Roman Pichler

JULY 20, 2016

Whenever you are faced with an agile, dynamic environment—be it that your product is young and is experiencing significant change or that the market is dynamic with new competitors or technologies introducing change, you should work with a goal-oriented product roadmap, sometimes also referred to as theme-based. 2 Do the Necessary Prep Work.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

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]

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Product Talk

APRIL 17, 2024

You have this grand vision. Teresa: One of the things I think I’ve written in the past is if your backlog or your roadmap or your idea log—whatever you’re going to call it—isn’t changing based on what you’re learning in discovery , there’s a disconnect there. What’s the vision? Stephanie: Exactly.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 24, 2023

This evolution always starts with one thing: a clear product vision. Reinvention requires a product vision : a visual artifact that sets product direction over a longer term time horizon. Product vision is the critical bridge between strategy and execution. An inevitable slide into decline sounds ominous.

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UX Planet

JANUARY 4, 2024

This metamorphosis was not just a change in title; it was a profound realization of the impact that research and strategy can have on the very foundation of the products we create. Embracing Design Thinking principles, we conducted workshops to map out the entire user journey and identify pain points.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

I recently led a workshop for an organic tech farm startup that wanted to set its foot online for selling organic food to B2B customers. I have some takeaways and learnings to share that I covered as a coach for their onboarding strategy. Let me walk through the entire workshop in the phases with its results.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 5, 2022

For example, a product strategy workshop might have the objective to identify the key changes required to achieve product-market fit. As a rule of thumb, avoid meetings with more than ten attendees when you have to make high-impact decisions and/or rework the product strategy , product roadmap , or product backlog.

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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Hold Regular Product Strategy Reviews. A product strategy , like any other plan, is subject to change. How changeable your strategy is, depends on your product’s life cycle stage. As long as your product hasn’t reached product-market fit, the strategy is usually volatile.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 1, 2018

You have to work with different stakeholders to define the product vision and strategy, define the set of features that the product will have and figure out a rollout plan. Define Product Vision and Strategy. I recommend you also add to this board the product vision as suggested by Roman Pitchler’s Product Vision Board.

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Innovatemap

AUGUST 31, 2020

Some choices are long-standing and are reflected in the product vision, some play into the foundation of a product strategy, and many more reside in the plan to pull it off – the roadmap. Product vision depicts the future the product aims to create and is used to inspire teams and customers.

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Product Management University

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

“What’s on our strategic roadmap?” What’s our product vision?” If you’re the head of products or strategy in a B2B organization, you’re constantly fielding the “product vision and strategic roadmap” questions. Register for our Strategic Portfolio Roadmapping Workshop in Atlanta, GA on March 28th, 2017.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 6, 2020

Our goal was to define how we would set and communicate the company strategy, and how that strategy would lead OKRs and backlog definition. Product (and company) strategy is the backbone that guides product goal-setting and roadmap definition, although it’s sometimes overlooked or confused with having a vision.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 5, 2021

I distilled the advice a few months ago in my book The Essentialist Product Manager and have recently been giving talks and workshops on the topic. This article tackles one of the areas that gets the most interest from product managers: how can they use an essentialist approach to create and communicate better product roadmaps ?

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 13, 2021

It’s like driving a car with your vision blurred: You can’t see if you are heading in the right direction or getting closer to your destination. To select the right KPIs, I recommend taking the following three steps: First, use the user and business goals in the product strategy to select an initial set of indicators.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

On this episode of Intercom on Product myself and Paul Adams, our SVP of Product, take a look at roadmapping. Knowing how and when to define a roadmap, who to include and how long to plan for are key elements to finding the balanced approach that you need. As you grow functions, the audience for your roadmap widens.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

On this episode of Intercom on Product myself and Paul Adams, our SVP of Product, take a look at roadmapping. Knowing how and when to define a roadmap, who to include and how long to plan for are key elements to finding the balanced approach that you need. As you grow functions, the audience for your roadmap widens.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

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 well as product managers, stakeholders, marketing, sales, and dev representatives should attend a persona workshop.

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 6, 2023

What’s the best way to run an opportunity solution tree workshop? How does an opportunity solution tree connect to a product roadmap? How does an opportunity solution tree connect with a product vision? Company factors: How does each opportunity support your company mission, vision, and strategic objectives?

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Bain Public

APRIL 17, 2020

Career Development Program Details: Whether you are a Founder or part of the Product, Engineering or leadership team, you need actionable strategies and impactful techniques that drive results today. We already knew we could deliver expert guidance via a series of on-site workshops. We deliver content via a series of virtual workshops.

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Dear Strategy

MARCH 15, 2023

You see, the reason I started the Dear Strategy podcast was mostly to educate. Now, I’m sure I didn’t go about the process in exactly the most effective way, but, even so, that particular strategy has resulted in absolutely zero leads! But – remember – I’m a strategy guy! I love teaching and sharing knowledge with others.

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Sachin Rekhi

AUGUST 4, 2021

Take product roadmaps for example. And yet there is incredible divergence in the quality of product outcomes that result from those roadmaps. This is due to the very process by which the roadmap is developed. Some teams do a team brainstorm and voting exercise to develop their roadmap. Founders : Growth for Founders.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 13, 2021

It’s like driving a car with your vision blurred: You can’t see if you are heading in the right direction or getting closer to your destination. To select the right KPIs, I recommend taking the following three steps: First, use the user and business goals in the product strategy to select an initial set of indicators.

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UX Studio

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Working on a product without a decent product vision resembles going into the street with eyes closed. This article will show how a product vision should look, how to create it and communicate it to all stakeholders in play. What is Product Vision? Product vision imagines a product direction in the long-term. Motivation.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

The development team and stakeholders then use these goals to determine the work they have to do—be it creating a marketing strategy, investigating a new technology, or preparing the distribution channels. As this example shows, the vision is an inspirational, visionary goal that cannot be measured. Getting to Shared Goals.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

Instead of creating, for example, product strategies and roadmaps and tracking KPIs , you should help the people on your team acquire the right knowledge and develop the right skills so that they can carry out the relevant work on their own. This includes the following ten capabilities: Formulating an inspiring vision for a product.

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Product Culture

AUGUST 19, 2020

One of my early product jobs was at a startup with money and the CEO's exciting vision. We also had Shiny Object Syndrome, with a million ideas and tactics for how to bring the vision into practice. Product Roadmaps Masterclass , the Sequel. Do you agree? Events Online in your time zone.

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UX Studio

AUGUST 14, 2017

A UX workshop can help you gather the team and brainstorm to make better decisions. In a UX workshop, we share research results with the participants and let them come up with their own conclusions. Get everybody on the same page with a UX workshop. Persona workshop. A canvas is often a good tool to run a UX workshop.

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Sequent Learning

DECEMBER 20, 2023

They define product roadmaps, set priorities, and ensure smooth coordination among teams to meet deadlines. Key Responsibilities of a Product Manager Visionary Leadership : They define the product vision , aligning it with company objectives and strategizing the product roadmap.

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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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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 12, 2023

Typically, there are two big phases in bringing a product from vision to launch: planning and execution. Planning includes the product vision, strategy, and roadmap. How do you set the vision, strategy, and roadmap? We tap into all of that to write the vision document. [8:27]

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Bain Public

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Over the last 5 years, Bain Public has partnered with different accelerators, such as Centech , The Holt Xchange , and NEXT AI , to give expert product workshops to growing startups. For the first time ever, Bain Public will be hosting their own, exclusive product workshop event!

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The Product Coalition

MAY 1, 2018

I’ve realized that people use the words mission, vision and strategy interchangeably. Wanted to jot down some thoughts on my perspectives on this, and the topic of product vision in general - both to solidify my own thinking and in case it can be helpful to anyone reading this. The vision talks about the future?—?where

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Amplitude

MARCH 11, 2020

Roadmapping is at the core of product strategy and product management. Output-focused product roadmaps provide a false sense of certainty, all while limiting product work to a few big bets, which may or may not pan out. We broke into pairs and then each pair developed a feature roadmap along a particular area of focus.

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Sequent Learning

JULY 25, 2019

Start With A Vision. Successful products begin life with a spark of inspiration and a vision. Vision is, considered a non-negotiable for a CEO, and is often non-negotiable for a product manager. One reason is that not all product managers have the innate sense of a vision for the product.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

They work with someone, often called a product manager, to create roadmaps for the longer term. See the roadmap series. Often, a combination of strategy and tactics.) Move between strategy and tactics and back again.) For lack of a better word, I'll call this the product strategy team. Strategic work.) They can't.

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Sequent Learning

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Our Product Management workshops are designed and taught by professionals who have grappled with the same day-to-day challenges that attendees currently face. A companion, one-day Product Strategy & Roadmapping workshop addresses what is perhaps today’s top business concern: How can we innovate for competitive advantage?

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 5, 2021

Arrange workshops with stakeholders and ambassadors, and ask your Scrum Master and the Developers to join the effort. Team up with the user experience people and run, for example, user journey or user story mapping workshops. Proven examples are user story mapping or product roadmap planning workshops. (It more sales?—?over

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