Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

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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Ronke PM

MARCH 26, 2024

Ensuring everyone aligns with the values and what they mean is integral because our organization's core values are the connective tissue that brings everyone together; they are the foundation for the concerted love of our products, solutions, and services. Aligning early allows us to influence their roadmap and avoid surprises.

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Bain Public

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Hypercroissance Quebec - an initiative of Startup Montreal developed in collaboration with Apexe Global with the support of the Quebec government, Desjardins Entreprises and BDC - is the first program to focus entirely on Quebec's high-growth companies (also known as scaleups).

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Roman Pichler

JULY 11, 2016

Provide guidance on the product, including its market, value proposition, business goals, and key features. But let the ScrumMaster or coach tackle people, process, and organisational issues; let the development team figure out what needs to be done to implement the user stories and other product backlog items.

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Ronke PM

MAY 8, 2024

Product management revolves around human needs, wants, and desires, making it a humbling responsibility. Influential product leaders manage their teams with well-being in mind, necessitating culture-driven leadership. Culture-driven product leaders mold and develop a culture where if one person fails, we all fail.

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Bain Public

MARCH 20, 2021

There are many peer-reviewed studies compiled by the Product Development and Management Association (PDMA) that illustrates about half of all product development projects fail; this failure rate is especially much higher in smaller and startup companies. The answer is simply: product roadmaps and product development !

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 11, 2020

Unlike a line manager, you usually don’t manage the development team and stakeholders as the person in charge of the product, and the individuals don’t report to you. In order to overcome this challenge, build trust with the stakeholders and development team members. No Transactional Power.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 11, 2020

Unlike a line manager, you usually don’t manage the development team and stakeholders as the person in charge of the product, and the individuals don’t report to you. In order to overcome this challenge, build trust with the stakeholders and development team members. No Transactional Power.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 2, 2022

Becoming a great product manager isn’t about acquiring hard skills. So what makes a great product manager? I remember when I joined an early stage startup and started to develop hard skills. It takes time to prioritize something in the roadmap, and it takes time to build products. Forget about it.

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

You have to earn the necessary digital product management and lead skills and demonstrate them to potential employers with confidence. A product lead or the lead product manager is often an experienced senior professional who drives the product strategy, leading and supervising a product team.

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Bain Public

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Product managers play an important role in steering leadership to evolve the product strategy and corresponding tactics. Companies that are neglecting to take large roadmap bets to competitively capture markets, industries, and geographies will find that this recession will make gaps insurmountable.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 7, 2021

Be Clear on When to Involve the Stakeholders and Development Teams. Complex and high-impact decisions, however, are best made together with the stakeholders and development teams. Additionally, include the development team members in product backlog decisions , and always choose sprint goals together.

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

Startup Product managers are in charge of setting up the foundation for product management at a new company. Since product development is such a lucrative field, this is a crucial role for the company. According to Airfocus , an optimized product manager boosts profitability and sales, by 34.2

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2018

Your roadmap is one of the most important things you’ll produce as a SaaS company. It provides a glimpse into the future of your product and aligns everyone around the same goals. Who will you share the roadmap with: Just employees, or customers too? And your roadmap should change with them. Who Should See the Roadmap?

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 22, 2022

Insights on product strategy and customer research for product managers. Today we are looking at product management work through the eyes of a CEO, exploring several topics together. The CEO joining us is Matt Young, CEO of UserVoice, the first product feedback and research tool for software companies.

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 17, 2016

I’ve had some requests from listeners to explore product roadmaps, so I had a discussion with Jim Semick. He is co-founder of ProductPlan , which creates roadmap software for product teams. The best practices for constructing product roadmaps. A feature list isn’t a product roadmap.

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Mixpanel

JULY 22, 2021

This article investigates the challenges larger organisations face when implementing product analytics, how to overcome them, and how to successfully develop a data-driven product development culture that focuses on providing excellent customer experiences. Why product analytics is hard in enterprise organisations.

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Tyner Blain

JULY 3, 2020

A well-constructed epic achieves two objectives. Together with them, we create the epic roadmap to align and allocate the organization’s capacity to the pursuit of our strategy. Any given epic will be achieved through the development of multiple features. The Job of An Epic.

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ProductPlan

JULY 13, 2020

As organizations grow and expand, keeping stakeholders and employees on the same page to drive alignment with your product strategy can be a big challenge. That’s because growth often brings culture shifts, new offices in different locations, and new hires with the different product vision. 5 Strategies for Driving Alignment.

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The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Guest Post by: Lee Atkins (Mentee, Session 7, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Jordan Bergtraum]. Truly understanding your customers and finding ways to improve your product is an overwhelmingly daunting task. One method that Product Managers are turning too is the Customer Advisory Board. New Idea Generation.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Her exposure to the product team —and the departure of a previous product manager—sparked Lisa’s interest and led to her stepping into the product manager role right around the time that Teresa began working with the product team as a discovery coach. Tweet This. Part 1: The Design Sprint. Tweet This.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 7, 2021

Be Clear on When to Involve the Stakeholders and Development Teams. Complex and high-impact decisions, however, are best made together with the stakeholders and development teams. Additionally, include the development team members in product backlog decisions , and always choose sprint goals together.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

If you’re in a product company the chances are that you’ve developed some process of informing your users about new features. We send our newsletter out once a month to inform our users about the latest developments to our products. The path to engaging releases starts with planning your near-term roadmap.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 6, 2023

Here are four examples: Joe, the sales rep, has promised a feature to an important customer without first talking to you—the person in charge of the product. Sue, the Scrum Master , wanted to help the development team get better at sprint planning. This allows you to get better at offering constructive feedback in the future.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 15, 2020

Product strategy, discovery, and delivery: These are the three general dimensions for which product managers are responsible to optimize in a customer-centric organization. Product strategy exists outside the well defined guideposts of dual-track agile (a product discovery and delivery methodology).

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UX Studio: Product Management

JUNE 23, 2020

One of the keys to the success of this project was that we collaborated directly with Zignaly’s CEO, its head of marketing, and its lead developer. At the end of the project, we exported the final designs to Zeplin, a handoff tool that simplifies collaboration with developers by providing all the specs and ready-to-implement CSS.

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 27, 2019

That maps to titles like Director of Product Management, Group Product Manager, VP of Products, or Chief Product Officer. There may also be some designers or a few developers reporting into such roles, but I’m focused away from CTO and VP Engineering roles where the majority of staff are developers. .

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Bain Public

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

There are many more ways we could describe the all-encompassing role of a product manager. Defining the ‘why’ behind your roadmap Product management is a discipline responsible for defining the ‘why’ behind your roadmap. Product managers need a mission statement to clarify the product roadmap and strategy.

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BrainMates

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Up until now, Product Leaders have had to rely on the approaches and frameworks designed specifically for Product Managers or use generic leadership practices which don’t necessarily cover the unique leadership challenges Product Leaders experience. This often goes unnoticed as the pace of development and deadlines increases.

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ProductPlan

APRIL 3, 2021

As a product leader, I encourage my teams to use whichever product frameworks they find helpful. ProductPlan has written about frameworks to help with product prioritization , frameworks to develop an effective product strategy , and some of our favorites for UX designers, including Google’s HEART framework.

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Bain Public

APRIL 15, 2018

And as a product leader gets more senior, the need to clearly define the product strategy intensifies. In Alpha’s Product Management Insights study of more than 150 digital product managers, 32% percent said that their biggest wish in the coming year was a clearer product roadmap / strategy.

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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. Continue the discovery and strategy work while the product is being developed. But don’t stop there.

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BrainMates

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Up until now, Product Leaders have had to rely on the approaches and frameworks designed specifically for Product Managers or use generic leadership practices which don’t necessarily cover the unique leadership challenges Product Leaders experience. This often goes unnoticed as the pace of development and deadlines increases.

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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 17, 2019

I work with a lot of CEOs, usually as an advocate for better product and development organizations. Many CEOs tell me that they (personally) are the best-informed people within their companies about what customers need , and they (personally) are best positioned to drive decisions on product priorities. First, some context.

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Folding Burritos

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Tying everything to a strong value proposition and vision is effectively the kind of thing that produces a cohesive product. The reason is that we often fail to be constructive and pedagogic; if we don’t try to change their mindset, we’re sentencing ourselves to be thought of as “those pesky Naysayers.”. features.).

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Amplitude

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Here we look at the skills every successful product manager needs in order to conquer the changing landscape. A product is no different from a well-constructed story. As Andrew Chen, Head of Rider Growth at Uber points out, products need “ consistency and cohesion.” Agile development.

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BrainMates

MAY 28, 2019

SnapComms adopted Brainmates’ Product Management framework to facilitate a market-driven way of thinking company-wide, and to equip their Product Team with a repeatable process to take the most valuable ideas to market fast. Documenting actually supported environments (Product Performance).

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