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The top product roadmap challenges according to product leaders, and what you can do to overcome them. Have you ever felt the urge to pen a “Dear John” letter to your roadmap and/or your roadmap process? If you have, you are not…

Note: Several parts of the following section on roadmapping was given color and clarity after conversations with the authors of another O’Reilly book called Product Roadmapping: How To Prioritize Your Opportunities, Align Your Teams, and Deliver The Most Value to Your Customers…

We recently shared our top ten tips for writing a strong digital product or website RFP. We’ve heard some great responses from readers asking for more specific RFP guidelines on exactly what should be included and how it should be organized. You…

Updated – Check out our recently created downloadable RFP guidelines post  – LINK Although we typically begin our scoping conversations with a structured conversation (called a Design Needs Assessment), we recognize that many organizations must adhere to an RFP process. We’ve received…

When we begin a project here at Fresh Tilled Soil, we fire up an arsenal of digital tools to help us keep the trains running on time. Although our project management process is flexible enough to adapt to the communication style of…

I was a product manager at a biotech startup years ago, and we were developing a new product that enabled our customers to extract and work with Viral RNA. There was a software component that had to be written, optimized, and tested,…