Roman Pichler

JUNE 7, 2021

Be Clear on When to Involve the Stakeholders and Development Teams. Complex and high-impact decisions, however, are best made together with the stakeholders and development teams. Additionally, include the development team members in product backlog decisions , and always choose sprint goals together.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 1, 2020

The first one carries the risk of being a feature broker and offering a product that has a weak value proposition, gives rise to a poor user experience, and consists of a loose collection of features. A stakeholder is anyone who has a stake in your product, who is affected by it, or who shows an interest in the offering.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 11, 2016

Manage the Product, not the Team. Focus on your job as the product manager or product owner, and manage the product, not the team. Provide guidance on the product, including its market, value proposition, business goals, and key features. Treat the Team as an Equal Partner.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 12, 2018

How do you best lead the stakeholders and development team as the person in charge of the product? Two of these styles, feature broker and product dictator, are shown in the picture below. Such a product typically has a weak value proposition, offers a poor user experience, and is therefore unlikely to become a success.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

I once worked with a telco company that was developing a brand-new commercial product. Product management and development were located at separate sites in different countries. But this didn’t seem to matter much as everybody was in great spirits and had high hopes for the new product. To Collocate or Not.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

I once worked with a telco company that was developing a brand-new commercial product. Product management and development were located at separate sites in different countries. But this didn’t seem to matter much as everybody was in great spirits and had high hopes for the new product. To Collocate or Not.

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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

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

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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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

The Product Leadership Conundrum. As the person in charge of a product, you are responsible for achieving product success. But you can’t accomplish it on your own and rely on the development team and stakeholders. Their contributions are vital to design, implement, provide, and support a successful product.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 7, 2021

Be Clear on When to Involve the Stakeholders and Development Teams. Complex and high-impact decisions, however, are best made together with the stakeholders and development teams. Additionally, include the development team members in product backlog decisions , and always choose sprint goals together.

Weak Development Team 71

Weak Development Team Product Research Workshop Customer Experience 71

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.

User Testing 156

User Testing Product Research Weak Development Team Customer Experience 156

Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

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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Sequent Learning

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

How can our product managers stay on top of changing customer needs? How can they develop more innovative products and services? Regardless of industry, product managers navigate similar obstacles as they work towards common objectives with their cross-functional teams. Launch and commercialize new products.

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

Startup Product managers are in charge of setting up the foundation for product management at a new company. Since product development is such a lucrative field, this is a crucial role for the company. According to Airfocus , an optimized product manager boosts profitability and sales, by 34.2

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Bain Public

MARCH 14, 2022

But unfortunately, in many companies, the product leadership team can perpetuate a negative culture — setting up product managers to fail. There’s a lack of teaching that happens in the early stages of a product manager’s career, forcing people to make career decisions just to survive rather than thrive.

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

With more digital and data-driven products, the demand for traditional product managers is now shifting from sales teams to data product managers. If you want to become a data product manager, this guide is for you. Develop the Right Skills Certification in data PM develops the right skills.

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Dear Strategy

JULY 23, 2019

Dear Strategy: “How do I align my product strategy and product roadmap with our technology roadmap, in the face of a strong engineering organization?”. Ahh, the product roadmap… such an overused yet somehow still elusive term! product, price, promotion, and place).

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Traditionally, product roadmaps are output-focussed plans that map features like registration, search, and reporting onto a timeline. Such a roadmap essentially states when a piece of functionality will be delivered. Second, it overlaps with the product backlog, especially when detailed features are used. Outcome-based).

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Product managers can make better decisions if they’ve built transparency and trust with their team. Product Decisions. Product decisions are either tactical or strategic. Strategic decisions include delineating the product vision, value proposition, product differentiators, and product roadmap.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Traditionally, product roadmaps are output-focussed plans that map features like registration, search, and reporting onto a timeline. Such a roadmap essentially states when a piece of functionality will be delivered. Second, it overlaps with the product backlog, especially when detailed features are used. Outcome-based).

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Dear Strategy

JUNE 24, 2020

Back in Episode 92 , I talked about the 5 biggest product strategy pitfalls to avoid; one of which was making the assumption that you will be able to implement your strategy for free. In other words, encourage them to build their strategies in a totally unbiased way. Dear Strategy: Episode 114.

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 27, 2019

Defining my label carefully, a “product leader” is someone who manages a team of product managers. That maps to titles like Director of Product Management, Group Product Manager, VP of Products, or Chief Product Officer. 2] Driving Strategy, Tooling and Outcomes. [3] We learn by doing.

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Bain Public

MAY 29, 2020

The right mentoring and coaching support facilitates a startup’s transformation and enables roadmap planning and execution, without straying from the ultimate vision and goal. MAIN: Developing Entrepreneurship in Quebec. of startups assess their chances of survival as weak. The foundation of any successful team is their leader.

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Userzoom

JUNE 9, 2020

You know, the type of research at the end of development that often leads to lots of suggestions but are often too late to ever be implemented? Use your analytics, product teams, front-line customer teams, and explore all this data. New users can be much less forgiving if a product doesn’t meet their needs.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Staffing : Help find people who have the right skills and are motivated to work on the product and who can fill the roles. For example, I’ve seen organisations where the Scrum Masters work with HR and the development teams to recruit new team members. The same is true for setting product goals.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 4, 2018

Embracing new technologies like machine learning, micro services, big data, and Internet of Things (IoT) is part of that change, as is the introduction of agile practices including cross-functional and self-organising teams, DevOps, Scrum, and Kanban. Determine the Right Learning and Development Measures.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Most of us have been through the results of poor management of bugs: hair-on-fire, last-minute late nights to madly scrambling to critical fix bugs blocking a release, or stopping a customer from using a product. Taken to the extreme, management of product bugs can become you and your firm’s competitive advantage.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 15, 2021

With a Master’s degree in human-computer interaction and over two decades of experience in user research and user experience in companies like Oracle, he now leads the design team across all product offerings at IBM. Arin has even successfully conducted customer workshops with Lego bricks. Prototype it til you make it.

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Bain Public

OCTOBER 27, 2020

People think that product managers operate this very critical, high-leverage function that, when executed correctly, greatly facilitates the leap past prototypes into a steady return of profits. But when things go wrong, there’s nothing worse for a product manager than losing credibility with their team, executives and customers.

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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 5, 2016

It is particularly helpful when the stakes are high and you make a strategic product decision, for example, if you should pivot, create a product variant to address new market segment, or change the goal of the next major release on the product roadmap. A good example would be deciding how to evolve the product backlog.

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svpg

MAY 2, 2016

Exactly a year ago I was invited to give a keynote at the Craft Conference in Budapest and I discussed the 10 biggest reasons why product teams fail. Other than recommend to people that they read my book or attend a 2 day workshop, I didn’t feel like I was able to give a very satisfying answer. Empowered Product Teams.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

I’ve written a lot about the huge organizational and technical gulf between services companies and product companies.  (See Services companies (aka custom development, agencies, outsourcing/nearshoring, contract engineering, consultancies, any work-for-hire) primarily market/sell the time and expertise of their people.  Work

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Tyner Blain

APRIL 29, 2015

The Product Strategy Grid. Steven Haines wrote The Product Manager’s Desk Reference , and from ( the first edition of ) his book I learned about the product strategy grid. I believe the product strategy grid is a fantastic tool for. There may be better ways, but this one works.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Guest post by Angus McDonald, Senior Product Manager at Terem Technologies, and Kayla Li, Delivery Manager at Terem Technologies Word from Scott: Over the years we’ve helped many different teams uplift in different ways. Read on for the Product Development Health Check Playbook written by Angus McDonald and Kayla Li.

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