User personas are essential product management tools. These fictional representations of your users help you gain empathy and a better understanding of your target audiences. You can think of them as a visual map of your users’ main characteristics. With user personas it’s easy to relate to your target audiences and ‘put yourself in their shoes’ so that you can build awesome products and cool features that really meet their needs.
User personas are essential product management tools. These fictional representations of your users help you gain empathy and a better understanding of your target audiences. You can think of them as a visual map of your users’ main characteristics.
From apps that boost focus to trivia that builds team morale, here are our top recommendations for remote working tools to keep distributed teams at the top of their game. Lilly Shor, Content Manager, Craft.io With the pandemic still in full swing worldwide, teams that turned remote overnight are now grappling with the ongoing challenges faced by distributed teams. And at least for the foreseeable future, it looks like remote work is here to stay.
Capacity planning is painful for PMs, but it doesn’t have to be. Here’s how our new multi-dimensional capacity planning tool gives you powerful insights into available resources across *all* relevant teams and allows you to adapt to product changes quickly and effortlessly.
Here's why connecting strategy & OKRs to your product roadmap will result in teams that collaborate, maintain focus & accelerate smarter product decisions.
Mission, company strategy, OKRs, product strategy. You know they're all important pieces in the puzzle that is product management, but how do they fit together and contribute to a solid product roadmap that drives true impact?
It's been swell, spreadsheets, but it's time to bid you adieu. Here's why spreadsheets limit, tether and confine PMs to a bygone tool that simply can't keep up with their needs.
Let’s not beat around the bush: as product managers, we know from experience how painful working in Jira can be. The reason is simple: Jira is designed for developers. While it performs brilliantly as an issue-tracking software, trying to twist it to conform to a product manager’s needs can be as stressful as it is unrewarding.
Product managers and prioritization frameworks go hand-in-hand like rice and beans, peanut butter and jelly, or bread and butter. We could go on with the food metaphors, but we think you get our drift: prioritization is a top concern for PMs. Whether it’s feedback, requests, or new opportunities, the backlog is a repository for everything you could be doing. But the age-old question persists: What should we be doing?
In Craft.io’s latest release, we’ve launched several practical tools that will help ramp up your team’s efficiency, as well as introduced an exciting improvement to our Jira integration with multi Jira Project integrations. Let’s take a quick look at these updates.
