Roman Pichler

JULY 8, 2024

3] Co-create the Product Strategy and Roadmap The traditional way to engage the stakeholders and secure their support is to present them with a draft strategy and roadmap, collect their feedback, update the plans, and, if necessary, show them the updated version. 4] As its name suggests, the coach supports and coaches the product team.

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 21, 2018

Many medium to large organizations are adopting agile practices, such as the use of Scrum. Most of these organizations are also using some form of stage-gate for the development of new products. companies using stage-gate, the idea of replacing it with agile is often not warmly embraced. For the more than 80 percent of U.S.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 14, 2019

. “Successfully managing complex sales requires a different level of visibility into your deals” To get visibility into large deals, I developed a visual framework – which I call the Agile Arrow – that applies popular project management principles to the work that we do as salespeople. Act I: Embracing agile principles.

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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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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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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. Do the net present value calculations with correction factors for likelihood of success. ” Net present value and productivity index are good metrics for that. [22:55]

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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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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. I pitched the idea by building a fully functional, iOS prototype, rather than via a PowerPoint presentation. The Results.

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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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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? A few months ago, I introduced a concept I have developed called the PM, or Product, Quadrants.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

As we look at what it takes to develop non-gaming VR products, their separation from gaming becomes very important. They are not changing their approach so much as working through a new presentation of their existing products. The underlying approach to managing a project, such as agile, works fine.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

I became director of communications, leading the development of intranets and web applications. Challenges aside, I enjoyed the close-knit teams and easy access to upper management which enabled quick decision making. Designers vs Developers The work culture in this large organization was unlike anything I’d ever experienced.

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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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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. I immediately donned the rose-colored glasses they handed out, and gobbled up the information that was presented. That’s when it got bad.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 11, 2017

I became director of communications, leading the development of intranets and web applications. Challenges aside, I enjoyed the close-knit teams and easy access to upper management which enabled quick decision making. Designers vs Developers. Tension between designers and developers was palpable.

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Userzoom

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

This is a guide for UX and research practitioners who have either newly joined an organization that’s using the Agile methodology, or their current product development is adopting Agile for the first time and they’ve been told to “make UX research happen in this new fangled process immediately please!” . What is Agile?

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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. If you prefer to watch the video (1 hour long), you can find the presentation here. Empowered Product Teams. Second, the chemistry of the members of the team is key.

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Userpilot

APRIL 24, 2025

Want to advance your career in product management or find top talent for your team? Stripe They’re looking for a senior Product Manager to lead a pillar within our LPM Cost Optimization team. A collaborator experienced in working with cross-functional teams, including engineering, design, and external partners.

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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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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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Agile Velocity

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Value stream mapping is a common practice in the Agile space because it allows leaders and stakeholders to see where the flow of value delivery is slowing down and exposes opportunities to create better alignment across teams. Then it becomes a tool to help diagnose a problem (which is usually when Agile coaches are called in). .

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 20, 2018

Processes have to serve the development of the product. No separate QA team. In this sort of environment, the processes have to serve the development of the product, rather than the product developing out of predetermined processes. Instead, processes must be agile. No estimations. Initially, I felt overwhelmed.

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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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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Much has been written about the process of creating product roadmaps, not least the six great articles written by my own team. I believe the actions of a product leader all too often are the root cause of a “bad” roadmap. I would define a good roadmap as one that the team understands and feels ownership over.

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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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ProductPlan

MAY 22, 2020

It’s not necessarily bad when product management adapts to each company’s specific needs. Below is the discussion Melissa Perri had with John Cutler and Jim Semick on why teams that are scaling need product ops. Processes & Practices: The more product teams grow and multiply, the less homogenous they get.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 25, 2022

The Best Product Managers use Product Management Software for: We’ve broken down this list into four stages of the feature life cycle that contributes to building the product value: opportunity identification and validation, design and prototyping, feature development, and launch and iteration.

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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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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

 Can the executive team?  Are But for calendars, the scarce resource is time rather than development capacity.  Just A Quick-and-Dirty Tabulation with Optional Color Coding Applying some Agile 101, it’s handy to understand a problem before we start fixing things.  Perhaps

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 25, 2019

That is why it is critical that we are all present in our offices.” Do co-located teams truly perform better? But having experienced both poorly performing, co-located teams as well as high performing distributed teams, I wanted to take a closer look at some of the research as well as experiences of others. So is it true?

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 19, 2021

You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 30,000-plus other subscribers. Join more than 145 peers from May 27–29, 2021 , for the Virtual Agile Camp Berlin 2021, a live virtual Barcamp using open space technology principles and practices. Remember, “Agile” is a mindset, not a methodology.

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Userpilot

MAY 27, 2025

Want to advance your career in product management or find top talent for your team? Mozilla: Director of Product, Firefox Growth Firefox is used by hundreds of millions worldwide, and the Director of Product for Growth plays a critical role in the product management team. Who would be a bad fit for this job?

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Agile Velocity

AUGUST 19, 2020

STATIK (Systems Thinking Approach To Implementing Kanban 1 2 ) can be a great technique to help teams get up and running quickly, even teams that are using Scrum. . Applying this approach designed for Kanban can dramatically accelerate the forming and improvements of a Scrum team. How does work flow through the team/system? .

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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

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Photo by Skitterphoto from Pexels In 2014, at the ProductX conference, I won second place for my presentation on time management for busy product managers. If you are the developer who is supposed to write this feature, you would ask the product manager for very specific instructions as to when and how to predict where this person is going.

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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.” Rebooting teams. When you’re facing rifts of misalignment and distrust within or between teams, you may need to reboot the team.

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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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