Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Traditionally, strategy and execution are often viewed as separate, sequential pieces of work that are carried out by different people. For example, a product manager might determine the product strategy and one or more development teams might be tasked with executing it. Enter the Cycle. I call these outcomes product goals.

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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. In the first meeting, I was assured that clarity on goal, strategy, the partnership was missing.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 28, 2022

Let’s talk about how to define a product vision, and why the lack of a product vision is so detrimental to your team. Review design. As I’ll explain below, the “why” and “where” form your product vision, and your product team (especially your engineers), not only want this from you, but need it in order to do their best work.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 13, 2023

How do you develop a robust UX strategy? We also look at: What a UX design strategy is Why it’s important Its core principles and elements A practical example of a company with well-established UX strategies Let’s dive right in! The strategy should also have information about the UX team, processes, and guidelines.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 16, 2024

It was time to reset and reinvest in our strategy and roadmap. Best Practices and Strategies for Roadmap Hygiene Just as you can brush your teeth and have poor dental hygiene, you can update your roadmap and still experience drift. The same is true for your roadmap — it takes more than diligence. Where were we heading?

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The Product HQ

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Are you looking for crucial technical program management skills to become a successful technical program manager? Technical program manager (TPM) roles range from mid to senior-level positions that support organizations with their product goals. Well, you’re in the right place.

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Ronke PM

MAY 8, 2024

At their heart, culture-driven product leaders have a shared promise: their organization's core values, mission, and vision. Furthermore, they have a clear product vision that culminates in building products that improve their customers' lives, and sometimes, those products may impact humanity as a whole.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

We had a large group of talented people – some who knew features and workarounds better than anyone else, some who were experts in technical concepts, some who excelled in project and relationship management, and others who had a deep knowledge of particular industries. The only problem? We were operating in silos. part of the name.

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 6, 2020

What architecture patterns and technologies may be used? In order to answer the questions above, you may want to use techniques such as direct observation, user interviews, prototyping, creating a strategy canvas or E-R-R-C grid , and you may capture some of them using a tool like my product vision board.

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Why a Product Strategy Process Matters. An effective product strategy process should ensure that a valid product strategy and an actionable product roadmap are always available—that a shared and valid approach to achieving product success is available at anytime, as the picture below illustrates. Timeboxed Strategizing.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Both product and product strategy should fall in place to make the startup sustainable and help them to grow. The importance of measuring the small outcomes associated with their product goals or visions is the key to churn expected benefits throughout the product life cycle. Vision: It should be inspirational and the guiding post.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 4, 2023

In the ever-evolving landscape of cryptocurrency and blockchain technology, one phenomenon that has garnered significant attention in recent years is the emergence of Decentralized Exchanges (DEXs). By integrating DEX technology into their processes, they can assure their customers of a higher level of security and transparency.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 27, 2024

There’s a clear distinction between technical and business-oriented roles, as well as between those focused on B2C and B2B markets. Product-Led strategy: User-Centric Approach, Customer-Centric Metrics Focus on self-service onboarding and scalability. Sales-Led strategy: Sales-Centric Approach. For example.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 18, 2021

Creating a product strategy is almost never a matter of answering a few simple questions and figuring it out. They have a solid business but realized that the growth potential there is limited so they pulled me in to help them redefine their vision and strategy. Strategy is not like solving a mathematical equation.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 18, 2022

Sarah Dayan is a staff engineer at Algolia , a “Search-as-a-Service” platform that helps developers build index and search capabilities into their own platforms through an API, and the host of two tech podcasts: Developer Experience and Entre Devs. How would she provide the right technical direction for the company? Brian: Super.

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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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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

TL;DR Product managers often don’t get the due recognition for their work and their role is often marginalized by frustrated leadership or other teams. Instead of staying in the zone of most competence, divide your attention across all aspects of the product, like the business, tech, and UX. Let’s dive in! Is giving up any easier?

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

In the world of product, nothing helps keep the team on track better than a strong product vision and a product strategy backing it up. This requires breaking down the product vision and translating it into themes everyone can get behind. Infuse the Product Roadmap with the Product Vision. Alignment Begets Autonomy.

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Sachin Rekhi

AUGUST 4, 2021

Or PMs at larger established tech firms might see great PMs at work within their company, but they struggled to reverse engineer just how to recreate their success for themselves. This is due to the very process by which the roadmap is developed. I went on to discuss this skill gap with Brian Balfour, CEO of Reforge.

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Mixpanel

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Onboarding new users is one of the biggest challenges a technical product faces. This is doubly true when a portion of those would-be users don’t have technical backgrounds. We have a whole suite of different strategies. At the start of onboarding, we ask people to identify as either “technical” or “non-technical.”

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The Product Guy

APRIL 9, 2019

Journey Into the World of Strategy. The notion of a strategy in product management seems like something that only high-level stakeholders at the executive level should care about. After all, many product managers tend to treat a strategy as something that’s scared and driven top-down from the executive management level.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 14, 2021

In this episode of Inside Intercom, we caught up with Hubert for a chat about starting small, committing to a product strategy that helps you reach your long-term goals and making sure everyone’s on the same page. A segmentation matrix can help product teams be laser-focused on both the long-term vision and the day-to-day plan.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JANUARY 12, 2022

Have you been intrigued by the position of Technical Program Manager? But this doesn't mean you can't prepare for and ace your upcoming technical program manager interview. The best way to get ready is by reviewing some real TPM interview questions from some of the top tech companies like Facebook, Google, Amazon, and more.

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People-First Product Leadership

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Welcome back to creating your strategy stack. In Part 2, we dive into establishing your organization's strategy and goals. If you missed Part 1, we covered the “why” behind creating a strategy stack, with a focus on the Mission, North Star, and Vision. Subscribe now What’s in a Strategy?

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 8, 2020

As Kristen says: She predicts that this strategy of letting the product guide the sales process is the future of tech: “I think that’s where a lot of the future of sales and tech in general is going to go to some extent, which is to really let the product guide the people. Crowning the customer.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 8, 2022

Because scribes display more diligence and industry than printers.” Too many potential investors, Gutenberg’s plan to build on technology more than a thousand years old lacked imagination. Maybe the snake oil of its time, either way, he failed due to timing. However, it was delayed due to a flood?—?leaving Fust prevailed.

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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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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 27, 2023

If you’re a tech-savvy DIY enthusiast, you might spend less on development hours. Plus, if you’re tech-savvy, you can save on development costs. Creating NFTs requires technical know-how, from understanding blockchain technology to navigating NFT marketplaces. Have they worked on NFTs similar to your vision?

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

DECEMBER 14, 2020

A common question for product managers, project managers, technical program managers, and software developers alike is what methodology to use given a project. Design After the requirements are established, the developers are responsible for designing technical solutions to the product requirements.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Consequently, a platform should have its own product strategy and roadmap , KPIs , product backlog , and well-designed software architecture that leverages the right technologies. Ensure that the Platform is User-Led, Not Technology-Driven. Treat the Platform as a Product. Start Small.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Photo by Alexas_Fotos on Unsplash When I was VP of Product at Twiggle, building the product from zero to one (and then one to ten and so on), I hired a technical writer freelance. Our product was an API, and we needed comprehensive technical documentation. I have worked with great technical writers, they weren’t the problem.

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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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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Sticking to inflexible annual planning cycles can introduce significant challenges in the era of rapid technological advancements. The static nature of traditional product planning cycles fails to consider quickly-improving technologies and unforeseen changes in the market. Firstly, you want to review your product vision.

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

In the conceptualization phase, product managers must identify the vision, mission, and requirements that will condition how a team builds out a product. On one hand, this entails coming up with possible design concepts that capture the vision, mission, and goals of a given product.

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The Product HQ

JUNE 1, 2024

Technical PM Skills A big part of the role of a startup product manager is working with engineers to define and build the product. While you don’t need to know as much about technical product development as an engineer, you should have a good enough understanding and basic knowledge of how technology works.

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Alchemer Mobile

AUGUST 25, 2020

We’re seeing companies hire Chief Experience Officers and Chief Customer Officers to help lead innovation and strategy around the customer experience. In 2020, PMs play a massive role in product strategy and determining the overall customer experience. You don’t need a technical degree to be a strong PM.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

In the product planning model above, the vision describes the ultimate purpose for creating the product; the product strategy states how the vision will be realised; and the product roadmap states how the strategy will be implemented. The picture below shows the planning horizons I like to work with.

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