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3 Empowerment Levels in Product Management

Roman Pichler

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Introduction To discuss empowerment in product management, I find it helpful to distinguish three main levels of decision-making authority, product delivery, product discovery, and product strategy, as the model in Figure 1 shows. [1] I certainly don’t intend to make anyone feel bad.

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A Step-by-Step Guide to Constructing a Persona Workshop

Mind the Product

How do you collectively build your marketing persona through a workshop? Preparing for a Persona Workshop. Market research and having a customer proxy are prerequisites for a persona workshop. As a product manager, you usually should take responsibility for these. It helps your team by.

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How Agile Has Changed Product Management

Roman Pichler

Before the advent of agile frameworks like Scrum , a product person—the product manager—would typically carry out the market research, compile a market requirements specification, create a business case, put together product roadmap, write a requirements specification, and then hand it off to a project manager.

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A Guide on How to Become a Product Manager

Sequent Learning

A Guide on How to Become a Product Manager Introduction Are you passionate about leading product development, shaping strategies, and driving innovation? Becoming a Product Manager might be your ideal career path. This guide will walk you through the key steps to kick-start your journey toward becoming a successful Product Manager.

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Product in Practice: Shifting from a Feature Factory to Continuous Discovery at Doodle

Product Talk

We have five product managers, one UX researcher , five designers—one of them director of design, leading the design team. All product managers report to me, and we have five product teams up and running. It sounds like you are responsible for product, design, and research. Stephanie: Absolutely. Teresa: Okay. Yes, great.

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Role of a Product Manager: Unraveling the Key Responsibilities & Role in Business Success

Sequent Learning

What is a Product Manager? The role of a product manager is the linchpin in product development, overseeing the entire lifecycle from inception to market launch. They delve deep into market research, analyzing customer needs and market trends, translating these insights into product features and enhancements.

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TEI 289: Become an agile leader of product management – with Roman Pichler

Product Innovation Educators

Learn the qualities of a successful product manager and leader. Leaders of product management need agility, influence, trust, empathy, and motivating vision. Roman is a product management expert specializing in digital products. He is the author of several books, including his latest, titled, How to Lead in Product Management.

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