Roman Pichler

JULY 20, 2016

Whenever you are faced with an agile, dynamic environment—be it that your product is young and is experiencing significant change or that the market is dynamic with new competitors or technologies introducing change, you should work with a goal-oriented product roadmap, sometimes also referred to as theme-based. 1 Focus on Goals and Benefits.

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Amplitude

JANUARY 23, 2018

As VP of Product at Amplitude, I get the opportunity to work with hundreds of different products teams every year?—?ranging So in the mode of Ben Horowitz’s classic essay Good PM/Bad PM , I’ve captured my thoughts on what I believe makes a good product team vs a bad product team. PM, Design and Engineering?—?are

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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? It’s a lot about how you frame it. This post is about just that? This post is about just that?—?determining

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Roman Pichler

JULY 11, 2016

Manage the Product, not the Team. Focus on your job as the product manager or product owner, and manage the product, not the team. Treat the Team as an Equal Partner. Treat others how you want to be treated. The team members are not your resources but the people who create your product. Remember the Golden Rule?

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 5, 2020

This series is about helping a team create a less brittle environment—more resilience. Brief description of the problem at a recent client: Person A checked in code that broke an “unrelated” part of the system. I'll call this checking in code in Email that broke Search. (Yes, Neither did the team.

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Modus Create

JUNE 18, 2019

When I first attended Scrummaster training, I went in wide-eyed and excited to learn all of the secrets behind this amazing “new” agile project-management strategy called Scrum. But my employer had just paid for me to go through the training, and I was expected to help improve their development processes.

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Ask Benny

JANUARY 25, 2020

Too many times people confuse agile and scrum. Agile is a concept with principles that helps us develop software better, validate it as soon as we can, and bring value to our customers faster. Scrum is a valid and very popular framework for agile development. Agile is just a means to an end.

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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. THE CAUSE.

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Modus Create

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Before automating your next test case, step back and estimate how often you will run this test. Another thing that is very important in Agile development practices is exploratory testing. You should run automated tests all the time or as many times the team deems necessary. When Do I Need to Run My Automated Tests?

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Ask Benny

JANUARY 25, 2020

Too many times people confuse agile and scrum. Agile is a concept with principles that helps us develop software better, validate it as soon as we can, and bring value to our customers faster. Scrum is a valid and very popular framework for agile development. The Agile Manifesto. The Ceremony Pitfall.

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Ask Benny

JANUARY 25, 2020

Too many times people confuse agile and scrum. Agile is a concept with principles that helps us develop software better, validate it as soon as we can, and bring value to our customers faster. Scrum is a valid and very popular framework for agile development. The Agile Manifesto. Working software.

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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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Modus Create

JUNE 1, 2020

The news is filled with tales of hackers breaking into financial institutions, DDoS attacks on credit card companies, and data breaches due to poor software configuration. We’ll now go through each of these stages and explain how they work. Phase 1: Due Diligence and Discovery. Who are the actors?

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

An essential role of CPOs and other product leaders that’s never listed in the job description is giving organizational 'air cover' to product managers to postpone almost all new requests — so that their teams can finish work already underway.    “ How hard could it be?    Now.

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Ask Benny

JUNE 1, 2019

Too many times people confuse agile and scrum. Agile is a concept with principles that helps us develop software better, validate it as soon as we can, and bring value to our customers faster. Scrum is a valid and very popular framework for agile development. The Agile Manifesto. The Ceremony Pitfall.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

” But do not allow people to dominate and tell you what to do, and don’t agree to a weak compromise. But the situation is different for product owners in the agile scaling framework SAFe. The SAFe product owner is tactical in nature and focuses on working on the product backlog and guiding the development teams.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 17, 2019

For many years CSSSR has been developing IT systems for the biggest online banks, witnessing their success firsthand. This experience has led to several key insights: You Don’t Need a Large IT Department “We operate in small teams. To begin with, the development of new functionality requires considerable resources, including people.

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 23, 2020

Your team says they use Scrum in two-week iterations. And, in order to “finish” everything inside the timebox, you don't do any of these things: Refactor to simplify the code or the tests. Clare was convinced her team didn't estimate well. Here's how Clare's team worked: Every person started their own story.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 15, 2019

I never had to deal with developers on a day to day basis?—?the However, I was thrown into the deep end again when I left the comfort of marketing and joined the tech team at Hotelclub where I managed a team of developers. I had no idea what I was doing and how I could lead a dev team. As a tip?—?always

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Three years later I became a web application engineer at a startup that built software for military and private industries. I became director of communications, leading the development of intranets and web applications. Designers vs Developers The work culture in this large organization was unlike anything I’d ever experienced.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 1, 2019

Too many times people confuse agile and scrum. Agile is a concept with principles that helps us develop software better, validate it as soon as we can, and bring value to our customers faster. Scrum is a valid and very popular framework for agile development. Agile is just a means to an end.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Which levers does your team need to manage risk in your project? And, teams can combine any of these options in their own iterative and incremental lifecycle. Isn't every iterative and incremental approach an agile approach? We often hear agile approaches are a mindset. You might not have the time.

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The Secret PM Handbook

AUGUST 4, 2017

From rules of thumb about the characteristics of good market problems to solve, to a series on how to be “badass” at finding market problems: How To Find And Validate A Market Problem. How Badass Are You At Finding And Validating Market Problems? How to Prioritize: Top 6 Techniques. The Challenge of Roadmaps.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Alternatives like Userpilot or other agile digital adoption platforms come with the necessary elements needed to create a contextual, personalized user experience. UserGuiding is a no-code tool for user onboarding. That said, it's not that agile digital adoption platform as one might expect. UserGuiding reviews.

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The Secret PM Handbook

AUGUST 4, 2017

From rules of thumb about the characteristics of good market problems to solve, to a series on how to be “badass” at finding market problems: How To Find And Validate A Market Problem. How Badass Are You At Finding And Validating Market Problems? How to Prioritize: Top 6 Techniques. The Challenge of Roadmaps.

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The Secret PM Handbook

AUGUST 4, 2017

From rules of thumb about the characteristics of good market problems to solve, to a series on how to be “badass” at finding market problems: How To Find And Validate A Market Problem. How Badass Are You At Finding And Validating Market Problems? How to Prioritize: Top 6 Techniques. The Challenge of Roadmaps.

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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-Led Onboarding by Ramli John and Wes Bush is a new book about how to implement user onboarding for the ultimate customer retention. Plot summary.

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Mind the Product

MAY 30, 2019

When you design and build a product, it is important that you regularly demo completed work with the team and key stakeholders. In Agile software development, so-called sprint demos are a key part of every iteration, but whatever product you’re building, be it an app, a website (or even a physical product), demos can be incredibly valuable.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 24, 2022

Every other day I seem to come across several new articles describing how to pass the infamous product manager interview. Cold email your users to set up interviews, review survey data, listen in on sales calls, do product demos. You don’t like managing a lot of stakeholders This one is pretty straightforward.

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Modus Create

APRIL 5, 2021

Joining the Modus Create Team. As an aspiring business leader and entrepreneur, I believe that not having a fundamental understanding of software development and data analysis weakens executive decisions that accordingly diminish long-term value creation. rating from 63 reviews on the App Store with over 500 users.

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The Product HQ

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

They work with leaders and their own teams across organizations. If defining project scopes, reviewing solutions, and generating reports interest you, this is the perfect career. As a technical program manager, you communicate with product managers, leadership teams, and external vendors.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 2, 2022

We cover the basics of the behavioral interview including sample questions, what to say to make your answer sound great, and how to practice for the interview before your big day. What is the Google Behavioral Interview—How Does it Work? " At Google, you'll typically be working in cross-functional teams.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 17, 2023

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. Take a hard look at how you do your business case in light of increasing uncertainties and build that in somehow. How do you estimate likelihoods?

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Three years later I became a web application engineer at a startup that built software for military and private industries. I became director of communications, leading the development of intranets and web applications. Designers vs Developers. Tension between designers and developers was palpable.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 4, 2019

It’s the end of the Sprint and your team has just finished the Sprint Review. There was not as much to demonstrate to the business as the team had promised and the stakeholders that you invited are underwhelmed with the progress that has been made in the cycle. Picture: A genuine retrospective being held somewhere right now.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 11, 2019

While this can occasionally be blamed on poor execution, it is often simply a result of poor goal setting. But why do product teams have such a hard time creating the right goals to achieve our objectives? No matter how smart you are, how much experience you have, and how much subject matter expertise your team possesses.

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Modus Create

JANUARY 12, 2021

So let’s dive into some old and new methodologies that companies use to implement, develop and balance the three pillars. I’ll review four methodologies: waterfall, Lean, design, and Agile. The outcome of a project is well defined, so there are few surprises in what the team delivers.

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