Roadmaps are great tools for communicating the vision, aligning people internally, raising money for investment, and engaging with sales and customers. But there are good ways of doing it, and bad ways of doing it. In today's webinar, Brian Lawley from the 280 Group did a great job explaining some strategies on creating your roadmap. In case you missed the webinar, both the slides and recorded webinar are available to you. How to build a compelling and effective product roadmap Recorded web...

Saving time is a challenge for everyone, and based on my experience as a product manager, even doubly so. Constantly being interrupted, sales and executives injecting requests into our roadmap, hundreds of emails a day and never enough time to talk to customers. Brian did a great job with some tips on saving time during this webinar. If you didn't have a chance to join us, we've made both the slides and the recorded webinar available. FeaturePlan is designed to help product managers get a hand...

It is difficult enough being a product manager, it’s equally hard to build and lead a product management team as well. There was some great insight from Brian Lawley today on how to grow and build an amazing product management team. The slides from his presentation can be found here. If you want to watch the recorded webinar, including slides and audio, please check it out here. Brian also had some documents that he thought you might find useful: Product Marketing vs. Product Management Pro...

On March 28, Brian Lawley from 280 Group presented a great webinar on how to optimize product management at your company. The recorded webinar (along with audio and slides) can be found here. Below are some of the questions and comments that came out of the webinar: · Why are product managers put into product janitor roles? @PmDude replies that it may have to do with the lack of clarity on the roles of Product Management. I agree, and the fact that Product Management comes from development,...

This past weekend, I had the pleasure of travelling to the eBay campus in San Jose, California to attend Silicon Valley ProductCamp 2012. A sold-out event with over 1000 product managers in attendance, it was an excellent opportunity to meet vastly experienced product managers who oversee high-profile, innovative products. As expected, the sessions at ProductCamp were of extremely high quality, with 18+ presentations taking place on the morning of the event. The most sought-after presentation p...