Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

While internal stakeholders such as marketing, sales, and support play an important role in successfully offering a product, it would be wrong to try to please them and to say yes to all their ideas and requests. ” But do not allow people to dominate and tell you what to do, and don’t agree to a weak compromise.

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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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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Here are 10 great product books on pre-product market fit (pre-PMF)! ?? Learn who to listen to: “The Mum test” (Rob Fitzpatrick) This book will teach you that they’re some people you should never listen to, like your mum. Poor questions yield little value. ?? Eventually they run out of cash and shut down. Rosie is the best. ??

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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. Provide guidance on the product, including its market, value proposition, business goals, and key features. Treat the Team as an Equal Partner. Help the Team See the Bigger Picture.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 27, 2022

What is iterative testing? Iterative testing involves running repeated experiments on your product features to evaluate their effectiveness and identify improvement opportunities. Iterative testing involves running repeated experiments on your product features to evaluate their effectiveness and identify improvement opportunities.

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Userpilot

APRIL 30, 2024

In many ways, he has shaped how successful products are built and how teams can be organized to work toward excellence. In this role, he drove the development of products that took eBay’s global e-commerce platform to new levels of success. Marty Cagan is a popular name in the product management world. Who is Marty Cagan?

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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 Coalition

AUGUST 3, 2023

How to Achieve Success in Your Product Strategy In today’s rapidly evolving market, having a clear product vision and a well-defined strategy is essential for the success of any tech product. A compelling product vision is a guiding light, providing direction and purpose to the development process.

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Agile Velocity

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

It is one of the most commonly used, abused, and misused metrics in Agile software development. Teams, their managers, and even their stakeholders often focus on “improving velocity” without considering the entire value delivery system. Speed: The time it takes to deliver an idea into the market. Measure for a Purpose.

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Tyner Blain

MAY 24, 2017

Taking agile, a process otherwise optimized for small, cross-functional, collaborative teams and making it work at scale is fascinating. ” I’ve spent the last half-year in the beginning of my journey understanding how agile product management at scale can work. Both were then uncommon, and both are still important.

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Agile Velocity

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

It is one of the most commonly used, abused, and misused metrics in Agile software development. Teams, their managers, and even their stakeholders often focus on “improving velocity” without considering the entire value delivery system. Speed: The time it takes to deliver an idea into the market. Measure for a Purpose.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JANUARY 11, 2021

At UX Studio , while we develop our products, uxfol.io and copyfol.io , we are mainly focused on agency work, meaning that we cooperate with several clients as external teams. This post was written from the perspective of designers, mainly intended for external teams and entrepreneurs. Five challenges and solutions.

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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. Simplicity is essential.

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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. This is not agile.

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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. Simplicity is essential.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

While internal stakeholders such as marketing, sales, and support play an important role in successfully offering a product, it would be wrong to try to please them and to say yes to all their ideas and requests. ” But do not allow people to dominate and tell you what to do, and don’t agree to a weak compromise.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Picture this: you develop an app, then launch it worldwide. Yeah, we know, it sounds pretty much like a developer’s worst nightmare. And that’s why localization testing exists: to prevent these very situations. The USA no longer dominates the mobile market. What is localization testing?

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 8, 2024

The important basis is the development of a strategy for short- and long-term digital transformation based on business results rather than technology. Digital transformation helps businesses automate processes, improve efficiency, and innovate faster, allowing them to outmaneuver competitors and capture market share.

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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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Mironov Consulting

MAY 16, 2020

A topic that’s come up several times recently in my product leader coaching sessions: how much to delegate to the (individual contributor) product managers on our teams – including different ways of building product skills and balancing personal empowerment against good results.

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Gainsight

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Organizations create Customer Success teams to increase Net Revenue Retention, and we’ve recently published research showing that NRR drives valuation. But, then, organizations find that the baseline impact of simply having a CS team eventually plateaus–your NRR stagnates. It helps that Sales and Marketing figured this out long ago.

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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.    Lately, I’m calling this permission to stay focused.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 29, 2019

Agile is dead: SCRUM implementation survival guide | BraveGeeks by Yuri Mediakov, PM at BraveGeeks Team Photo by Frode Myklebust on Unsplash Dave Thomas, one of the creators of the Agile Manifesto, has declared Agile as dead, stating that the values of being agile have been totally lost behind the implementation.

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The Secret PM Handbook

AUGUST 4, 2017

We find and validate market problems for which customers will pay for a solution. And then we take the solutions to market. One test of a new framework is how well it explains “previous observations.” Finding market problems. How Badass Are You At Finding And Validating Market Problems?

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

As product managers, it’s our job to develop solutions that solve real problems for our customers and create value for the business. Chances are, it might have been because the team wasn’t using the hypothesis-driven approach correctly. This will help to ensure that the results of the test are reliable and interpretable.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 10, 2020

Part of the role of a product manager is to discover and help build products that have a high market impact. Negative – where launches are so bad they get rolled back. This in turn feeds project plans and feature roadmaps, and the micro-planning of an agile product team. Steps, that develop the ideas and test them.

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Mixpanel

JUNE 10, 2020

On the NerdWallet team, we go beyond a binary “pass / fail” grade on demo days with Engineering, Product and Design. Instead, we promote a practice of asking questions with the goal of gleaning knowledge and insight—not to dismantle someone’s point of view—and encourage thinking aloud to pressure-test logic, and validate hypotheses.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 17, 2019

Empower Your Teams if you Want to be Truly Agile. Agile and Lean are both experiencing this at the moment, as they have been oversold as the solution to too many problems. Agile and Lean are not inherently poor or incorrect, rather they’re being used to solve problems they weren’t designed for.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 27, 2021

The Most Common Product Management Interview Questions What do you see as a Product Manager’s main role within product development? How do you see your career developing in the next 5 years? What are your main strengths and weaknesses? What do you see as a Product Manager’s main role within product development?

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Tyner Blain

JUNE 12, 2014

Agile is not magical. Changing from a waterfall process to an agile process changes how your team works, and helps eliminate inefficiencies. Adopting an agile process does not let you magically have a more successful product. What makes agile powerful is also makes it dangerous. Triage and Urgency.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 19, 2017

It’s all too tempting to fall back onto less skilful habits and become impatient, tense and stressed, say something we regret afterwards, or pass on the pressure to the development team. To increase your expertise, strengthen your understanding of the market or domain and the product, as well as your product management savviness.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Almost without fail, I find that the “maker” side of software companies (developers, designers, product folks, DevOps, tech writers…) and the “go-to-market” side of software companies (sales, marketing, support, customer success.) The go-to-market organizations really want something to market and sell.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 24, 2022

As a Product Manager, at any given time you will be carrying on simultaneous conversations with developers, designers, your product team, data analysts, QA engineers, marketing, sales, possibly your executive team, client success, and of course, your users. You don’t like talking with your users Another biggie.

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The Secret PM Handbook

AUGUST 4, 2017

We find and validate market problems for which customers will pay for a solution. And then we take the solutions to market. One test of a new framework is how well it explains “previous observations.” Finding market problems. How Badass Are You At Finding And Validating Market Problems?

Framework 150

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The Secret PM Handbook

AUGUST 4, 2017

We find and validate market problems for which customers will pay for a solution. And then we take the solutions to market. One test of a new framework is how well it explains “previous observations.” Finding market problems. How Badass Are You At Finding And Validating Market Problems?

Framework 150

Framework Product Management Product Manager Weak Development Team 150

The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

At JCDecaux, I led the development of an information kiosk for airport passengers. Passengers are also able to view hotel information and use the devices to speak to the sales team of the hotel. Feasibility risk impacts the capacity of the team to build the product given time, skills and technology constraints.

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DISQO

JULY 5, 2018

Look no further than Amazon – in a 2017 letter to shareholders , CEO Jeff Bezos, credited a decision-making model for the company’s ability to deliver value to the market faster: “Most decisions should probably be made with somewhere around 70% of the information you wish you had. It’s not a rigorous practice by any means.

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