Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] 1 Complement Scrum with a Product Discovery and Strategy Process Scrum is a simple framework that helps teams develop successful products. Otherwise, you might ask the wrong people for feedback on the increments and hence draw the wrong conclusions.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Before the advent of agile frameworks like Scrum , a product person—the product manager—would typically carry out the market research, compile a market requirements specification, create a business case, put together product roadmap, write a requirements specification, and then hand it off to a project manager.

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

People from several different backgrounds decide to become platform product managers and follow a rich and rewarding career that is varied, fulfilling, and well-paid. This article describes all of the essential information needed to begin the journey to becoming a platform product manager.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 29, 2023

What is agile release planning? How can product managers leverage them to build successful products? TL;DR Agile release planning breaks the project scope into smaller chunks and prioritizes their delivery over a number of iterations. Use in-app messages and release emails to let your users know about new releases.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 20, 2023

To create customer-centric products, PMs will have to draw on multiple data sources, like user behavior analytics. AI is becoming pivotal in product management. Product managers will have to learn how to leverage it for data and customer feedback analysis , and to improve decision-making. Funnel analysis in Userpilot.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Once you’ve identified and selected a specific product, you can take the next step and determine the people who are required to create or progress it and generate the desired user and business benefits. Finally, the individual must be empowered to decide if no agreement can be reached within the product team.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JUNE 21, 2022

There is (perhaps) nothing more fundamental for product managers and their teams than the product roadmap. Product teams refer back to their product roadmap to understand how a product or solution will develop over time. A visual overview of how product development should occur over time.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 9, 2021

When I talk about roadmaps with younger product leaders, I often hear things like “we don’t need one, we are agile” or “why build a roadmap when things will surely change”. The roadmap sets the strategic direction of the company, and when built right it also doesn’t have to change that frequently, despite your agility.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Product roadmaps is one of the subjects I am probably the most passionate about in the product world. They’re controversial and usually carry a love-hate relationship stigma for many product managers. An outcome-based roadmap just sounds like a c-suite failing to construct a functional product organisation.”.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 17, 2022

In Part 1 , I said that product roadmaps are not like car roadmaps. But even car roadmaps showed places of interest—options—for the driver and passengers. Too often, I see very predictable roadmaps for managers. Predictability vs. Option Discussion for Roadmaps. More on that later in this post.).

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

The product development process is part art, part science, and all important to the success of your SaaS. In this article, we've got a comprehensive review of the entire product development process. The next phase is to gather feedback on your MVP. Next up, you need to validate the idea before you start writing code.

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Userpilot

JUNE 29, 2022

Product storytelling is a method of communicating the value of your product by focusing on the user’s problem rather than the product’s features. As part of the development process, product stories are derived from the user stories and product roadmaps created by the product manager.

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Regardless of whether you’re building products for software, hardware, or services, product managers of every stripe are considered the driver of a product’s strategic development and the single source of truth for questions, requests, and feedback related to their products.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Guest post by Angus McDonald, Senior Product Manager at Terem Technologies, and Kayla Li, Delivery Manager at Terem Technologies Word from Scott: Over the years we’ve helped many different teams uplift in different ways. 5 Key Elements to Check A single product issue may reflect multiple underlying causes.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 6, 2020

Product (and company) strategy is the backbone that guides product goal-setting and roadmap definition, although it’s sometimes overlooked or confused with having a vision. Without it, product teams become feature teams focused on outputs and not outcomes. It is the guiding principle for OKRs and roadmaps.

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ProductPlan

APRIL 12, 2022

Slack’s product strategy put it on a trajectory for success. Slack began as a humble internal communication tool for a failed online game and ended up the fastest growing SaaS. In just a few short years, the business messaging app Slack established itself as a communication hub. Thus, Slack was born.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

What’s more, it’s not uncommon in my experience that product owners have to do their job without the support of a Scrum Master or agile coach. Staffing : Help find people who have the right skills and are motivated to work on the product and who can fill the roles. So why is the role important?

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 6, 2019

If you’re a mobile app product manager there’s a whole additional layer of complexity to add to that cake. Your software needs to be updated frequently and to the satisfaction levels of the app store gatekeepers. They also said they wished they had a clearer product roadmap strategy.

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UX Studio: Product Management

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

After our team at UX Studio started using product management tools, the time spent on communication surprisingly decreased. As a product manager, you know the drill. We created a list of all the essential platforms a product manager would need , so anyone can revolutionize their team workflow. Collaboration tools.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 5, 2020

A platform owner who manages a platform as a collection of shared software assets. The SAFe product owner who owns the product details. A portfolio owner who manages a group of (related) products. A platform owner owns such a platform. Pl atform Owner.

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 6, 2020

How can the product be built? What architecture patterns and technologies may be used? In order to answer the questions above, you may want to use techniques such as direct observation, user interviews, prototyping, creating a strategy canvas or E-R-R-C grid , and you may capture some of them using a tool like my product vision board.

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Userpilot

MARCH 6, 2020

As a team supporting diversity and women in tech – we decided to use the International Women’s Day as an opportunity to showcase some of the best talent in the industry – and interviewed the top female Product Managers, Product Owners and SaaS founders and CEOs. Women in SaaS. Women in Product.

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Their product teams are small and agile. Perhaps the team consists of a few product managers. These professionals can easily communicate , stay aligned, and present a cohesive product strategy to the team. Many teams fail to understand the importance of a roadmap. Choosing the right tool.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 6, 2022

Nowadays, digital products are becoming more and more prominent in our lives, and it’s already part of our daily activities. The majority of such apps have undergone iterative and incremental development to enhance and improve their features. Most of our readers would have heard of Agile product management.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 5, 2022

For example, a product strategy workshop might have the objective to identify the key changes required to achieve product-market fit. Contrast this with a sprint review meeting , which might help you determine if users can easily sign up for the product. Assess product strategy and adjust if necessary.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Before I discuss how you can help an underachieving team, let’s briefly explore what good performance looks like, assuming that an agile, Scrum-based process is used. Second, the team participates in continuous discovery and strategizing , and its members regularly help refine the product backlog. But this would be wrong.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Product managers carry out market research, lead product discovery , oversee the development teams as they are working on the solutions, and coordinate the product launch. 16 Product Management Best Practices. Collecting user feedback in-app is the most direct way to gain insights into customers’ needs.

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Amplitude

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

As product managers (PMs), we spend a significant portion of our time talking to customers and understanding their experiences to shape our roadmap and strategy—you may have even done an interview with us! Some of these tools are for managing everyday tasks, while others are critical for making strategic product decisions.

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Usersnap

JUNE 15, 2023

Building a powerful SaaS product takes way more than just an idea. Without a systematic approach to your product management process and clear roadmap, you’ll likely face several hurdles like lack of direction, unclear priorities, wasted resources, missed deadlines, difficulty in scaling, and more. Questioning them.

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ProductPlan

APRIL 1, 2020

In a world of browser-based solutions, experimentation and rapid iteration are sometimes taken for granted. Some products get released multiple times per day or simultaneously present different experiences to various users. So how do product roadmaps help ensure this remains the case? Good ideas are a dime a dozen.

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UX Studio

JUNE 30, 2023

We deliver impactful, user-friend, and unique solutions for ambitious ideas. USA; Europe $70 – $90 / hr Website design, UI/UX design, Research, Website Audit, Mobile App Design, Consulting, Expert Review Studio 22 Design Studio 22 Design is a creative design firm located in the San Francisco Bay area.

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Tyner Blain

MAY 24, 2017

Taking agile, a process otherwise optimized for small, cross-functional, collaborative teams and making it work at scale is fascinating. Being outcome driven, is one element you must retain – or even elevate in importance, or you fundamentally break the system of delivery. Both were then uncommon, and both are still important.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 31, 2022

All product managers share a base, common skillset, which includes problem-solving, strategic thinking, and empathy for others. The different specialization categories: core product manager, growth product manager, technical product manager, platform product manager, and innovation product manager.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Every software team out there uses some sort of planning system or tool to do product roadmaps and sprint plans, and yet many are unhappy with the tools, or frustrated at the lack of getting things done, or getting “pointless” things done, and the list goes on. We put all of this in some document or a tool.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Departmental goals and incentives further push developers towards building robust, scalable, elegant software. Agile Development Things don’t necessarily get better with agile development. Agile dev did away with project waterfall?—?Specification QA, but it didn’t fix the planning waterfall : Strategy?

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Userpilot

JULY 30, 2021

The product manager role is responsible for understanding what customer problems to solve and what success looks like for a product. The different types of product managers include the traditional product manager, the product owner, the growth product manager, the technical product manager, and the platform product manager.

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UX Studio: Product Management

MAY 13, 2024

For instance, if your designers are struggling to maintain a consistent design system due to a heavy design backlog, hiring a design system expert could be beneficial. The design system expert could audit the product, develop the design system, consult with developers about its implementation, and train the designers on the new system.

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