What is a product spec? A product spec is a blueprint that describes what you’re building, who you’re building it for and what the final outcome should be. A well-written spec is about clarity. The more information you have going into a product spec, the more clarity you give everyone working on the product with […]
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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 […]
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 […]
What’s a product roadmap with dates? A release plan. Or at least it might as well be. I’m going to say this again and again until my voice is hoarse and my fingers run out of steam. I’ll be a crotchety old lady waving a cane at you saying the same old thing, if I […]
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What’s a product roadmap with dates? A release plan. Or at least it might as well be. I’m going to say this again and again until my voice is hoarse and my fingers run out of steam. I’ll be a crotchety old lady waving a cane at you saying the same old thing, if I […]
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Nobody gets product managers I regularly meet CEOs and CTOs of tech companies who wonder why they can’t seem to recruit quality product managers – and for a lot of them, it’s because they’ve written up a job description for a “project manager.” As a result, they’re automatically disqualifying themselves from getting access to the […]
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