January 28, 2014
Launch Planning and Product Management
Great product launches create heroes. And product teams have the best product launches when they have clear goals, deliver the goods on time, and everyone is on the page. This is…
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January 27, 2014
The Product Manager vs. Product Owner
Agile product companies have a hard time managing products. The product manager is charged with communicating the voice of the customer — achieving both customer and market…
January 20, 2014
Product Management — Aha! Keeps the Team Informed
Great products are brought to market and successful when product management, engineering, and other key stakeholders are efficiently working together and enjoying it. We just…
January 17, 2014
A 90-Day Plan for Recovering Kanban-ers
There is growing unrest. As quickly as lean and ultra-lean approaches to software development have emerged, so has a nasty backlash. We see this daily as we talk with tons of…
January 13, 2014
The Folly of Inside-Out Product Thinking
Have you ever run into this deductive reasoning? A. Customers like our existing products and our company. B. We are building a new product that reflects the priorities of a company…
January 8, 2014
I'm Agile But My CEO Could Not Care Less
The developers and I always want to get on with it and build stuff in a sprint-to-sprint fashion, yet our CEO wants to tell everyone where the company will be in two years from a…
January 7, 2014
Fear is Not What is Holding You Back
Do you often wonder why you sacrifice your personal aspirations for what’s comfortable? Have you always wanted to pursue an idea or start that company, but have given up before you…
January 2, 2014
We Added Duo Security Two-Factor Authentication Because It Was the Right Thing to Do
We added Duo Security two-factor authentication and we feel better that we did. It was the right thing to do and the most convenient way for customers to radically enhance their…
December 31, 2013
Happy New Year — New Controls for Viewing Features and Capacity Planning
We just got this one in before the end of the year. It was close — but we slipped it in. And what a year it’s been. We have been humbled by your response to Aha! and the rapid…
December 25, 2013
Best Product Management Software: New Roadmap Views, Bulk Editing of Features, Jira Integration and More
We were in a giving mood yesterday and wanted to celebrate the holidays with a last minute gift for all of our great customers. So we boxed together a number of requests — big and…