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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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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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. The individual should carry out product discovery and strategy work in addition to taking care of the product backlog work. But the situation is different for product owners in the agile scaling framework SAFe.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 16, 2023

In my first official product role, which I got to after managing large dev teams and a business-related role, I managed alone a product with a development team of ~40 people. One of the first things I did, for example, was to work with the salespeople on how to sell the product.

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 2, 2022

On the ANE panel last night, an agile coach asked, “What's my path forward as an agile coach? Focus on business results, not agility per se. Teams might feel pressure from a too-large backlog or too-long roadmap. Not because people are somehow bad, stupid, or wrong. Nobody wants to “be agile.”

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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. However it’s a problem when those disruptions become more frequent or the product team loses control of the strategy.

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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. An economic downturn, a war — you name it.

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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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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 5, 2023

  (For fun, let’s call those things strategies.) Pure revenue may be helpful for the Sales organization, since they probably need to hire 35% more account teams each year.  ” And this is usually wrapped around an organizational ownership fistfight about who “owns” company-level strategy. 

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Tyner Blain

MAY 24, 2017

Taking agile, a process otherwise optimized for small, cross-functional, collaborative teams and making it work at scale is fascinating. ” I’ve spent the last half-year in the beginning of my journey understanding how agile product management at scale can work. .” Seeing things in practice.

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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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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

I once worked with a telco company that was developing a brand-new commercial product. Product management and development were located at separate sites in different countries. The technical complexities were greater than anticipated and the development progress was slower than forecasted. To Collocate or Not.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

I once worked with a telco company that was developing a brand-new commercial product. Product management and development were located at separate sites in different countries. The technical complexities were greater than anticipated and the development progress was slower than forecasted. To Collocate or Not.

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Mixpanel

MAY 3, 2019

Throughout his career, Al has focused on helping companies develop and execute digital strategies to grow their business and stay ahead of the curve. Developing a mobile product is a daunting task. This Growth process is ongoing and ever-evolving, requiring your team to continuously iterate. Poor Data Integrity.

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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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Product Management University

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Convincing stakeholders the above supports company goals (product strategy). Cranking user stories through the agile factory. Getting product teams to “consistently” operate with this mentality…still a challenge! Your development process is only as successful as your market-facing feeder systems.

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Modus Create

JUNE 18, 2019

When I first attended Scrummaster training, I went in wide-eyed and excited to learn all of the secrets behind this amazing “new” agile project-management strategy called Scrum. But my employer had just paid for me to go through the training, and I was expected to help improve their development processes.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 23, 2020

From objectives to roadmap, the strategy behind product development?—?Part Objectives key results (OKR) is a popular management strategy framework for defining and tracking objectives (goals) and their outcomes. What are OKRs? This framework, which is widely common in medium?—?large

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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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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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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. The individual should carry out product discovery and strategy work in addition to taking care of the product backlog work. But the situation is different for product owners in the agile scaling framework SAFe.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

I became director of communications, leading the development of intranets and web applications. Challenges aside, I enjoyed the close-knit teams and easy access to upper management which enabled quick decision making. Designers vs Developers The work culture in this large organization was unlike anything I’d ever experienced.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 25, 2018

Agile is an awesome approach when done right, but is your team making these common mistakes? Most people will agree that the adoption of agile is now mainstream. This adoption is rightfully so, as agile can be an excellent framework for building software. The longer a team goes without validating (ie.

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

An essential role of CPOs and other product leaders that’s never listed in the job description is giving organizational 'air cover' to product managers to postpone almost all new requests — so that their teams can finish work already underway.    Lately, I’m calling this permission to stay focused.

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 16, 2020

A topic that’s come up several times recently in my product leader coaching sessions: how much to delegate to the (individual contributor) product managers on our teams – including different ways of building product skills and balancing personal empowerment against good results.

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

 Can the executive team?  Are But for calendars, the scarce resource is time rather than development capacity.  Just A Quick-and-Dirty Tabulation with Optional Color Coding Applying some Agile 101, it’s handy to understand a problem before we start fixing things.  Perhaps

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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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Tyner Blain

JUNE 12, 2014

Agile is not magical. Changing from a waterfall process to an agile process changes how your team works, and helps eliminate inefficiencies. Adopting an agile process does not let you magically have a more successful product. What makes agile powerful is also makes it dangerous. Triage and Urgency.

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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

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. How To Talk To Your Executives About Agile. The Best Way To Understand Agile.

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 16, 2023

My experience is in strategy, customer experience, and user experience. I’m focused on strategy and tactics that affect every touchpoint with customers. 6:49] How is poor CX costly to an organization? I see too many teams and organizations say, “It would be great for our KPIs if customers clicked this button more.”

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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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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

How product management teams can make better innovation decisions I am interviewing speakers at my favorite annual conference for product managers, the PDMA Inspire Innovation Conference. This episode is sponsored by PDMA, the Product Development and Management Association. I would say that was a pretty bad decision.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 31, 2022

When it comes to the product team’s organizational structures and strategies, product operations is the hot new thing. More and more teams realize the value of having an operationally-focused professional. Teams must carefully consider if product operations solve the core problems and challenges.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Be with your team every day What they don’t tell you is that Product Management is not glamorous. It’s not about polished strategies presented to rapt audiences in the boardroom. Day-to-day you should be down in the trenches with your team, battling it out. Never be concerned about getting your suit dirty. Lesson #2?—?Do

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