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Tips for Becoming a Head of Product

Roman Pichler

Consequently, your focus shifts from managing a product to looking after the product people on your team and empowering them to do a great job. This will allow them to take full ownership of and responsibility for their products, and it will increase their motivation, productivity, and job satisfaction.

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Decoding Product Leadership

Roman Pichler

Consequently, a product manager and a Scrum product owner are leaders, too. They guide the stakeholders , development teams, and in the case of large products, other product people, to meet the agreed product goals , create the desired outcomes, and achieve product success, as Figure 1 shows.

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Stakeholder Management Tips for Product People

Roman Pichler

A handy stakeholder analysis tool is the power-interest grid developed by Ackermann and Eden. As its name suggests, the grid analyses the stakeholders by taking into account their power and interest; it assumes that people take a low or high interest in your product and have low or high power.

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Five Product Owner Myths Busted

Roman Pichler

The framework uses its own product owner role, which is different from the one in Scrum. The SAFe product owner is tactical in nature and focuses on working on the product backlog and guiding the development teams. The strategic work is taken on by another role, the SAFe product manager.

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Tips for Becoming a Head of Product

Roman Pichler

Consequently, your focus shifts from managing a product to looking after the product people on your team and empowering them to do a great job. This will allow them to take full ownership of and responsibility for their products, and it will increase their motivation, productivity, and job satisfaction.

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Goal-Question-Metrics: A Holistic Alternative to Objectives and Key Results

The Product Coalition

GQM Use in Ancient Times On a recent product requirements document, I laid out measures of success using an old favorite: Goal-Question-Metric (GQM). The result was a very clear definition of success for the product and also a roadmap to measure progress.

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Why Technical Debt Roadmaps Don’t Work

ProductPlan

To understand the problem with technical debt roadmaps, we’ll start with a quote from renowned philosopher, Homer Simpson. When you create a dedicated roadmap for technical debt, you are removing the the problem from your immediate sight. In this article, we’ll discuss why technical debt roadmaps don’t work.