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] I certainly don’t intend to make anyone feel bad.

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Userpilot

APRIL 30, 2024

In many ways, he has shaped how successful products are built and how teams can be organized to work toward excellence. In this role, he drove the development of products that took eBay’s global e-commerce platform to new levels of success. Marty Cagan is a popular name in the product management world. Who is Marty Cagan?

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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

” But do not allow people to dominate and tell you what to do, and don’t agree to a weak compromise. Consequently, a Scrum product owner should own a product in its entirety—from the product vision to the product details. But the situation is different for product owners in the agile scaling framework SAFe.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 11, 2016

Manage the Product, not the Team. Focus on your job as the product manager or product owner, and manage the product, not the team. Treat the Team as an Equal Partner. The team members are not your resources but the people who create your product. Assume that the team members want to do their best.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 18, 2019

So, it was natural that we should want to develop a talent growth plan for our people. Each month we send out an NPS survey to assess whether the company is being a great place to work, but a few months ago I also sent Google’s manager feedback survey to my team of 10 product managers. Team execution and development.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2021

You’ve got a clear vision for the future, and it looks bright! The initial steps of this framework took collaboration between business leadership and the product team to set a direction for development decisions. The bad news is that your roadmap is only as accurate as the information driving it.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 19, 2017

Managing the “Shadow Product Team”. Responsibility for defining the roadmap may officially rest with the product team, but there are others in the organization who can directly influence it. Practically all roadmaps will include a few things that fall outside the core product vision. Striking the right balance is hard.

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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. 1 Set an Objective.

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Modus Create

MARCH 8, 2022

What is Agile Release Planning? In Agile, a release is a group of software features that can be developed and deployed to the users in a given period. Adding more plans and meetings to an Agile team can seem like a slowdown which feels scary given that Agile is all about speed and deployments.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 20, 2020

It’s understandable that most of us don’t make time for personal development. Who wants to spend time after a hard day of work learning and developing when they could be kicking back with a beer and watching The Crown? A few months ago, I introduced a concept I have developed called the PM, or Product, Quadrants.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JANUARY 11, 2021

At UX Studio , while we develop our products, uxfol.io and copyfol.io , we are mainly focused on agency work, meaning that we cooperate with several clients as external teams. This post was written from the perspective of designers, mainly intended for external teams and entrepreneurs. Five challenges and solutions.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

” But do not allow people to dominate and tell you what to do, and don’t agree to a weak compromise. Consequently, a Scrum product owner should own a product in its entirety—from the product vision to the product details. But the situation is different for product owners in the agile scaling framework SAFe.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Highly effective Product Managers develop themselves in 5 key areas. In some jobs, you can get by with just Competence, but in the unkempt, fuzzy, team-oriented domain of Product Management, you need both. Here are 2 actions you can take to develop your Craft Competence: Craft Competence ?? and others feel that.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

The Scribe Product Owner A scribe is like a really poor waiter in a restaurant. A scribe just takes your order regardless, of whether it’s a good or a bad idea, they don’t add any value. What’s our vision? Co-creating that vision, but maybe creating it and, and then making sure everyone’s inspired. What is a product?

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The Secret PM Handbook

AUGUST 4, 2017

Create A Compelling Product Vision By Writing The (Amazon) Review First. Of course, a huge amount of our time and energy is taken up in the “solution” area – writing requirements, prioritizing, agile development, roadmaps, working with developers, and ensuring quality. The Best Way To Understand Agile.

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Mixpanel

MAY 20, 2020

Having worked with many product leaders over the past 20 years, I’ve repeatedly heard that balancing the needs of users, engineering teams and the business—all while building a successful product function that drives innovation—is tough. Lifting & shifting: the common pitfall of product teams.

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 25, 2022

Let’s jump in with the bad news: No organization is immune to product vulnerability. However, great product leaders protect their product teams from exploiting weaknesses and vulnerabilities. However, these uncontrollable, unpredictable variables can create weaknesses that morph into opportunities for potential attacks.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 6, 2019

Bringing team members together, organizing user research, product demos, road mapping and more. They also said they wished they had a clearer product roadmap strategy. We’ve taken all these findings onboard and put together this comprehensive product strategy checklist for you to follow. What features are most important to them?

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The Secret PM Handbook

AUGUST 4, 2017

Create A Compelling Product Vision By Writing The (Amazon) Review First. Of course, a huge amount of our time and energy is taken up in the “solution” area – writing requirements, prioritizing, agile development, roadmaps, working with developers, and ensuring quality. The Best Way To Understand Agile.

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The Secret PM Handbook

AUGUST 4, 2017

Create A Compelling Product Vision By Writing The (Amazon) Review First. Of course, a huge amount of our time and energy is taken up in the “solution” area – writing requirements, prioritizing, agile development, roadmaps, working with developers, and ensuring quality. The Best Way To Understand Agile.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 8, 2020

I work in the tech industry & manage a team of around 12 people with a range of product, delivery & engineering skills. As a leader in tech, I have a variety of responsibilities, but I see my main role as building, enabling & motivating teams to deliver great digital products. To my mind, these are the most important parts.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 21, 2021

In this post – we will make it clear how Product Owner vs. Product Manager’s roles differ, what skills each need to have to excel in their roles, why you need both in your product team and when is a good time to hire for those roles! Product Manager’s roles is the stage in the product development process where each is involved.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 3, 2020

So, it was natural that we should want to develop a talent growth plan for our people. Each month we send out an NPS survey to assess whether the company is being a great place to work, but a few months ago I also sent Google’s manager feedback survey to my team of 10 product managers. It was clear the team needed a talent growth plan.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 28, 2017

We know from his ‘ Commentary on the Gallic War ’ that Julius Cæsar, a highly successful general and politician, adopted as a primary strategy the maxim “secure your home base first”. The Vision as a Tool. The outcomes should be clear in the vision you have, as we saw above. Secure Your Home Base First. Bullet dodged!

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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. I would define a good roadmap as one that the team understands and feels ownership over.

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Ask Benny

JANUARY 25, 2020

If you are writing too many details and closing all loopholes, you get less motivated developers who do not exercise their creativity and you lose their perspectives. When working with a good team you actually want to Make yourself “Redundant”. It is very flattering to feel that the development team needs us for every small decision.

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Ask Benny

DECEMBER 31, 2019

If you are writing too many details and closing all loopholes, you get less motivated developers who do not exercise their creativity and you lose their perspectives. When working with a good team you actually want to Make yourself “Redundant”. It is very flattering to feel that the development team needs us for every small decision.

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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 4, 2018

To understand if and to what extent your product is affected by technical debt, talk to the development team, for example, in the next sprint retrospective. I find that development team members usually have a good understanding where issues in the architecture and code are.

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The OKR methodology can be a powerful motivator for high performance and product excellence within teams and companies. The focus then shifts towards outcomes and individual and team authority and ownership. The OKR methodology helps organizations measure success and stay on target with their strategy and vision.

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Userpilot

MAY 5, 2022

Product managers lead interdisciplinary product teams to deliver products that bring value to customers. Product managers monitor and control the product lifecycle while ensuring there is the right corporate environment for its development. The product development process is one aspect of the product management process.

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Userpilot

APRIL 30, 2024

Wondering what a marketing growth strategy is? From this article, you will find out how to develop a strong growth marketing strategy and learn growth marketing tactics for different customer journey stages. Start building your marketing growth strategy by setting goals. Growth marketing is also highly agile.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 17, 2019

This is not a one way street: how does your customer expectations change your product strategy and direction? For instance the user stories, the code, the servers running the code, the documentation, the video tutorials, the go to market efforts and strategy, all the blog posts, the support system. Your team is who you are in a way.

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Gainsight

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Organizations create Customer Success teams to increase Net Revenue Retention, and we’ve recently published research showing that NRR drives valuation. But, then, organizations find that the baseline impact of simply having a CS team eventually plateaus–your NRR stagnates. You may also look outside the CS team.

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The Product HQ

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

They work with leaders and their own teams across organizations. TPMs must communicate strategies, roadmaps, and program issues with all key stakeholders. TPMs are responsible for communicating complex technical ideas to both technical and non-technical team members. In doing so, they often act as leaders across teams.

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Ask Benny

JANUARY 25, 2020

This time I want to explain why many of us are still writing very long specifications even though it is an agile anti-pattern, and how we can all start to write less. In many organizations, the developers and testers ask us to write more and more details to make sure they understand everything and nothing gets wrong. It is a marathon.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 18, 2018

If you work in a product team or in a digital business, you’ve probably heard a lot about this topic, or might even have lost some sleeping nights due to the lack of it in your daily basis. I think that there is no doubt whether designers and product team should work together and if both of them are essential to achieving great results.

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Ask Benny

JANUARY 25, 2020

If you are writing too many details and closing all loopholes, you get less motivated developers who do not exercise their creativity and you lose their perspectives. When working with a good team you actually want to Make yourself “Redundant”. It is very flattering to feel that the development team needs us for every small decision.

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