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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Product Talk

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Every single person that contributes to building a product, all of the makers in the room, we need to care about our customers, we need to make sure that what we’re building is going to work for them, and I want to introduce some ideas that will help you do that. What I saw was they were talking to customers periodically.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 14, 2017

We like to get painful user problems to solve. You can ask me to change the color somewhere or put a button on a screen, and I will probably do that, but I really like to get challenging problems where I can do my research build prototypes, do user tests, and come up with a solution that will raise our product to the next level.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

But the value a product creates is ultimately determined by its users: No product will be successful in the long run if it does not solve a specific user problem, create a tangible benefit, or help the users achieve a specific goal. But the situation is different for product owners in the agile scaling framework SAFe.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

It achieves this by using sprints to create product increments, collecting feedback from users and stakeholders, and adapting the product with the insights gained. [1] It achieves this by using sprints to create product increments, collecting feedback from users and stakeholders, and adapting the product with the insights gained. [1]

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Productside

MAY 27, 2025

New players are entering the market with agile teams, wearable integrations, and insurer distribution deals. Theyve been asked to come back with a strategy that delivers more value to customers and drives measurable business growth. Despite some success with this reactive, feature-driven approach, WellNest is starting to fall behind.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

I view it as an entity that creates tangible value for users and possibly customers as well as the business. Once you’ve identified and selected a specific product, you can take the next step and determine the people who are required to create or progress it and generate the desired user and business benefits.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

She shared insights from her experience leading product teams at various organizational scales and helping companies transform their product vision into measurable business growth. She now runs her own consultancy, helping CEOs scale their companies by transforming product vision into measurable business growth.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 3, 2017

Early on, before product-market-fit, business strategy and product strategy are one-and-the-same & thus product vision needs to be owned by the founder. It takes a while to reach that fit to the point that you can optimize business and product strategy independently! User Insight. Customer Councils.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 30, 2017

I had a strong roadmap, clear goals and a vision for the product. We would regularly meet to discuss the features required, what the customers expected. In fact, our tests regularly failed. In fact, our tests regularly failed. A production release was a distant vision. We were testing our code.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

He translates complex business problems into solutions that are easily consumed by engineering, marketing and sales. Leonardo da Vinci Ladislav believes that success is in simplicity that’s why his aim is to help companies to make complex products simple for users. Dominic has a BA in Psychology from the University of Massachusetts.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

The ideas of Agile are great. Design Thinking is how we explore and solve problems; Lean is our framework for testing our beliefs and learning our way to the right outcomes; and Agile is how we adapt to changing conditions with software. Agile is related to Lean. Comparing and contrasting Lean and Agile.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 5, 2020

A feature owner who manages a major capability with which end users interact like search and navigation on an online retailer’s website. The role is not called product administrator, feature broker, product backlog manager, user story writer, or project manager—even though that’s sometimes how it is interpreted. Word is the product.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 3, 2023

How to Achieve Success in Your Product Strategy In today’s rapidly evolving market, having a clear product vision and a well-defined strategy is essential for the success of any tech product. A compelling product vision is a guiding light, providing direction and purpose to the development process.

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Product Takeoff

MARCH 19, 2019

To achieve that level of confidence and to build products in that space we as product managers have to focus on a few key principals before we plan on getting the next thing in the marketplace.The four major principals we generally go by are Vision, Strategy, Team and Rapid learning.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 9, 2021

Some view it as the product vision , others equate it to the product’s value proposition. A sample goal might be to acquire users, increase conversion, generate revenue, or reduce technical debt. What’s more, I like to ensure that product goals are connected to the product strategy and its user and business goals.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Here are 10 great product books on pre-product market fit (pre-PMF)! ?? Learn who to listen to: “The Mum test” (Rob Fitzpatrick) This book will teach you that they’re some people you should never listen to, like your mum. User story maps outline the interactions that users need to go through to complete goals in your product. ??

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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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Centercode

JUNE 11, 2025

AI-driven user testing, video insights, plus seamless app distribution and expert resources— discover Centercode 10x. Platform Scalable, Automated, Real-World User Testing Centercode is the leading platform to manage impactful in-the-wild user tests. Start for free , scale as your program grows.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 6, 2022

For fast-growing and enterprise organizations, the ability to personalize customer communication in a way that’s scalable is business critical. In fact, studies show that not only do customers expect great experiences when interacting with companies, they’re willing to pay more for them. Here are some of their takeaways.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 14, 2023

 He is also the co-author of Build What Matters: Delivering Key Outcomes with Vision-Led Product Management. A lot of companies have a mission statement that they think is a strategy or vision. The vision is where you intend to be in several years. A lot of work that goes into a vision. It provided a lot of clarity.

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Melissa Perri

JULY 23, 2024

Other companies that are well-versed in role definition usually need help in the Product Strategy and Product Operations department as they scale.The Product Strategy category is a frequently weak area - sometimes not due to the quality of the vision and strategy, but to the way it's deployed.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 22, 2019

If you wanted to know your customers’ gripes and praises in the past, you had to assemble a series of questions anticipating their possible answer. It’s all part of a customer-centric philosophy that emphasizes empathy and self-awareness over a staid corporate vision. But there’s a better way now. Short on time?

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Much of the literature that defines the role as the intersection of business, technology, and user experience isn't particularly helpful for practitioners who are left wondering what skills they need to learn versus the fine people they work closely with in actual business, technology, and user experience roles.

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 6, 2020

This increases the chances of creating a product that users actually want and need and achieving product success. Carrying out product discovery involves answering the following questions: What is the specific value the product should create for the users and customers? Who are the users and who are the customers?

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Usersnap

MARCH 24, 2025

The team spent months building it, yet users dont see its value. It helps teams uncover real user needs, validate assumptions, and reduce development risks before committing time and resources. Yet, many teams rush into development without properly testing ideas, leading to wasted effort and failed launches. Lets dive in.

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Userpilot

MARCH 24, 2025

Salesforce Field Service is a market leader with customers including many Fortune 500 companies. It represents a broad set of industries, including manufacturing, utilities, communications, consumer goods, and healthcare. Their customers rely on their offline-first mobile app to guide them through complex fieldwork.

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 22, 2023

As the title of this episode conveys, our discussion will weave together topics for aligning customers’ needs and business strategy. They’re about cutting sprints and prioritizing user stories. I was the CTO in a part of the organization called consumer services. We had a direct-to-consumer product.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 11, 2019

If you have an application or SaaS product, the welcome page that users see after signing up is much more than a cheerful “hello” to your users. It’s during the onboarding period when new users will decide if you can follow through on the promises you made of saved time or increased revenue. Or, at least, it should be.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 26, 2024

Twenty five mini-research ideas for finding something meaningful to work on. In the perfect world, product managers have all the time, resources, and skills to do impeccable, in-depth market and user research. So let’s talk about mini-research. Think of research as digging for gold.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

He translates complex business problems into solutions that are easily consumed by engineering, marketing and sales. Leonardo da Vinci Ladislav believes that success is in simplicity that’s why his aim is to help companies to make complex products simple for users. Dominic has a BA in Psychology from the University of Massachusetts.

Analytic Tools 271

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 13, 2020

That is what our guest did to investigate what people think about marketing and how it fits into the work product managers do. She currently leads Product Management at Obo, where she is working on agile product management software that aims to reduce the high failure rates for new products. Marketing is all about your customer.

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Empowering product teams to create an agile culture with a customer focus. We actively look for problems and unmet needs, recognizing that those are opportunities to create value for customers. In short, where we find our most energy and satisfaction is creating products that customers love. That has meaning.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 20, 2019

Even with very short cycles between discovery and delivery, it can take up to several months from identifying a user problem to the release of a potential solution to real users. At Xing the technology we use is predefined so I will focus business and user needs and how they are connected. The Dilemma With Product Discovery.

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 11, 2019

For today’s post, we sat down with Chris Hockley , an agile delivery manager and lean agile coach at SuperAwesome. We love stories like this one that showcase how different teams adopt the opportunity solution tree to fit their needs, and we hope you find it as inspiring as we do. Did you miss the first post in this series?

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Roman Pichler

MAY 4, 2022

Scrum is a popular agile framework. Forming such a team connects the person in charge of the product—the product owner—with the people who design, architect, program, test, and document the solution—the developers. I believe that the first definition is more helpful, especially in an agile context.

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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 4, 2018

But the quality of your product matters: It directly impacts your ability to achieve strategic product goals and make your products successful: Technical debt makes it hard to experiment with new ideas, release new features, and quickly respond to user feedback. [1].

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