Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Before you order the roadmap items, double-check that you have a validated product strategy in place. You should be able to confidently say why users would want to use your product and why it is worthwhile for your company to invest in it. If you haven’t nailed the answers, then do not continue the roadmapping effort.

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Why a Product Strategy Process Matters. An effective product strategy process should ensure that a valid product strategy and an actionable product roadmap are always available—that a shared and valid approach to achieving product success is available at anytime, as the picture below illustrates.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 6, 2025

This role expanded beyond individual product features to encompass entire product lines and their impact on the business. This led to the creation of “product success teams” – cross-functional groups that included leaders from various departments working together to ensure product success in the market.

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Productside

MARCH 3, 2025

Taking charge of a product management team can feel like juggling flaming torchesthrilling, but also risky if you dont have the right game plan. Why the First 90 Days Matter When you lead a new product team, your opening move sets the tone. Q : My CEO micromanages our roadmap weekly. Do I push back? Roger : Never say flat no.

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Mind the Product

JULY 30, 2020

Developing your product strategy and communicating your product roadmap is a continual improvement process. The post 4 Ways to Level-up your Product Strategy appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Hold Regular Product Strategy Reviews. A product strategy , like any other plan, is subject to change. How changeable your strategy is, depends on your product’s life cycle stage. As long as your product hasn’t reached product-market fit, the strategy is usually volatile.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 7, 2022

The value the product should create is not clearly understood : A validated product strategy and an actionable product roadmap are missing. A powerful stakeholder or line manager determines the KPIs —not the person in charge of the product. If this data is actioned, bad product decisions will be made.

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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. Contrast this with a sprint review meeting , which might help you determine if users can easily sign up for the product. Assess product strategy and adjust if necessary.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

so my investor said that I need a product manager to do our product roadmap?”. When I worked as a product management consultant clients would often talk about “needing a product roadmap ASAP”. In reality, asking for a product roadmap was shorthand for “please help me with my strategy”.

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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]

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 1, 2020

A handy stakeholder analysis tool is the power-interest grid developed by Ackermann and Eden. As its name suggests, the grid analyses the stakeholders by taking into account their power and interest; it assumes that people take a low or high interest in your product and have low or high power.

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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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Roman Pichler

MAY 13, 2024

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Product Strategy and Change Strategy means different things to different people, so let me briefly share my definition. A product strategy describes the approach chosen to make a product successful. Eisenhower, we could say, “Strategy is worthless.

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Userpilot

JULY 24, 2024

Launching a product without a well-defined product strategy framework is similar—you risk wasting resources without a clear path to success. So, how do you outline a product strategy framework that is the foundation of product-led growth ? Product strategies help you design and grow your products.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 7, 2021

In practical terms, involve stakeholders and dev teams in decisions that affect the product strategy and the product roadmap —be it that you create the plans or that you make bigger changes to them. Additionally, include the development team members in product backlog decisions , and always choose sprint goals together.

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BrainMates

MAY 26, 2025

How to Conduct a Competitor Analysis: A Practical Guide for Product Managers By Adrienne Tan A competitor analysis is one of the essential activities you should undertake before launching a new product or business. Importantly, competitor analysis is not the same as a product comparison.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 31, 2024

For mature SaaS companies, the challenge is less about understanding how users engage with the product and more about fine-tuning product features and monetization strategies to maximize profitability. Mixpanel is a powerful product analytics platform that excels in sophisticated event tracking and user behavior analysis.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 8, 2018

Chris Butler // Philosophie NYC Chris is the Director of Product Strategy at Philosophie where he helps organizations like Google and PwC with product strategy and management. Jackie Bavaro // Asana Jackie is the Head of Product Management at Asana. Twitter | Linkedin | Blog. Twitter | LinkedIn | Medium.

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 6, 2020

This includes the following activities: Review the product performance using the appropriate key performance indicators. Analyse the data collected to understand how your product is doing. What conclusions can you draw from the analysis? What measures would help you achieve the desired product performance?

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 30, 2023

So either we work together to understand your objectives, call them goals if you’d like, and the outcome you are looking for from the product, or we will end the discussion, and you won’t get a committed set of work on the roadmap.” We went away from detailed, long-term, feature-committed roadmaps. I explained this many times.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

How is the outcome-based roadmap different from regular roadmaps? Why do product managers need them? That’s what Dave Martin , a product leadership coach, has talked about in his talk at this year’s Product Drive Summit hosted by Userpilot. Dave Martin on how product roadmaps kill outcomes.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

What is a data product roadmap? What roadmap metrics should you be tracking? We also share software products you can use to create a foolproof product roadmap and drive product-led growth. The difference between a data product roadmap and the traditional approach is the former relies heavily on data.

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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 24, 2024

Expanding on a recent post ( Revenue Goals are Not Company Strategies ), I’ve been seeing lots of maker teams (product, engineering, design) struggling to form product strategies without a company strategy to hang them on.    Product management malpractice.  

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 12, 2024

You might talk to the sales rep, for example, and ask them about the viability of using existing sales channels or get their feedback on a draft product roadmap. You’ll then repeat the process with the other stakeholders until you have acquired enough information or managed to create a roadmap everybody accepts.

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Userpilot

MAY 1, 2024

What’s the best way to ensure your product hits the right chord with users? A user needs analysis conducted with product analytics data lets you build products that address user pain points and exceed their expectations. In this article, we dig deeper into what user needs analysis is and how you can get started with it.

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The Basics of Product Management

JUNE 22, 2025

Get ready to become an AI Product Manager. From market research to roadmap prioritization, AI is reshaping how PMs operate, make decisions, and deliver value. Market Research: From Manual to Machine-Learned Market research has always been a cornerstone of product strategy. And no, this isn’t about replacing PMs.

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 24, 2021

Start with product strategy, determining why the product exists in the market. Then come up with positioning, which is how customers see the product. Suppose we’re creating product management roadmap software for big enterprise teams. Conjoint analysis is best for simpler products.

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UX Planet

JUNE 14, 2024

Over 8,000 people were interested, so I figured this would be a perfect opportunity to explore my product strategy skills. A product strategy is a clear roadmap that ensures a “product or feature” is built for the right reasons, solves the right problems, and stands out from the crowd. Why or why not?

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

specifically newly launched feature, how to reduce the churn rate, how to increase overall product adoption, how to upsell/ cross sell to existing customers, etc. The identification of metric is driven by the goal to be achieved, which is mainly guided by the product strategy and leadership within the organization.

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Alchemer Mobile

DECEMBER 28, 2021

The more you know about a customer’s current emotional state, the more you can tailor your marketing campaigns to provide an engaging, helpful experience and adjust your product roadmap to meet customer needs faster.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 10, 2020

but we had no previous training on strategy. Furthermore, there is no clear path to learn product strategy and no agreed-upon “go-to” resource to start developing this muscle. Understanding how to differentiate based on particular attributes to better serve particular segments is nowadays a common practice in product strategy.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 3, 2021

We influence product roadmaps and product strategy through experimentation, exploratory analysis, and formative research. This remit involves a few different strands of work: We define metrics, set targets, measure results and outcomes, and size new opportunities.

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Alchemer Mobile

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The more you know about a customer’s current emotional state, the more you can tailor your marketing campaigns to provide an engaging, helpful experience and adjust your product roadmap to meet customer needs faster.

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Product Bookshelf

APRIL 15, 2024

Martin Good Strategy, Bad Strategy by Richard Rumels Product strategy is a set of choices informed by product vision and company objectives. A good strategy consists of a diagnosis, guiding policy, and coherent actions. Why is product strategy so hard? “What is product strategy?

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UserVoice

JUNE 5, 2017

That’s why customer feedback is only one ingredient in your product strategy and planning process. You can only interview so many customers and conduct so many usability tests, and small sample sizes can and will skew your analysis. Data collection and analysis.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 8, 2024

At its core, Product Ops focuses on the behind-the-scenes operations necessary for successful product management, ensuring that product managers and their teams can focus on delivering the best possible product to their users.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 19, 2022

Have your product strategy team lead an exercise to prioritize those opportunities based on the value both from the buyer/user perspective and revenue potential. Align the prioritized list to your roadmap with engineering to identify delivery timing based on capacity and in-flight work that may be impacted.

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