Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 5, 2021

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. The Product Backlog is Too Big.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

1] Figure 1: An Empowerment Model for Product People and Teams Level one represents the authority to decide how features are detailed and guide their implementation. Level three, finally, allows product people and teams to develop the product strategy including the value proposition and business goals.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

” But do not allow people to dominate and tell you what to do, and don’t agree to a weak compromise. But the situation is different for product owners in the agile scaling framework SAFe. The SAFe product owner is tactical in nature and focuses on working on the product backlog and guiding the development teams.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 11, 2016

Manage the Product, not the Team. Focus on your job as the product manager or product owner, and manage the product, not the team. Treat the Team as an Equal Partner. The team members are not your resources but the people who create your product. Assume that the team members want to do their best.

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 2, 2022

On the ANE panel last night, an agile coach asked, “What's my path forward as an agile coach? Focus on business results, not agility per se. Teams might feel pressure from a too-large backlog or too-long roadmap. Not because people are somehow bad, stupid, or wrong. Nobody wants to “be agile.”

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Product Management University

MARCH 5, 2024

Over the past few years, I’ve noticed a growing sentiment that the definition of product management keeps shrinking to the point where it’s becoming only the tactical things required to execute the next set of (agile) sprints. In other words, the agile development process is redefining what we call product management.

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Modus Create

JANUARY 26, 2021

Adopting Agile sounds as simple as taking the SCRUM master certification tests and pushing them down the framework to a team of developers. Usually, we find that the challenge of becoming agile is way larger than most companies like to admit. Situations like this are not uncommon. Situations like this are not uncommon.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 5, 2022

For product strategy and roadmap meetings, I recommend involving the key stakeholders , for example, someone from sales, marketing, support, and finance, as well as development team representatives—ideally members who know about the user experience (UX), architecture, and technologies. Close the meeting.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 23, 2020

From objectives to roadmap, the strategy behind product development?—?Part If used correctly, OKRs can enable companies and teams to increase efficiency and focus their efforts so they can work together in one unified direction. they are meant to be expressions of success and represent progress towards the objective.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

On this episode of Intercom on Product myself and Paul Adams, our SVP of Product, take a look at roadmapping. Knowing how and when to define a roadmap, who to include and how long to plan for are key elements to finding the balanced approach that you need. As you grow functions, the audience for your roadmap widens.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

On this episode of Intercom on Product myself and Paul Adams, our SVP of Product, take a look at roadmapping. Knowing how and when to define a roadmap, who to include and how long to plan for are key elements to finding the balanced approach that you need. As you grow functions, the audience for your roadmap widens.

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Modus Create

MARCH 8, 2022

What is Agile Release Planning? In Agile, a release is a group of software features that can be developed and deployed to the users in a given period. Adding more plans and meetings to an Agile team can seem like a slowdown which feels scary given that Agile is all about speed and deployments.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

” But do not allow people to dominate and tell you what to do, and don’t agree to a weak compromise. But the situation is different for product owners in the agile scaling framework SAFe. The SAFe product owner is tactical in nature and focuses on working on the product backlog and guiding the development teams.

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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. ” I’ve spent the last half-year in the beginning of my journey understanding how agile product management at scale can work. .” Seeing things in practice.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

I once worked with a telco company that was developing a brand-new commercial product. Product management and development were located at separate sites in different countries. The technical complexities were greater than anticipated and the development progress was slower than forecasted. To Collocate or Not.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

I once worked with a telco company that was developing a brand-new commercial product. Product management and development were located at separate sites in different countries. The technical complexities were greater than anticipated and the development progress was slower than forecasted. To Collocate or Not.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 8, 2024

Think of digital transformation strategies as your roadmap to success in the digital age. The important basis is the development of a strategy for short- and long-term digital transformation based on business results rather than technology. Involve them in strategy development, gather their input, and address their concerns.

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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. This step gets into what people think of when they ask for a roadmap.

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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. I believe the actions of a product leader all too often are the root cause of a “bad” roadmap. I would define a good roadmap as one that the team understands and feels ownership over.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 20, 2020

It’s understandable that most of us don’t make time for personal development. Who wants to spend time after a hard day of work learning and developing when they could be kicking back with a beer and watching The Crown? A few months ago, I introduced a concept I have developed called the PM, or Product, Quadrants.

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

An essential role of CPOs and other product leaders that’s never listed in the job description is giving organizational 'air cover' to product managers to postpone almost all new requests — so that their teams can finish work already underway.    Lately, I’m calling this permission to stay focused.

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Usersnap

JANUARY 8, 2024

The engineering team from Lockheed Martin used imperial units (pounds-force), while NASA’s team used metric units (newtons). As we explore the subsequent sections, we will uncover how this iterative approach to product development has revolutionized the way products are conceived, developed, and refined. Planning 2.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Highly effective Product Managers develop themselves in 5 key areas. In some jobs, you can get by with just Competence, but in the unkempt, fuzzy, team-oriented domain of Product Management, you need both. Here are 2 actions you can take to develop your Craft Competence: Craft Competence ?? and others feel that.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 4, 2017

What is Dual-Track Agile? Dual-Track Agile is an IT development methodology where figuring out what to build is as important as the building process. So how do you know if your product team has a good idea? So how do you know if your product team has a good idea? Now Things get Messy. Can users use it?

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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. What do the product roadmapping or planning tools offer us?

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ProductPlan

JUNE 11, 2019

An outcome-based roadmap sounds like a good idea. Instead of a long list of context-free features and enhancements the roadmap is constructed to accomplish specific goals critical to the success of the business. The Problem With Outcome-Based Roadmaps. But it is greatly diminished when folks are betting on unrealistic results.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2019

What do you do when your team is working their socks off and yet they are getting little credit for the work being done, mainly because the team isn’t able to set concrete expectations with the stakeholder? This obviously reflected as a failure to deliver on part of the engineering team. THE CHALLENGE. THE CAUSE.

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 25, 2022

Let’s jump in with the bad news: No organization is immune to product vulnerability. However, great product leaders protect their product teams from exploiting weaknesses and vulnerabilities. However, these uncontrollable, unpredictable variables can create weaknesses that morph into opportunities for potential attacks.

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ProductPlan

MAY 22, 2020

It’s not necessarily bad when product management adapts to each company’s specific needs. Below is the discussion Melissa Perri had with John Cutler and Jim Semick on why teams that are scaling need product ops. Processes & Practices: The more product teams grow and multiply, the less homogenous they get.

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The Secret PM Handbook

AUGUST 4, 2017

Of course, a huge amount of our time and energy is taken up in the “solution” area – writing requirements, prioritizing, agile development, roadmaps, working with developers, and ensuring quality. How To Talk To Your Executives About Agile. The Best Way To Understand Agile.

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Mixpanel

MAY 3, 2019

Throughout his career, Al has focused on helping companies develop and execute digital strategies to grow their business and stay ahead of the curve. Developing a mobile product is a daunting task. This Growth process is ongoing and ever-evolving, requiring your team to continuously iterate. Poor Data Integrity.

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UX Planet

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Understanding your organization’s UX maturity is the first, most crucial step toward recognizing the strengths and weaknesses of your organization. It also helps in saving on directionless development costs. Have you prioritized the design problems to be solved in your product roadmap?

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

 Can the executive team?  Are But for calendars, the scarce resource is time rather than development capacity.  Just A Quick-and-Dirty Tabulation with Optional Color Coding Applying some Agile 101, it’s handy to understand a problem before we start fixing things.  Perhaps

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 23, 2017

Agile Died While You Were Perfecting Your Standup. Nate Walkingshaw argues that it’s time to take the things we have learned from Agile and move on to new ways of working together to build products. Why Isn’t Agile Working? It is common for big organisations to adopt Agile, but see no benefits. Burn down the burndown.

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Mironov Consulting

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Most product companies have a few things in their roadmaps that are specifically for single customers – I call these sales one-offs. Good estimation and busy technical team are the keys to success. I see professional services companies succeed by bringing in custom projects and marking up their developers’ time. What to do? [1]

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 30, 2017

Let’s call it the software development deli counter problem. Likewise, sales and business development teams (especially in enterprise companies) are hired and paid and rewarded for bringing in large deals. Which takes us to this chain of reasoning: “I don’t remember what’s in the development pipeline.”

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ProductPlan

MARCH 31, 2022

When it comes to the product team’s organizational structures and strategies, product operations is the hot new thing. More and more teams realize the value of having an operationally-focused professional. Teams must carefully consider if product operations solve the core problems and challenges. Product roadmap delays.

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