Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] 1 Complement Scrum with a Product Discovery and Strategy Process Scrum is a simple framework that helps teams develop successful products. Continue the discovery and strategy work while the product is being developed. But don’t stop there.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 4, 2017

What is Dual-Track Agile? Dual-Track Agile is an IT development methodology where figuring out what to build is as important as the building process. So how do you know if your product team has a good idea? So how do you know if your product team has a good idea? Now Things get Messy. Can users use it?

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 5, 2022

For product strategy and roadmap meetings, I recommend involving the key stakeholders , for example, someone from sales, marketing, support, and finance, as well as development team representatives—ideally members who know about the user experience (UX), architecture, and technologies. This might be your Scrum Master or an agile coach.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Signs your organization has missed the point of Agile and it’s become another buzz-word! Treating Agile as just a method not part of a mindset, or culture, is a common contradiction in orgs trying to become Agile organizations. Not grasping the Why of Agile is behind many failures to transform into an Agile organization.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 8, 2024

It can be hard to reach the required level of buy-in without using design-by-committee , brokering a weak compromise, and agreeing on the smallest common denominator—which is hardly the foundation of a successful product. This approach makes it easier to reach unanimity and consent without making weak compromises.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 4, 2018

Embracing new technologies like machine learning, micro services, big data, and Internet of Things (IoT) is part of that change, as is the introduction of agile practices including cross-functional and self-organising teams, DevOps, Scrum, and Kanban. Determine the Right Learning and Development Measures.

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 18, 2024

We covered how to manage messy opportunity solution trees , the most common challenges teams face when getting started with the discovery habits, what Im working on next, and so much more. Discovery is a team sport. I did classic web development before there were frameworks back in the ’90s. I hate definition wars.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 4, 2022

In developing live streaming digital solutions for years, we’ve collected quite a massive of valuable insights, industry challenges, app feature trends, and development key points that will help you pave the way to building a demanded high-quality streaming platform. Its market share is projected to reach $534.37

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 17, 2023

Our guest is Dr. Robert Cooper, who discovered the now famous Stage-Gate process and was named the “World’s Top Innovation Management Scholar” by the prestigious Journal of Product Innovation Management. Show the customer something in the first three weeks of development and repeat every four weeks.

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 4, 2023

She currently supports very large organizations including P&G in becoming more innovative and agile. We just wanted to name and describe them so we can do them on purpose whenever we need to. [7:25] You have a lot of ideas and throw away the bad ones.” These are things great leaders already do.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 12, 2020

TL; DR: Why Agile Turns into Micromanagement Agile turns into micromanagement as a result of the middle management’s resistance to change. Self-organizing, empowered teams often conflict with the middle management’s drive to execute personal agendas, self-preservation being one of them. be it tech or legacy.

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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. The team delivers an increment of completed work.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

As their name suggests, these roadmaps focus on product goals or outcomes such as acquiring customers , increasing engagement , and future-proofing the product by removing technical debt. This helps align the stakeholders and development teams, as I discuss below, and acquire a budget if required.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 16, 2020

Before moving to super app Gojek to lead its efforts on mass financial inclusion, Adam Darcy developed PayMe, a product that has helped to transform the way young people in Hong Kong think about HSBC. The pitch went well and I was assigned a budget plus a single resource in a graduate named Venus (aka ‘the navigator’).

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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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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 Secret PM Handbook

MARCH 28, 2018

Your Problem Should Be Really Bad. You’re not going go to Club, your team isn’t going to make quota. In fact, if you’re in a “sales is not growing” situation, there are a lot of bad potential outcomes if it continues. The key here is to think about the outcomes if this bad situation continues to exist.

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svpg

MAY 2, 2016

Exactly a year ago I was invited to give a keynote at the Craft Conference in Budapest and I discussed the 10 biggest reasons why product teams fail. So it inspired me to think hard about the most important characteristics of very strong product teams, and I forced myself to pick what I consider the ten most important.

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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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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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Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 4, 2025

How AI captures customer needs that human product managers miss Watch on YouTube TLDR In my recent conversation with Carmel Dibner from Applied Marketing Science, we explored how artificial intelligence is transforming Voice of the Customer (VOC) research for product teams. However, these early efforts faced significant limitations.

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Mind the Product

MAY 17, 2018

When confronted with this question, I used to hesitate, because from company to company there are a million things that can affect the roles; the product, larger organization structure, product development process, cultural differences, regional differences in commonly-used titles, the list goes on. Chris will manage the “how” of the product.

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Pragmatic Marketing

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

While software development teams have been moving toward agile methods for years, many product managers are only now becoming aware of it. An agile approach applies collaborative and continuous improvement concepts to software development. There is no single, definitive “agile method.”

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Product Management University

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Cranking user stories through the agile factory. Getting product teams to “consistently” operate with this mentality…still a challenge! Next move…sprinkle in industry specific features (20%) on a cross-industry (80%) platform to form out-of-the-box solutions for the named vertical segments. Finding user problems.

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Mind the Product

MAY 25, 2018

In 2012, when I was working as part of the JustGiving team responsible for innovative products and disruptive business models, we decided to test how people could raise money for non-charitable good causes. Initially we worked with a team from ThoughtWorks for 12 weeks. 2014 – Testing and Growing the Team.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

I’ve asked friends who do the job at social events and got the same answer, and frequently asked members of my own teams, who struggled to find the time to do it. To compensate, I’ve seen UX researchers & designers pick up the mantle a lot more, and the design teams have really leaned into this space.

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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. Teams with multiple functions are instrumental towards staying competitive and succeed. Conversely, to rely solely on a single-function team for brainstorming is a recipe for failure.

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Usersnap

JUNE 11, 2019

Agile QA approach and user experience driven development (UXDD) have taken modern software development and testing by storm. Speed is the name of the game now. This trend is bound to increase with iterative development, continuous integration, and rapid deployment becoming the norm. Are your QA testers up to speed?

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 5, 2019

They run from ill-suited personal traits and the pursuit of individual agendas to frustration with the team itself. Read on and learn in this post on Scrum anti-patterns how you can identify if your Scrum Master needs support from the team. The Scrum Master is a servant-leader for the Scrum Team. The team composition is wrong.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Over the last three decades, across 10 full-time jobs and 150 consulting clients, I’ve headed up product teams 18 times (mostly as interim VP ) and helped another dozen companies choose their Head of Product. They don’t value experience running product management teams , instead overweighting narrow technical or market segment familiarity.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 5, 2020

This series is about helping a team create a less brittle environment—more resilience. Yes, I changed the names of the functionality because the names don't matter.). Neither did the team. In this case, the project team had no automated tests. The team called the product people “product owners.”

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 14, 2020

Remote Agile (Part 5): Retrospectives with Distributed Teams TL; DR: A Remote Retrospective with a Distributed Team We started this series on remote agile with looking into practices and tools, followed by exploring virtual Liberating Structures, how to master Zoom as well as common remote agile anti-patterns.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

“I’ve spotted a trend: a bad roadmap is a symptom of underlying issues in the company. And a frustrated product manager is a symptom of people and alignment issues in their team.” How many acronyms and feature names are there that require you or a scrum master to translate? Rebooting teams.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Unlike what might be implied from the name, the lecture Itai gave discussed writing requirements for functionality that included estimates (in Hebrew), which were features that gained popularity back then. With data science teams, however, there is a feeling that they know better?—?they Instead, I gave the team clear instructions?—?take

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Pragmatic Marketing

JULY 31, 2009

We’re just terrible at writing them; and, still, the development group wants more detail—and more and more and more. And developers have to make sense of the requirements. Developers then complain, “Don’t tell me how to do my job,” because the requirement now explains how the feature should be implemented. And they’re right.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 8, 2019

TL; DR: Faking Agile Metrics?—?An An Eye-Opening Exercise Imagine you’re a Scrum Master and the line manager of your team believes that the best sign for a successful agile transformation is a steady increase in the Scrum Team’s velocity. Cooking the Agile Books?—?A Velocity?—?the in my experience?—?delivers

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nulab

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Tips, tools, and methods for developing ideas fast can be a real lifesaver when you’ve got to be creative on tap. The same is even more vital when you’re working as a team. Product names. Then they, in turn, can add their own comments for you and the team to read back. Invite everyone onto the team. Panic ensues.

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