The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

A research conducted by Alpha UX found that 25% of Product Manager surveyed wished for a clearer product roadmap and strategy. While salary increase is a complex subject with variables outside of our control, I believe that having a clear product roadmap and strategy is every Product Manager’s responsibility. Research article.

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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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Userpilot

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Which product feedback software should you choose for your SaaS? The choice is tough because there’s no single tool that covers all use cases. In this round-up, I cover 21 of the best product feedback software solutions. Free trial?

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

It achieves this by using sprints to create product increments, collecting feedback from users and stakeholders, and adapting the product with the insights gained. [1] It achieves this by using sprints to create product increments, collecting feedback from users and stakeholders, and adapting the product with the insights gained. [1]

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Lenny Rachitsky

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Often, powerful technology is already available; the magic lies in how you interact with it. Look for unique applications of the tools you already have. Start with a working version of your product and use user feedback to iterate and improve. This allows them to move faster and iterate quickly, much like a startup.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 5, 2020

A platform owner who manages a platform as a collection of shared software assets. But you can think of the product owner as an agile product manager, as I explain in the article “ Product Manager vs. Product Owner ”. A platform owner owns such a platform. Pl atform Owner.

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UX Planet

JANUARY 22, 2025

Why a Brand Matters More Than Ever in the DigitalAge The accelerating shift to digital banking and Fintech solutions means customers interact with financial service providers through multiple digital channels-mobile apps, websites, smart watches, social networks, third-party services, voice assistants and more.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 8, 2024

To achieve this, perform a stakeholder analysis using a tool like the Power-Interest Grid shown in Figure 1. [2] The individuals whose buy-in to strategy and roadmap decisions is crucial are the players: They are interested in your product, as they, for example, will have to market and sell it.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 14, 2017

You can ask me to change the color somewhere or put a button on a screen, and I will probably do that, but I really like to get challenging problems where I can do my research build prototypes, do user tests, and come up with a solution that will raise our product to the next level. Designers can help product people a lot.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 25, 2022

No product tool or template can save you if you’re not killing it in these three areas. neither the product nor roadmap are ever static. That’s why we’ve listed 12 tools that the best product managers use to do their jobs better? and not the best product management tools. other than the objectives ?—?neither

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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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Melissa Perri

JULY 23, 2024

Some of these are Fortune 10 software-enabled companies going through digital transformations. Others are SaaS companies that are scaling or have scaled recently and want to ensure they are doing it in the best way. I review strategies and roadmaps. At all of them, I start understanding the current state of Product Management.

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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. What’s more, an agile, self-managing team is collectively responsible for their performance. It is hence in your best interest to help the team get back on track.

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 22, 2023

How product mangers can improve collaboration in cross-functional teams Today we are talking with Maziar Adl, the co-founder and CTO of Gocious, an organization that creates product roadmap management software. That’s when I realized there was a need for a tool that can bring cross-functional teams together. [6:52]

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Leadership or investors push for short-term wins that conflict with the roadmap. Customer feedback is overwhelming , making it hard to separate signal from noise. Shift from fixed yearly planning to rolling quarterly reviews to allow flexibility in roadmap decisions. Frame data as a supporting tool , not the sole decision-maker.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 18, 2024

SaaS tools are the industry's biggest open secret. Wondering what type of tools you should have in your stack? Then read on to discover the top 20 cloud-based apps that will help streamline different parts of your business. TL;DR SaaS tools are applications that users can access through an internet connection.

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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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The Product Coalition

MAY 9, 2021

When I talk about roadmaps with younger product leaders, I often hear things like “we don’t need one, we are agile” or “why build a roadmap when things will surely change”. The roadmap sets the strategic direction of the company, and when built right it also doesn’t have to change that frequently, despite your agility.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 28, 2023

The Software Development Life Cycle provides a practical framework you can apply to your product and improve your processes. You should be able to define the project scope and goals clearly by outlining the objectives, functionalities, and features of the software. It helps us meet customers’ demands, needs, and expectations.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 30, 2017

I had a strong roadmap, clear goals and a vision for the product. We were Agile, with daily standups, two week sprints and detailed estimations. When we were working on creating the edit permissions group for apps, we also decided to work on the internal permissions that will be used by the team that supports the Appstore.

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 6, 2020

What architecture patterns and technologies may be used? In order to answer the questions above, you may want to use techniques such as direct observation, user interviews, prototyping, creating a strategy canvas or E-R-R-C grid , and you may capture some of them using a tool like my product vision board. How can the product be built?

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Userpilot

JANUARY 7, 2020

Roadmapping is a crucial part of every product manager’s role, but it’s safe to say a lot of PMs don’t particularly enjoy it. Luckily, there are some excellent product roadmap tools out there to help make it more bearable. In this article, we’re going to look at the most popular product roadmap tools. Productboard.

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Userpilot

APRIL 24, 2025

Stripe: Product Manager, Local Payment Methods Cost Optimization Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. A product leader with 7+ years of experience in product management or a related field who has successfully built and scaled complex systems at a global level. Who would be the best fit for this job?

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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. Perhaps after twenty-one years it’s time to look back at what exactly spurred this obsession.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

The right data and experimentation tools. A well designed experimentation system allows a company to accelerate growth by creating faster feedback loops and enabling progressive delivery. A powerful experiment roadmap with a large idea backlog prioritized for value. The right data and experimentation tools.

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The Product Guy

DECEMBER 4, 2017

In the education-technology sector, there is one hard-set deadline. It was to create a new online education platform and then transition the newest versions of digital product offerings into that platform. I first heard of “The Chicken and the Pig” analogy the very first time I went to an Agile seminar.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

But the situation is different for product owners in the agile scaling framework SAFe. I have always regarded the Scrum product owner as an agile product manager, and I find it an unfortunate mistake that SAFe use the same name for its tactical product role. This has created more confusion and increased the misconceptions of the role.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 22, 2019

Deepa Subramanian (a graduate of Harvard Law School and a veteran of Salesforce) set out to improve businesses’ understanding of the customer voice by co-founding Wootric , a platform that offers a range of feedback collection and analysis tools to help teams gain deeper, more relevant insights into their users’ desires and complaints.

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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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Userpilot

AUGUST 6, 2024

This is where product lifecycle management software solutions come into play to align product management with company goals. But with so many PLM solutions available in the market, how do you choose the right one for your team? TL;DR PLM software helps you manage various stages of the product lifecycle.

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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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Userpilot

MAY 22, 2024

You can access this information through the right customer lifecycle management software. However, it’s not easy to pick a tool among the many suitable options in the market. To help you, we’ve listed the 10 best customer lifecycle management platforms in the market, including key features, user reviews, and pricing. ChurnZero.

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Scrum is a frequently used approach for software projects and many other types of projects that would benefit from agility, including physical products. Fred has been developing software in Silicon Valley for more than 35 years. By understanding their needs, I was able to craft solutions that fit their needs.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

In this blog post, we’re going to break down the pros and cons of using UserGuiding as an onboarding and engagement tool for SaaS and give you the best alternatives that may fit your specific needs and use cases. UserGuiding is a no-code tool for user onboarding. In-app messaging. Let's get started! User onboarding.

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Userpilot

JULY 29, 2021

Are you looking for customer engagement solutions that can give you an upper hand in creating stronger customer relationships? Let's look at 5 customer engagement solutions you can set up today and drive growth right off the bat. What is a customer engagement solution?

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Product Management Unpacked

MARCH 5, 2019

and it was clear the primary challenge on most product managers’ minds is setting roadmap priorities without real market feedback. Forty-nine percent ( 49%) of product managers said this is their biggest challenge, and when responses are added from enterprise software PMs, this figure jumps up to 62%. Methods and Tools.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 22, 2022

The CEO joining us is Matt Young, CEO of UserVoice, the first product feedback and research tool for software companies. UserVoice is the tool I see most frequently used for collecting customer feedback and prioritizing customer needs to help product managers create more valuable products.

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