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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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

No matter how well thought-out your product roadmap is, it is worthless if the key stakeholders and the development team members don’t understand and support it. A great way to achieve a shared roadmap is to involve the individuals in the product roadmapping decisions, preferably in the form of a collaborative workshop—be it online or onsite.

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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

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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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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Melissa Perri

JULY 23, 2024

At all of them, I start understanding the current state of Product Management. I review strategies and roadmaps. At the end of this review, I do a Product Leadership workshop with C-Suite and Product leaders, where I show them what good looks like, and they have a chance to reflect on where they are.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 24, 2021

In Part 1 and 2 of this series, I wrote about how an agile approach might offer strategic benefits. And because an agile approach changes your culture, I said the agile approach was part of your strategy. So let's ask this question: Can any tool—agile or otherwise—offer you a strategic advantage? (I

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Mind the Product

APRIL 6, 2020

Without it, product teams become feature teams focused on outputs and not outcomes. We started working with the product teams on how each tool – product strategy, OKRs, and roadmaps – should be used so that we could merge them together. What aligned roadmaps and OKRs together was the product strategy.

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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. Sherif thinks building simple products is hard and so is writing a simple, short bio.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 10, 2016

At the same time, I wanted to test that the product would create enough value for its readers before writing the actual book. My first MVP had little resemblance with the finished product: I used my product strategy and roadmap workshop as the initial minimum viable product. Minimum Viable Product #2.

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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. was the answer I received, “We don’t manage products. What do mean?”

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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.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

No matter how well thought-out your product roadmap is, it is worthless if the key stakeholders and the development team members don’t understand and support it. A great way to achieve a shared roadmap is to involve the individuals in the product roadmapping decisions, preferably in the form of a collaborative workshop—be it online or onsite.

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 12, 2024

Alternatively, you can form an extended product team that includes stakeholders, as Figure 2 illustrates. [3] 3] Figure 2: Product Team with Stakeholders The stakeholders in Figure 2 share their expertise and contribute to product decisions in collaborative workshops, and they work with the other members to achieve product success.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Agile Development Things don’t necessarily get better with agile development. Agile dev did away with project waterfall?—?Specification QA, but it didn’t fix the planning waterfall : Strategy? Such teams expect to get a prioritized product backlog and detailed requirements, often in the form of epics and user stories.

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Product Management University

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

After countless conversations, articles, webinars and conference sessions, I started to feel like the profession of product management had been reduced to…. Convincing stakeholders the above supports company goals (product strategy). Cranking user stories through the agile factory. Finding user problems. Never gonna be!

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Amplitude

MARCH 11, 2020

Roadmapping is at the core of product strategy and product management. As a product person, and the VP of Product at Yesware , I’ve never come to fully embrace the discussion of what each team would deliver, in what sequence and within a long timeframe.

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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. At the moment he coaches the teams doing the work, but he’s starting to coach business leaders about product strategy. These senior people are increasingly of interest to Joe.

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

What: One-Day Product Leaders Workshop (Roundtable). Scheduled one day ahead of ISPMA’s Software Product Summit in Frankfurt, this is a one-day session specifically for those leading product management teams[/tweetherder]: Product VPs, Directors of Product Management, Chief Product Officers and other product-focused execs.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 11, 2016

You should therefore help the team acquire the relevant market and domain knowledge—for instance, by involving the team in research and validation work, inviting them to join you when you visit customers— and ensure that they are aware of the product strategy and product roadmap as well as the business goals and KPIs.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 3, 2018

The same holds for product management: When you create a product strategy for the first time, for instance, you are likely to make plenty of mistakes. Developing an open mind provides you with an inner agility. Don’t let your knowledge, skills, or beliefs define who you are.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 7, 2021

The company provides iOS Native App Development, Android Native App Development, Flutter Cross-Platform App Development, Web App Development, Digital Product Design, and Product Design Workshop. itCraft has a specialized mobile team (Android, iOS & Flutter) and web team working according to the Agile Scrum framework.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 5, 2020

The course covers basics like assessing target opportunities, building software products, and how to launch a great product. The Product Leader Certificate requires a little more PM experience and demands competence in DevOps, data analytics, and hard technical skills. product manager, product owner, product marketing, etc.)

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

The following practices will help you with this: Quarterly onsite meetings : Meet at one of the sites every quarter and carry out joint discovery/strategy and development work. Thirdly, working in the same office, at least for some time, helps with developing initial norms and standards. Don’t forget to regularly rotate sites.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

The following practices will help you with this: Quarterly onsite meetings : Meet at one of the sites every quarter and carry out joint discovery/strategy and development work. Thirdly, working in the same office, at least for some time, helps with developing initial norms and standards. Don’t forget to regularly rotate sites.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 14, 2022

For some reason, most of them want my product strategy and product-market fit lectures during May and June, every year. This year I couldn’t take many such lectures, since among other things I was in London participating in Marty Cagan and SVPG’s Coach the Coaches workshop. and something isn’t working very well?—?they

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The Product Owner Theses A Product Owner is an innovator at heart and thus a value creator for customers and organizations if given a chance to work in an agile manner. The Product Owner is also the most vulnerable Scrum role. as in being the guardian of the Product Backlog?—?, Source: Scrum Guide 2020.)

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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.)

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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Your ScrumMaster or agile coach might be able to help you with this. Product Manager Decides after Discussion. Take the last example from above where you decide to change the frequency of the product strategy reviews. But if in doubt, use consensus or product manager decides after discussion instead. Learn More.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 30,000-plus other subscribers. Hands-on Agile #30: Making Your Scrum Work?—?The The wave of agile transition projects, particularly in large, established organizations over recent years, has provided those frameworks with a tremendous tailwind.

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Userpilot

JULY 16, 2024

On the other hand, a technical product manager brings in-depth technical knowledge to guide the development process , often working closely with engineering and design teams. Technical product manager responsibilities include: Conduct user and market research to understand user pain points.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

And, they might need to collaborate across the organization with a variety of product and portfolio leaders if the organization wants to EOL (End of Life) one product and start a new kind of business. Move between strategy and tactics and back again.) For lack of a better word, I'll call this the product strategy team.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 12, 2019

Especially when we use agile approaches, we want to be close to our customer. Most of their customer information comes via a product owner, who learns from a product manager. Even if you have an agile product value team, the primary contact tends to be the product manager with the customer, not the team.

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svpg

MAY 2, 2016

Other than recommend to people that they read my book or attend a 2 day workshop, I didn’t feel like I was able to give a very satisfying answer. 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

OCTOBER 24, 2023

From Sketch to Launch: The Timeless Journey of Creating and Delivering Think of a skilled craftsman, meticulously working in his workshop. Whether through advanced data analytics that inform Discovery or agile development platforms that accelerate Delivery, technology is an eternal facilitator in these processes. Technology.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 19, 2024

TL;DR This is a leadership role responsible for overseeing the development and management of a product or a portfolio of products within a company. A head of product defines product strategy , sets the product vision, and ensures the successful execution of product initiatives.

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 2, 2019

At workshops for product leaders, we often discuss different approaches to implementing major organizational changes within product management teams and adjacent groups (e.g. First, a nod to Saeed Khan , who points out that there is no universal, perfect organizational model across all product teams and all situations.

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