Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Once Upon a Time in Waterfall Land. This sequential, waterfall-based approach used to work when there was little change and innovation, when product managers could correctly predict what the users needed and describe the detailed product functionality upfront. The Brave New Agile World.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

In the previous article, I discussed in detail about Agile Product Life Cycle and its different phases and outcomes that allow an organization to function end to end in an agile product life cycle. In image 1 I have listed some practices in sticky notes below each of the phases to drive the Agile product life cycle.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

TL; DR: How to Make Agile Work in Fast-Growing Startups For years, I worked in several Berlin-based, fast-growing startups in my capacity as Scrum Master, agile coach, and Product Owner. These are my lessons learned on making ‘agile’?—?including All startups built double-sided marketplaces, serving B2C as well as B2B customers.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

This can be reassuring for customers and stakeholders, as the individuals believe that they know when their features will be delivered. This makes the product roadmap more susceptible to change and it increases the effort to update it. In addition to goals, the template above contains dates or time frames, names, features, and metrics.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 9, 2022

It helps people understand how their work relates to a bigger whole and how their efforts create a positive change. It also allows you, as the person in charge of the product, to understand if dedicating your time and energy to the offering is worthwhile and sustainable. Visioning Workshop Attendees.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 14, 2017

The developers sitting nearby just watched the show for the first time, but after a while they stood up to join the party one by one. I also know how much effort these team put into finding out how to work with developers. We like to get painful user problems to solve. He thought it will be an easy Thursday.

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 5, 2021

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. The Product Backlog is Too Big.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

I view it as an entity that creates tangible value for users and possibly customers as well as the business. Once you’ve identified and selected a specific product, you can take the next step and determine the people who are required to create or progress it and generate the desired user and business benefits.

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 16, 2023

It’s an organizational issue—moving quickly to beat competitors and keep up with changing customer preferences. When companies take the time to design products that match what the customer needs, profits soar, customer satisfaction (and retention) soars, and employee satisfaction gets a nice uptick too.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

There is no point in worrying about the product details and writing user stories if a sound product strategy is missing. Determining the market or market segment—the users and customers who should benefit from the product, for instance, “middle-aged men with unhealthy eating habits who are at risk of developing type-2 diabetes.”

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

What’s more, it’s not uncommon in my experience that product owners have to do their job without the support of a Scrum Master or agile coach. Process and collaboration : Teach agile values, principles, and practises to the product owners, development teams, stakeholders, and management. So why is the role important?

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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. Contrast this with a sprint review meeting , which might help you determine if users can easily sign up for the product. This can make it harder for people to free up the necessary time and attend them.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

No, but my own experience and the evidence elsewhere in the market has shown it tends to lead to better outcomes. an agile and/or digital transformation). In reality, a user persona has as much value as a Kodak moment. Does this mean that it always works? Change is the only constant. Nothing is static. Especially the people.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Level two increases empowerment by adding the authority to determine the features and user experience the product should offer. At the same time, I believe that it is important to look at things the way they are. Before I discuss the three levels in more detail, let me briefly explain why I wrote this article.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Once Upon a Time in Waterfall Land. This sequential, waterfall-based approach used to work when there was little change and innovation, when product managers could correctly predict what the users needed and describe the detailed product functionality upfront. The Brave New Agile World. Listen to this article: [link].

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Melissa Perri

JUNE 29, 2017

It’s an interesting question and one that takes time to unpack. The first time I heard the term, I asked someone what it meant. That was until I had my first experience teaching Product Management at a company using the SAFe framework. I was doing a workshop for a very large bank when one of the attendees chimed in.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Sample product goals are acquiring new users, increasing engagement, removing technical debt to future-proof the product, and generating revenue. A great way to engage the key stakeholders and development team members is to run a collaborative workshop, be it online or in the office. I call these outcomes product goals.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Hopefully you’ve already discovered the features that are going to give you a higher return on investment, so now is the time to break them down and understand them in more detail?—?to During Discovery you have focused on gaining understanding; understanding of the problem, the market, your users etc.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

I have a new book: Project Lifecycles: How to Reduce Risks, Release Successful Products, and Increase Agility. I wrote it because I'm concerned about what I see in too many supposedly agile teams: Crazy-long backlogs and roadmaps. A focus on a “standard” agile approach, regardless of how much agility is in that approach.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 23, 2018

Over 350 product people gathered to make new connections, share experiences, and learn from 20 amazing speakers. Catch Julia’s stakeholder management workshop in London in October!). By providing ownership and creative freedom, teams at Booking.com are empowered to craft experiments based on well-defined user problems.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Those outcomes can help teams decide which agile approach(es) to start with and adapt. Let's start with who wants the teams to use an agile approach. Who Wants the Teams to Use an Agile Approach? Before I had the “agile” word, I discussed iterating over feature sets and delivering small increments.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Ever since the shift towards agile practices, product teams have hung on to a set of core attributes, ranging from cross-functional, to customer-centric all the way up to iterative. User Research. Successful user research forms the foundation for every product manager. But how can this translate into a remote setup?

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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. Consider the revenue generating assets as well as the supporting ones.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 8, 2024

Securing everyone’s buy-in would be impractical—it would most likely take too much time. But when bigger changes are required or the group is more diverse, the approach is not only time-consuming. Instead, reaching an agreement is a collaborative effort. Stakeholders learn about their respective ideas, concerns, and interests.

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 11, 2019

For today’s post, we sat down with Chris Hockley , an agile delivery manager and lean agile coach at SuperAwesome. In his cross-functional role , Chris coaches individuals and teams and facilitates discovery sessions and workshops. One of Chris’s biggest takeaways from this experience? Tweet This. Tweet This.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 5, 2021

They are derived from my fourteen years of practical experience with XP and Scrum, serving both as Product Owner and Scrum Master and interviewing dozens of Product Owner candidates on behalf of my clients. So far, this Product Owner interview guide has been downloaded more than 7,500 times. ??

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Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 4, 2025

How AI captures customer needs that human product managers miss Watch on YouTube TLDR In my recent conversation with Carmel Dibner from Applied Marketing Science, we explored how artificial intelligence is transforming Voice of the Customer (VOC) research for product teams.

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 12, 2022

He is also the co-founder of Product Culture—one of his customers said about Bruce, “Coach, trusted advisor, organizational therapist—like me, you’ll probably hire Bruce because of his experience in product management or his skills as an Agile coach.” It’s helpful to think about stakeholders as a type of customer.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 5, 2021

And learn a lot about agile product management, Scrum, empiricism, product design, and user experience along the way. If you intend to live up to Scrum and agile product development’s full potential, creating a shared understanding of how empiricism works among all co-workers in your organization is essential.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 19, 2017

It should take be held at the same place and time every day; I find it’s best to hold the meeting in the morning. You may find, for example, that some user stories are done and can be reviewed; or you may discover that the team is struggling with some acceptance criteria and requires your input. Tip #2: Should you attend? 135 and 141).

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 7, 2022

Also, there’s nothing wrong with the agile manifesto of course. Because thinking and acting agile and lean is mainly a mindset and nothing you implement like a new time booking system. Workshops for the sake of workshops on an operative level are not the big thing. So agile and lean are two major keys.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 10, 2020

In this episode, Tristan and Rosemary discuss product intuition, the art of prioritisation, managing your HiPPOs, and draw from their own experiences and expertise to answer questions from the Mind the Product community. 13:57 | Do have any tips or advice for gaining feedback from our customers? Communication & Alignment Workshop.

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Melissa Perri

JULY 23, 2024

At the end of this review, I do a Product Leadership workshop with C-Suite and Product leaders, where I show them what good looks like, and they have a chance to reflect on where they are. Other Times, it's due to a lack of skill set in product leaders. I gather data through surveys about observations. I review strategies and roadmaps.

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Product Talk

AUGUST 4, 2021

Some of it was normal first-time author insecurity. So I started to experiment. I had set up my schedule to coach in bursts with lots of time off in between bursts. I originally designed this schedule to accommodate my introverted nature and to give me plenty of time to think, read, and write. But it had another benefit.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2017

Amanda had 18 years of product management experience and was able to clearly foresee the obstacles I might encounter in my new role. This training set can be composed of workshops where I can transfer my product management knowledge (e.g. how to write user stories, stakeholder management, how to define value proposition).

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 24, 2021

In Part 1 and 2 of this series, I wrote about how an agile approach might offer strategic benefits. And because an agile approach changes your culture, I said the agile approach was part of your strategy. So let's ask this question: Can any tool—agile or otherwise—offer you a strategic advantage? (I

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ProductPlan

JUNE 5, 2020

Learning on the job or via a professional mentorship offers the chance to grow and gain valuable experience. But how do you know which ones are worth your time and money? 4 Product Management Certifications That Are Worth Your Time. Key takeaways include product strategy , user research, and the UX/UI design process.

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