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. Sprint planning meeting : product goal , prioritised product backlog with enough ready items , development team capacity for the next sprint, and any action items from the last sprint retrospective.

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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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Product Management University

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Cranking user stories through the agile factory. Getting product teams to “consistently” operate with this mentality…still a challenge! It spreads product teams so thin with enormous piles of technical debt and you never get the opportunity to deliver industry-specific solutions that set you apart from the competition.

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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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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 8, 2019

TL; DR: Faking Agile Metrics?—?An An Eye-Opening Exercise Imagine you’re a Scrum Master and the line manager of your team believes that the best sign for a successful agile transformation is a steady increase in the Scrum Team’s velocity. Cooking the Agile Books?—?A Velocity?—?the in my experience?—?delivers

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 8, 2020

TL; DR: Remote Agile Anti-Patterns?—?Pitfalls Pitfalls Successful Distributed Teams Avoid We started this series on remote agile with looking into practices and tools, followed by delving into virtual Liberating Structures, and how to master Zoom. This fourth article now addresses basic remote agile anti-patterns?—?the

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Mind the Product

APRIL 23, 2018

And leaders have an outsized impact on team performance. She shared some insights on human behavior, and how we as leaders can use our influence to build a culture of psychological safety, enhancing collaboration and problem solving in our teams. Catch Julia’s stakeholder management workshop in London in October!).

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 14, 2020

Remote Agile (Part 5): Retrospectives with Distributed Teams TL; DR: A Remote Retrospective with a Distributed Team We started this series on remote agile with looking into practices and tools, followed by exploring virtual Liberating Structures, how to master Zoom as well as common remote agile anti-patterns.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

That was the key question I posed in my Agile Cincinnati keynote recently. It thwarts organizations efforts to scale agile product development. Everyone in your product development ecosystem should have a shared, consistent, and coherent answer to the fundamental question, “What is your product?”

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

On June 26, 2017, English football team Crystal Palace enthusiastically announced the appointment of the great Dutch defender Frank de Boer as its new manager. He announced he would take a middling team and turn them into a whirring, possession-based team emulating the lofty ideals of Total Football. The Parable.

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 16, 2023

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.” ” They do a brainstorming workshop to figure out how to make customers click the button more. Solving this problem means hiring the right teams.

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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. Personal opportunity.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 19, 2021

You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 30,000-plus other subscribers. Join more than 145 peers from May 27–29, 2021 , for the Virtual Agile Camp Berlin 2021, a live virtual Barcamp using open space technology principles and practices. Remember, “Agile” is a mindset, not a methodology.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 15, 2019

I never had to deal with developers on a day to day basis?—?the However, I was thrown into the deep end again when I left the comfort of marketing and joined the tech team at Hotelclub where I managed a team of developers. I had no idea what I was doing and how I could lead a dev team. As a tip?—?always

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Tyner Blain

AUGUST 17, 2023

There are several different formats which have been developed for problem statements, and you could use free-form narrative as well. After hundreds of hours helping write and utilize problem statements with dozens of teams over the years, I’ve evolved the template I use and recommend; because it works better in theory and in practice.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 21, 2020

Joe coaches and mentors product teams, supporting them to make good decisions and good user-centred design choices. I’ll be told ‘we’re not shipping stuff when we should, UX is poor, we’re struggling to keep staff’. At the moment he coaches the teams doing the work, but he’s starting to coach business leaders about product strategy.

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 4, 2023

She currently supports very large organizations including P&G in becoming more innovative and agile. That allowed us to take a snapshot of where we were and learn what the team thought might be preventing us from being more profitable. You have a lot of ideas and throw away the bad ones.”

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

TL; DR: Forensic Product Backlog Analysis Garbage in, garbage out: No matter whether your team chose Scrum for the right purpose?—?solving No matter whether your Scrum Team’s product quality is top-notch or whether your teammates embrace self-management to the fullest. Just count the team’s throughput and do the math.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 14, 2017

The developers sitting nearby just watched the show for the first time, but after a while they stood up to join the party one by one. Soon the whole team was standing behind the designer’s screen shouting new ideas and tips about the layout, the colors, the icons, the fonts and everything else. What to expect from a design team?

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ProductPlan

JUNE 11, 2019

While this can occasionally be blamed on poor execution, it is often simply a result of poor goal setting. But why do product teams have such a hard time creating the right goals to achieve our objectives? No matter how smart you are, how much experience you have, and how much subject matter expertise your team possesses.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 6, 2020

For most companies it’s bad news?—?the They develop new business opportunities by making significantly greater investments than their rivals do in R&D and marketing, and they invest in assets such as plants and machinery.” These teams work towards business goals? They take part in reviewing and adjusting team goals.

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Mind the Product

MAY 9, 2019

In March last year, my colleague and Mind the Product’s Director of Training, Rosemary King, wrote about how the company departments working alongside a product team could better work together to meet their common goals and to improve working practices. In Marketing, in Product, in Operations… test, learn, test again. Take Stock Regularly.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 7, 2017

Or “ How to Manage Software Development in Teams who Think Nothing Like you “ Product management has two diversity problems. Cultural homogeneity in product teams is dead, welcome cultural diversity. Every day, I lead a product standup for a team of four engineers: Syrian, Chinese, Ukrainian, and Singaporean Chinese.

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svpg

MAY 2, 2016

Exactly a year ago I was invited to give a keynote at the Craft Conference in Budapest and I discussed the 10 biggest reasons why product teams fail. Other than recommend to people that they read my book or attend a 2 day workshop, I didn’t feel like I was able to give a very satisfying answer. Empowered Product Teams.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

3) Most companies use weak heuristics, opinions and archaic decision processes to place bets on a handful of unproven ideas. The alternative is of course evidence-driven product development. In product management circles the term “Product Discovery” has become most synonymous with evidence-driven product development.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

Hence, if you recognize some anti-patterns in your daily work, why don’t you ask the rest of the Scrum Team for support? The Role of the Product Owner According to the Scrum Guide “The Product Owner is responsible for maximizing the value of the product resulting from work of the Development Team.” Source : Scrum Guide 2017.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 20, 2019

Proceedings kicked off with workshops and leadership discussions on Thursday, followed by the conference itself at London’s famous Barbican Centre. The best way to tackle this issue, Kriti explained, is to ensure that our teams reflect the diversity of the users they serve. Expose Bad Ideas. Change up your decision making.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Teresa: For those of you that are Product Talk readers, Melissa writes our Product in Practice series where we’re sharing stories about teams doing great discovery work, so you may have seen her name there. And that’s not a bad thing. It’s allowing each team to really find what’s going to work best for them.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 18, 2017

We launched corporate product management training this year and have watched it grow faster than we could have hoped, and seen the number of our public workshops double. It probably started with Ben Horowitz’ famous “good product manager, bad product manager” memo and the latest salvo was my own post “ you are not the CEO of anything ”.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Most of us have been through the results of poor management of bugs: hair-on-fire, last-minute late nights to madly scrambling to critical fix bugs blocking a release, or stopping a customer from using a product. Does your organisation provide you and your team with direct access to customers, or are there gatekeepers?

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 12, 2020

So I decided to write a complete guide on getting your team from where they are, to fully using OKRs in 30 days. How to have meetings with the team, what to cover, how to get low performing teams back on track and then how to persuade everyone in the company to use them too. I also make sure to cover the more human elements.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 7, 2019

Like many teams I measured my productivity by output (number of tasks completed) rather than by outcomes (goals accomplished, impact achieved). Like some Agile dev systems, my productivity system was steering me to focus on the here-and-now, and was ill-equipped to help me achieve long-term goals. Upcoming Workshops?—?Lean

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Business of Software Conference

JULY 2, 2019

You will probably recognise most of these techniques in action in your own organisation… Watch, and learn how to integrate design into your team effectively. Jane Austin (Director of Product Design, Babylon Health) – 10 Easy Ways To Irritate Your Design Team from Business of Software Conference. Upcoming Events.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Once you start talking to customers and they start buying your product on the basis of what’s coming around the corner, you’re starting to lose a lot of agility. Getting this right allows your teams to work in lockstep together. But then we brought in four teams – four product managers, four designers, et cetera.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Once you start talking to customers and they start buying your product on the basis of what’s coming around the corner, you’re starting to lose a lot of agility. Getting this right allows your teams to work in lockstep together. But then we brought in four teams – four product managers, four designers, et cetera.

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Userzoom

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Some stakeholders need to see the effects on the team to really appreciate the value, which is where design sprints come into play. When new to a project or team, conduct key stakeholder interviews. Documenting, storing and sharing user research badly, often means new teams have to start from the beginning every time.

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