Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Traditionally, strategy and execution are often viewed as separate, sequential pieces of work that are carried out by different people. For example, a product manager might determine the product strategy and one or more development teams might be tasked with executing it. Enter the Cycle. I call these outcomes product goals.

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Vital to delivering successful products at Clickatell , an effective product roadmap can quell the confusion and missteps that often derail well-meaning product delivery organizations. Roadmaps provide the required context to understand how individual initiatives combine to meet strategic objectives. Product storyline.

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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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The Product Coalition

JUNE 28, 2022

Let’s talk about how to define a product vision, and why the lack of a product vision is so detrimental to your team. As I’ll explain below, the “why” and “where” form your product vision, and your product team (especially your engineers), not only want this from you, but need it in order to do their best work. Directionality.

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bpma ProductHub

APRIL 22, 2018

By Ellen Gottesdiener – Product Roadmaps Are Necessary for Product Success A product roadmap visually depicts how your product will evolve over time to realize your product vision and achieve continual value for your customers and business. (I

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Product Culture

AUGUST 10, 2022

Agile was developed as a response to lack of consistent direction from business execs. But there is something missing in agile and lean. If anything, agile teams complain they spend so much time focused on the next few weeks that they lose sight of the reasons they are doing all this work. What's missing: strategy, vision.

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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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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Product roadmaps is one of the subjects I am probably the most passionate about in the product world. While browsing one of the online communities I am part of, someone commented that outcome-based roadmaps were just ‘regular roadmaps’ anyway, and that: “… Any product manager that knows what they’re doing doesn’t need outcome-based roadmaps.

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bpma ProductHub

APRIL 17, 2017

By Don Stoddard – In the very best companies, roadmaps support key objectives with very specific measures impacting the business. Roadmaps are great at showing a direction, but they often don’t tell the story of “why.” Their teams are aligned on a strategy that is supported by specific objectives and resources.

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Userpilot

APRIL 30, 2024

Top Marty Cagan books product managers should read With all that experience, Marty surely has tons of strategies and insights to share. Authored by Marty Cagan and Chris Jones of SVPG, this book delves into empowering product teams , recruiting and coaching talent, crafting compelling visions, and transforming organizational culture.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 8, 2019

But in the context of planning, agile software development practitioners are wise to take Eisenhower’s words to heart. “In Eisenhower Why agile teams need a product roadmap There are many discussions out there on both the importance of, and lack of importance of agile product roadmaps.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

On this episode of Intercom on Product myself and Paul Adams, our SVP of Product, take a look at roadmapping. Knowing how and when to define a roadmap, who to include and how long to plan for are key elements to finding the balanced approach that you need. As you grow functions, the audience for your roadmap widens.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

On this episode of Intercom on Product myself and Paul Adams, our SVP of Product, take a look at roadmapping. Knowing how and when to define a roadmap, who to include and how long to plan for are key elements to finding the balanced approach that you need. As you grow functions, the audience for your roadmap widens.

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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. Timeboxed Strategizing.

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

What is an agile release train? An Agile Release Train (ART) is a feature of the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe). The train is made up of multiple agile teams. They work on a fixed schedule and share the vision, product backlog, and roadmap defined by SAFe. Principles of an agile release train.

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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.

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Product Management University

MARCH 16, 2023

It is a list of tasks to be completed, items to be added, and features to be implemented as part of the product roadmap. The product backlog further distills the roadmap into smaller chunks of work in order of development priority. Once the product roadmap is established, move on to creating your product backlog.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

so my investor said that I need a product manager to do our product roadmap?”. When I worked as a product management consultant clients would often talk about “needing a product roadmap ASAP”. In reality, asking for a product roadmap was shorthand for “please help me with my strategy”.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 21, 2019

A strong product strategy is often neglected because of the absence of any strategic thinking in product teams. What can product managers do to make sure they give their product strategy the attention it warrants? Tanya shares her ideas for nurturing a strong product strategy from this year’s #mtpcon London Product Leadership Forum.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Photo: Pixabay/Vision We dream of various things. A vision is intended to capture these aspects in a few sentences and briefly describe how the final product should look like and what it should do. To create the vision, I suggest using The Product Vision Board. The very first step I took was stating the vision.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 15, 2019

3 Different Types of Roadmaps Every PM Needs to Master Roadmapping is not easy. Every company demands different types of Roadmaps, and every PM has their own flavour. Here is a step by step process to create roadmaps so you can influence anyone in your company like a true Jedi. So what is Product Roadmap?

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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. Without thoughtful leadership around them, it may not be in product manager’s gift to achieve a “good” roadmap.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 23, 2020

Since releasing both a webinar and book on the impact of feature-less roadmaps on your product strategy recently, we’ve gotten a lot of questions about why we’re so hostile to including features on product roadmaps. But we do believe there is a far more effective way to arrange a roadmap than as a list of features.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 27, 2020

TL; DR: The Cargo Cult Agile Checklist for Download You want to know the state of agility in your organization? If the average number of checkboxes marked is higher than nine, then you are probably practicing cargo cult agile in one form or another. like all other agile frameworks?—?isn’t In my experience, Scrum?—?like

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Roman Pichler

MAY 4, 2022

Scrum is a popular agile framework. You might not know, for example, which marketing strategy is most appropriate or which sales channels are most effective. The marketer might have to create or update the marketing strategy; the sales rep might have to adapt the sales channels, for instance. Listen to this article: [link].

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 11, 2020

Use them to establish a shared purpose, to direct and align people, and to give the individuals the autonomy they need to do their piece of work—be it creating a marketing strategy or designing and building a product increment. Consequently, do not neglect the product discovery and strategy work. Agile Process Constraints.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 11, 2020

Use them to establish a shared purpose, to direct and align people, and to give the individuals the autonomy they need to do their piece of work—be it creating a marketing strategy or designing and building a product increment. Consequently, do not neglect the product discovery and strategy work. Agile Process Constraints.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 29, 2023

A project manager is focused on the completion of a specific project, whereas product managers focus primarily on the long-term vision and evolving a product to deliver value over time. Product management is concentrated on creating value for users and managing the overall product strategy across the entire lifecycle.

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Agile Velocity

MAY 14, 2020

Did you know you can maximize your chances of achieving desired business outcomes by combining DevOps with an Agile transformation? When you hear “Business Outcomes,” “DevOps,” and/or Agile transformation” – what comes to mind? Agile Transformation. Agile transformations and DevOps initiatives are complementary.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

DECEMBER 14, 2020

There is plenty to choose from, whether it be Agile, Waterfall, Scrum, or Kanban. By and large, however, the two most popular for today's organizations are the Waterfall and Agile methodologies. Let's get started with Agile vs. Waterfall. Without and further delay, let's look at two of the most common: Waterfall and Agile.

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Split

JUNE 25, 2019

“ We’re agile, so we don’t need a product roadmap. ”. In an increasingly agile world, I’ve heard this statement and variations of it time and time again. Organizations implementing agile methods often struggle to see how and where a long-term strategy fits in while working under a philosophy built on uncertainty.

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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. As a rule of thumb, avoid meetings with more than ten attendees when you have to make high-impact decisions and/or rework the product strategy , product roadmap , or product backlog.

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Agile Velocity

MAY 20, 2020

The recent Harvard Business Review (HBR) article “ The Agile C-Suite ” 1 and Forbes article “Agile Isn’t New: What’s New Is The C-Suite Embracing It” have prompted some good discussion around the Agile Velocity virtual water cooler. . However, the case being made in this article is that “Agile is primarily for innovation”.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Extensive market research is essential to assess the competitive landscape, identify opportunities, and shape the product vision. Agile is the most common development methodology, so PMs need to be well-versed in its principles. Conducting market research As a product manager, your job is to shape the product vision and strategy.

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 22, 2023

How product mangers can improve collaboration in cross-functional teams Today we are talking with Maziar Adl, the co-founder and CTO of Gocious, an organization that creates product roadmap management software. 6:52] Did you find a gap in the roadmapping tools that were available before you started Gocious?

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Mind the Product

JUNE 19, 2017

The only part of it that ever made me cringe was when a question about the product roadmap caught me flat-footed: “Why is this on the roadmap?”. “Oh, It’s been on the roadmap for a while, but I’m not sure we’ll actually get to it…”. “Oh, Having a captive audience eager to learn about the product is red meat to me.

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 6, 2020

In order to answer the questions above, you may want to use techniques such as direct observation, user interviews, prototyping, creating a strategy canvas or E-R-R-C grid , and you may capture some of them using a tool like my product vision board. Co ntinuous Product Discovery. And if so, what are the consequences for your product?

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