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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Reveal

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Easy to use and understand analytics is a crucial part of every modern SaaS application. In today’s digitalized and technology-oriented world, customers require much more than static data visualization or simple reporting. Table of contents: What is a legacy system? What are the major issues with legacy systems?

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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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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 3, 2023

A compelling product vision is a guiding light, providing direction and purpose to the development process. The Importance of a Strong Product Vision A compelling product vision is a guiding star that aligns everyone involved in the product development process.

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

As a Product Designer working in a high-performing software team, I am tasked and responsible for championing user value, ensuring that the end user's needs are met when using the product. It was a valuable growth for me to be deeply involved in assessing business values and technical feasibility with my team.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 15, 2023

How many financial apps do you have on your phone, and how often do you use them? Chances are the ones you frequently use have a simple, intuitive app onboarding process. If you’re a financial services product manager, you’ll know that crafting an effective fintech app onboarding process is no small feat.

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Userpilot

JULY 5, 2022

Breakthrough, disruptive or radical innovation are all more dramatic and often involve challenging the existing business model or introducing completely new technology. As a result, it helps you develop only the features that they need and avoid falling into the feature fallacy trap and creating the consumption gap.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

1] Figure 1: An Empowerment Model for Product People and Teams Level one represents the authority to decide how features are detailed and guide their implementation. Level three, finally, allows product people and teams to develop the product strategy including the value proposition and business goals.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Highly effective Product Managers develop themselves in 5 key areas. In some jobs, you can get by with just Competence, but in the unkempt, fuzzy, team-oriented domain of Product Management, you need both. Here are 2 actions you can take to develop your Craft Competence: Craft Competence ?? and others feel that.

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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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Userpilot

APRIL 8, 2021

Especially if your SaaS company originated as (or still is!) Sometimes accruing UX debt is the only way to go: when time-to-market is of the essence, you have to launch quickly with limited resources to stay competitive: “We are not here to craft the perfect UX, but survive in the SaaS space first.”. Let’s dive in! In a hurry?

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Usersnap

AUGUST 4, 2020

Especially when looking at the tool-side of project management. I see new tools popping up every other day. With Jira and Trello – we looked at two major project management tools, their benefits and drawbacks and most importantly their main differences. Project management tools. The basics of Jira.

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Split

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

No matter what industry you work in, the evolving demands of an “agile” promise is a challenge to live up to. For developers, that requires constant pivots, faster response times, and a graceful recovery from failure. As it turns out, there’s an important set of metrics all software teams should use as their benchmark.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 24, 2022

Not only are there more technology companies than ever, and all these companies want and need product managers, but there is still so much mystique surrounding the role. I want to be able to save images in your app”, “We need to have Siri voice commands enabled”, “Add to Carts are down 15% in one user cohort”…but unless you ask “Why?”

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Product launch checklists help align the efforts of all team members, enhance quality assurance, help mitigate risks, enable the evaluation of the launch, and help you deliver a better customer experience. Develop a product that meets customer needs and expectations. To evaluate your in-app messages, use flow analytics.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 6, 2019

Bringing team members together, organizing user research, product demos, road mapping and more. If you’re a mobile app product manager there’s a whole additional layer of complexity to add to that cake. Your software needs to be updated frequently and to the satisfaction levels of the app store gatekeepers.

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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. The technical complexities were greater than anticipated and the development progress was slower than forecasted. 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. The technical complexities were greater than anticipated and the development progress was slower than forecasted. To Collocate or Not.

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 25, 2022

Let’s jump in with the bad news: No organization is immune to product vulnerability. However, great product leaders protect their product teams from exploiting weaknesses and vulnerabilities. However, these uncontrollable, unpredictable variables can create weaknesses that morph into opportunities for potential attacks.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

As product managers, it’s our job to develop solutions that solve real problems for our customers and create value for the business. Chances are, it might have been because the team wasn’t using the hypothesis-driven approach correctly. But with so many potential ideas to pursue, how do you know which ones are worth pursuing?

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Userpilot

MAY 5, 2022

Product managers lead interdisciplinary product teams to deliver products that bring value to customers. Product managers monitor and control the product lifecycle while ensuring there is the right corporate environment for its development. The product development process is one aspect of the product management process.

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 16, 2023

What do we know about people, systems, and contexts? 6:49] How is poor CX costly to an organization? Some companies already have UX researches who specialize in qualitative research. ” That means we didn’t do the right research. Then we need research. We care about research rigor.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

The focus of product management is overseeing product development at all stages of its lifecycle. A product manager's role is to coordinate the work of various teams across the organization with the shared goal of developing products. SMART goals are Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-bound.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 17, 2017

Gadi Weiszlovits Lahav (Head of Product at FT.com) and Richard Still (Technology Director at FT.com) tell ProductTank London how to scale quickly and successfully. Their advice is to focus on the right technology, agile processes and great people to create the culture and operation you need.

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DISQO

JULY 5, 2018

Incumbents across every industry have been put on notice: technology upstarts are taking over the Fortune 500 list at an accelerating pace. Plus, either way, you need to be good at quickly recognizing and correcting bad decisions. As someone who did market research for a decade, the last half while at Toyota, I saw this first-hand.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

Continuous Discovery Habits by Teresa Torres teaches you how to set up a continuous discovery system within your organization with actionable exercises. Product Mastery by Geoff Watts teaches you how to be a successful product owner within agile software development practices with the use of case studies. Plot summary.

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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.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

How product management teams can make better innovation decisions I am interviewing speakers at my favorite annual conference for product managers, the PDMA Inspire Innovation Conference. He cofounded SmartOrg, which provides software and services to support decision-making and managing uncertainty. Learn more about them at PDMA.org.

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UX Planet

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Every dollar’s worth of expense is a fight, and spending 30% of the budget on “simply asking questions” (read: UX research) can be a hard sell. Understanding your organization’s UX maturity is the first, most crucial step toward recognizing the strengths and weaknesses of your organization. Have you defined the design problem at hand?

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Many teams and organisations jump into build mode too early. It often includes researching customers, researching the market, developing mockups, prototyping and sometimes developing rough working products. Some teams do this continuously, and others do it more like a project. Increase your prices.

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Userzoom

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Armed with the proper tools, guidance and methods of communication, you should be able to convince anyone within your organisation about the value of user research and the positive impact it will have on the bottom line – without resorting to cattle-prods, lies or locking yourself in the stationery cupboard and having a very loud cry.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 17, 2023

He is frequently helping organizations succeed while also holding the role of Professor Emeritus at McMaster University and Distinguished Research Fellow at Penn State University. Some companies will retreat and cut their spending by cutting bolder long-term innovations, and we saw in the recession around 2010 that was a bad strategy.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 3, 2020

The Hard Thing About Hard Things) At Latin American travel technology company Almundo , we believe that leaders are responsible for the people, whether that is via one-on-one meetings, career opportunities, company culture, or employee satisfaction. So, it was natural that we should want to develop a talent growth plan for our people.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 14, 2016

I product-manage multiple apps which allow store workers at retail giant Tesco to manage stock and provide an excellent customer service. Tesco store apps include all the stock control routines: deliveries, reductions, counts, waste, training, product search and so on. Multi-location and agile gaps. This baffled me at first.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 22, 2018

Here, replatforming is about replacing the computing platform on which a number of other products or systems are built. It’s the foundation that, for instance, powers a website and allows developers to add pages and features. This gives each platform a unique twist and makes each replatforming project unlike any other.

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The Product Bistro

JULY 17, 2018

The role of product manager is somewhat synonymous 1 with the agile concept of “product owner” where you are the representative of the “customer” to the development team. This is doubly true when the product manager is also the product owner in the scrum team. This is a mistake.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 1, 2020

The goal is to help product teams “rise above the day-to-day slog and truly think through what makes a successful Product and how to make it happen.”. Software as a Service has become the predominant business model for B2B software. Agile Leadership Summit. The 2020 edition is a virtual, one-day event. SaaStr Annual.

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