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Leveraging New Technologies: 3 Tips for Product People

Roman Pichler

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Make Time to Keep up with Technology Trends As new technologies come and go, it’s important for you—the person in charge of the product—to stay on top of the developments. This will not only benefit your product.

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How to Choose the Right KPIs for Your Product

Roman Pichler

To select the right KPIs, I recommend taking the following three steps: First, use the user and business goals in the product strategy to select an initial set of indicators. Then take into account the product goals on the product roadmap to discover additional KPIs. Then consider how you can tell if they have been met.

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Dealing with an Underperforming Development Team

Roman Pichler

Listen to this article: [link]. A development team does a good job if the following three conditions are fulfilled: First, the group reliably meets the agreed sprint goals and delivers product increments that offer a great user experience and exhibit the desired software quality. What is Bad Performance?

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Ask the Community: How Do You Shift From Functional Teams to Value-Driven Teams?

Product Talk

“Each team has a clear mission and will have distinct product outcomes (I’m only on week three of the Defining Outcomes course, so this part is a work in progress!).” They received a lot of pushback from the engineers initially because it created complexities around code reviews, tech debt management, release processes, etc.

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10 Product Roadmapping Mistakes to Avoid

Roman Pichler

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link]. 1 The Product Roadmap is a Feature-based Plan. Traditional product roadmaps are usually output-focussed plans that map a list of features, like registration, search, and reporting, onto a timeline. Decline stakeholder requests if they aren’t aligned with the product strategy.

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How to Choose the Right KPIs for Your Product

Roman Pichler

Listen to this article: [link]. Key performance indicators (KPIs) are metrics that measure how your product is doing. Effective KPIs help you understand if your product is creating the desired value for the users, the customers, and the business. Without KPIs, you end up guessing how well your product is performing.

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25 must-read product management articles

Roadmunk

Throughout my career as both a product manager and startup founder, there’s been one severely underrated skill I credit for much of my success—and that’s reading. I’m constantly consuming articles on product management, product culture, startups and entrepreneurship to bolster my career as a product person and leader.

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