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.

Weak Development Team 156

Weak Development Team Product Research Workshop Customer Experience 156

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. Another key aspect to support the people on your team succeed is to create the right environment for people to succeed. Grow Your Leadership Skills.

User Testing 156

User Testing Product Research Weak Development Team Customer Experience 156

Intercom, Inc.

MAY 24, 2022

Whether you’re an individual contributor, manager, or director, you can leverage your own skills – and those around you – to influence growth across your team, org, and company. Every team has a valuable mix of strengths, and varying levels of skill and expertise in different areas across its members.

Weak Development Team 118

Weak Development Team Definition Feedback Software Construction 118

The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 30, 2023

It was another bad start to what seemed like Groundhog Day. “I That’s how budgets were constructed up until this year. Our commitment was firm, leadership backed the change, and it was underway. Outcomes that initially float to the surface are often weak. an angry internal stakeholder shouted. Water under the bridge.

Roadmap 116

Roadmap Feedback Software Onboarding KPIs User Testing 116

The Product Coalition

JULY 24, 2021

I truly believe that our bad mental model i.e. expecting people to execute like machines is at fault here. It seems as if we have lost our capability to reflect upon ourselves, and when we do reflect, our aggressive language doesn’t invite constructive dialogue. Can you imagine a team?—?that Our customers are too old school…”?

Agile 173

Agile Feedback Software Weak Development Team Customer Experience 173

Atlassian

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Psychologically safe work environments allow team members to feel that they can safely take calculated risks without fear of repercussions. On the journey to success, how your team members feel about their work environment may be just as important as the skills they bring to the table. In Leadership. 5-Second summary.

Weak Development Team 132

Weak Development Team Leadership Consulting Reporting Tools 132

Mironov Consulting

JULY 25, 2018

Many infrastructure development teams don’t have a product manager, or have a fractional product owner/analyst working primarily on detailed technical requirements. Said another way, great development teams want to work on great technical problems. Product managers and development teams solve different problems.

Weak Development Team 87

Weak Development Team User Testing Product Management Product Manager 87

Mironov Consulting

JUNE 27, 2020

On our side, we have expensive/talented/experienced sales teams that either close their few big deals this quarter or are put on notice. While we don’t know everything that’s been said during a 3-or-6-or-9 month sales effort, good sales teams will have briefed us on hot topics. Roadmaps are shared. Demos are shown. Why Does It Matter?

User Testing 137

User Testing Customer Experience Weak Development Team Enterprise 137

The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The leadership team finally agreed on the vision. Clarity enables the team to translate the choices into a functional product that creates value. So as you make choices, package the strategy into a document, and share it with the product team, keep four words in mind?—?a A yes with a weak how or a no receives a zero.

Product Strategy 126

Product Strategy Strategy User Testing Weak Development Team 126

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 14, 2021

These are: Managing technical team members Managing technical development (pushing product design, driving the development cycles, establishing strategy, and help solve technical challenges) SWEs who transition into EM may find that their time is spent differently in management than their IC days.

Software Engineering 92

Software Engineering Engineering Reporting Tools Feedback Software 92

The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

As a result, the team struggled with how to prepare. I made it no longer than three minutes into the presentation and got this subtle feeling that the team was unprepared. Yeah, I was seemingly in a bad mood. The team was shutting down. I apologized to the team and said we would pick it up next week.

Technical Review 116

Technical Review User Testing Product Research Customer Feedback 116

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.

Weak Development Team 71

Weak Development Team Product Research Workshop Customer Experience 71

Userpilot

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The good news is that SEO can help make that process much easier by giving you the insights your team needs to pick a profitable niche and scale your business. Finally, once you’re done with keyword research on finding a niche, share the results with your team for further brainstorming. But how do you find that niche? Let’s see how!

User Testing 88

User Testing Data Visualization Research Software Customer Experience 88

Roman Pichler

APRIL 1, 2020

Here is why: We routinely interact with individuals who have different perspectives, interest, and needs, such as users, customers, stakeholders , development team members. Users don’t always have the same wants and needs as customers, and the ideas of the stakeholders and dev team may diverge.

Customer Experience 253

Customer Experience Product Management Product Manager Product Research 253

Roman Pichler

APRIL 1, 2020

Here is why: We routinely interact with individuals who have different perspectives, interest, and needs, such as users, customers, stakeholders , development team members. Users don’t always have the same wants and needs as customers, and the ideas of the stakeholders and dev team may diverge.

Customer Experience 253

Customer Experience Product Management Product Manager Product Research 253

Mind the Product

MAY 16, 2018

But, when asked about the greatest moment of the turnaround, Mulally says it was when his executive team started being comfortable enough with him to tell him the truth. Poor-performing companies’ employees were 79% more likely to have low overall self-awareness than those at firms with robust ROR. What is Self-Awareness Anyway?

Weak Development Team 79

Weak Development Team Automotive Data Visualization Feedback Software 79

Bain Public

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

While most of your roadmap initiatives support one tactic or another, each functional group will call out for new initiatives that match other objectives and they’ll want the entire development effort in the upcoming release. So how does a product leader develop great negotiating skills, deep empathy, and a backbone of steel ?

Weak Development Team 52

Weak Development Team Customer Feedback User Testing Customer Experience 52

ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

From the outside, a Product Manager (PM) is a resolute individual responsible for completing a product’s development. Product management leadership requires an ability to support their teams to victory! What are the 4 Phases of a Successful Product Team One-on-One? Again, this is a sign of poor team planning.

Weak Development Team 52

Weak Development Team Construction Feedback Software Certifications 52

Tyner Blain

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

It is important to not describe a situation as self-evidently bad , but rather to reshape your framing to discuss the problem which attends. We don’t want our teams to operate with a lack of clarity, we want them to operate comfortably with a lack of certainty. Imagine road construction on your commute to work in the morning.

Customer Experience 52

Customer Experience User Testing Research Software Weak Development Team 52

The Product Bistro

JULY 12, 2016

An interesting role play, Steven lined up 6 victims willing participants, to represent the major functional groups in an organization, Product Management, Operations, Sales, Marketing, Customer Support, and Development, providing each of them a backstory to guide their motivation. The exercise was interesting. So in that way it was a success.

Weak Development Team 170

Weak Development Team KPI Construction User Testing 170

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 is a mistake, particularly if you are new to leadership.

Feedback Software 86

Feedback Software Analytic Tools Data Visualization User Testing 86

Product Warrior

MARCH 9, 2023

Without product strategy, we have no alignment on what approaches product development will take to iterate closer to the vision and deliver commercial goals. Empowered product teams Product teams need the product strategy to guide them on which problems to solve - without dictating features. We need to avoid this.

Product Strategy 52

Product Strategy Roadmap Onboarding KPIs Strategy 52

Product Warrior

MARCH 9, 2023

Without product strategy, we have no alignment on what approaches product development will take to iterate closer to the vision and deliver commercial goals. Empowered product teams Product teams need the product strategy to guide them on which problems to solve - without dictating features. We need to avoid this.

Product Strategy 52

Product Strategy Roadmap Onboarding KPIs Strategy 52

The Product Coalition

MARCH 18, 2018

If you work in a product team or in a digital business, you’ve probably heard a lot about this topic, or might even have lost some sleeping nights due to the lack of it in your daily basis. I think that there is no doubt whether designers and product team should work together and if both of them are essential to achieving great results.

Weak Development Team 60

Weak Development Team Onboarding KPIs Research Software Product Research 60

Roman Pichler

JUNE 6, 2023

Sue, the Scrum Master , wanted to help the development team get better at sprint planning. But the team still over-commits and under-delivers. It is therefore important that you exercise leadership and address the people issues you are encountering even if this can be challenging and require courage at times.

Construction 179

Construction Customer Feedback Framework User Testing 179

Mind the Product

JULY 10, 2017

Let’s establish this right upfront: nothing beats a well-managed full-time in-house team of local developers. Are there enough skilled developers at your location? And done right, I believe that outsourcing means you can come very close to your team next door in terms of productivity and innovation.

Weak Development Team 105

Weak Development Team User Testing Technical Advisors Product Research 105

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JUNE 28, 2021

This is especially true for new EMs, who often previously worked as software engineers or developers before being promoted. EMs are no longer only responsible for themselves and their own workload, like the ICs on their teams. Now, of course, they are bound to their teams and must work through them, not through themselves.

Engineering 52

Engineering Weak Development Team Feedback Software Management 52

Mironov Consulting

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

Not everyone on our teams expresses themselves clearly.). Maybe this is about a member of the team who’s been passed over for a promotion. A more honest (and productive) opening for the employee could be “I’m bored with what I’m doing” or “My team doesn’t listen to me” or “I thought I got the be the CEO of my product.”.

Weak Development Team 78

Weak Development Team Construction User Testing Customer Feedback 78

Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Bad time-management in product teams (or any team for that matter) is a source of pain for many but, by taking some simple actions you can ensure they’re a thing of the past. Here’s how you can support your team’s time-management as a product leader. In Conclusion.

Customer Experience 116

Customer Experience Weak Development Team Management Management 116

ProductPlan

MARCH 28, 2019

UX issues may be overlooked, business concerns might be missed, customer relationships can suffer, and the rest of the team will be forced to scramble and pick up the slack. This is why product manager turnover is an essential concern for any product team leader. Why Product Managers Leave Their Jobs. The manager.

Product Management 89

Product Management Product Manager Weak Development Team Technical Review 89

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 is a mistake, particularly if you are new to leadership.

Feedback Software 52

Feedback Software Analytic Tools Data Visualization User Testing 52

Mironov Consulting

JUNE 27, 2019

Defining my label carefully, a “product leader” is someone who manages a team of product managers. 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. . What does your team and company need?

CTO Coach 108

CTO Coach Onboarding KPIs User Testing Customer Experience 108

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

OCTOBER 6, 2021

This is especially true if you're looking to join the technical program management team. Those TPM candidates with a much deeper technical acumen will probably be better suited for the Infrastructure team. These are technical project retrospective , leadership & team collaboration , Facebook Values.

Technical Review 52

Technical Review Feedback Software Systems Review User Testing 52

Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Throughout the year, we’ve talked to business leaders, experts, and pioneers about all kinds of topics: from creating world-class customer experiences to the challenges of running a business during the pandemic, from being an ally and addressing gaps in diversity to building technical leadership careers.

Reporting Tools 118

Reporting Tools Feedback Software Research Software Technical Review 118

The Product Guy

APRIL 9, 2019

The challenge to the product managers is to translate these into a more functional plan for our engineering team. We perceive strategy from the management as the gospel – Usually the opposite, a good leadership team usually expects the individual contributors to provide iterative feedback. Simple task, right? First Attempt.

Feedback Software 148

Feedback Software Analytic Tools Technical Advisors Strategy 148

Izenda

JUNE 17, 2019

It’s often lumped in with “poor-planning skills” and “control issues.” As they work with several teams throughout the product’s development, being firm on goals and expectations will teach each team to expect direction. Think about the technical product’s development life cycle. The Reactive Product Manager.

Product Research 64

Product Research Product Management Product Manager Feedback Software 64

Mironov Consulting

MAY 2, 2019

But product management and development processes that work well for long-lived hardware can handicap software organizations. 1] For industrial hardware, the development/design cycle is separate from the manufacturing cycle. For software products, the development and design process *is* the manufacturing process.

Reporting Tools 91

Reporting Tools Analytic Tools Research Software Data Visualization 91