Roman Pichler

MAY 8, 2018

Three Types of Leadership. Each role provides a distinct type of leadership. Providing the right product leadership is demanding; it requires a specific skills set and usually your full attention as the person in charge of the product. As the product owner, you lead the product and are responsible for its overall success.

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Split

MARCH 20, 2024

A streamlined release management process is imperative for mitigating deployment risks and accelerating software delivery. Understanding precisely how to improve release management is key for more efficient software development. Effective release management is pivotal for agile software development.

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Userpilot

MAY 9, 2024

The age-old question: growth marketing vs demand generation, which one should you focus on? Both are useful tools for optimizing your marketing strategy, helping you boost product growth and lead generation. Since the two marketing tactics are innately different, their effectiveness is measured using separate metrics.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

This discussion is with two speakers who did a joint session, Dr. Wayne Fisher and Dr. David Matheson, whose session is titled “Improving decision quality during stage gate reviews.” He cofounded SmartOrg, which provides software and services to support decision-making and managing uncertainty. But that’s not all.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

One of my reviewers for the Modern Management Made Easy books asked a fascinating question: I've never seen this many women in management or in senior leadership positions. Up until the mid-80s, many of the software engineering jobs were for special-purpose machines or applications. The idea of a code review or a design review?

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

At times, product professionals fail to realize the similarities and differences between thought leadership vs people leadership. Professionals may decide to pursue a leadership position to lead a team and guide them towards primary objectives and milestones. The Start of Thought Leadership. Product management is complex.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 26, 2023

Generative AI has the potential to create economic impact within sales, marketing, software engineering & IT, customer operations, and R&D functions across various verticals. Marketing and sales: Generative AI creates personalized communications and experiences for prospects and customers.

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Userpilot

JUNE 28, 2023

With solid in-app marketing strategies, you’ll keep users engaged, help them experience your product’s value, and increase long-term retention. TL;DR In-app marketing , aka in-product marketing, is any message or marketing campaign displayed in-app and designed to make users take specific action steps.

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Business of Software Conference

JANUARY 30, 2020

At every Business of Software Conference we record all the speakers’ presentations so that you can learn from the array of talks on offer to our attendees. Listen now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Anchor.fm, and more – don’t forget to leave a review on Apple Podcasts recommending us to the world! Leadership.

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Almost every week, I have a conversation with executives at B2B software companies who don’t see a bright-line distinction between software license revenue and customization/implementation revenue.  Or What do I mean by software product vs software services ?  A  A very big difference.

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Modus Create

JUNE 23, 2021

There are two ways to talk about transformational leadership. . We can dive deep into the academic theory created by Bruce Avolio and Bernard Bass in 1991 and understand how it fits into the broader Full Range Leadership Model. . But first, let’s define transformational leadership. . What is Transformational Leadership?

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Product Management University

JULY 31, 2023

The career paths for sales engineers (SEs) and solution consultants (SCs) are wide open due to the blend of business and technical skills, sales skills and positioning expertise required to succeed in this role. Provide routine feedback to product management on market needs. Are Sales Engineers and Solution Consultants the Same?

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Building effective teams with people from different disciplines can be challenging due to various circumstances. It’s about gathering together professionals from different functions such as engineering, business, design, marketing, legal, and others. Challenge #2: Leadership versus Decision-Maker ?

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Business of Software Conference

JULY 29, 2019

At every Business of Software Conference we record the talks so that you, the great people of the internet, can join in the feast of learning that our attendees get to gorge themselves upon. We’ve grouped them into 6 categories, for you to browse easily: Leadership. Sales & Marketing. 1 – Leadership.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Anna Griffin , former Chief Marketing Officer at Intercom. An area we paid a lot of attention to was our own internal rate of productivity and efficiency, and we kicked off a project to evaluate everything, every process, every step, every part of how software goes from idea through to live production. Yamini Rangan , CEO at Hubspot.

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Gainsight

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The goal of Executive Business Reviews (EBRs) is to demonstrate your unique value to the customer and convey a sense of how important the customer is to you. T imely , which also means that having a business review every month is not necessarily a good thing. Let’s start with the basics. What’s a Good EBR Cadence? .

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Userpilot

JUNE 3, 2022

Trying to find the best product marketing resources for 2022? As the market gets more competitive, SaaS companies are increasingly relying on product-led marketing strategies to gain traction. Therefore, as a product marketer, you need to continually update your skills to remain relevant in a constantly changing industry.

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Business of Software Conference

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Following on from their talk at Business of Software Conference USA Online 2020 , Alex Osterwalder (Founder) and Tendayi Viki (Partner) joined BoS online for an interactive Q&A where they discussed how to evaluate your existing business model and how to find opportunities for innovation within it. Get Weekly Advice From Software Experts.

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Her passion is derived from igniting vision, commitment, innovation, and trust in leadership, development, and marketing teams. ?WATCH We cannot be successful without somebody coding or building a product. I’m not saying you need to code, but it’s really important from a product perspective that you understand technology.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

I thought we were in good shape, given that this was the next release of an existing software product. In the software or digital world, it’s about managing code, the product, through the steps of its lifecycle from ideation to sunset. design thinking, SCRUM, market planning, etc. That said, in my mind?—?we

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

But, as the Harvard Business Review points out, this rush can be dangerous. For instance, consider a software company established in the market with a leading product in its category. Unsatisfied customers, damage to the brand’s reputation, and possibly market loss. Worse, it might introduce bugs or security flaws.

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Gainsight

DECEMBER 14, 2022

For established companies, that means product teams are suddenly on the hot seat, with new responsibilities to lead the charge on customer experience outcomes that used to be the purview of Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success. . Senior leadership needs to be all in for PLG initiatives to truly infuse the entire organization. .

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ProductPlan

JUNE 1, 2023

Added functionality, new capabilities, a more robust feature set…these are the talking points product marketers salivate over and executives search for on product roadmaps. In short, organizations are making the wrong bets rather than messing up on the go-to-market or implementation fronts. We are in the “delight” business after all.

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Sequent Learning

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Product Management for Non-Software Products. JJ Rorie is a thought-leader and practitioner who has spent her career helping companies optimize their product management and marketing functions. There are a lot of software product managers out there. There are a lot of software product managers out there. Episode 67.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Lisa and her team were able to convince their leadership to allow them to run a one-month beta launch with a limited set of customers to test out their new feature. Clockwise from the top left, Codi Funakoshi, Product Designer, Rafa Salazar, Lead Software Engineer, and Lisa Orr, Senior Product Manager.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

That’s what Dave Martin , a product leadership coach, has talked about in his talk at this year’s Product Drive Summit hosted by Userpilot. In other words, most of the features don’t support the outcomes you’re trying to create for your markets and your customers. How is the outcome-based roadmap different from regular roadmaps?

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Lenny Rachitsky

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Netflix does not have a structured performance review system; instead it relies on ongoing conversations and the annual 360 feedback process. Operating a company with informal performance reviews and limited planning processes requires competent, driven, and trustworthy individuals.

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Business of Software Conference

APRIL 15, 2021

Business of Software is a paid conference with limited sponsorship. We’re delighted and grateful that the lovely people at Balsamiq Wireframes , Kevel , ServiceRocket , IQ Capital and Software Promotions are supporting us and the scholarship program to offer a helping hand. Don’t count the things you do. Am I eligible?

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 30, 2017

I’ve noticed a frequent executive-level misalignment of expectations across a range of software/tech companies, particularly in B2B/Enterprise companies and where Sales/Marketing is geographically far away from Engineering/Product Management. Let’s call it the software development deli counter problem.

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Mironov Consulting

APRIL 15, 2023

In my experience, there’s usually a fundamental misalignment between two broad groups at software companies – especially B2B/enterprise companies — that I’ve been thinking/writing for a while.  One   Engineering-grade testing and code re-use are often discussed but almost never put in place.  And

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The Product Coalition

MAY 5, 2018

It has been a while since the term Product Leadership has gained widespread adoption in blogs, articles and even books. It represents the intersection between Product Management and Leadership; which, in my point of view, have a lot to do with each other. Leadership is essentially about dealing with people and their way of being. . #2

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Mind the Product

JUNE 7, 2019

Everyone speaks a different language, works at a different pace, aims for different goals, and leadership is in the middle trying to understand how best to help. The concept of Agile came out of frustration at the way software was delivered. The goal is creating more software, faster. More code does not equal more value.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 23, 2022

The best products fail nowadays due to a lack of consideration of Ecosystems, an example that I will walk through in Part 2 of this article. Markets need solutions. Imagine you scan a QR code with your smartphone, and it takes 10 seconds to return a result. I will also do away with the notion of a “Product.”

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 3, 2021

In terms of research and development or generally the product and engineering functions, the people who produce your software, this really is a question of investability. If you’ve got a good setup, then more teams equal more product, and more product equals more marketing and more sales and all sorts of stuff like that.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Progress reports focus on what has been achieved since the last review and include recommendations for future steps. It helps product teams make better-informed decisions regarding product development, marketing , and other strategic initiatives. Trends reports focus on the performance of chosen metrics over time.

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Ronke PM

MARCH 26, 2024

At the heart of an organization that creates product magic is a product leader who is an expert at leadership and coalition building. These leaders understand that bringing effective products, solutions, and services to market requires consensus building and engaging cross-functional teams in the journey.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Fallacy #1: ‘Agile’ Equals More Bang for the Buck If you ask founders and managers of startups why they want to become an agile organization, they typically name reasons such as: Becoming more efficient in software delivery, Delivering faster, Improving the predictability of software deliveries. The exercise works for everyone?—?sales,

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