‘Hey Dan! Boogle is ready to buy! They did say they want this one little feature before they sign on […]
One of the core responsibilities of every product manager’s role is to define the evolution of the product long term – or rather, to translate the multitude of inputs coming from internal stakeholders, customers and other sources into a (hopefully) visionary product roadmap. To help you with this, we want to share a great product […]
People often become visibly concerned when I tell them my company, ProdPad, has a public product roadmap. Yes, it sounds like a terribly uncomfortable idea from the outside. But relax! We’re not handing the game over to our competitors. We’re not hurting our business. We’re just not under any delusions that we’re Apple, or that […]
We recently published “Why Release Dates Are Irrelevant To Product Managers” and it immediately became one of our most widely shared pieces. Was it something I said? I hope so. The worst kept secret of in the product management community is that we’re terrible with dates. We don’t like them. Working with them is bad for […]