The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Guest Post by: Alex Hsu (Mentee, Session 4, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Addi Regev]. A research conducted by Alpha UX found that 25% of Product Manager surveyed wished for a clearer product roadmap and strategy. Research article. Why do I need a framework? Enough talking.

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Last week, I was in Cleveland for the Industry Product Conference. I spoke about the three mindsets that help a team find success as a continuous discovery team. Becoming a successful discovery team. Product management is changing. Product managers are evolving from focusing on outputs to outcomes. Tweet This.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Traditionally, product roadmaps are output-focussed plans that map features like registration, search, and reporting onto a timeline. Such a roadmap essentially states when a piece of functionality will be delivered. Second, it overlaps with the product backlog, especially when detailed features are used. Outcome-based).

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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. Otherwise, you might ask the wrong people for feedback on the increments and hence draw the wrong conclusions. But don’t stop there.

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Productside

MAY 15, 2025

Productside | Product Management Courses & Training Writing Effective Product Requirements to Drive Outcomes Most product managers dont set out to write bad requirements. And theyre juggling context, roadmaps, and Jira ticketsjust trying to keep up. Theyre under pressure to deliver. Theyre surrounded by requests.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

How Do You Stay True to Your Product Vision While Adapting to Market Realities? The Challenge of Balancing Vision vs. Market Demands Why Product Vision Often Gets Lost Product leaders start with a bold vision, but execution becomes difficult when: Market conditions change , requiring fast adjustments.

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 9, 2018

Product discovery is a team sport. You should therefore involve the right people in the discovery work and secure enough of their time. Your goal should be to mitigate the risk of building a product nobody wants and needs, not to figure out the product details. Do Just-Enough Product Discovery Work.

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Usersnap

MARCH 24, 2025

Imagine launching a product feature that no one uses. Because product discovery was skipped … or done poorly. Product discovery process is the foundation of building successful products. Yet, many teams rush into development without properly testing ideas, leading to wasted effort and failed launches.

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Product Talk

MARCH 13, 2019

I want to share a little bit more about the work that I am doing there as I think it’s relevant for people working at companies who are starting to adopt continuous discovery practices (in other words, many of you). Students learn the same design process I teach to the product teams that I coach. It will look very familiar to you.

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Lenny Rachitsky

OCTOBER 10, 2024

” NotebookLM started as a 20% project and has grown into a product that’s spreading across social media and has a Discord server with over 60,000 users. ” NotebookLM started as a 20% project and has grown into a product that’s spreading across social media and has a Discord server with over 60,000 users.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

For example, a product manager might determine the product strategy and one or more development teams might be tasked with executing it. Based on this insight, I have come up with the product strategy cycle shown in the picture below. I call these outcomes product goals. Enter the Cycle.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

Myth #1: The product owner must ensure that the stakeholders are satisfied. But the value a product creates is ultimately determined by its users: No product will be successful in the long run if it does not solve a specific user problem, create a tangible benefit, or help the users achieve a specific goal.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 21, 2021

When I think about agile approaches to work, I think about how fast we can change and the cost of those changes. That's why an agile approach with deliverables every day or week doesn't fit with some kinds of projects, such as events. Here, I assume you want multiple releases for your product. As for the project portfolio?

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 29, 2020

Learn the qualities of a successful product manager and leader. Part of the path to becoming a product master is developing as a leader. Leaders of product management need agility, influence, trust, empathy, and motivating vision. Roman is a product management expert specializing in digital products.

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Usersnap

MAY 14, 2025

Thats what product development feels like in most organizations.” ” Matt LeMay Most teams dont suffer from a lack of ideas; they suffer from chasing work that looks good on a roadmap but fails to drive results. This ensures that the product not only addresses real user problems but also aligns with business goals.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 4, 2022

Scrum is a popular agile framework. This team consists of a product owner , a Scrum Master , and several developers, which are also known as development team. 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.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 5, 2020

The term product owner is commonly used to refer to six different product roles in my experience. These are: The original Scrum product owner who owns a product in its entirety and is responsible for maximising the value it creates. The SAFe product owner who owns the product details. Scrum Product Owner.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Organise the Team around a Product As the name suggests, a product team is focused on a product. A first step to form effective product teams is therefore to identify the products in your organisation. But what is a product? This sounds simple enough.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

An effective product strategy is key to successfully create, enhance, and manage a product. There is no point in worrying about the product details and writing user stories if a sound product strategy is missing. But what exactly is a product strategy? Figure 1: My Product Strategy Model. Four Artefacts.

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Melissa Perri

JULY 23, 2024

For the past eight years, I’ve been working with C-Suite leaders at companies big and small to set up their Product Management organizations. At all of them, I start understanding the current state of Product Management. I gather data through surveys about observations. I review strategies and roadmaps.

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Product Talk

MARCH 3, 2021

A few months ago, fellow Product Talk coach Hope Gurion and I sat down to discuss why there’s no single right way to do discovery. Welcome to “Why There’s No Single ‘Right’ Way to Do Product Discovery.” We’re both product discovery coaches with Product Talk. Find it here.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Introduction To discuss empowerment in product management, I find it helpful to distinguish three main levels of decision-making authority, product delivery, product discovery, and product strategy, as the model in Figure 1 shows. [1]

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Ian Moulton, lead a conversation around “Multiscreen Web Design”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Better Products. Better Product People. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 30, 2019

David Bland is the CEO and Founder of Precoil, an author, and a long-time practitioner of agile and lean startup. He joined us on the podcast to talk about how to create focus around what matters to your users by using different testing methodologies – a topic he and Alex Osterwalder cover in their book, Testing Business Ideas.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Before the advent of agile frameworks like Scrum , a product person—the product manager—would typically carry out the market research, compile a market requirements specification, create a business case, put together product roadmap, write a requirements specification, and then hand it off to a project manager.

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Why a Product Strategy Process Matters. An effective product strategy process should ensure that a valid product strategy and an actionable product roadmap are always available—that a shared and valid approach to achieving product success is available at anytime, as the picture below illustrates.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

What’s more, it’s not uncommon in my experience that product owners have to do their job without the support of a Scrum Master or agile coach. This includes product roles such as product owner and feature owner. Having an effective Scrum Master allows you to focus on your job—to maximise the value the product create.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 14, 2017

A product manager just stopped by the desk of the designer on a lazy Thursday afternoon. I’ve been in this situation while I worked with various product teams as a designer. Designers and UX researchers will be motivated if you give them important product issues to solve. Designers can help product people a lot.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 30, 2017

Guest Post by: Liel Aharon (Mentee, Session 4, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Felix Sargent]. At the end of 2015 I was in the worst nightmare of any Product Manager. I had a strong roadmap, clear goals and a vision for the product. In fact, our tests regularly failed. We had good production standards.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

A process like Scrum is a great fit for your product when it is brand-new or young, and when you extend its life cycle, as shown in the picture below. This means that not every product will benefit from Scrum: Products that are maturing or declining won’t benefit from Scrum—at least not to the same degree.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2019

Guest Post by: Merziyah Poonawala (Mentee, Session 9, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Joni Hoadley]. A startup development team consisting of a product manager and two offshore engineers was facing major challenges in meeting client deliverable deadlines – repeatedly.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 11, 2020

Unlike a line manager, you usually don’t manage the development team and stakeholders as the person in charge of the product, and the individuals don’t report to you. You rely on them to design, implement, market, sell, and support the product. Show people that you value their ideas and concerns and involve them in product decisions.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 11, 2020

Unlike a line manager, you usually don’t manage the development team and stakeholders as the person in charge of the product, and the individuals don’t report to you. You rely on them to design, implement, market, sell, and support the product. Show people that you value their ideas and concerns and involve them in product decisions.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 14, 2017

As you may know, the product owner originated from Scrum, where the role is responsible for maximising the value the product creates. This sounds like a text-book product management responsibility to me. Additionally, some approaches like SAFe employ a separate product manager and product owner role.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 11, 2023

Photo by Dylan Gillis on Unsplash Market research and user experience research (UXR) are often confused as being the same thing, but they are actually distinct fields with their own goals and methods. To choose the appropriate research method for the business, it’s important to clarify the problem we are trying to solve.

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 8, 2019

A digital product is commonly redeveloped for two reasons: It has accumulated too much technical debt or its technologies are outdated, but the product is still needed—be it to generate revenue, support other revenue-generating products, or automate business processes and increase productivity.

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