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. Treat the Team as an Equal Partner. The team members are not your resources but the people who create your product. Assume that the team members want to do their best.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 27, 2018

Has the spirit of being agile been lost behind a mountain of rules? Agile vs. Being Agile Agile became popular shortly after ‘The Agile Software Development Manifesto ’ was published in 2001. Companies who focused on being agile saw great success, and others wanted to follow suit.

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Userpilot

APRIL 30, 2024

In many ways, he has shaped how successful products are built and how teams can be organized to work toward excellence. In this role, he drove the development of products that took eBay’s global e-commerce platform to new levels of success. Marty Cagan is a popular name in the product management world. Who is Marty Cagan?

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Tyner Blain

MAY 24, 2017

Taking agile, a process otherwise optimized for small, cross-functional, collaborative teams and making it work at scale is fascinating. ” I’ve spent the last half-year in the beginning of my journey understanding how agile product management at scale can work. .” Seeing things in practice.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JANUARY 11, 2021

At UX Studio , while we develop our products, uxfol.io and copyfol.io , we are mainly focused on agency work, meaning that we cooperate with several clients as external teams. This post was written from the perspective of designers, mainly intended for external teams and entrepreneurs. Five challenges and solutions.

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Modus Create

JUNE 18, 2019

When I first attended Scrummaster training, I went in wide-eyed and excited to learn all of the secrets behind this amazing “new” agile project-management strategy called Scrum. But my employer had just paid for me to go through the training, and I was expected to help improve their development processes.

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Modus Create

MARCH 8, 2022

What is Agile Release Planning? In Agile, a release is a group of software features that can be developed and deployed to the users in a given period. Adding more plans and meetings to an Agile team can seem like a slowdown which feels scary given that Agile is all about speed and deployments.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 20, 2020

It’s understandable that most of us don’t make time for personal development. Who wants to spend time after a hard day of work learning and developing when they could be kicking back with a beer and watching The Crown? A few months ago, I introduced a concept I have developed called the PM, or Product, Quadrants.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 5, 2022

For product strategy and roadmap meetings, I recommend involving the key stakeholders , for example, someone from sales, marketing, support, and finance, as well as development team representatives—ideally members who know about the user experience (UX), architecture, and technologies. This might be your Scrum Master or an agile coach.

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 16, 2020

A topic that’s come up several times recently in my product leader coaching sessions: how much to delegate to the (individual contributor) product managers on our teams – including different ways of building product skills and balancing personal empowerment against good results.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2019

What do you do when your team is working their socks off and yet they are getting little credit for the work being done, mainly because the team isn’t able to set concrete expectations with the stakeholder? This obviously reflected as a failure to deliver on part of the engineering team. THE CHALLENGE. THE CAUSE.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 14, 2020

Remote Agile (Part 5): Retrospectives with Distributed Teams TL; DR: A Remote Retrospective with a Distributed Team We started this series on remote agile with looking into practices and tools, followed by exploring virtual Liberating Structures, how to master Zoom as well as common remote agile anti-patterns.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 11, 2022

Learn how to build a DEEP backlog and conduct productive refinement calls in order to maintain a happy and agile team. Is the work well distributed throughout the team, or are some overwhelmed while others with too much spare time? A not well refined backlog causes many problems for the team.

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 30, 2017

Let’s call it the software development deli counter problem. Likewise, sales and business development teams (especially in enterprise companies) are hired and paid and rewarded for bringing in large deals. Which takes us to this chain of reasoning: “I don’t remember what’s in the development pipeline.”

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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 4, 2018

To understand if and to what extent your product is affected by technical debt, talk to the development team, for example, in the next sprint retrospective. I find that development team members usually have a good understanding where issues in the architecture and code are.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 28, 2020

Typically, if your bounce rate is above 60%, then your product definitely has some issues. Users can bounce because of multiple reasons such as poor design or poor content and/or product messaging. However, having a high bounce rate doesn’t always necessarily mean that your product is not solving an important problem.

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 4, 2020

In the world of Agile, every sprint has goals. These sprint goals make it clear to the entire team what the objective of each sprint is. With a SMART sprint goal and its associated product backlog items in hand, the implementation team can get to work and keep their eye on the prize of meeting expectations.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 15, 2019

I never had to deal with developers on a day to day basis?—?the However, I was thrown into the deep end again when I left the comfort of marketing and joined the tech team at Hotelclub where I managed a team of developers. I had no idea what I was doing and how I could lead a dev team. As a tip?—?always

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ProductPlan

MARCH 31, 2022

When it comes to the product team’s organizational structures and strategies, product operations is the hot new thing. More and more teams realize the value of having an operationally-focused professional. Teams must carefully consider if product operations solve the core problems and challenges.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 23, 2017

Here are the top 10 most clicked articles from the 408 links featured in this year’s 51 newsletters – 10 articles your peers digged so much you should definitely check them out as well. Agile Died While You Were Perfecting Your Standup. Why Isn’t Agile Working? Agile is not a silver bullet. The MVP is dead.

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ProductPlan

MAY 22, 2020

It’s not necessarily bad when product management adapts to each company’s specific needs. Below is the discussion Melissa Perri had with John Cutler and Jim Semick on why teams that are scaling need product ops. Processes & Practices: The more product teams grow and multiply, the less homogenous they get.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Almost without fail, I find that the “maker” side of software companies (developers, designers, product folks, DevOps, tech writers…) and the “go-to-market” side of software companies (sales, marketing, support, customer success.) have irreconcilable definitions of MVP. This short-circuits learning and slows down delivery. What To Do?

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Tyner Blain

JULY 9, 2013

There are several ways to answer the question “is agile cheaper than waterfall?” Agile done well is cheaper, as long as you measure correctly.” The right question is: is agile better?” ” How Agile Is NOT Cheaper. “Is agile cheaper than waterfall?”

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The Secret PM Handbook

MARCH 28, 2018

Your Problem Should Be Really Bad. For you, there’s definitely some emotional heft to “sales is not growing.” You’re not going go to Club, your team isn’t going to make quota. In fact, if you’re in a “sales is not growing” situation, there are a lot of bad potential outcomes if it continues.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Here is a new way to look at product management goals, and make them a useful tool for both you and your team. That’s actually not a bad goal since it would encourage product managers to allocate time for this very important activity. So if you need the team to focus on a certain area?—?say Photo by William Warby on Unsplash L.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 5, 2020

This series is about helping a team create a less brittle environment—more resilience. Neither did the team. In this case, the project team had no automated tests. The team called the product people “product owners.” Neither did the developers. These developers had no built-in feedback mechanisms.

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Sachin Rekhi

JANUARY 22, 2016

But what I've found surprising is that these learnings haven't been readily applied to the development process and they definitely should be. From the earliest stages of a startup, the R&D team should be designed in such a way to maximize learning for improving the R&D process itself. What exactly do I mean by this?

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 26, 2021

TL; DR: Data-Informed Retrospectives In their book Agile Retrospectives , Esther Derby and Diana Larsen popularized the idea that a Sprint Retrospect comprises five stages. The second stage refers to gathering data so that the Scrum Team can have data-informed Retrospectives. Shall I notify you about articles like this one?

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Tyner Blain

AUGUST 17, 2023

There are several different formats which have been developed for problem statements, and you could use free-form narrative as well. After hundreds of hours helping write and utilize problem statements with dozens of teams over the years, I’ve evolved the template I use and recommend; because it works better in theory and in practice.

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Userpilot

APRIL 30, 2024

From this article, you will find out how to develop a strong growth marketing strategy and learn growth marketing tactics for different customer journey stages. Market development targets new markets with existing products, while product development – existing markets with new products. If so, we’ve got you covered.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 5, 2019

They run from ill-suited personal traits and the pursuit of individual agendas to frustration with the team itself. Read on and learn in this post on Scrum anti-patterns how you can identify if your Scrum Master needs support from the team. The Scrum Master is a servant-leader for the Scrum Team. The team composition is wrong.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

As a product leader, you are the product manager for a leadership team, and the tricks you learned in product teams remain valuable, they just need a little tweak. Myths that an organisation tells itself can act as a reality distortion field that masks failing products and poor return on investment. Develop new opportunities.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2019

If an organization’s founders aren’t designers and don’t come from a background where well-designed products played a key role in their lives, it can often be the last discipline to be brought onboard the team. On a bad day, a lot more of it got thrown away. My responsibility was to build a design team in that new agile way of working.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The Scrum Master encourages the Scrum Team to improve, within the Scrum process framework, its development process and practices to make it more effective and enjoyable for the next Sprint. By the end of the Sprint Retrospective, the Scrum Team should have identified improvements that it will implement in the next Sprint.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 5, 2023

Lists of trends that survey the past should be easier by definition, right? Agile vs. agile. Are you Agile, or are you agile?” As others have said , the idea that Agile methodologies are a thing of the past is a gross exaggeration. They focus on the results that the team is looking for.

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Product Management University

MARCH 15, 2017

business analyst, subject matter expert (SME) or agile product owner more critical than it has ever been, yet many organizations still insist on combining it with the product manager role. Combining both roles into one usually results in one the following: A product that has the right features with poor usability.

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Mixpanel

MAY 20, 2020

Having worked with many product leaders over the past 20 years, I’ve repeatedly heard that balancing the needs of users, engineering teams and the business—all while building a successful product function that drives innovation—is tough. Lifting & shifting: the common pitfall of product teams.

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