Product Talk

DECEMBER 18, 2024

I was asked to give a ten-minute overview of my continuous discovery framework and then participated in a fireside chat where the host, Cecilie Smedstad , asked me to go deeper in a few areas. I did classic web development before there were frameworks back in the ’90s. How can I add more value to this article?

Product Research

Business of Software Conference

JUNE 30, 2025

Bruce McCarthy’s 4-Stage Stakeholder Engagement Blueprint Identify Stakeholders (TIPS Framework) Don’t just look at the official company organization chart; it’s often misleading or “worse than useless” because the “real org chart” is complex, involving relationships, favors, and personal dynamics.

Leadership

BrainMates

JUNE 17, 2025

Product teams are great at developing a vision, but not always at aligning it. In this article, we focus on how to bridge that gap. The framework breaks down product strategy into four anchor points: NOW – Product Intelligence: Where are we now? THEN – Product Vision: Where are we going? It’s designed.

Weak Development Team

The Product Guy

APRIL 3, 2025

You need a coalition shared purpose, mutual trust, and real support behind your product vision. A growing library of frameworks, case studies, and actionable tools. Subscribe today and unlock this article: [link] Whats the most surprising insight youve gained from a stakeholder alignment challenge? But still things stall.

Leadership

Usersnap

MARCH 24, 2025

This article will walk you through the key phases of the product discovery process , best practices for gathering user insights, risk mitigation strategies, and how to leverage PDLC tools like Usersnap to streamline feedback workflows. Decision-Making & Prioritization Apply frameworks like RICE or MoSCoW to rank ideas based on impact.

Product Research

Usersnap

JUNE 26, 2025

In this article, we will break down his Discovery Health Check framework a fast, no-BS system to help product teams uncover what’s really holding them back before the next feature hits delivery. “We The 3 Discovery Health Checks: Fixing Misalignment at the Root David’s framework is built around three brutally honest assessments.

Product Research

People-First Product Leadership

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Let’s revisit the framework. At the foundation, product sense begins as a blend of ‘art’ and ‘science’ With the rise of AI, the framework for achieving and maintaining product sense is evolving. The same Every article notes, “you won’t know what the AI can do until you ask it to try.”

Product Research

Business of Software Conference

JULY 24, 2025

Claire Lew, CEO of Know Your Team (now Canopy), shares a powerful framework developed from over a decade of working with tens of thousands of people. ” This reveals their openness to new frameworks and support for change. Layoffs, budget cuts, and exhausted teams are a reality for many leaders, from CEOs to VPs of People.

User Testing

UX Planet

JUNE 9, 2025

In this article, we’ll take a closer look at how to organise, analyse, and translate your research data into valuable insights that resonate with stakeholders. As Karen Holtzblatt emphasises in her Contextual Design framework: “An insight without an action is incomplete.”

Data Visualization

Business of Software Conference

JUNE 10, 2025

To address this, he proposes a framework based on five types of thinking, suggesting that only one is instinctual, while the others require structure, vocabulary, and intent. Type 4: Paradigm This is the highest level of conscious thinking, representing your vision or beliefs about how the world should be, aiming to create a paradigm shift.

Technical Review

Sequent Learning

JANUARY 9, 2025

The purpose of this article is to explore four fundamental areas that will help you become more influential and, by extension, a more effective leader. Each area builds upon the others, creating a comprehensive framework for leadership through influence.

Technical Advisors

airfocus

JUNE 25, 2025

Dan’s sailboat framework doesn’t just explain why change happens – it offers product leaders a mental model for how to lead through it with purpose, clarity, and momentum. “But I learned a framework and a model that helped me understand it as being actually a helpful and desirable part of how a business runs.”Â

Feedback Software

UX Planet

JUNE 30, 2025

Within this article, we analyze how AI’s adoption in 2024 impacted key areas of digital CX, highlighting global trends as well as specific insights from major markets like the US and UK. Nonetheless, banks are addressing these by developing AI governance frameworks and using techniques like model explainability and data anonymization.

Data Visualization

Business of Software Conference

JUNE 30, 2025

The Simple Storytelling Framework To implement effective storytelling, Stephen introduces a simple framework built on three key components: Three Audiences, Four Questions, and Three Stories. Vision: What does the world look like when you achieve your mission? A big vision attracts more people who want to see it happen.

Differentiation

The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Why do I need a framework? Research article. So to help you achieve this goal, I’ve laid-out a foundational framework that can be used to store and organize incoming product requests into repositories that describe your product’s strategy. For more details about writing a good User Story, refer to this article.

Framework

Roman Pichler

MARCH 14, 2023

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] What Information Should a Product Strategy Provide? I like to think of the product strategy as a high-level plan that helps you realise your vision and that answers the following four questions: Who is the product for? How Does the Strategy Relate to the Vision and Roadmap?

Product Strategy

The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Below is an overview of the main problems I ran into, along with our framework for addressing them and sustaining our innovation and growth. Low accountability Limited visions of the product by PMs. glidr) Sharing related articles Set up a Product Discovery Board (see Decision-making framework and Thematic Roadmap below).

Product Research

Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Organise the Team around a Product As the name suggests, a product team is focused on a product. For a commercial product, they might include a marketer, a sales rep, and a customer support team member, as I explain in more detail in the article Getting Stakeholder Engagement Right.

Reporting Tools

The Product Coalition

JANUARY 26, 2021

a clear and compelling vision. from ‘ Drive’ All top product leaders know the importance that vision plays in the success of a product. As Marty Cagan states in Inspired : “When done well , the product vision is one of our most effective recruiting tools, and it serves to motivate the people on your teams to come to work every day.”

Vision

The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The importance of measuring the small outcomes associated with their product goals or visions is the key to churn expected benefits throughout the product life cycle. The below image is a simple framework but it is a growth platform that helps in setting up startups, mid-size or even big enterprises. Goals: Goals should be S.M.A.R.T.

Framework

Roman Pichler

MARCH 9, 2021

Scrum is a simple framework designed to facilitate the development of complex products. Some view it as the product vision , others equate it to the product’s value proposition. In figure 1, the vision is the basis for choosing the user and business goals, and the latter create the context for determining the right product goal.

Product Goals

Roman Pichler

MARCH 12, 2024

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Introduction My first product management job wasn’t exactly what you call a success story: I was part of a team that was called in to help with a new product development effort, and I ended up working with the lead product manager. It also makes it hard to manage and adapt the plan.

Research Software

The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2021

Your vision of the future should bring clarity to your roadmap. It aligns business decisions with strategic vision. Effective roadmaps translate leadership’s vision into a guided conversation with stakeholders. The steps outlined in this article will help your product team to frame the conversation. Framework Step 1?—?Vision

Vision

The Secret PM Handbook

AUGUST 4, 2017

The Secret Product Management Framework. Finally writing down the Secret Product Management Framework was a revelation for me. One test of a new framework is how well it explains “previous observations.” ” In this case, the previous observations are the articles I’ve been posting on the blog.

Framework

Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] 1 Complement Scrum with a Product Discovery and Strategy Process Scrum is a simple framework that helps teams develop successful products. I find that the framework is best suited for products that are affected by a significant amount of uncertainty and change.

Product Research

Roman Pichler

MAY 4, 2022

Listen to this article: [link]. Scrum is a popular agile framework. That’s understandable, as the framework is focused on the development of complex products. Use a product vision ; a product strategy with user needs and business goals; and a product roadmap with product goals (aka. Why the Scrum Team is Not Enough.

Product Research

Product Management University

MARCH 24, 2021

It’s to demonstrate that you have a vision beyond the next release or two for how you’re going to make customers better at mission-critical processes that are strategic to their business. Related Articles. A Framework for Delivering High-Value Customer Outcomes. The Ultimate Guide to Portfolio Product Management.

Product Strategy

Roman Pichler

MAY 5, 2020

But you can think of the product owner as an agile product manager, as I explain in the article “ Product Manager vs. Product Owner ”. For example, I am writing this article using Microsoft Word. The agile scaling framework SAFe uses its own product owner role, the SAFe product owner. Pl atform Owner. SAFe Product Owner.

Feedback Software

The Secret PM Handbook

AUGUST 4, 2017

The Secret Product Management Framework. Finally writing down the Secret Product Management Framework was a revelation for me. One test of a new framework is how well it explains “previous observations.” ” In this case, the previous observations are the articles I’ve been posting on the blog.

Framework

The Secret PM Handbook

AUGUST 4, 2017

The Secret Product Management Framework. Finally writing down the Secret Product Management Framework was a revelation for me. One test of a new framework is how well it explains “previous observations.” ” In this case, the previous observations are the articles I’ve been posting on the blog.

Framework

Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 19, 2024

A guide to successful product launches – for product managers Watch on YouTube TLDR The LAUNCH framework, created by James Whitman, offers a complete approach to successful product launches. This framework helps solve common problems in product launches by encouraging teamwork, constant improvement, and strategic planning.

Feedback Software

Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Listen to this article: [link]. If, for example, developing the product requires the application of advanced machine learning algorithms, then you’d have to explore if appropriate machine-learning frameworks exist, or if it’s possible to develop the algorithms in house. The Four Factors Explained.

Artificial Inteligence

Product Innovation Educators

JULY 8, 2024

Essential strategy tools and frameworks for product managers Watch on YouTube TLDR Want to level up your product management game? Whether you’re new to product management or looking to sharpen your skills, this article will help you think more strategically and create products your customers will love.

Strategy

Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

Instead, you should engage the stakeholders, leverage their expertise, and generate as much buy-in as possible , as I explain in more detail in my article “ Stakeholder Management Tips for Product People.” Consequently, a Scrum product owner should own a product in its entirety—from the product vision to the product details.

Weak Development Team

Mind the Product

APRIL 7, 2022

This article focuses on measuring the right things in order to build successful products. It discusses different types of metrics and provides an actionable framework that can be used by Product Managers to measure the path from the customer problem to reaching the product vision [.]

Vision

Roman Pichler

AUGUST 15, 2023

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] 1 No Strategy The first and most crucial mistake is to have no product strategy at all. A handy tool to capture your answers and describe the product strategy is my Product Vision Board shown in the picture below.

Product Strategy

The Secret PM Handbook

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

This is the classic framework from Geoffrey Moore’s Crossing the Chasm. For more, check out my article on Doug Hall’s Three Laws of Marketing Physics , or his excellent book Jumpstart Your Business Brain! The y-axis represents "ability to deliver," while the x-axis represents "completeness of vision."

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