Roman Pichler

MARCH 11, 2020

Leading a Large and Heterogeneous Group. The second challenge you face is leading can be comparatively large and heterogeneous group: Together, the development team and stakeholders are often more than nine people—the maximum number of individuals line managers are commonly recommended to lead. Limited Influence on Group Selection.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 14, 2021

In this episode of Inside Intercom, we caught up with Hubert for a chat about starting small, committing to a product strategy that helps you reach your long-term goals and making sure everyone’s on the same page. A segmentation matrix can help product teams be laser-focused on both the long-term vision and the day-to-day plan.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Introduction To discuss empowerment in product management, I find it helpful to distinguish three main levels of decision-making authority, product delivery, product discovery, and product strategy, as the model in Figure 1 shows. [1] I certainly don’t intend to make anyone feel bad.

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Userpilot

APRIL 30, 2024

Marty Cagan is the founder of the Silicon Valley Product Group (SVPG), a consultancy firm that helps companies build successful products. Beyond his corporate endeavors, Marty’s passion for nurturing talent and fostering innovation led him to found the Silicon Valley Product Group (SVPG) in 2002.

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Mind the Product

JULY 18, 2019

More and more organisations are switching to agile working, yet few business people have been trained in collaborative skills. It takes different perspectives and different kinds of people for a business to work, but you can’t just shove a group in a room and expect a successful collaboration. Enable Trust.

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Agile Velocity

MAY 20, 2020

The recent Harvard Business Review (HBR) article “ The Agile C-Suite ” 1 and Forbes article “Agile Isn’t New: What’s New Is The C-Suite Embracing It” have prompted some good discussion around the Agile Velocity virtual water cooler. . However, the case being made in this article is that “Agile is primarily for innovation”.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

Consequently, a Scrum product owner should own a product in its entirety—from the product vision to the product details. The individual should carry out product discovery and strategy work in addition to taking care of the product backlog work. But the situation is different for product owners in the agile scaling framework SAFe.

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Agile Velocity

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

When going through an Agile transformation, Agile teams often feel like they have a good handle on Agile and Scrum. But when asked about their progress toward the business outcomes their organization hopes to achieve by implementing Agile, their answer is not as confident. This is not unusual.

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 22, 2023

As the title of this episode conveys, our discussion will weave together topics for aligning customers’ needs and business strategy. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers [2:36] What problems have you ran into related to aligning business strategy and product work? Bottom up, there were also issues.

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UX Studio

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Working on a product without a decent product vision resembles going into the street with eyes closed. This article will show how a product vision should look, how to create it and communicate it to all stakeholders in play. What is Product Vision? Product vision imagines a product direction in the long-term. Motivation.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 5, 2022

For example, a product strategy workshop might have the objective to identify the key changes required to achieve product-market fit. As a rule of thumb, avoid meetings with more than ten attendees when you have to make high-impact decisions and/or rework the product strategy , product roadmap , or product backlog. 1 Set an Objective.

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Agile Velocity

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

When going through an Agile transformation, Agile teams often feel like they have a good handle on Agile and Scrum. But when asked about their progress toward the business outcomes their organization hopes to achieve by implementing Agile, their answer is not as confident. This is not unusual.

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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

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. Instead, we consider the idea of planning.”

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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. Agile is the most common development methodology, so PMs need to be well-versed in its principles. Conducting market research As a product manager, your job is to shape the product vision and strategy.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 29, 2023

A project manager is focused on the completion of a specific project, whereas product managers focus primarily on the long-term vision and evolving a product to deliver value over time. Product management is concentrated on creating value for users and managing the overall product strategy across the entire lifecycle.

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

Additional areas include: Background or knowledge in Agile methodology Business skills Data analysis Market research skills Problem-solving Product roadmap development Solid communication skills Strategic thinking To get you started, check out our PMHQ Technical Product Manager Courses. Defining product vision.

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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

JANUARY 8, 2019

A great way to answer this question is to create a Strategy Canvas, as I describe in my article “ Make Your Product Stand Out with the Strategy Canvas “ Additionally, give the development team members the opportunity to carry out some technology exploration to ensure that the redeveloped product will be built in the right way.

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ProductPlan

JULY 13, 2020

As organizations grow and expand, keeping stakeholders and employees on the same page to drive alignment with your product strategy can be a big challenge. That’s because growth often brings culture shifts, new offices in different locations, and new hires with the different product vision. 5 Strategies for Driving Alignment.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 8, 2019

In today’s article, we’ll discuss the agile roadmapping process. We’ll start by reviewing the objectives of roadmaps and planning for agile teams, then share some special considerations for agile roadmaps. From there, we’ll walk you through the agile roadmapping process step by step. Eisenhower.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

designing screens, writing code, running tests), product management is a broader concept that encompasses strategy , vision, and product-market fit. Product management team: Product managers set the vision, define a strategy, and build a roadmap that helps focus the team's efforts.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

Consequently, a Scrum product owner should own a product in its entirety—from the product vision to the product details. The individual should carry out product discovery and strategy work in addition to taking care of the product backlog work. But the situation is different for product owners in the agile scaling framework SAFe.

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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.” While it’s great to care about the team, facilitating effective collaboration within this group is not your responsibility.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Impact mapping is a collaborative strategic planning technique used by product managers, product owners , and senior technical leadership, who work mostly in Agile software delivery. Impact mapping allows businesses to make sure their product strategy is aligned with business goals and that all stakeholders are on the same page.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Held in the lovely Barbican Conservatory , this year’s #mtpcon London Product Leadership Forum brought together a group of senior product leaders for the type of conversations that can only happen behind closed doors. The Forgotten art of Product Strategy. Agile is not a Strategy. Visions are About the Future.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Mixing the words, key responsibilities across companies started to emerge: Define product vision and strategy. Therefore: Composition and structure would be how we group ourselves into squads, squads into clans, and clans into tribes, mimicking the Spotify model. Then, we broke them down into groups using a systemic approach.

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The Product Guy

MAY 15, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Dustin Levy, lead a conversation around “Product Strategies for Non-Strategists”. He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. Signup to be a Mentor Today! View the live stream….

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Mixpanel

MAY 20, 2020

Below, I’m sharing some guiding principles to help teams move away from a one-size-fits-all approach to product strategy. I’ve observed this first hand in many legacy companies that became completely stifled by a new product strategy that was perceived as a threat to the existing culture. They’re nimble.

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 9, 2018

I find it helpful to form a product discovery team that consists of: Development team members: user experience (UX) designer, developer, tester; Key stakeholders , for example, people from marketing, sales, and support; A ScrumMaster or agile coach. Focus on Problem Validation, not Solution Building. Do Just-Enough Product Discovery Work.

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Antwak Blog

APRIL 8, 2021

Product definition can become an isolated activity even for an agile environment that encourages collaboration. In the daily grind, with project groups engrossed in their specific tasks, the product owner endures the worst part of outlining the product vision. Talent should not be wasted. What Is Product Ideation?

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Mind the Product

MARCH 15, 2018

Summary: Build better product teams by hiring smart, diverse groups of people, getting out of the way, and focusing your teams on outcomes rather than outputs. A lot of people think that product managers need to be experts in technology, user experience and business strategy. It’s not About Products, it’s About People.

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

A product lead or the lead product manager is often an experienced senior professional who drives the product strategy, leading and supervising a product team. This role requires extensive experience in managing multiple agile product management teams. Their responsibilities can differ from company to company.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 15, 2020

represent speed and agility. Product strategy, discovery, and delivery: These are the three general dimensions for which product managers are responsible to optimize in a customer-centric organization. Product strategy exists outside the well defined guideposts of dual-track agile (a product discovery and delivery methodology).

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Ensure alignment between the product vision and product strategy on one hand, and the business objectives on the other. Develop a solid differentiation strategy and use a mix of differentiators to help your product stand out from competitors. develop product vision and strategy. develop product vision and strategy.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 1, 2020

I’ve grouped them into 5 broad categories, but as is often the caveat, they’re not mutually exclusive. Roman Pichler Roman has his own website which is well known within the product and agile development communities, but he still has a decent amount of content on Medium. That was a real milestone for Shari too, I’m sure.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 13, 2023

To avoid it, involve a diverse group of stakeholders, including customers, to ensure more objective and customer-centric prioritization. Alignment with product/business goals Using a feature prioritization matrix helps the team stay true to the product vision and strategy. Product vision. Feature request.

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