Roman Pichler

MARCH 9, 2021

Product Goals Defined. The Scrum Guide released in November 2020 states that “the product goal describes a future state of the product … [It] is the long-term objective for the Scrum team.” It also suggests that “the product goal is in the product backlog. Figure 1: The Product Goal in Context.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 24, 2021

You can still have departmental goals, but they need to be secondary to the goals that drive the results the company wants to achieve. Mistake #2: Creating Objectives That Are Efforts and Not Outcomes Now that we have established that product goals are about the product and not about product management, what should these goals be?

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Chapter 14/17: How to Prioritize Product Features ? Managing Product Backlog ] [ Next : Chapter 15 -Managing Product Development ] [Back to?—? Product Management 101 ] Your Product Backlog list seems endless as the contribution comes from so many different sources?—?internal Won’t have?—?

Customer Experience 97

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 1, 2020

A stakeholder is anyone who has a stake in your product, who is affected by it, or who shows an interest in the offering. While this definition includes users and customers, I use the term in this article to refer to the internal business stakeholders. Increase your product management expertise.

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Ask Benny

JANUARY 25, 2020

Your Team is Your Product One of the hardest things for a VP Product to do, as the team of product managers under his lead grows, is to release control. As a VP Product, you need to trust your product managers to make the right decisions. All my product managers must come to product from humbleness.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 11, 2023

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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The Product HQ

JUNE 1, 2024

Communication Skills According to the Scrum Guides , one of the tasks that a product owner is responsible for is creating and communicating product backlog items and communicating product goals with cross-functional teams. Communication is an absolute must-have skill for a scrum product owner.

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 19, 2023

How product managers can build trust and alignment on virtual teams Today we are talking about making virtual product teams more effective. Our guest is Anna Marie Clifton, Head of Product at Vowel. Before Vowel, she held senior product management roles at Asana, Coinbase, and Yammer. Trust builds product.

Customer Experience 77

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Ask Benny

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Your Team is Your Product One of the hardest things for a VP Product to do, as the team of product managers under his lead grows, is to release control. As a VP Product, you need to trust your product managers to make the right decisions. All my product managers must come to product from humbleness.

Customer Experience 104

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Mind the Product

JUNE 4, 2019

While ICE is definitely a cool tool to use, you might find that you need a more substantial method to meet your hunger for prioritisation. Equally your definitions of Impact or Reward could be different depending on your product goals, so you can bake in your own priorities into those scores. The RICE Method.

Customer Experience 144

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Ask Benny

JANUARY 25, 2020

One of the hardest things for a VP Product to do, as the team of product managers under his lead grows, is to release control. As a VP Product, you need to trust your product managers to make the right decisions. One of the best ways to do it is to understand that your product is no longer “the product”.

Customer Experience 78

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Product Innovation Educators

APRIL 17, 2023

How organizations can empower product managers Today we are talking about what a product-led organization is, barriers that can prevent an organization from being product-led, and actions to create the product-led organization. I eventually got fired as a product manager.

Customer Experience 95

Customer Experience Leadership Startups Engineering 95

Ask Benny

JANUARY 25, 2020

One of the hardest things for a VP Product to do, as the team of product managers under his lead grows, is to release control. As a VP Product, you need to trust your product managers to make the right decisions. One of the best ways to do it is to understand that your product is no longer “the product”.

Customer Experience 78

Customer Experience Vision Framework Roadmap 78

Userpilot

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Product roadmaps and backlogs serve different purposes, and using the terms interchangeably (or incorrectly) can lead to confusion and misalignment among the product team and the wider organization. TLDR Understanding the difference between a product roadmap and a backlog is crucial for product managers.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 24, 2021

A flexible framework for one of today’s most important business documents “A great product manager has the brain of an engineer, the heart of a designer, and the speech of a diplomat.”?—?Deep Just like the role of a product manager can vary significantly from company to company, so can? and should?—?

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Ask Benny

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

One of the hardest things for a VP Product to do, as the team of product managers under his lead grows, is to release control. As a VP Product, you need to trust your product managers to make the right decisions. One of the best ways to do it is to understand that your product is no longer “the product”.

Customer Experience 78

Customer Experience Vision Framework Roadmap 78

The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 13, 2019

Your Team is Your Product One of the hardest things for a VP Product to do, as the team of product managers under his lead grows, is to release control. As a VP Product, you need to trust your product managers to make the right decisions. All my product managers must come to product from humbleness.

Customer Experience 60

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 13, 2019

Developers were distracted Developers on the product side were half-heartedly working on the features that were prioritized by the Product Managers. Due to constant change in direction that did not align with the company vision which caused key lead engineers and product managers to lose hope and quit the company.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 11, 2020

If you’re new to product management you might not own a roadmap. Instead you have projects assigned to you by your manager. This is normal if you’re in the associate product manager (APM), product manager (PM), and Sr. Are you aligned to the goals of the company strategy? Marketing?—?Do

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Additionally, the person in charge of the product must have the necessary expertise. 2] Use the Right Goals A team is, by definition, a group of individuals who work together on the same goal. It’s therefore important that you align the product team members by setting the right goals.

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Product Solving

AUGUST 26, 2020

You unlock the ability to do things that were not possible without your products. Your entire job as a product manager is to make impossible things, possible. Hiten Shah said it nicely on Twitter recently: Hiten Shah @hnshah Friction is the keyword in product development. What really is product friction?

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People-First Product Leadership

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Product Vision puts a company’s Vision and Mission into action The Product Vision ensures the Roadmap reflects the priorities which matter the most to the company’s customers and to the company. The Vision is brought to life in the Now / Next / Later roadmap, which is supported by Product Goals.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Yet product managers generally love what they do and find the role quite fulfilling. However, there’s often a disconnect between aspects of the job that make product managers happy and the metrics upon which they’re judged. When this occurs, product managers must focus on goals unaligned with their passion.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

We'll do a step-by-step review of a real-world product management mock interview. In this video, our co-founder, Stephen, interviews Celena Tyler, a product manager at Facebook. She also asks again what are the product goals. Today, we'll cover something a little different. Then, come back to this article.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Done right, product tours can become a pivotal part of any user onboarding process. Increase activation rate If there’s a metric you should care about as a product manager, it’s activation. It’ll help you understand whether customers are getting value from your product.

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Clever PM

JANUARY 11, 2018

One of the most important part of our jobs as Product Managers is setting goals — goals for ourselves, goals for our teams, and goals for our products.

Product Goals 85

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BrainMates

JUNE 25, 2020

User and buyer scenarios are useful Product Management tools for both communication and design. They are used to share and communicate customer situations with your Product team so that they can design ‘market driven’ Products. When do Product Managers create user scenarios? Updated June, 2020.

User Testing 85

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Userpilot

JANUARY 31, 2021

In this post, you can find out the functions of product ops, how it facilitates the internal and external processes to create useful products, what the duties of a product ops manager are, and whether you should hire one or not. What is Product Ops. Is Product Management Same As Product Operations?

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Bain Public

MAY 24, 2019

At Bain Public, we have learned a lot in the many hours and conversations spent mentoring, advising and consulting in product management. We develop it around a proposed product initiative; a feature mix, specific use case, theme or useful features that are buried in a larger product.

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Folding Burritos

DECEMBER 4, 2019

I talk to a lot of PMs and I ask them (and everyone who subscribes to my newsletter) the same question: what’s your biggest struggle as a Product Manager? Having put together a fairly popular resource on product prioritization methods, I would’ve hoped the situation to be different. Well, th at’s the role of a product strategy.

Research Software 585

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Bain Public

MAY 24, 2019

It is no secret that a product manager needs momentum in areas such as product development, product sales and customer adoption in order to succeed. Without support from stakeholders to access the resources you need, your product could fail. As a product manager, you can only build momentum by getting started.

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CardBoard

AUGUST 7, 2023

Definition of a User Story A user story is a simple, concise description of a feature told from the perspective of the person who desires the new capability, usually a user or customer of the system. What are Agile User Stories? User stories are a fundamental element in Agile and Scrum methodologies. But what exactly is a user story?

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Bain Public

MAY 24, 2019

Finding market opportunities, choosing a revenue model and delivering value to customers are all fundamental steps to reaching your product goals. Bain Public is a Product consultancy that helps companies make smart decisions, and ship top-notch products that captivate customers and achieve business objectives.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

The Product Owner is also accountable for effective Product Backlog management, which includes: a) Developing and explicitly communicating the Product Goal; b) Creating and clearly communicating Product Backlog items; c) Ordering Product Backlog items; and, d) Ensuring that the Product Backlog is transparent, visible and understood.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 18, 2021

The growth team is focused on engagement in one part of the product; the marketing team on an entirely different part. There are numerous useful metrics that analytics team can provide to product managers so they can more effectively measure product success. Finding the right questions takes collaboration.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 19, 2018

This meeting is an exercise in strategy, an opportunity to take stock of where your product is, where it fits within the wider market, and where it should go. It also stretches product managers to consider their impact on the wider business, by asking them to review their products margins and revenue generating impact.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 17, 2019

I now lead Product UX and Design on the Brilliant Control and Mobile Apps, Product Management, and Product Analytics at Brilliant. If I think about the five years that I’ve been in Product, I’ve personally seen or heard of hundreds of Product Managers?—?both After all, it is your home?—?everything

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