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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Agile Velocity

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

It is one of the most commonly used, abused, and misused metrics in Agile software development. Teams, their managers, and even their stakeholders often focus on “improving velocity” without considering the entire value delivery system. Successful Programs for Metrics in Agile. Bad turnover. Measure for a Purpose.

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Agile Velocity

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

It is one of the most commonly used, abused, and misused metrics in Agile software development. Teams, their managers, and even their stakeholders often focus on “improving velocity” without considering the entire value delivery system. Successful Programs for Metrics in Agile. Bad turnover. Measure for a Purpose.

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Modus Create

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

In 2021, we will likely see a continuation of many of the trends that began this past year, along with some new (and positive and exciting) opportunities that will continue to reshape the business landscape. Expect this trend to continue in 2021, when we will see open source projects move from unaffiliated communities to boardrooms.

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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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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

We know that moving at speed is all about making decisions quickly and acting on them – but quick decisions get a bad rap. . Still, effective, quick decision-making is a skill we crave and can increase agility, energy, and momentum within any team. . Continuously review your assumptions and find your blind spots.

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ProductPlan

MAY 22, 2020

It’s not necessarily bad when product management adapts to each company’s specific needs. Below is the discussion Melissa Perri had with John Cutler and Jim Semick on why teams that are scaling need product ops. Processes & Practices: The more product teams grow and multiply, the less homogenous they get.

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The Product Bistro

JULY 17, 2018

The role of product manager is somewhat synonymous 1 with the agile concept of “product owner” where you are the representative of the “customer” to the development team. This is doubly true when the product manager is also the product owner in the scrum team. Real world scenario.

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 4, 2020

In the world of Agile, every sprint has goals. These sprint goals make it clear to the entire team what the objective of each sprint is. With a SMART sprint goal and its associated product backlog items in hand, the implementation team can get to work and keep their eye on the prize of meeting expectations.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 19, 2017

It’s all too tempting to fall back onto less skilful habits and become impatient, tense and stressed, say something we regret afterwards, or pass on the pressure to the development team. Additionally, keep an eye on market developments, new trends and technologies, and the competition. Nothing beats meeting real users.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Agile Died While You Were Doing Your Standup. The inimitable Nate Walkingshaw argues that despite the successes Agile has brought us, it’s time to take the things we have learned from Agile and move on. Understanding how Design Thinking, Lean and Agile Work Together. Dual-Track Agile: Why Messy Leads to Innovation.

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 9, 2017

Independent of your specific product job, you should take an interest in software technology and be aware of major trends like artificial intelligence (AI) and Internet of Things (IoT). It’s the team’s job to decide how the product is built, not yours. Don’t feel bad if you lack technical understanding.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 17, 2019

Empower Your Teams if you Want to be Truly Agile. Agile and Lean are both experiencing this at the moment, as they have been oversold as the solution to too many problems. Agile and Lean are not inherently poor or incorrect, rather they’re being used to solve problems they weren’t designed for.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Product launch checklists help align the efforts of all team members, enhance quality assurance, help mitigate risks, enable the evaluation of the launch, and help you deliver a better customer experience. Develop a product that meets customer needs and expectations. If you can find buyers at this stage, you’re onto something.

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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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Userpilot

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Once you start developing a feature, you should also test it regularly. Next, use the right tool to collect the right information and use the data to inform new developments. Iterative testing is used a lot for usability testing as it helps teams improve the product UX quickly before the product launch. PMF survey in Userpilot.

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Usersnap

AUGUST 4, 2020

And if you’re here to find the best project management tool available, I have some bad news for you. Requirements differ from company to company, from team to team, and even from person to person. Jira is the best-selling software development tool from Atlassian. Trello for development and design teams?

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 17, 2019

For many years CSSSR has been developing IT systems for the biggest online banks, witnessing their success firsthand. This experience has led to several key insights: You Don’t Need a Large IT Department “We operate in small teams. To begin with, the development of new functionality requires considerable resources, including people.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 1, 2020

The goal is to help product teams “rise above the day-to-day slog and truly think through what makes a successful Product and how to make it happen.”. Agile Leadership Summit. This event may have gotten its start as an ancillary part of the Agile+DevOps Leadership Summit, but for Agile product leaders, this is the main event.

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bpma ProductHub

JULY 13, 2016

Being born and raised in New England, I’ve been a part of the Boston area development community for decades now — making a point to foster and support local professional organizations whenever I am able. It often isn’t about what decisions I make, but more about the quality and strength of the team doing the actual work.

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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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Split

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

No matter what industry you work in, the evolving demands of an “agile” promise is a challenge to live up to. For developers, that requires constant pivots, faster response times, and a graceful recovery from failure. As it turns out, there’s an important set of metrics all software teams should use as their benchmark.

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Good Product Manager

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Every year around this time, at SiriusDecisions we look ahead to the major trends and areas that b-to-b leaders should be mindful of for the coming year. Perfect for VP’s and CPO’s, this session will focus more on the teams and organizations that build product vs. the product itself.” Product Management Podcasts.

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Userpilot

APRIL 8, 2021

UX debt affects high-growth SaaS companies in industries where time-to-market is mission-critical and bootstrapped startups without a design team most. Code-free workarounds can 2x your feature adoption despite bad UX. Competing on features, rushing into ‘following trends’ can easily result in UX debt too. What is UX debt?

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Amplitude

MAY 18, 2017

The world of product development is changing rapidly. Those that survive now move faster than ever before, leveraging trends in product development like agile, devops, microservices, continuous integration and autonomous testing to go from quarterly release trains to multiple releases per day. Click To Tweet.

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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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The Product Coalition

JUNE 13, 2018

PM/PO, here is how you can have some deliver predictability with basic statistic applying in the team throughput TL:DR; How can we have the predictability of team deliver? Answers that all PM/PO would like to know Like a Product Manager/Owner, is an important thing to know how the team is performing.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 6, 2019

Bringing team members together, organizing user research, product demos, road mapping and more. Know your neighbors Explore your competitors’ apps , and public feedback to document their strengths and weaknesses. At the minimum, your mobile product will bring design teams, IT, marketing and operations together?—?these

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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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Good Product Manager

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Every year around this time, at SiriusDecisions we look ahead to the major trends and areas that b-to-b leaders should be mindful of for the coming year. Perfect for VP’s and CPO’s, this session will focus more on the teams and organizations that build product vs. the product itself.” Product Management Podcasts.

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Good Product Manager

DECEMBER 16, 2018

Twas the night before product launch, when all through the team. Not a developer was coding, nor crafting a meme. At the end of every year, at SiriusDecisions we look ahead to the major trends and areas that b-to-b leaders should be mindful of for the coming year. prodmgmt #agile. Twas the Night Before Product Launch.

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People-First Product Leadership

MARCH 4, 2024

How would you approach working with new team members in a different country, specifically to grow empathy and connection, due to cultural differences? Starting a community of practice I joined Pearson to create the Future Technologies team. How do you navigate an organization that is limiting the growth of the product org?

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The Product Coalition

MAY 17, 2019

The product team : This is the close-knit team that build the artifacts used to evolve the product (green layer). Ideally, this is a cross-disciplinary team working closely together in an iterative/agile kind of way. The team tend to operate in weekly / bi-weekly cadence. Your team is who you are in a way.

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Good Product Manager

DECEMBER 16, 2018

Twas the night before product launch, when all through the team. Not a developer was coding, nor crafting a meme. At the end of every year, at SiriusDecisions we look ahead to the major trends and areas that b-to-b leaders should be mindful of for the coming year. prodmgmt #agile. Twas the Night Before Product Launch.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 31, 2018

I would be great, designing new products, grabbing market trends and customer feedback and transforming them into a shiny new toy that everyone would love (and buy). With no resources, no developers, no release cycle, no roadmap? Did I need to add epics and user stories to a backlog if I had no resources to develop features from it?

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Good Product Manager

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Because of typical product development timelines and sales cycles, the results of the product management team’s labors might not be reflected in revenue and customer satisfaction numbers until the following year. I’ll be presenting on Applying Agile: How It Can Help and When It Doesn’t. deepPRODMGMTthoughts.

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Good Product Manager

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Because of typical product development timelines and sales cycles, the results of the product management team’s labors might not be reflected in revenue and customer satisfaction numbers until the following year. I’ll be presenting on Applying Agile: How It Can Help and When It Doesn’t. deepPRODMGMTthoughts.

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