“Am I working on the right things?” For years, I asked this question almost daily, both in my personal and professional life. I wanted to know: How can I spend my time working on the things that matter most? Like many of you, I’ve lived much of my life attempting…

Based on our years of experience working with thousands of product managers around the world at ProductPlan, we’ve concluded that nearly all of a product manager’s key tasks and responsibilities fall into a few broad categories: 1. Connect and Communicate 2. Discover and Analyze 3. Document and Decide Ultimately, these…

I’ve been on product teams for a long time, helping transform rough ideas into real products and bring those products to market. I’ve honed some great techniques for validating products and want to share them with you in my new book Find Product-Market Fit Faster: Lessons for Product Managers. In…

Great products don’t happen by accident. While there are many reasons products might succeed, it’s the direction of great product leadership that truly makes a difference. Throughout the course of my career I’ve been fortunate to work with and learn from some incredible product leaders. Between the leaders I worked…

Pricing software-as-a-service (SaaS) presents unique challenges — and opportunities — for product and marketing teams. In the past few years I’ve had a hand in setting pricing for several successful SaaS products, including GoToMeeting, GoToMyPC, AppFolio and my current company ProductPlan (product roadmap software). …

Over 1,200 product managers gathered on May 4th at the San Francisco symphony hall to hear 9 amazing speakers talk about the latest insights into product management. Our team enjoyed listening to the speakers as well as meeting with ProductPlan customers and other fellow product managers. So many great observations…

At ProductPlan we’ve been fortunate to work with some of the most forward-thinking product managers at the world’s most successful companies. …

If you’re a product manager, you know how important data-driven product management is — it’s now at the foundation of most successful products. But what if you’re launching new products or features? Metrics at the early stages can be challenging because there’s rarely a history of data. …

I recently gave a talk at the opening night of Startup Weekend at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In attendance were 200 eager students and entrepreneurs who wanted to learn how to build a startup in 54 hours. …