Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

This individual leads the product team, not by being the boss but by exercising emergent leadership. For example, the marketer must be able to create the right marketing strategy for the product. Last but not least, the product team should include a coach who might be an experienced Scrum Master , agile coach, or product coach.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 8, 2018

Three Types of Leadership. Each role provides a distinct type of leadership. The cross-functional development team makes the design and technology decisions; and the Scrum Master guides process and organisational change, as the following picture shows. Lead the Product. This risks no longer seeing the wood for the trees.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 14, 2023

He is convinced that product is the single most important success driver for tech companies, which is why he founded Prodify to share what he learned from being an advisor to over 50 tech companies to realize their full potential. Ben has led successful technology products for the last 25 years. He

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

For instance, think of the tech giant, Microsoft. A few years ago, the company faced significant challenges due to role overlap. Technological evolution: New tools and systems can create confusion about responsibilities, especially when there’s an overlap of functions. Role dysfunction isn’t just a sophisticated term.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Building effective teams with people from different disciplines can be challenging due to various circumstances. Let’s explore strategies for how we can tackle these challenges. In the product management discipline, cross-functional collaboration is more than a buzzword — it’s a critical strategy.

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Agile Velocity

MAY 14, 2020

Did you know you can maximize your chances of achieving desired business outcomes by combining DevOps with an Agile transformation? When you hear “Business Outcomes,” “DevOps,” and/or Agile transformation” – what comes to mind? They are key inputs for your business and technology discussions around WHAT to work on.

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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. I once witnessed a sprint review meeting degenerate into a shouting match.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 17, 2020

TL; DR: Remote Agile Transitions We are used to saying the Scrum is a perfect probe for organizations, as it will reliably discover all dysfunctionalities. Since the pandemic has forced many of us to work remotely, this unique capability has been kicked into overdrive regarding remote agile transitions. What are we fighting for?—?is

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Sticking to inflexible annual planning cycles can introduce significant challenges in the era of rapid technological advancements. The static nature of traditional product planning cycles fails to consider quickly-improving technologies and unforeseen changes in the market. Firstly, you want to review your product vision.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Guest post by Angus McDonald, Senior Product Manager at Terem Technologies, and Kayla Li, Delivery Manager at Terem Technologies Word from Scott: Over the years we’ve helped many different teams uplift in different ways. David Marquet’s book ‘ Leadership is Language ‘ is a great source of ideas for helping promote the right mindsets.

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Product Management Unpacked

MAY 27, 2021

I had a strong tech background, so I wanted to dive into the business and design side of product management and hone my leadership skills. I was trying to find a more strategic experience, something beyond traditional tech. Much of this project was an open question: ‘How do you go beyond product strategy to business strategy?’

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 3, 2021

And so, now’s the time to start thinking about accelerating our business strategies and grabbing the opportunities it brings. Now that the worst seems to be over, what exactly should your strategy look like? There’s no use in taking a few months to build an epic 40-page report on the next move when the idea is to be fast and agile.

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Modus Create

JUNE 23, 2021

There are two ways to talk about transformational leadership. . We can dive deep into the academic theory created by Bruce Avolio and Bernard Bass in 1991 and understand how it fits into the broader Full Range Leadership Model. . But first, let’s define transformational leadership. . What is Transformational Leadership?

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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. Effective release management is pivotal for agile software development. This inertia stems from misaligned stakeholders and lack of visibility into release interdependencies.

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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. Product teams are responsible for creating a strategy and explaining the “why” behind the product. Learning to pivot is not just a skill but a survival necessity.

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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. . Balancing the Agile Enterprise . that allow us to respond to change.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

So, we decided to host a webinar with three customer support experts and ask them what the biggest trends in customer support are and how they plan to tackle them – from budget cuts to increasingly disconnected tech stacks to employee burnout and turnover. Liam Geraghty: The second trend is that agility is no longer optional.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

TL;DR Hard skills, like technical knowledge, are job-specific and enable product managers to perform their core responsibilities. 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.

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TIBCO - Thought Leadership

APRIL 9, 2019

With the dramatic rise in the importance of AI and automation, digital business leaders are faced with a daunting challenge: they need to simultaneously become more insight-driven, more automated, and more agile. Innovative technology is the solution. It all boils down to agility. How can organizations find the right balance?

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

How did Amazon’s product strategy fare during the pandemic? Short answer: Amazon’s product strategy example lead the way). Amazon’s product strategy example has rewritten the book on convenience, easy access, and speed, and in doing so, embedded itself in the daily lives and routines of consumers. Britannica.com ).

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People-First Product Leadership

JULY 17, 2023

“To get better at [leadership and] management you have to get better at understanding people” The article highlights five lessons from the author’s own experience, and guidance of mentors, which helped him to develop as a leader and manager. Similar to tech debt, there will be undesired consequences later on.

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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. Additionally, keep an eye on market developments, new trends and technologies, and the competition. Ask your ScrumMaster or agile coach to help you with this. Trust me.”. Strengthen Your Expertise.

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Centercode

APRIL 2, 2019

Test strategy is critical to the success of any testing effort – but where do you start? How does your strategy conform to different development methodologies? In our interview with Adam Satterfield , director of Testing and Quality at Anthem, we dive deeper into these questions and the importance of test strategy on the whole.

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 22, 2023

Then when I heard his backstory in technology leadership roles at Xerox and Experian and the challenges he encountered with product roadmaps, I was eager to invite him to be a guest on this podcast. As the title of this episode conveys, our discussion will weave together topics for aligning customers’ needs and business strategy.

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Gainsight

DECEMBER 14, 2022

With that in mind, Gainsight has sponsored a report from Harvard Business Review Analytic Services , based on surveys with 275 business leaders who have built digital products at their own companies. . Another strategy that facilitates cross-functional collaboration is putting the right people in charge of product experience.

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The Basics of Product Management

JULY 21, 2020

Smart Glasses are the latest craze in the world of wearable tech. We will review each smart glass available today, including the newest entrant, Jio Glass. The right product strategy is necessary to make the smart glass product a success. How can an oil company pivot to technology? Reliance Jio Glass. Apple Glass.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 6, 2020

Eighteen months ago travel tech company Almundo started to refine its processes to become a product-driven company. Our goal was to define how we would set and communicate the company strategy, and how that strategy would lead OKRs and backlog definition. What aligned roadmaps and OKRs together was the product strategy.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 25, 2018

Agile is an awesome approach when done right, but is your team making these common mistakes? Most people will agree that the adoption of agile is now mainstream. This adoption is rightfully so, as agile can be an excellent framework for building software. This is extremely short-sighted. Ignoring quality simply delays issues.

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Agile Velocity

APRIL 16, 2020

Leadership Skills that focus on “Individuals and interactions over processes and tools”. Great Leadership Skills. We share below a few leadership skills that leaders can experiment with towards these outcomes. At Agile Velocity we like to add one more thing to the above: Playtime. Revisit Team Agreements.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 12, 2023

"Digital transformation" is the process of using technology to redefine processes, products, and services to create more value for customers and organizations. Digital transformation (DT) is the process of leveraging digital technologies and data to create value and gain a competitive edge in today’s rapidly changing digital economy.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

On the one side, they address typical Scrum events such as Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, and the Sprint Retrospective. The role of a Scrum Master is primarily one of servant leadership?—?or or “true leadership”?—?and Read more: Technical Debt & Scrum: Who Is Responsible ?) which is a process, not a destination.

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Userpilot

JULY 13, 2022

Startup product managers will learn a lot from the Review – blog from the First Round. Hacker Noon blog articles deliver a wealth of technical insights. The Reforge blog helps product managers with topics like analytics , team management and development, product leadership , or product strategy.

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 24, 2022

I’ve written a lot about the organizational and conceptual gap between product/engineering teams and the “go-to-market” or sales/marketing side of tech companies.  (See  We shout past each other using secret keywords (“agile”) and assuming bad intent. Horribly wasteful and frustrating!  At

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

  They are coming off customer calls, strategy sessions, renewal discussions, marketing automation planning sessions, compliance reviews, and industry analyst briefings that highlight improvements that must be made.    The corporate strategy, which the product strategy supports.    Now.

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Mironov Consulting

APRIL 8, 2024

  Which makes us want to sit them down for yet another 2-hour lecture on limited capacity, agile, the need for validation, technical debt, architecture, or the physics of building software.   Each group will naturally put its own list of technical improvements ahead of the other groups. 

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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. Contrast this with a sprint review meeting , which might help you determine if users can easily sign up for the product. Assess product strategy and adjust if necessary. What’s the meeting about?

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The latest season focuses on women in tech. Scrum Master Toolbox can help product managers better understand Agile principles and techniques so that they can take full advantage of Scrum and other frameworks. Product Hunt Radio explores the future of tech and introduces the latest products and developments. The Product Podcast.

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