Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

But it doesn’t tell you where to go and how to get there—that’s what the discovery and strategy work does. 2 Use Scrum for Products that Experience Uncertainty and Change Scrum is often seen as the standard way to create digital products, and I have met more than one company where the product managers were told to be agile and do Scrum.

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

How did Amazon’s product strategy fare during the pandemic? Short answer: Amazon’s product strategy example lead the way). Amazon’s product strategy example has rewritten the book on convenience, easy access, and speed, and in doing so, embedded itself in the daily lives and routines of consumers.

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Alchemer Mobile

AUGUST 25, 2020

So that leads us back to the purpose of this post: Redefining the role of mobile product managers. What are mobile product management responsibilities? The last time we wrote about defining mobile product management, it was still a relatively new category. What qualifications do mobile product managers need?

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DISQO

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Today, we published the findings from our 2020 Product Management Insights Report , which highlights the growing impact that product management has on organizational growth. The survey of more than 550 product leaders and managers from startups and large organizations in the U.S.

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DISQO

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Today, we published the findings from our 2020 Product Management Insights Report , which highlights the growing impact that product management has on organizational growth. The survey of more than 550 product leaders and managers from startups and large organizations in the U.S.

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ProductPlan

JULY 15, 2021

A 2020 study conducted by Clutch surveyed over 500 businesses. Clutch’s survey proves that you need an effective product management strategy to measure product vision success. Clutch’s survey proves that you need an effective product management strategy to measure product vision success.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 9, 2021

Product Goals Defined. The Scrum Guide released in November 2020 states that “the product goal describes a future state of the product … [It] is the long-term objective for the Scrum team.” It also suggests that “the product goal is in the product backlog. Figure 1: The Product Goal in Context.

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BrainMates

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Here’s my selection of the most inspiring Brainmates posts of 2020 – the year where we said unprecedented way too often. In fact her post on “ mission-driven products ” suggested that Product Managers include “sustainable social benefits” in their Product Success Criteria.

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BrainMates

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

When everything around you is changing, what’s a Product Manager to do? In a Q&A a couple of months ago, someone in the (virtual) audience asked if they should be working on their strategy now, or if they should wait until things calmed down again. Product Managers are not solo artists – we’re a part of the band.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 23, 2023

If so, chances are you were working without the benefit of a concrete product strategy. Product strategy helps with feeling overwhelmed because it Helps your product team see how your product contributes to your company’s goals. Guides your product decisions. Their product strategy is reactive.

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Gainsight

OCTOBER 16, 2020

At our first-ever Pulse for Product event, we got inspired by this idea of video games, the nostalgia of 8-bit classics, the 90s (or really any year excluding 2020 – the bar is low), and leveling up (which ultimately became our theme for the event). B2B product management has always been strategic.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 10, 2020

While some may say that a Product Manager is ‘the CEO of the product’, that’s not entirely true. Both positions involve being the keeper of a vision, and both also have to be decision makers by curating ideas from many different sources. As a Product Manager, you have very little authority.

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BrainMates

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Here’s my selection of the most inspiring Brainmates posts of 2020 – the year where we said unprecedented way too often. In fact her post on “ mission-driven products ” suggested that Product Managers include “sustainable social benefits” in their Product Success Criteria.

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Alchemer Mobile

MARCH 17, 2020

Mobile product managers no longer simply oversee the product backlog or just organize their team’s tasks. In 2020, PMs play a massive role in product strategy and determining the overall customer experience. Due to rapidly-changing technology, customers have high expectations for the products they use.

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Userpilot

MARCH 8, 2022

Women are still underrepresented in the Product Profession – with only 33.3% of US Product Managers being female in 2021, according to a metastudy of 30 million profiles conducted by Zippia : Source: [link]. Melissa Perri – Speaker, consultant, and teacher in Product Management. CEO of Product Labs.

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BrainMates

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

When everything around you is changing, what’s a Product Manager to do? In a Q&A a couple of months ago, someone in the (virtual) audience asked if they should be working on their strategy now, or if they should wait until things calmed down again. Product Managers are not solo artists – we’re a part of the band.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 23, 2020

Since releasing both a webinar and book on the impact of feature-less roadmaps on your product strategy recently, we’ve gotten a lot of questions about why we’re so hostile to including features on product roadmaps. Features have long been the basic unit of measurement that product development teams track. Of course not.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 26, 2021

You know how when you log into a SaaS product, you often notice the UI has changed or there are new options that weren't there before? That's SaaS product management hustling in the background to give you the best experience. And you had to own all the servers. Nightmare, right?

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 25, 2022

Product managers (PMs) are ninjas of aligning people, management, and processes. No product tool or template can save you if you’re not killing it in these three areas. The best product managers are in a continuous state of discovery and know that?—? neither the product nor roadmap are ever static.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Despite general happiness with their jobs , many product managers are still looking to improve some things, and there are some key things they want to change this year. That was one of the takeaways from our Product Managers in 2020 Report with answers from more than 2,500 product management professionals.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 9, 2021

Product Goals Defined. The Scrum Guide released in November 2020 states that “the product goal describes a future state of the product … [It] is the long-term objective for the Scrum team.” It also suggests that “the product goal is in the product backlog. Figure 1: The Product Goal in Context.

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ProductPlan

DECEMBER 11, 2019

There are so many changes happening in product management as I write this, and the evolution only seems to be accelerating. With your support, we dove into the most result-driven strategies, popular frameworks, and groundbreaking leaders who changed the product management landscape.

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Modus Create

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

For a successful remote workshop, this needs to be clear: we need a goal, a vision, an idea, a plan, consensus. The post Remote Workshops Are the Killer App for 2020 appeared first on Modus Create. It is easy in an office environment to realize you need inputs and buy-in, but not be fully clear what you really need.

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BrainMates

DECEMBER 12, 2019

As a social entrepreneur with Full Time Lives and in my Product Management consulting work for Brainmates. How does this affect the world of Product Management? I think that as business and society is changing, our Products need to change too. It seems mission-driven Product Management is still being defined.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 24, 2021

The mistake most Product Managers make is to focus on a too broad and large market segment because they fear a niche market will not be profitable enough. Therefore, the product management team collected several ‘Target Customer Scenarios’ by interviewing internal employees and some available market research. Wiley, 2010.

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Mind the Product

MAY 31, 2019

In between we held sessions on Product Strategy and Product Principles, on Managing Product Portfolios, and on Developing Product Managers. On Day 2 we ran five all-day workshops for Product Managers at two venues in central Hamburg. Aspects of hypothesis-driven product management.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The Product Owner role depends on the size of an organization, the industry it is operating in, its culture, and the lifecycle stage of that organization’s product(s). Lastly, there is an overlap with the product manager role. The Product Owner is capable of thinking in systems to deal with complexity and uncertainty.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Product management isn’t for everyone. For example, some product managers might love hearing product management is “responsibility without authority.” There’s a lot that product managers dislike about their product management jobs. A quick silver-lining moment….

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Arpit Rai

MAY 31, 2020

I moved from Bombay to Bangalore in Feb 2020 to join ThoughtSpot. This post is about what one should do in the first 30–60–90 days of joining a new product management job. Have 1-on-1s with key members across different teams to help build a better understanding of the market, the product, the company culture etc.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JULY 13, 2020

Product Managers are often called “Product CEOs” or “Mini GMs”, but they rarely have direct control over the inputs that lead to successful products. Shipping product to real users. Product School's Product Management Certification Founded in 2014, Product School boasts a community of 1 million+.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 1, 2020

To gain from these interactions, platforms position themselves as product/service in the middle between producers and consumers?—?but © 2020 João Craveiro. © 2020 João Craveiro. © 2020 João Craveiro. © 2020 João Craveiro. This is where you start turning the vision into a product strategy?—?let’s

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Yet product managers generally love what they do and find the role quite fulfilling. However, there’s often a disconnect between aspects of the job that make product managers happy and the metrics upon which they’re judged. When this occurs, product managers must focus on goals unaligned with their passion.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 9, 2020

As we settle into the New Year we’re already looking ahead to the product leadership forums on our 2020 MTP calendar. However, be assured that everything reported from our forums here comes from the most forward-thinking people in the world of product.). Define What Product Management Means to Your Company.

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Arpit Rai

MAY 31, 2020

I moved from Bombay to Bangalore in Feb 2020 to join ThoughtSpot. This post is about what one should do in the first 30–60–90 days of joining a new product management job. Have 1-on-1s with key members across different teams to help build a better understanding of the market, the product, the company culture etc.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 9, 2020

Product management has grown from strength to strength in recent years, fast becoming a vital area of any SaaS company. With that in mind, we thought we’d take a look at how you can become a product manager, even if you have no previous experience. We’re going to start by looking at what a product manager actually does.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 26, 2024

In the perfect world, product managers have all the time, resources, and skills to do impeccable, in-depth market and user research. In the real world, product managers may have to start from scratch and quickly find something meaningful to work on. There is only the real world.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

What: 1,500 tech product managers and product developers gather online at one of the world’s largest product management & development conferences. What: The largest online product management conference in the world with years of digital experience. UXDX APAC 2021.

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