If you're currently in any management position rather than project manager (PM), you might be tempted to think that you have nothing to do with it, that it's someone else's problem. However, PM skills are more necessary than you might think. But don't worry about having to read lots of books to acquire them; we're about to hand out a guide on project management for non-project managers! Solid management can help you meet your project goals and stay efficient and organized.

First, let us say that we at Craft.io are fans of Southwest Airlines. The company has been a technology pioneer for decades, and many of its ingenious business practices have forced other airlines to improve as well. Just a few of Southwest’s innovations over the years include: We’re not writing this to point fingers at Southwest Airlines. The company has gotten plenty of that already.

If you’re a product leader at a large company managing multiple product lines, you know you need visibility across your teams to ensure you have all the necessary information to make the best possible strategic decisions for the business. Every product organization has some process for managing their portfolio of products and initiatives.

You don’t earn both the International SaaS Award for “Best Enterprise-Level SaaS Product” and G2’s “Best Est. ROI” badge just a few months apart unless you listen to your users and continuously make your solution more valuable for them. But we recently won both of these awards (and several others) for our product management platform.

While Product Managers are responsible for the strategy and progress of individual products or product lines, product executives have a different responsibility. They need to set the broad strategic direction for the entire organization, deciding which key initiatives are most likely to maximize performance and achieve strategic objectives.

Happy New Year. If we were publishing this blog in any other early January, we’d end that statement with an exclamation point. But this is 2023 — and as we all know, the world is heading into tough economic times. Given how much difficulty organizations around the world are going to be facing this year, it just doesn’t feel like an exclamation-point moment.

The 2023 State of Product Management Report has arrived! Our inaugural product survey is a tell-all expose that uncovers the true challenges, pain points and success factors of 500 product professionals from around the world. We asked participants to open up, both about what moves the needle for their product teams, and also about what holds them back. We then collated all of those insights into one report-shaped new years’ gift package for the wider product community!

The Scaled Agile Framework, or SAFe, might sound like a contradiction in terms. The agile methodology for software development is designed to help companies operate nimbly — without being slowed down by processes or constrained by a rigid plan — so that they can deliver value to customers more quickly and efficiently. But what happens when a small, agile company grows into a large enterprise?

Are you battling between Monday vs. Asana to select one of them as your official project management tool but need more detailed information about each? Read the in-depth analysis of both project management software provided below to gain an eagle's eye perspective.