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Product in Practice: Introducing Opportunity Solution Trees at Texthelp

Product Talk

And if you’re really excited about an idea, you might look for opportunities to share it outside your company with the broader product community. Today’s Product in Practice features a continuous discovery champion who did all three. Do you have your own Product in Practice you’d like to share?

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10 Tips for Effective Product Management Meetings

Roman Pichler

For example, a product strategy workshop might have the objective to identify the key changes required to achieve product-market fit. Contrast this with a sprint review meeting , which might help you determine if users can easily sign up for the product. Listen to this article: [link]. 1 Set an Objective. Stay present.

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10 Product Roadmapping Mistakes to Avoid

Roman Pichler

You can avoid these drawbacks by using a different roadmap type: a goal-oriented or outcome-based product roadmap. As its name suggests, this roadmap focuses on product goals and outcomes, such as acquiring customers, increasing engagement, and future-proofing the product by removing technical debt.

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My Product Strategy Model

Roman Pichler

An effective product strategy is key to successfully create, enhance, and manage a product. There is no point in worrying about the product details and writing user stories if a sound product strategy is missing. But what exactly is a product strategy? The vision is transformed into needs and business goals.

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Stakeholder Management Tips for Product People

Roman Pichler

What’s more, it makes it unlikely that the stakeholders will fully support the product decisions and that they will follow them through. But do not accept inappropriate behaviour and do not allow people to treat you like a project manager, team lead, or personal assistant. Increase your product management expertise.

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Building High-Performing Product Teams

Roman Pichler

Additionally, the person in charge of the product must have the necessary expertise. Note that including stakeholders on the product team replaces a traditional stakeholder management approach with a much more collaborative one. All self-managing teams I have worked with greatly benefited from an experienced coach.

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Seven Product Backlog Mistakes to Avoid

Roman Pichler

The Product Backlog is Too Big. A few years ago, I was asked to help a healthcare company with their agile transition and its impact on product management. One of the challenges the agile transition team was concerned about was the choice of the right product backlog tool, which at first seemed odd to me.