Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link]. For example, the marketer has to create the marketing strategy, and the development teams have to design and build the product. Influence and Trust as Leadership Building Blocks. You can find more guidance on empathy in my article Empathy in Product Management.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Want to learn how to create a robust UX roadmap for your UX team ? Look no further as this is exactly what this article covers! We also discuss the benefits of UX roadmaps, present different types, and share top tips for building them. A field roadmap gives a general overview of all UX efforts across all areas and products.

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Product Warrior

MARCH 9, 2023

How do you create confidence in your product strategy with those that approve investment i.e. c-suite or board members? Unfortunately, without anything better, many product leaders rely on the product roadmap to demonstrate their strategy. What happens when you show a senior leader a roadmap? This is a mistake.

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Product Warrior

MARCH 9, 2023

How do you create confidence in your product strategy with those that approve investment i.e. c-suite or board members? Unfortunately, without anything better, many product leaders rely on the product roadmap to demonstrate their strategy. What happens when you show a senior leader a roadmap? This is a mistake.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 9, 2022

Listen to this article: [link]. Additionally, an inspiring vision helps you apply a visionary leadership style and become a visionary leader—someone who guides others through a big, motivating goal. See my article Making Effective Product Decisions for more advice on how to decide together with stakeholders and dev teams.).

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Setting an awesome strategy without building the enablers to executing on it is just a pipe-dream. And too often I’ve seen poor leaders resort to micro-management, HIPPO, and dictatorship in order to fulfil their strategies. As a result, I’ve come to value 5 different aspects of product leadership.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Much has been written about the process of creating product roadmaps, not least the six great articles written by my own team. I believe the actions of a product leader all too often are the root cause of a “bad” roadmap. I would define a good roadmap as one that the team understands and feels ownership over.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 23, 2023

By doing this, you can identify areas of opportunity and develop a roadmap for future product development. You may also need to address any concerns or questions these stakeholders have and work to build consensus around your product strategy.

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People-First Product Leadership

JUNE 11, 2023

Today’s articles explore these themes. The article “ 5 ways that Ted Lasso creates psychological safety for his athletes ”, provides a great starting point. Does your team (or organization) have a shared Mission, Vision, Strategy, and Goals? I enjoyed this article partly because it was ironic.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2021

Part one of this article taught you how to align a roadmap with aspirational business goals. The initial steps of this framework took collaboration between business leadership and the product team to set a direction for development decisions. This step gets into what people think of when they ask for a roadmap.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 13, 2023

How do you develop a robust UX strategy? This is the main focus of the article. We also look at: What a UX design strategy is Why it’s important Its core principles and elements A practical example of a company with well-established UX strategies Let’s dive right in! What is a UX strategy?

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 7, 2022

Listen to this article: [link]. The value the product should create is not clearly understood : A validated product strategy and an actionable product roadmap are missing. To achieve this, refer to the needs and business goals stated in the product strategy and the product goals on the product roadmap.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

Instead of creating, for example, product strategies and roadmaps and tracking KPIs , you should help the people on your team acquire the right knowledge and develop the right skills so that they can carry out the relevant work on their own. Grow Your Leadership Skills. A great way to do this is to mentor and coach people.

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Bain Public

MAY 26, 2022

Roadmapping has become a political problem. Over the last decade, there has been advancements in the product world where the CEO is no longer the only one who calls the shots; now, there is a Product Leadership Team (PLT) who is supposed to work collaboratively with the product manager on defining the next set of features of a product.

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Usersnap

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

In his book “Start with Why” , Simon Sinek boldly claims that the ‘Why’ behind your actions matters more than the ‘What’ This principle isn’t limited to leadership or personal motivation; it extends to every facet of the business, including product roadmaps.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 4, 2022

Listen to this article: [link]. You might not know, for example, which marketing strategy is most appropriate or which sales channels are most effective. The marketer might have to create or update the marketing strategy; the sales rep might have to adapt the sales channels, for instance. Why the Scrum Team is Not Enough.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 16, 2022

When creating your roadmap, you need to consider what’s important to the company (not just to the product) and what is the best way to make progress across these multiple needs. These are the exact questions you need to ask when creating your roadmap. In startups, it is actually the company roadmap.

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 16, 2022

Listen to this article: [link]. Imagine that John is a sales rep and a key stakeholder who hardly ever attends the product strategy workshops you’ve invited him to. Instead, he requests product roadmap changes by talking directly to you. First, empathy is the foundation for effective leadership.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 15, 2022

that products always require roadmaps. Do you think every company and product needs a roadmap?” Then I thought further; maybe complete scenarios exist where roadmaps aren’t needed. Fast forward to the end, there are in fact scenarios where companies and products do not need roadmaps. Tell me your perspective.”,

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Bain Public

MARCH 14, 2022

But unfortunately, in many companies, the product leadership team can perpetuate a negative culture — setting up product managers to fail. In essence, the product leadership team are those with influence on the product roadmap. Product-led cultures elevate products to the highest levels of the company’s mission.

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Bain Public

MARCH 30, 2020

Nearly all Product Managers are now exposed to high-level business objectives and strategies and are challenged by the growing demands on time and responsibilities. Here’s a list of our product-centric articles that our contributors published. Originally published by Loren O'Brien-Egesborg Any company + product manager ?

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 13, 2021

We recently sat down with Linda to chat about how customer success matures as you move upmarket and which strategies can help you to better serve your customers going forward. Your customer success managers need to be in tune with each customer’s business and challenges and work together to create a roadmap to meet their goals.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 23, 2020

From objectives to roadmap, the strategy behind product development?—?Part Objectives key results (OKR) is a popular management strategy framework for defining and tracking objectives (goals) and their outcomes. See you in part II where I will cover the next steps the connection between OKRs, roadmap and agile process.

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Product Warrior

DECEMBER 7, 2022

This is the introduction to my 10-part series to help you execute and continuously improve your product strategy. After explaining to board members we could not acquire the Internet, I quickly learned to execute product strategy fast. A narrow strategy which dictates the solution by providing little room to manoeuvre does not work.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 5, 2022

Listen to this article: [link]. For example, a product strategy workshop might have the objective to identify the key changes required to achieve product-market fit. This assumes that you review and update the strategy and roadmap together, an approach I find very useful.) Assess product strategy and adjust if necessary.

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People-First Product Leadership

OCTOBER 1, 2023

My career coach, Sabrina Braham, shared an article with me titled “ Majority Of Americans Would Rather Fire their Boss Than Get A Raise ” It’s from 2012, so I did what anyone would do, I asked ChatGPT if there were more recent figures. ” It’s not a roadmap of what to build. Step 4 - Continue Learning.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 1, 2020

While this definition includes users and customers, I use the term in this article to refer to the internal business stakeholders. For guidance on how to interact with the other stakeholder groups, please see my article “ Getting Stakeholder Engagement Right ”. Build Trust. Involve the Stakeholders in Important Product Decisions.

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Bain Public

JUNE 16, 2021

(Montreal, Canada) – Paul Ortchanian, Founder, CEO, Head of Product, Data and Strategy of Bain Public , lead a workshop on June 17th in collaboration with NEXT AI for a second year in a row. Paul’s unique experience brings together the necessity of great engineering and the beauty of product strategy. Session Information.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

Listen to this article: [link]. Instead of creating, for example, product strategies and roadmaps and tracking KPIs , you should help the people on your team acquire the right knowledge and develop the right skills so that they can carry out the relevant work on their own. Grow Your Leadership Skills.

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Roadmunk

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

I’m constantly consuming articles on product management, product culture, startups and entrepreneurship to bolster my career as a product person and leader. This list is not the be all end all; there are countless ‘must-read’ articles for PMs. I’ve hand-picked articles that specifically helped me during key moments in my career.

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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 1, 2020

The vision guides the user and business goals, which are contained in the product strategy. The user and business goals help select the right product goals, which I capture on the product roadmap. The vision is the objective, and the product strategy is expressed by the key results. Should You Use OKRs for Your Product?

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Hutwork

MARCH 9, 2018

And as a product manager finding out how others made a strategy work, whether it was implementing a road-map software or avoiding other’s pitfalls can make or break your product’s success. Magazine reports that most CEOs read at least a book a week, and this doesn’t include blogs, articles, podcasts, and videos they devour, too.

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Agile Velocity

MAY 3, 2024

Business agility encompasses aspects such as product innovation, customer-centricity, cross-functional collaboration, and adaptive strategy execution. Agile Transformation Strategy In today’s fast-paced and ever-evolving business landscape, agility isn’t just a buzzword; it’s necessary for survival.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 19, 2022

To me, it translates to your products driving your business strategy and growth plan. Once the product-based revenue potential is rolled up across the portfolio, an enterprise number emerges to share with leadership. Of course, that product-driven revenue potential will be negotiated with leadership.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 5, 2021

This article tackles one of the areas that gets the most interest from product managers: how can they use an essentialist approach to create and communicate better product roadmaps ? To ensure you’re adding the right features and initiatives to your product roadmap, I’ve outlined several suggestions here.

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Gainsight

JUNE 16, 2022

If you’re crafting a product roadmap, your vision and internal alignment must be crystal clear. . Too often, product leaders start building their roadmap plans only to be bombarded with conflicting feedback in all directions. So, how do you get beyond the distractions to build a roadmap you can defend and align around?

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2017

A product leader not only has to manage products but also to guide and direct the overall product strategy and team, and ensure that products are delivered to market. If you are stepping in a new role involving more responsibilities you will find in this article 3 essential points to consider for a smoother career transition.

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