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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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Before I discuss how you can help an underachieving team, let’s briefly explore what good performance looks like, assuming that an agile, Scrum-based process is used. As the person in charge of the product, you depend on the work of the development team and you are, of course, affected by poor performance.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 27, 2022

What is iterative testing? How can it help product managers build products that drive value for their customers? Iterative testing involves running repeated experiments on your product features to evaluate their effectiveness and identify improvement opportunities. Iterative testing enables evidence-based incremental innovation.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 6, 2023

What you build is your product’s future, and following Product Development Stages is essential to create a customer-centered product, and also following these stages will help you create better, effective teamwork. How you develop, launch, and improve a product determines your success in the market. Make it real. Make it real.

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Alchemer Mobile

MAY 7, 2020

I’m going to take a wild guess and assume that you already understand the importance of mobile in-app feedback. You might already have a Voice of the Customer (VoC) program in place that you’re looking to improve, or perhaps you’re just trying to get started. Now, more than ever, your customers want to be heard.

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Alchemer Mobile

JUNE 4, 2019

If you’ve landed on this article, you most likely already understand the immense value of capturing in-app customer feedback. The real challenge comes when you’re deciding how you actually want to execute on this concept and actually begin gathering mobile feedback in your own app. Apptimize specializes in A/B testing.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Agile just turned twenty-one, but don’t put away that fake ID yet. This software development methodology is still in its infancy when it comes to our understanding of which teams should be embracing it and which should be shunning it. Where does this groundbreaking methodology fit in an ever-evolving business environment?

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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. Level three, finally, allows product people and teams to develop the product strategy including the value proposition and business goals. It’s the first step to bring about positive change.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 29, 2023

In this article, we’re going to unpack what is product management , how it differs from traditional project management, the role it plays in building products that delight your users, and the skills a good product manager must demonstrate to succeed. Let’s go! Product teams are staffed with various skilled professionals.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Product roadmaps is one of the subjects I am probably the most passionate about in the product world. While browsing one of the online communities I am part of, someone commented that outcome-based roadmaps were just ‘regular roadmaps’ anyway, and that: “… Any product manager that knows what they’re doing doesn’t need outcome-based roadmaps.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

But the value a product creates is ultimately determined by its users: No product will be successful in the long run if it does not solve a specific user problem, create a tangible benefit, or help the users achieve a specific goal. But the situation is different for product owners in the agile scaling framework SAFe.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 10, 2022

The Minimum Viable Product allows you to collect user feedback at the early stages of development and facilitates validated learning. MVP is a great risk reduction tool: it allows products or features to fail fast without investing in their development. An MVP is an essential part of the Agile product development process.

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Userpilot

APRIL 30, 2024

Throughout his rich career, Marty has worn numerous hats within modern software product organizations, transitioning between roles involving product management, software development, product marketing , user experience design, and general management, among others. Let’s look at each of his books in detail.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Imagine a tool that not only automates tasks but also learns, adapts, and innovates — genAI development company, a technology that is already capturing significant attention. GenAI can fundamentally transform how businesses operate, fostering agility, efficiency, and innovation. What sets GenAI apart are its real-world applications.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 8, 2024

Think of digital transformation strategies as your roadmap to success in the digital age. They involve integrating digital technologies and processes into every aspect of your business, from operations to customer interactions. Failure to meet these expectations can lead to customer churn and missed opportunities.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 13, 2022

In Part 1 , I said that customers need a different kind of roadmap than teams do. But, depending on where your product is in the market, your customers might want or need different information. One thing to remember: you might not need a customer-facing roadmap at all if you release often enough. Let's start there.

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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. Third, they can be tested.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Ian Moulton, lead a conversation around “Conducting User Research”. He translates complex business problems into solutions that are easily consumed by engineering, marketing and sales. Signup to be a Mentor Today! View the live stream….

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 5, 2020

It’s Product Roadmap Building Time Again! The end of 2020 is nearing and it’s product roadmap building time again?—?at To make that process as worthwhile as possible, adhering to the following seven product roadmap first principles has proven beneficial in my experience.

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Agile Velocity

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

As the pace of change continues to accelerate, embracing agility – the ability to turn on a dime for a dime – has become a key to ongoing success for many organizations. However, when companies launch Agile Transformations in hybrid environments, it can introduce a new set of challenges. All fit our definition of hybrid.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Product planning is the iterative process that prepares every stage of the product development life cycle, from the initial idea through launch and further development. Product planning focuses on the customer and business outcomes that the product should achieve. Keep track of the product-market fit and iterate to maintain it.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 13, 2023

How to develop your own prioritization matrix. TL;DR A feature prioritization matrix helps product teams decide which features to develop next, focusing on high-impact features and resource optimization. Customer requests aren’t enough to make product decisions. Prioritization mistakes to avoid.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Extensive market research is essential to assess the competitive landscape, identify opportunities, and shape the product vision. Product management involves analyzing user experience , so a product manager needs to be able to use a range of techniques to do it effectively. They enable PMs to apply their hard skills effectively.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 6, 2022

The majority of such apps have undergone iterative and incremental development to enhance and improve their features. Most of our readers would have heard of Agile product management. It is a methodology that is followed by a majority of software development companies today. But it is not the only game in town.

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Product Management University

AUGUST 15, 2023

Product releases are still the execution phase but everything works better when priorities across all products are synchronized to target customer needs in the company’s highest priority markets. Your customers across all market segments do the same things the same way 80% of the time and 20% different. Let’s apply the 80/20 rule.

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Split

MAY 15, 2024

While the terms “deploy” and “release” may seem similar, they represent different processes that play crucial roles in the software development lifecycle. Understanding their nuances is essential for streamlining operations and delivering high-quality software to end-users.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 27, 2019

When you’re continually shipping code, how do you plan, build, and communicate your roadmap? In this post we’ll outline the basics of continuous delivery, what it means to you as a product manager, and how to adapt your roadmapping process to best work in a continuous delivery environment. Continuous Delivery 101.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 19, 2021

So when does it make sense to customize your agile approach to gain a strategic advantage? Their customers are the users. (No No one buys on behalf of the users.). They want an agile approach, so they started with Scrum. As part of the product development, they spin off security and performance teams.

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Userpilot

JULY 5, 2022

Small but regular improvements are a more reliable way to achieve product-market fit. Incremental innovation gives you time to listen to user feedback. 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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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Managers and product managers are often frustrated by the apparent lack of care the development team is showing for the needs of the business. It’s tempting to think that the developers?—?engineers, Departmental goals and incentives further push developers towards building robust, scalable, elegant software. Development ?

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

It’s obvious that these tools were developed with little or no customer participation. the product/market fit. Customers didn’t understand the app’s value, and sales were low. In this situation, it doesn’t matter who creates the product, whether it’s two fellow developers or a corporation giant like Google?—?or

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 27, 2020

TL; DR: The Cargo Cult Agile Checklist for Download You want to know the state of agility in your organization? It will only take 5 minutes of their time–and then analyze their feedback. If the average number of checkboxes marked is higher than nine, then you are probably practicing cargo cult agile in one form or another.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 21, 2021

In modern software development, product designers tend to be embedded on a cross-functional squad or scrum team. That team’s collective work is often represented, at a high level, as features on the product roadmap. The work of a product designer, however, is distinct from their developer counterparts.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 1, 2021

Check out these Product Companies and their Public Roadmaps Photo by Tim Mossholder from Pexels Are you considering making your roadmap public? Or perhaps you constantly have customers asking about what’s coming up, where things are on the roadmap, etc. An avenue to communicate with the market and your users.

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Modus Create

JULY 21, 2020

Agile at Scale, or Scaled Agile, is all the rage! When and who should implement Scaled Agile? Scaled Agile is a way for organizations with many teams to plan, coordinate, and track work on large initiatives. In this blog post, we’ll review why, when, and how organizations should consider adopting Scaled Agile.

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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. How do you plan to set aside a budget to enhance product performance and user satisfaction? A UX audit is an expert assessment of your product’s usability and user experience.

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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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