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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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 1, 2023

What Is Product Strategy Exactly? And Why It Matters Product strategy is a creative act, to “do something new,” approaching an opportunity from a different angle. — Self So what exactly is product strategy? Why is it important if I have a solid product management team?” I snapped out of la la land.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

This includes a sound understanding of the market, the user and customer needs, and the competition as well as solid product management skills such as the ability to develop an effective product strategy and an actionable product roadmap (as I explain in more detail in the article The T-Shaped Product Professional ).

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Sustainable pace is an important agile principle. The Agile Manifesto defines it in the following way: “The sponsors, developers, and users should be able to maintain a constant pace indefinitely.” Please refer to my article “ Scaling the Product Owner Role ” for more information on how to jointly manage a product.).

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Instead of preparing perfect presentations for the boardroom, successful product managers: 1. Incorporate diverse viewpoints into product strategy 4. As organizations grow, product management roles typically become more specialized and focused on smaller components of the overall product strategy.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

“Being Agile” and “being predictable” may seem mutually exclusive, at least when it comes to product management. Isn’t the whole point of Agile that we can continuously adjust, making on-the-fly tweaks to seize opportunities? In fact, Agile can help you be more predictable in some ways. Dates don’t matter.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 19, 2021

Process documentation and onboarding of new employees were challenges. Feelings of alienation and perceived lack of empathy from executives contributed to reduced productivity. In every study, we’ve found that strategy correlates with higher performance on product teams. Internet connectivity was a problem for many.

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

The roadmap guides and informs everyone involved with the product from ideation to market. Using Your Product Strategy and Product Vision to Plan Your Roadmap. Product strategies must be rooted in the overall vision of the company and product. Product storyline. 6 Roadmapping Best Practices.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 16, 2018

In this post, I’ll discuss the foundations of effective product experimentation, and how you can implement it into your business strategy today. Agile is an Essential Prerequisite. Make Experimentation Part of Your Product DNA. The post How do you Implement Effective Product Experimentation?

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Roman Pichler

JULY 11, 2016

You should therefore help the team acquire the relevant market and domain knowledge—for instance, by involving the team in research and validation work, inviting them to join you when you visit customers— and ensure that they are aware of the product strategy and product roadmap as well as the business goals and KPIs.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 25, 2022

Yes, they are ugly, but powerful in processing numbers and producing insights that support product decisions. The best product managers will use Google Sheets at least at some point in their planning stage. That not only saves a lot of time, it levels up your product strategy entirely. Check out their features.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 18, 2021

A step-by-step approach to developing a SaaS product Take the following steps to build a SaaS platform: 1. Decide on the SaaS model, product strategy, and the pricing strategy Formulate your strategy before undertaking software development. Decide on the core features to offer, and document the requirements.

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All About Product Management

MARCH 1, 2009

There are many good product management frameworks available - however, I thought I would create an agile product management framework that is broad enough to be applicable to any product management groups that is practising agile/scrum. 2) A roadmap is not a static document that stays at version 1.0

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 17, 2016

It is also a tool for showing the product strategy, the why behind what they’re building. A lot of companies feel that the product roadmap is simply the backlog, but that’s not the best way to communicate the strategy. A feature list isn’t a product roadmap. The product roadmap needs to tie back to the strategy.

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Melissa Perri

JANUARY 21, 2015

If you want to read the story behind the Lean Product Management Manifesto, you can find it here. Over the past few months I have been working with people in the Lean and Agile community to figure out how we can communicate the benefits of a Lean approach to Product Management. These principles should not be blindly followed.

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Arkenea

APRIL 10, 2025

Definition and Core Components Outsourced software product development refers to the practice of delegating all or part of the software development lifecycle to an external partner. This can include: Product strategy: Roadmap definition, market research, feature prioritization.

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Alchemer Mobile

AUGUST 2, 2018

Agile teams have a lot of moving parts, and it can be difficult to understand where product responsibilities fall across team members. And a mobile product manager or mobile product owner role can be difficult for only one person to take on. Owning, assigning, and clarifying technical product requirements.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 15, 2019

A great roadmap helps PM’s achieve the following: 1, It ensures the product team understand what they are working towards, by aligning the product to the company’s short term and long term goals. Image credit: ProductPlan Roadmapping sits in the Product Strategy phase of a Product Management It’s very different to a Product Backlog.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 28, 2022

As I see it today, there are three big wins you will get from communicating the product vision to your engineers: Your engineers will feel significantly more connected to the mission of the company/product. Document your product vision! Now that you have your vision documented, you want to start sharing it with your team.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Background working with annotated data and/or leveraging generative AI in products is a plus. Prior experience in SDLC project management and analysis, including scoping/timeline management, documenting use cases, process flows/swim lane diagrams, requirements, user acceptance testing, change management, etc.

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The Basics of Product Management

JULY 17, 2020

Choosing the right product strategy framework is very important for every product manager. Remember, choosing the right product strategy will go a long way in making sure that the entire product life cycle proceeds flawlessly. Product Strategy Frameworks. Each strategy has its pros and cons.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 1, 2020

What Is a Product Owner, Anyway? Part of the confusion is that the product owner role is relatively new. It originated as part of the Scrum agile framework in software development, which has been around only a couple of decades. But many of these businesses had different ideas of what their product owners should be doing.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 8, 2019

But in the context of planning, agile software development practitioners are wise to take Eisenhower’s words to heart. “In Eisenhower Why agile teams need a product roadmap There are many discussions out there on both the importance of, and lack of importance of agile product roadmaps.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 24, 2021

The importance of building products that customers valued and the limited amount of finances forced startups to take a different approach when building their products. New movements such as agile engineering and lean product management became the core philosophy of lots of successful startups around that time.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 17, 2024

How World-Class Product Teams Are Winning in the AI Era In his eye-opening session , Carlos explores how top-tier product teams from various industries are mastering digital transformations and leveraging AI for success. Importance of clear product strategy in the age of AI. The evolving role of product teams.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

I find that every business requires at least these 8 product/market fit hypotheses that make up their product strategy, but your specific business may have more: Target audience Problem you're solving Value propositions Strategic differentiation Competition Acquisition strategy Monetization strategy Key performance indicators (KPIs).

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Let’s tackle this, because it’s not the first time I’ve heard that product outcome roadmaps are “useless.”. Product management is about the alignment of teams – from product strategy to company outcomes and objectives. Measurable outcomes in product roadmaps help you understand progress and continuously learn.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 6, 2019

We’ve taken all these findings onboard and put together this comprehensive product strategy checklist for you to follow. Simply follow the below steps and tick them off in turn to deliver the best mobile app product you can. Could your development team support an agile development strategy over waterfall ?

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Product roadmaps are overloaded with significance and are a source of uncertainty among product managers. Your roadmap is driven by a set of hypotheses for improving the value of our product: we believe that [ this action for these people with this investment ]. will achieve [ this outcome ].

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 7, 2020

My Journey Transitioning from Engineering to Product Management. Then, I started gravitating towards product strategy questions, like, “Why am I building products?, I worked with the product leadership to plan out a product strategy. 4 Key Differences in Skills Engineer to Product Manager.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Every software team out there uses some sort of planning system or tool to do product roadmaps and sprint plans, and yet many are unhappy with the tools, or frustrated at the lack of getting things done, or getting “pointless” things done, and the list goes on. We put all of this in some document or a tool.

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Modus Create

MAY 8, 2025

The rise of intelligent product development powered by AI and now agentic workflowscalls for a new kind of operating model: one that is agile, continuous, insight-driven, and AI-augmented. What is intelligent product development? Is your product operating model ready for AI? You can test hypotheses with synthetic data.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 28, 2020

Product Analytics: Mixpanel event listing and analysis of product usage Google Analytics (GA) strategy for sales conversions Full Story/Heap/Segment.com session analysis to measure user behavior AB Testing and UX Enhancements based on data Product/UX Health Dashboards ( read about this here ) 4. User Retention c.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Leading a product team is dynamic. There are usually a few teams that are responsible for the successful execution of product strategy (e.g. If there is no transparency over the whole production process, effective collaboration is difficult. Last but not least, a lack of transparency harms the way a team collaborates.

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Amplitude

JANUARY 23, 2018

They go beyond vanity metrics and have product analytics solutions that allow them to dive deep into their data to understand their customer’s journey. On testing and refining… Bad product teams lack a product strategy, or if they have one that strategy is not clearly delivered throughout their organization.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Product management is evolving quickly. The days of gathering requirements from business stakeholders and documenting them in long product requirements documents are vanishing. Instead, product teams are experimenting their way to viable solutions. into context and help product teams know what to use when.

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Userpilot

JULY 16, 2024

On the other hand, a technical product manager brings in-depth technical knowledge to guide the development process , often working closely with engineering and design teams. Technical product manager responsibilities include: Conduct user and market research to understand user pain points. Product roadmap example.

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