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. For instance, you might show the individuals how they can make effective strategic product decisions, create an actionable product roadmap, and effectively use the right KPIs.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 11, 2020

Additionally, increase your ability to constructively deal with disagreements and learn to resolve conflicts so that nobody is left feeling frustrated or hurt. While guiding people can be challenging on its own, you also have to actively contribute to getting the product out of the door. Finally, agree on shared goals or outcomes.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 11, 2020

Additionally, increase your ability to constructively deal with disagreements and learn to resolve conflicts so that nobody is left feeling frustrated or hurt. While guiding people can be challenging on its own, you also have to actively contribute to getting the product out of the door. Finally, agree on shared goals or outcomes.

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Bain Public

APRIL 15, 2018

But this is an article about your CEO’s duty to set a vision, to define why your company exists. For some product managers, the thought of talking openly about the void left by a missing vision statement is paralyzing. And as a product leader gets more senior, the need to clearly define the product strategy intensifies.

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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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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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Bain Public

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Today’s most valuable companies, like Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google, are product-led and customer-driven. They owe their success to a unified product vision that is informed by feedback from customers, prospects, and colleagues. Be incredibly rigorous in how you approach building products.

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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. Through the problem statement we can collaborate to achieve a shared understanding of how the teams will realize the vision.

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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. Making Changes: Adopting Continuous Discovery Best Practices.

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The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

A research conducted by Alpha UX found that 25% of Product Manager surveyed wished for a clearer product roadmap and strategy. While salary increase is a complex subject with variables outside of our control, I believe that having a clear product roadmap and strategy is every Product Manager’s responsibility.

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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. Build a Foundation of Trust.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 11, 2016

Provide constructive feedback and share your concerns. This will not only lead to better technical decisions and a better product. It also eases your workload: understanding the bigger picture allows the team to help create user stories and to support you in managing the product backlog. Be honest and open.

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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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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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Bain Public

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

The best product managers think strategically and make difficult trade-offs quickly. They use unconventional ways to spread the vision and have the ability to keep cool under pressure with tight deadlines. There are many more ways we could describe the all-encompassing role of a product manager. Does it grow the business?

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BrainMates

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Product Leaders need to understand their role, learn not to overcommit and not to de-prioritise leadership, especially when pressed for time. A well thought out and shared vision and strategy provides the baseline for all further activities. Product Leaders should focus on: Curating the right team.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JUNE 23, 2020

We kicked off the project by running multiple UX workshops in order to gain a deeper understanding of our client’s problem and close the knowledge gap regarding its market, customers, and broader product strategy. We collaborated in real-time on Miro to create personas and job stories. Ideating, prototyping and iterating.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

To successfully manage your product and maximise value delivery, you should use additional artefacts including the following five: An inspiring vision that describes the ultimate reason for offering the product; A validated product strategy that captures your approach to realise the vision and make the product successful.

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BrainMates

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Product Leaders need to understand their role, learn not to overcommit and not to de-prioritise leadership, especially when pressed for time. A well thought out and shared vision and strategy provides the baseline for all further activities. Product Leaders should focus on: Curating the right team.

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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.”.

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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 17, 2019

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. Somehow, interpreting customer needs can feel different. How would you evaluate such a salesperson?]. [3]

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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.” To be successful, adopt a flexible roadmap.

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svpg

JULY 15, 2016

In recent articles on keys to product success and the alternative to roadmaps I have highlighted that if you want the benefits of product team empowerment and autonomy, then you need to provide each team with the necessary context in which to make good decisions. Product Vision. Product Strategy.

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Product Innovation Educators

APRIL 29, 2024

Innovation Culture Failure is understood Managers establish objectives Innovation is considered in recruitment External communication is used Innovation and risk-taking are valued Constructive conflict is encouraged Internal communication is effective [12:32] 2. 21:53] What are some key metrics for tracking product management performance?

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The Product Coalition

MAY 31, 2021

Examples of scope for a team level Product Manager vs. a Product Leader: Look at what other product leaders are responsible for compared to team level PMs at your company. Within Autodesk Construction Solutions (ACS), PMs are responsible for their individual product areas. But that’s the work of a Product Leader?—?lots

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 8, 2020

A carefully constructed roadmap can be a powerful tool that can align stakeholders and motivate coworkers. But a neglected roadmap can prove problematic and breed internal dissent. It can also mislead customers, misallocate resources, and erode a product manager’s credibility. It can even jumpstart sales and growth.

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Sequent Learning

AUGUST 26, 2019

Kevin Wonder is the senior director of product at Loveland Innovations. He is responsible for driving product strategy for imaging Loveland innovations drone and data analytics solutions. If you ever get a chance, go check it out; it’s a very cool product. That’s why we have our executive leadership team.

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People-First Product Leadership

JULY 17, 2023

6 core principles for structuring high-performing product teams How an organization structures the product team directly influences the team - and the company’s - success. Can the product team flex and scale as the business grows? I wrote about product strategy in a prior newsletter.]

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Bain Public

JANUARY 11, 2022

The path to successful product-led growth is a tough one. What you want is for stakeholders to build good habits around roadmap completion , but unfortunately, this doesn’t always happen. It’s not considered to be part of the roadmap. These feature requests across departments always correspond to problems needing to be solved.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 21, 2019

In these cases, my observation is that the true failing was in the definition and communication of the strategy rather than than a cultural inability to execute. Through these failures, I’ve come up with a framework for defining, layering, and communicating an effective product strategy that can close the gap between strategy and execution.

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