Roman Pichler

MAY 4, 2022

Scrum is a popular agile framework. Forming such a team connects the person in charge of the product—the product owner—with the people who design, architect, program, test, and document the solution—the developers. I believe that the first definition is more helpful, especially in an agile context.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 21, 2021

That team’s collective work is often represented, at a high level, as features on the product roadmap. The Role Roadmaps Play in Managing Product Design. The roadmap can be a powerful tool in coordinating these efforts, including the product design team members. Avoid the Temptation for a UX Roadmap.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Soft skills, like communication or leadership , are more general and can be used in different contexts. Agile is the most common development methodology, so PMs need to be well-versed in its principles. As roadmapping is a key part of the job, good PMs are competent users of product management applications that streamline the process.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 19, 2017

Challenging situations are great opportunities to grow as a human being and by doing so, you increase your leadership power. You may want to combine reviewing the market development together with the product performance in form of regular strategy and roadmap review meetings (as I discuss in more detail in my book Strategize ).

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ProductPlan

JULY 30, 2021

Before hiring a product leader, you need to ensure that you understand the most essential product leadership interview questions that can help better inform your hiring decision. . 6 Product Leadership Interview Questions to Ask. Product leadership is about more than bossing around your direct reports.

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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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Bain Public

JUNE 19, 2019

(Montreal, Canada) - Paul Ortchanian, Founder, CEO, Head of Product, Data and Strategy of Bain Public, will be giving a 120 minute workshop at Agile Testing Days in Potsdam, Germany. Agile Testing Days is an annual European conference for and by international professionals involved in the agile world.

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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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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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ProductPlan

MARCH 13, 2024

I am deeply familiar with their common refrains of endless roadmap review meetings, repetitive PowerPoint presentations, and the strain of constant context shifting. I came out of Developer Week with three key takeaways about how we can work together in their quests to design, build, test, and ultimately ship great products.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 8, 2024

Think of digital transformation strategies as your roadmap to success in the digital age. Agility and adaptability are paramount The business landscape is constantly evolving, and trends can shift rapidly. Create a detailed roadmap with defined phases, timelines, resource allocation, and budget estimates.

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The Basics of Product Management

JUNE 21, 2020

These two questions form the basis of any good product roadmap. Learn how to create the best product roadmap. Learning how to build a product roadmap is a key requirement to break into product management. The ability to prepare a great roadmap is one of the must have skills for any Product Manager. Roadmap Guidelines.

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Split

MARCH 20, 2024

By optimizing release management flows, teams can facilitate on-demand deployments that enhance business agility without compromising stability. This spans planning, development, testing, approval, deployment, release, and post-implementation support. Effective release management is pivotal for agile software development.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 29, 2023

The product management process starts with building an understanding of your users and the market, defining a vision and strategy , generating and prioritizing ideas that could solve user problems, articulating them in a clear roadmap, launching an MVP, and then gathering feedback to evolve it over time. Drives product success.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 1, 2018

When we compare today’s agile product management in practice with what we have seen some 10 years ago, not much has changed: Agility is still mainly limited to UX labs and A/B testing, and misses the potential value that could be found between the initial idea and a working product. The post Lost in the Agile Jungle?

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2017

Holding regular Agile retrospectives can be very useful in this regard and allow a safer communication to happen within the team. This can be done for example by involving the developers and product owners in the user research, the wireframes assessment and the usability testing sessions. Resource management. Stakeholder engagement.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 21, 2021

That team’s collective work is often represented, at a high level, as features on the product roadmap. The Role Roadmaps Play in Managing Product Design. The roadmap can be a powerful tool in coordinating these efforts, including the product design team members. Avoid the Temptation for a UX Roadmap.

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Agile Velocity

JUNE 6, 2018

Agile Roles are well defined in any foundational training for Scrum or Kanban. At Keep Austin Agile 2018, I presented a talk called “So You Made Your Project Managers into ScrumMasters: Roles Transitions When Becoming Agile”. Learn Agile. Servant leadership/Facilitation/Coaching. Manage expectations to leadership.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 23, 2022

design, development, testing, budgeting…but you dutifully nod your head, and get to work. Jeff Patton’s book, User Story Mapping , describes the concept/process of creating user story maps much better than I can, and this book really is a must read for any agile product manager. You start to sweat. Your customers will love you.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 21, 2021

That team’s collective work is often represented, at a high level, as features on the product roadmap. The Role Roadmaps Play in Managing Product Design. The roadmap can be a powerful tool in coordinating these efforts, including the product design team members. Avoid the Temptation for a UX Roadmap.

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UX Planet

DECEMBER 15, 2023

It encompasses the quality and consistency of research and design processes, resources, tools, and operations, as well as the organization’s propensity to support and strengthen UX now and in the future, through its leadership, workforce, and culture. Have you prioritized the design problems to be solved in your product roadmap?

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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 maps make roadmap management and prioritization easier. What is impact mapping in agile? Roadmap management. Ready to dive in?

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Valerian Tech

MAY 4, 2023

For legacy businesses, DevOps can also help modernize their technology stack and improve their agility in response to changing market conditions, allowing them to remain competitive in the digital age. Finally, a Fractional CTO can help legacy businesses develop a roadmap for DevOps adoption.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

It enables a diverse set of ideas from across the organization to be tested systematically and learnings to be internalized by everyone. A powerful experiment roadmap with a large idea backlog prioritized for value. A powerful experiment roadmap with a large idea backlog prioritized for value. Test everything!

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Said another way, this week’s new “must do” items look like a year’s worth of additions to the roadmap.  ” “Roadmap items X and Y specifically benefit your functional group, and were the ones that your directors prioritized as their top two.  roadmap updates from Product. 

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

As a product leader, you are the product manager for a leadership team, and the tricks you learned in product teams remain valuable, they just need a little tweak. Working with agility requires a continual cycle of collaboration, delivery, reflection, and improvement. Value Proposition. This was daunting at first. Product Lifecycle.

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Amplitude

MARCH 11, 2020

Roadmapping is at the core of product strategy and product management. Output-focused product roadmaps provide a false sense of certainty, all while limiting product work to a few big bets, which may or may not pan out. We broke into pairs and then each pair developed a feature roadmap along a particular area of focus.

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 4, 2020

In the world of Agile, every sprint has goals. In an Agile setting, implementation teams will catch on pretty quickly that they’ll get better marks if they decrease the scope of each sprint. Leadership should also evaluate the accuracy of the level of effort estimations, the sprint scoping process, and product management expectations.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 13, 2023

Next, put them on the roadmap , considering feature interdependencies and timelines. Not involving stakeholders in the process When prioritizing features, you should involve all the key stakeholders, like the senior leadership or the development team. Start with techniques that don’t require many resources, like a fake door test.

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Bain Public

MARCH 20, 2021

He held leadership roles at Bay Area startups and high growth organizations like WatchMojo -- helping establish product functions, as well as large strategic consulting companies such as Edelman where he organized product-led initiatives across national/regional offices. Interested in having me speak or attend an event?

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Userpilot

JULY 13, 2022

The Reforge blog helps product managers with topics like analytics , team management and development, product leadership , or product strategy. The Product Board blog deals not only with roadmaps but also other aspects of product management like product-led growth. Lokalize blog which focuses on… localization. Product Collective.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 8, 2021

The real test is how much they’re willing to pay for it, which truly shows how much they value the solution. Roadmapping—Include components of the meaning and value you’re creating, as well as why it’s the right thing to do. It’s also crucial to ensure the roadmap presents the right amount of information for the specific audience.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Between commercial, product, and engineering leadership, a potential anecdote to rebuild trust and transparency can be instituting a simple, scheduled Product Steering process. To rollout a Product Steering process, the leadership team collectively needs to follow these short steps: Steps to Sustainable Product Steering: 1.

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Centercode

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The Waterfall methodology was king; agile development wouldn’t be a gleam in the eye for another decade. And nestled in the center of all this was beta testing, a practice (usually without standardized processes) that loosely applied to any sort of pre-launch product testing. Then along came Agile. Still a pre-teen.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 13, 2018

I’ve been thinking more about possible measurements in an agile transformation journey. This post will focus on measurements you might see when the culture changes with an agile transformation. Without knowing why you want to use agile approaches throughout the organization, you can’t generate reasonable measurements.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 2, 2018

Waterfall vs Agile. Roadmaps with dates vs Roadmaps with no dates. Usability testing vs A/B testing. So even the age old (at least in internet time) debate on agile vs waterfall often misses the point. And I’m not even talking about politics. Qualitative research vs Quantitative data. Remote vs Colocated.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

They create new recipes based on customer feedback, past experiences, and iterative testing. Embrace minimum viable mindset (MVP, MVM) Agile is the name of the game in today’s world. For a product marketer, being agile doesn’t look much different. How does this feature’s RICE score compare with other items on the roadmap?

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