Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Introduction To discuss empowerment in product management, I find it helpful to distinguish three main levels of decision-making authority, product delivery, product discovery, and product strategy, as the model in Figure 1 shows. [1] Strategize , 2 nd ed.,

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 23, 2022

A Product Framework from Concept to Delivery: Part 1 Why “FE²AR” As a technology executive, I have seen my share of successful and not-as-successful products. The best products fail nowadays due to a lack of consideration of Ecosystems, an example that I will walk through in Part 2 of this article.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 27, 2018

Has the spirit of being agile been lost behind a mountain of rules? Agile vs. Being Agile Agile became popular shortly after ‘The Agile Software Development Manifesto ’ was published in 2001. Companies who focused on being agile saw great success, and others wanted to follow suit.

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Hutwork

MARCH 9, 2018

Magazine reports that most CEOs read at least a book a week, and this doesn’t include blogs, articles, podcasts, and videos they devour, too. Regardless, the following articles are a must-read for anyone concerned with rolling out the best product in each iteration. Agile Died While You Were Doing Your Standup.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

This article explores both hard and soft skills that product managers need in their everyday work, so if you’re curious to learn more, dive right in. Soft skills, like communication or leadership , are more general and can be used in different contexts. To be a kick-ass product manager , you need a very diverse skill set.

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Agile Velocity

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

2019 is our ninth year as a company and marks over 15 years of my personal work with clients as they transition to Agile. Throughout our time as a team, we’ve identified many key issues and problems that affect companies on their Path to Agility. Here are five Agile trends to look out for this year: 1.

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Roadmunk

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

I’m constantly consuming articles on product management, product culture, startups and entrepreneurship to bolster my career as a product person and leader. This list is not the be all end all; there are countless ‘must-read’ articles for PMs. I’ve hand-picked articles that specifically helped me during key moments in my career.

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Agile Velocity

JUNE 4, 2020

My previous post focused on the Harvard Business Review (HBR) article “The Agile C-Suite” 1. . The title sets up the obvious–Agile isn’t new, but having C-suite level executives embrace it is. This myopic view of Agile has been an impediment to organizational and business adoption. . Denning’s Laws of Agile.

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 13, 2024

This article explores the fundamentals of portfolio management, its goals, and frameworks for structuring portfolios, and provides insights on aligning product innovation projects with organizational strategy. Innovation Landscape Model The innovation landscape model is another framework for structuring portfolios.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 25, 2018

Agile is an awesome approach when done right, but is your team making these common mistakes? Most people will agree that the adoption of agile is now mainstream. This adoption is rightfully so, as agile can be an excellent framework for building software. This is extremely short-sighted.

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Agile Velocity

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

I’ve found most executives genuinely want to know, “How do I help our Agile transformation?” Becoming an agile company is new for leaders and teams. Yet, leaders are often left out while teams get the lion’s share of the attention from Agile coaches. the partner they choose to provide Agile coaches or Agile consultants).

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Agile Velocity

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Today’s Agile leaders manage with a more complete arsenal of skills and techniques than leaders of the past who led fundamentally different teams. For Agile organizations, the days of top-down hierarchy and autonomous decision making have joined the floppy disk as obsolete and outdated concepts in modern business. Optimizing the whole.

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Agile Velocity

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

I’ve found most executives genuinely want to know, “How do I help our Agile transformation?” Becoming an agile company is new for leaders and teams. Yet, leaders are often left out while teams get the lion’s share of the attention from Agile coaches. the partner they choose to provide Agile coaches or Agile consultants).

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

The Agile Movers & Shakers Interview with Viktor Cessan Welcome to the Agile Movers & Shakers interview series. In the 14 years since he started working with Agile methodologies, he has helped companies such as Spotify, H&M, King, Avanza Bank, Telenor, and Sony Ericsson work more effectively.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 15, 2019

A story of love, hate, oppression and triumph I’ll admit, I’ve started to fall out of love with agile over the past year or so?—?don’t I wholeheartedly believe that you need to be adaptable to survive today but the further I travel on my own journey the more I wonder if we as an industry are moving past agile. Enter agile.

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Bain Public

JUNE 4, 2020

As business advisors and executive coaches, we've worked with dozens of CEOs to help them build and grow their product leadership team as they scale their company. Getting external support, such as product management consulting, can help establish the product leadership team responsible for nurturing and guiding the product team.

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Agile Velocity

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Dear Agile Velocity Community, . As the CEO of Agile Velocity, it’s been an honor to grow what was a company of one to multiple teams. . The area that I feel I can contribute best and gives me the most energy is in a thought leadership role and developing my passion project, the Path to Agility ®. Your servant leader, .

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Agile Velocity

JUNE 6, 2018

Agile Roles are well defined in any foundational training for Scrum or Kanban. However, it’s not always clear who will be filling those roles as an organization begins using its chosen framework. Learn Agile. Servant leadership/Facilitation/Coaching. Manage expectations to leadership. Start Doing: Self-motivation.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 29, 2021

Shall I notify you about articles like this one? You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 30,000-plus other subscribers. Join more than 100 peers from May 27–29, 2021 , for the Virtual Agile Camp Berlin 2021, a live virtual Barcamp using open space technology principles and practices.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 29, 2023

In this article, we’re going to unpack what is product management , how it differs from traditional project management, the role it plays in building products that delight your users, and the skills a good product manager must demonstrate to succeed. Drives product success. Let’s check out a few common roles occupying a product team.

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Agile Velocity

OCTOBER 29, 2019

In the previous articles of this series, I covered the first and second antidotes to Zombie Agility, the regular and generous application of compelling Business Outcomes and ensuring your change agents aren’t already infected. Antidote #3: Build healthy teams with strong capabilities to easily repel future Zombie Agility attacks.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 13, 2023

These are the key questions we cover in the article. Examples of different prioritization frameworks. A product prioritization framework helps you maximize customer value and deliver the best ROI by encouraging methodical examination of data before making decisions. Why should product managers use a prioritization framework?

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The Product Coalition

JULY 13, 2020

whether you are acting as Scrum Master, Product Owner or agile coach?—?because including Scrum Masters and agile coaches?—?in in organizations that lack strong leadership. Join the 25th Hands-on Agile meetup on August 20, 2020, to explore the virtual Ecocycle Planning. Do you want to get this article in your inbox?

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Do you want to get this article in your inbox? Being a real framework, Scrum has been augmented by many other practices, techniques, and tools, embracing many of those so tightly that they seem to be indistinguishable from the framework itself. I have always considered servant leadership to be integral to Scrum’s success.

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Agile Velocity

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

In a recent discussion with a business leader, I asked a simple question: “Why are you considering an Agile transformation?” . “We Any type of transformation—Agile, digital, or otherwise—is serious in terms of cost, effort, and time. Plus, not all Agile transformations are successful Agile transformations.

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Userpilot

JULY 13, 2022

In our article, we introduce 20 of our favorite product manager blogs that every product pro should follow, regardless of their experience. Userpilot publishes well-researched and in-depth articles on all aspects of product management including product growth, retention, and adoption. Do you follow any product manager blogs?

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Mind the Product

MAY 21, 2019

Or a new leader comes in believing agile teams should be self-determining. When leadership asked them to make a decision they got stuck in spin cycles because they didn’t know what they were trying to achieve. When I was in design school I read an article with Donald Schon that has stuck with me ever since.

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The Product HQ

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

This article provides you with various core skills beneficial to your search. As a technical program manager, you communicate with product managers, leadership teams, and external vendors. Technical program managers demonstrate leadership and team building with key stakeholders to ensure successful project delivery.

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Agile Velocity

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

In a recent discussion with a business leader, I asked a simple question: “Why are you considering an Agile transformation?” . “We Any type of transformation—Agile, digital, or otherwise—is serious in terms of cost, effort, and time. Plus, not all Agile transformations are successful. We just want to get better,” she replied.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

What I have seen, is that both startups and big corporates have issues in understanding how to be more product-led without the right mindset and framework. In 2015, Martin Eriksson wrote an article about the history of product management. Design, UX, Agile Have Already Done the Hard Work. My Coaching Framework.

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Agile Velocity

AUGUST 19, 2019

Business innovation is defined in the Path to Agility ® transformation model as the “new ideas, creative thoughts, or novel imaginations that provide better solutions to meet new requirements, unarticulated needs, or known market needs”. . Level: Leadership. Level: Leadership. Implementing Agile Leadership Practices.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Sustainable pace is an important agile principle. The Agile Manifesto defines it in the following way: “The sponsors, developers, and users should be able to maintain a constant pace indefinitely.” You can find out more about participatory decision-making in my article “ Use Decision Rules to Make Better Decisions ”.).

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

You must familiarize yourself with the frameworks, approaches, and methodologies that product leaders use to manage AI products. Beef up your communication skills by learning frameworks on how to communicate effectively. Enhance your project management skills, particularly in agile methodologies suited to AI projects.

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Agile Velocity

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

In the first couple sentences of “Agile Integration: The Blueprint for Enterprise Architecture,” a recently released report by Red Hat, the authors write: “Business success is increasingly based on your ability to react to change. This is not to be confused with the traditional “agile software development,” according to the authors.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Much has been written about the process of creating product roadmaps, not least the six great articles written by my own team. Without thoughtful leadership around them, it may not be in product manager’s gift to achieve a “good” roadmap. The “agile onion” and the layers that you as a product leader should be in.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Organise the Team around a Product As the name suggests, a product team is focused on a product. This individual leads the product team, not by being the boss but by exercising emergent leadership. To help you with this, I’ve created the framework shown in Figure 2.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2021

Part one of this article taught you how to align a roadmap with aspirational business goals. The initial steps of this framework took collaboration between business leadership and the product team to set a direction for development decisions. I’ll continue to use the Amazon example discussed in the previous article.

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