Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The Product Backlog is Too Big. A few years ago, I was asked to help a healthcare company with their agile transition and its impact on product management. One of the challenges the agile transition team was concerned about was the choice of the right product backlog tool, which at first seemed odd to me.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 4, 2022

Scrum is a popular agile framework. This team consists of a product owner , a Scrum Master , and several developers, which are also known as development team. Forming such a team connects the person in charge of the product—the product owner—with the people who design, architect, program, test, and document the solution—the developers.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 5, 2022

Here are three meetings with sample input data: Product strategy workshop : product performance data ( KPIs ), competitive analysis, market trends, development progress, for example, in the form of a release burndown chart , and user feedback on recent product increments. This might be your Scrum Master or an agile coach.

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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. The next step involves reviewing the backlog to align it with the goals.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

For example, a product manager might determine the product strategy and one or more development teams might be tasked with executing it. I call these outcomes product goals. With an actionable product roadmap in place, move on and stock your product backlog. Enter the Cycle.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 19, 2017

The Daily Scrum meeting, sometimes also referred to as stand-up meeting, wants to help the development team manage its work. In Scrum, the team collectively agrees to a sprint goal and is responsible for meeting it. Do you doubt the team’s ability to meet the sprint goal? Tip #1: Know what it’s all about.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Leading as the Person in Charge of the Product When you hear the term leadership , you might first and foremost think of a senior manager like the head of product, Director of Product Management, VP of Product, or Chief Product Officer.[

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

I therefore recommend applying a different product roadmapping approach and using goal-oriented roadmaps , which are also called outcome-based. As their name suggests, these roadmaps focus on product goals or outcomes such as acquiring customers , increasing engagement , and future-proofing the product by removing technical debt.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

The Snitch, the Whip, the Bookkeeper, the Six Sigma Black Belt™ Like a job ad for a Scrum Master position, the equivalent for the Product Owner position also reveals excellent insight into an organization’s progress on becoming agile. Shall I notify you about articles like this one?

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Consider These Product “Owner” Teams Effective product owners need to collaborate with several kinds of teams: They work with “their” feature/product team, to write stories and create good backlogs for the near-term work. However, in a small organization, that someone might be a VP, not a product manager.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 10, 2020

In this deep dive, Matt LeMay, author of Agile for Everybody and Product Management in Practice, explains what data means to product management and how it should be used to ensure that we’re building products designed to achieve meaningful outcomes.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 10, 2020

In this episode, Tristan and Rosemary discuss product intuition, the art of prioritisation, managing your HiPPOs, and draw from their own experiences and expertise to answer questions from the Mind the Product community. 32:20 | Are there any frameworks/tools to help me manage multiple products? Question 1 .

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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

Instead, you should engage the stakeholders, leverage their expertise, and generate as much buy-in as possible , as I explain in more detail in my article “ Stakeholder Management Tips for Product People.” Myth #2: The product owner is a tactical role focused on managing the product backlog.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

A colleague, Tom, told me about this question he received in an interview: “The product owner and dev team cannot decide on a sprint goal, even after hours of discussion. They (the team) feel that the tasks for the sprint are too varied to manage to a single sprint goal. Let me start with the idea of a sprint goal.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

I started this series with many specific concerns about a particular interview question: “The product owner and dev team cannot decide on a sprint goal, even after hours of discussion. They (the team) feel that the tasks for the sprint are too varied to manage to a single sprint goal. What should the Scrum Master do?”

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 28, 2021

Turning the Sprint Review into a Sprint acceptance gate where stakeholders sign off features is unfortunately prominent and defies the idea of self-management. You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 31,000-plus other subscribers. ?? Follow me on Twitter and subscribe to my blog Age of Product ??

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Userpilot

JULY 29, 2024

And that’s why it’s necessary to adopt the right product management frameworks (the blueprint!) to guide product teams at every stage. Top-notch products. So, which product management frameworks should your team use? The result? Let’s get right to it. Book a demo now to see it in action.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 6, 2024

Building and launching successful products requires more than just a good idea—it demands smooth coordination, strategic planning, and effective collaboration. This is where product lifecycle management software solutions come into play to align product management with company goals. Let’s get right to it.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 5, 2021

The product manager career path is an exciting one with lots of possible on- and off-ramps. According to LinkedIn, interest in product management has doubled in the United States in the past 5 years. What is the Product Manager’s Career Path? Typical Product Management Roles. Product Manager.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

In How Product Goals Make it Easier to Create Sprint Goals and Reduce Feature Factories, Part 1 , I started responding to Tom's interview question. Here's the question again: “The product owner and dev team cannot decide on a sprint goal, even after hours of discussion. What should the Scrum Master do?”

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Are you frustrated with how your users are underutilizing your product, complaining about it, and not realizing the value that it has to offer? It’s probably because you’re lacking in some of the product management fundamentals. Let’s explore the key fundamentals of product management that every product leader should master.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The Product Owner Theses A Product Owner is an innovator at heart and thus a value creator for customers and organizations if given a chance to work in an agile manner. The Product Owner is also the most vulnerable Scrum role. as in being the guardian of the Product Backlog?—?, Spoiler alert: they aren’t identical.)

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

I therefore recommend applying a different product roadmapping approach and using goal-oriented roadmaps , which are also called outcome-based. As their name suggests, these roadmaps focus on product goals or outcomes such as acquiring customers , increasing engagement , and future-proofing the product by removing technical debt.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Product managers, have you ever wondered what user story mapping is? User story mapping is a simple method for converting your vision of a product into a roadmap that allows broad team collaboration and enables your entire team to see the bigger picture, how everything connects, and how to plan the minimum viable product.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 6, 2023

Feature velocity is one of the product management buzzwords but what exactly does it mean? Agile teams use story points to express velocity and burndown charts to track it. What does velocity mean in product management? It is a well-known instrument used in Agile delivery frameworks like Scrum.

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Userpilot

JULY 8, 2021

Product manager courses are everywhere. Product management is one of the most diverse disciplines and requires an extremely broad set of skills. Additionally, the product manager role drastically changes with your seniority. Beginner product manager. Mid-career product manager.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 7, 2020

Product vs Project Management?—?Batman Source: Animated Times During my career, I have worked extensively as both a project manager and a product manager; within consulting and in multiple industries. Product and Project Management?—?two In contrast, a project manager focusses on the how and the when.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 24, 2021

The importance of building products that customers valued and the limited amount of finances forced startups to take a different approach when building their products. New movements such as agile engineering and lean product management became the core philosophy of lots of successful startups around that time.

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ProductPlan

JULY 16, 2021

Acquiring a consensus on product direction remains the number one challenge for product professionals, according to ProductPlan’s 2021 State of Product Management Annual Report. The art of product leader communication relies on the concept of responsibility without authority. You could use a command approach: (1.)

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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. What aligned roadmaps and OKRs together was the product strategy.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Back in Part 1 of this series, I explained all the problems I saw with this interview question: “The product owner and dev team cannot decide on a sprint goal, even after hours of discussion. They (the team) feel that the tasks for the sprint are too varied to manage to a single sprint goal. That day needs an agenda.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 26, 2022

When do you need it and how does it help product managers build better products? Impact mapping is a collaborative strategic planning technique used by product managers, product owners , and senior technical leadership, who work mostly in Agile software delivery. What is impact mapping in agile?

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CardBoard

AUGUST 7, 2023

Want to get better at writing Agile user stories? Maybe you’re a Scrum Master, Agile coach, or a member of a product team. User stories are more than just a tool for planning and managing work. In this guide, we’ll cover the basics: what are Agile user stories, how do you write them, and how to use them effectively.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 5, 2021

The product manager career path is an exciting one with lots of possible on- and off-ramps. According to LinkedIn, interest in product management has doubled in the United States in the past 5 years. What is the Product Manager’s Career Path? Typical Product Management Roles. Product Manager.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Consequently, the calls for accessibility and inclusion have become louder, and Ken and Jeff managed to answer them compellingly. I consider remarkable: No more roles : “The Scrum Team consists of one Scrum Master, one Product Owner, and Developers. The Product explanation : “A product is a vehicle to deliver value.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 17, 2021

You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 31,000-plus other subscribers. ?? Join more than 210 peers from May 27–29, 2021 , for the Virtual Agile Camp Berlin 2021, a live virtual Barcamp using open space technology principles and practices. Follow me on Twitter and subscribe to my blog Age of Product ??

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 6, 2022

A colleague unfamiliar with lifecycles or agility asked, “How can we use sprints in this approach?” See Create Your Successful Agile Project for more details.). They don't have a specific sprint goal. They do have product goals. And you don't have to use an agile approach to use an iteration.

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