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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The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Once implemented and properly maintained, this can help you obtain the goal of having a clearer roadmap and strategy, which should help make good product decisioning easier. Lastly, to make the most out of this framework, it’s best if your organization has already implemented some variation of the Agile Methodology.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 8, 2024

Keep the other groups in Figure 1 informed about changes in the product strategy and product roadmap , for example, by inviting subjects to bigger review/demo sessions and having one-on-ones with context setters. A better way is to co-create the product strategy and roadmap with the key stakeholders.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Product manager Sharon Feldstein looks at what it really means to be an agile product team today and how to balance this with product strategy and long-term goals When I started my first job in tech, “agile” was THE thing everybody talked about.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 15, 2021

Agile principles can be a North Star for time-strapped support teams, helping them to keep the customer’s needs at the heart of their decisions so they can provide fast, personal support at scale. Agile teams start small and move fast, collecting and incorporating feedback to iterate their way to bigger and better solutions quickly.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 1, 2022

Having regular product team meetings can help to dispel several logistical issues as it gives teams a chance to reflect and improve as a team. In this post, we'll go through different types of meetings to benefit your overall product strategy. [.]

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Melissa Perri

JANUARY 4, 2020

We still haven't quite gotten down "outcomes over outputs" yet, but it's moving in a better direction. -- 2013: "What is this Agile thing? 2019: "If someone says 'that's not agile' one more time I'm going to quit" We took some things a little too far, without really understanding them. Product Strategy = Company Strategy in this case.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 5, 2020

It is also not called “product manager” primarily to indicate the level of empowerment and respect product owners require to succeed in their job. But you can think of the product owner as an agile product manager, as I explain in the article “ Product Manager vs. Product Owner ”.

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The Product Guy

DECEMBER 15, 2019

Jenna Gaudio is the Vice President of Product Management at Vydia, the award-winning tech company empowering content creators and their teams. In this role, Gaudio drives the strategy behind roadmap management, agile product development, and cross-functional communication. The Best Product Consultant. Drew Falkman.

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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. Staffing : Help find people who have the right skills and are motivated to work on the product and who can fill the roles. So why is the role important?

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 18, 2023

48 Slides from my Product Strategy Masterclass Continue reading on Product Coalition »

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 1, 2023

What Is Product Strategy Exactly? And Why It Matters Product strategy is a creative act, to “do something new,” approaching an opportunity from a different angle. — Self So what exactly is product strategy? Why is it important if I have a solid product management team?” I snapped out of la la land.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 15, 2025

How do hybrid product teams stay aligned and effective across time zones and work styles?

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The Product Coalition

JULY 25, 2022

How I came to realize product strategy doesn’t exist in isolation “Two roads diverged in a wood and I?—?I So what exactly is product strategy? Why is it important if I have a solid product management team?” How I defined product strategy would define my professional career. your launch event.

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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. That’s the job of the Scrum Master or agile coach.

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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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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Ladislav focuses on user centric product development, especially on brand, usability and revenue product challenges. He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. Dustin Levy Director of Product Management, Gentex Corporation.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 9, 2022

If that’s not the case, then it will be difficult to encourage the individuals to agree to more specific goals and to follow a product strategy and a product roadmap that are based on the vision. See my article Making Effective Product Decisions for more advice on how to decide together with stakeholders and dev teams.).

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Roman Pichler

MAY 13, 2024

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Product Strategy and Change Strategy means different things to different people, so let me briefly share my definition. A product strategy describes the approach chosen to make a product successful. Eisenhower, we could say, “Strategy is worthless.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

But it doesn’t tell you where to go and how to get there—that’s what the discovery and strategy work does. 2 Use Scrum for Products that Experience Uncertainty and Change Scrum is often seen as the standard way to create digital products, and I have met more than one company where the product managers were told to be agile and do Scrum.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Ladislav focuses on user centric product development, especially on brand, usability and revenue product challenges. He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. Dustin Levy Director of Product Management, Gentex Corporation.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

This includes a sound understanding of the market, the user and customer needs, and the competition as well as solid product management skills such as the ability to develop an effective product strategy and an actionable product roadmap (as I explain in more detail in the article The T-Shaped Product Professional ).

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Bryce York

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

So here are 6 mental models for building an AI product strategy: 1. Your AI product strategy needs to actually be strategic! Ship improvements often, use feedback and data to get better, and stay agile with the rapidly evolving AI tech. In the AI era, agile, experiment-driven teams will outpace the rest.

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 6, 2020

To carry out the discovery work, bring together the right people, product person, development team representative, key stakeholders , and Scrum Master or agile coach, as shown in the picture below. As the person in charge of the product, you should lead the discovery and development effort.

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Melissa Perri

JULY 23, 2024

At all of them, I start understanding the current state of Product Management. A lot of digital transformation companies usually need to start with Product Organizational design, getting alignment on the role of a Product Manager and what that means before they can look at Product Strategy and Product Operations.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The Critical Role of Product Strategy When Money Is Scarce (Part 2 — Rounds A, B, and Later) When you start selling your product, you feel great, but that doesn’t last for too long. A product strategy is often the missing link that would convert your efforts into actual revenue. Here is how it works.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The Critical Role of Product Strategy When Resources Are Limited (Part 2 — Rounds A, B, and Later) When you start selling your product, you feel great, but that doesn’t last for too long. A product strategy is often the missing link that would convert your efforts into actual revenue. Here is how it works.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Technical due diligence is a lot harder than it used to be with Agile. In this post, Drew Falkman proposes a pivot from technical diligence to product diligence. Changing our view to focus on the product strategy, development, and management practices. [.]

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 11, 2020

While this approach ensures that leadership and decision-making are consistent, it makes the leadership work demanding—it requires a broad skillset and the ability to successfully navigate between the big picture and the product details. Consequently, do not neglect the product discovery and strategy work.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 11, 2020

While this approach ensures that leadership and decision-making are consistent, it makes the leadership work demanding—it requires a broad skillset and the ability to successfully navigate between the big picture and the product details. Consequently, do not neglect the product discovery and strategy work.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Have the courage to say no and ensure that the roadmap tells a coherent story about the likely growth of your product. Consider asking your Scrum Master or agile coach to facilitate the workshop and to ensure that everybody is heard and nobody dominates, assuming that a Scrum Master is available.

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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.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Sustainable pace is an important agile principle. The Agile Manifesto defines it in the following way: “The sponsors, developers, and users should be able to maintain a constant pace indefinitely.” If it doesn’t, then include it in the product roadmap —assuming it serves a user or business goal stated in the product strategy.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Once your product no longer exhibits a significant amount of uncertainty and risk, is growing steadily, or has started to mature, a Kanban-based process may be the right choice, as the following picture illustrates. Unlike Scrum, Kanban does not regard protected, goal-driven iterations as mandatory.

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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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Lenny Rachitsky

DECEMBER 29, 2024

Brought to you by: • Enterpret —Transform customer feedback into product growth • BuildBetter —AI for product teams • Wix Studio —The web creation platform built for agencies — Shaun Clowes is the chief product officer at Confluent and former CPO at Salesforce’s MuleSoft and at Metromile.

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Productside

MARCH 18, 2025

In this episode of Productside Stories, our host Rina Alexin talks to Rachel Owens , product executive and growth expert. Rachel shares how shes helped SaaS products scale from $1M to $10M in a year. Learn how to avoid common pitfalls, build strong GTM alignment, and refine your product strategy for sustainable success.

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