Arkenea

APRIL 10, 2025

Definition and Core Components Outsourced software product development refers to the practice of delegating all or part of the software development lifecycle to an external partner. This can include: Product strategy: Roadmap definition, market research, feature prioritization.

Analytic Tools

Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Strategy Strategy plays a crucial role in aligning product development efforts with organizational goals. Process The process knowledge area covers the various methodologies and frameworks used to guide product development from idea to market.

User Testing

UX Planet

JUNE 9, 2025

It sounded like the perfect blueprint for agile success. It was a fresh take on scaling agile practices, and many companies were eager to adopt it. Squads, tribes, chapters, and guilds. We tried implementing it, but quickly realized it was too much structure for a team of 20. You don’t need to be the next Amazon, Netflix or Airbnb.

User Testing

UX Planet

APRIL 17, 2025

Thats when it hit me we accidentally created a culture where developers didnt feel like they could make even the simplest UX decisions without checking with design or product leadership first. Clear Expectations Were not asking devs to solve major UX or product strategy issuessolo. And that was aproblem.

Development

Userpilot

JANUARY 29, 2025

Proven experience working in a technical environment with cross-functional teams to drive product vision, define requirements, and guide the team through key milestones. Passion for design and figuring out best-in-class solutions to UX, UI, and interaction challenges. Salary $385,000 $465,000 USD + offers equity.

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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.

Agile

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. Themes typically describes abstract ideas or concepts critical to your product vision.

Framework

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.

Product Strategy

The Product Guy

MAY 15, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Dustin Levy, lead a conversation around “Product Strategies for Non-Strategists”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Krishna Madhuvarsu Director of Product Strategy, Oracle Inc.

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Melissa Perri

JANUARY 4, 2020

2019: "I'm going to get my MBA so I can be a product manager." Product, and especially product in startups, is now the hot job. -- 2014: "We don't need Product Management help, we need design help. Can you just teach us UX?" Product Strategy = Company Strategy in this case.

User Testing

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.

Technical Advisors

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.

Agile

Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Will the product make a positive impact on people’s lives, the wider society, and the planet, or will it at least not cause any harm ? How might people use the product? What kind of user experience (UX) should the product give rise to? How can the product be built? What are the major touch points?

Product Research

The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 10, 2016

Senior Product Manager @ Citrusbyte (New York City) Keywords: Consulting, Design, Product, Strategy, UX [link]. UI / UX Designer @ Citrusbyte (New York City; Multiple Locations) Keywords: Design, Product, Strategy, UI, UX [link]. Check out this week’s newest, below….

Customer Experience

Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

When working on a brand-new product, trying to achieve PMF, or struggling to keep the product growing, you typically face many unknowns and a substantial amount of uncertainty and change. But as your product grows and eventually matures, the amount of uncertainty and change gradually declines.

User Testing

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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Roman Pichler

MARCH 11, 2020

What’s more, the dev team is cross-functional and may include UX and UI designers, developers, and testers, alongside other roles. The stakeholders come from different business units, for example, marketing, sales, support, and service for a commercial product. Consequently, do not neglect the product discovery and strategy work.

Leadership

Roman Pichler

MARCH 11, 2020

What’s more, the dev team is cross-functional and may include UX and UI designers, developers, and testers, alongside other roles. The stakeholders come from different business units, for example, marketing, sales, support, and service for a commercial product. Consequently, do not neglect the product discovery and strategy work.

Leadership

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.

Product Research

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.

Product Management

The Product Guy

APRIL 14, 2018

Keywords: b2b, b2c, Product Management, Recruitment, UX. Product Manager, Algorithms @ Quartet Health (New York, NY). Keywords: Algorithms, Data Analysis, Healthcare, Machine learning, Product Management. Product Manager, Patient Care @ Quartet Health (New York, NY). Head of Product @ Mighty (New York).

Customer Experience

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.” Therefore, focus on your actual job—making or keeping the product successful. What is Sustainable Pace? Share the Work.

Product Management

The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 2017

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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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 13, 2018

We’re thrilled to announce the first of our amazing line-up of speakers and announce all our deep-dive workshops, connecting international and regional thought leaders with the vibrant product and UX community across AsiaPac. Jeff Gothelf, Author of Sense and Respond & Lean UX.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 8, 2018

While the three roles exercise different leadership, the people involved must effectively collaborate to achieve product success and align product strategy, roadmap, backlog, design and technology, and process decisions—without losing focus of their respective core responsibility. [1]. Lead the Product.

Leadership

Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Instead, you should help your development team grow, acquire the relevant knowledge, and let people take full ownership of the solution or, if that’s not possible, the product details. A great way to do this is to include the team members in product discovery and UX work and allow them to observe and interact with users.

Development

Roman Pichler

JANUARY 9, 2018

I find it helpful to form a product discovery team that consists of: Development team members: user experience (UX) designer, developer, tester; Key stakeholders , for example, people from marketing, sales, and support; A ScrumMaster or agile coach. Don’t Handoff Product Discovery Work.

Product Research

The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2017

Indeed the role of a product leader is different to that of a product manager. A product leader not only has to manage products but also to guide and direct the overall product strategy and team, and ensure that products are delivered to market. The Scrum ceremonies (Sprint planning, Standups, etc.)

Leadership

UX Planet

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Every dollar’s worth of expense is a fight, and spending 30% of the budget on “simply asking questions” (read: UX research) can be a hard sell. So, how do you ensure that UX gets its due in terms of investment? How do you plan to set aside a budget to enhance product performance and user satisfaction?

UX

Roman Pichler

APRIL 2, 2019

To mitigate this risk, help the development team learn about the users and understand their needs as early as possible, for instance, by involving team members in user research (as part of the product discovery work ) and exposing them to direct user feedback on early product increments. 5 Grow Organically.

Feedback Software

Product Management University

MARCH 15, 2023

Working with UX on design and usability. Here’s the most difficult part about the product owner role. Then you need to be the product expert with the skills to translate user needs into functional specifications that allow UX designers and engineers to distill them down into build tasks. Sprint planning and backlogs.

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 12, 2024

Together, they form the core product team. [1] 1] Depending on the number and size of the development teams, you may want to include all development team members or ask the teams to nominate representatives to join the product team. Better Buy-in : Having the stakeholders on the product team generates stronger buy-in to decisions.

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Product Innovation Educators

APRIL 29, 2019

Further, more of you have been asking for me to bring on an IoT product expert, which is why Daniel Elizalde is joining us. Daniel is an IoT product coach who helps Product teams develop an IoT product strategy. He has over 18 years of experience in managing the lifecycle of IoT products across several industries.

Product Management

Mind the Product

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Martin Eriksson’s Venn diagram shows product management as the intersection between UX (usable), IT (feasible) and Business (valuable) – we also wanted to figure out whether a product manager needs to know how to code, or build an app or just speak with a developer? Data-driven : Decisions based on objective criteria.

Weak Development Team

Mind the Product

JANUARY 21, 2020

If you work alongside Bristol-based product strategy and UX consultant Joe Leech then chances are you’ll also work alongside his dog Little Dude. I’ll be told ‘we’re not shipping stuff when we should, UX is poor, we’re struggling to keep staff’. I might do a review of the product itself, to understand what’s happening.

Banking

ProductPlan

JANUARY 8, 2019

In today’s article, we’ll discuss the agile roadmapping process. We’ll start by reviewing the objectives of roadmaps and planning for agile teams, then share some special considerations for agile roadmaps. From there, we’ll walk you through the agile roadmapping process step by step. Eisenhower.

Agile

Product Management Unpacked

MAY 26, 2020

UPMC’s ability to respond quickly to market demands boils down to how its teams are aligned with its enterprise-level strategies – a primary focus of Claire’s role. Unlike traditional product managers, Claire is less involved with the technical aspects of product management. From marketer to product management leader.

Technical Advisors