Roman Pichler

JUNE 1, 2020

Collaboratively set goals , for example, user and business goals on the product strategy and product goals on the product roadmap. The most amazing product strategy and the best product roadmap are worthless if the stakeholders don’t support them. Ask the Scrum Master to help you build a stakeholder community.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 3, 2017

See it as an opportunity to improve your product management practice and leadership skills. But bear in mind that negative thoughts and emotions cloud your perception; they will make it difficult to have a constructive conversation with Jane. Offer a helping hand and make constructive suggestions for resolving the issue.

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Product Talk

MAY 10, 2017

The most obvious way to be output-oriented is to give your teams a roadmap that lists features and release dates and ask them to deliver against that roadmap. The value of this approach is that rather than having all of the decision-making power come from the leadership team, it gets diffused to the teams closest to your customers.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 3, 2021

Do you want to represent a big idea concisely to your customers or your leadership? The Concept Map Target Audience: Product Teams and Leadership Intent: Sharing Vision and presenting the concept for acceptance The concept map helps you illustrate and present, well, a concept. Good things come in small boxes.

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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.” That’s how budgets were constructed up until this year. So, what is an outcome-oriented roadmap?

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Roman Pichler

JULY 9, 2019

And do you agree on what a product vision , strategy , roadmap , and backlog are, for example, and how these plans should be captured? Make sure, though, that you hire people not only for their product management and domain knowledge but pay attention to their leadership and people skills. What are performance evaluations based on?

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Roman Pichler

JULY 9, 2019

And do you agree on what a product vision , strategy , roadmap , and backlog are, for example, and how these plans should be captured? Make sure, though, that you hire people not only for their product management and domain knowledge but pay attention to their leadership and people skills. What are performance evaluations based on?

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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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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 24, 2024

However, as Mary Baird’s inspiring story shows, a successful pivot from nonprofit leadership to product management is not only possible but also incredibly rewarding. However, Mary’s experience in nonprofit leadership provided her with a unique set of transferable skills that would prove invaluable in her new role.

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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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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

They need help constructing messages that support a user journey and can respond appropriately when a user engages—or more importantly doesn’t engage—with messages in that journey. Lisa soon realized that her team was turning to her for guidance on the orchestration roadmap. Part 1: The Design Sprint. Tweet This.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 24, 2021

They lead their teams, building excitement on a product vision, roadmap, and features. You need to build trust with your manager, their manager, their peers, and with senior leadership that you can do the work and you can do it well. Understanding this distinction is critical to successfully making the transition.

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Alchemer Mobile

AUGUST 20, 2019

How do you inform your product roadmap? Before making any major changes or adding anything drastic to your product roadmap, make sure the survey responses are statistically significant. Reach out separately and close the loop with people who gave constructive feedback. Steps to Take Before an App Update.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 11, 2016

Provide constructive feedback and share your concerns. Be aware that collaboration requires leadership. As important as it is to make enough time for the team, don’t neglect your other product management duties, such as, engaging with users, working on the product strategy and roadmap, and managing the stakeholders. Learn More.

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Ronke PM

MAY 8, 2024

Table of Contents What does culture-driven leadership mean? The importance of culture-driven leadership in product management. Influential product leaders manage their teams with well-being in mind, necessitating culture-driven leadership. What does culture-driven leadership mean? Final thoughts.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 1, 2020

While I really appreciate this entrepreneurial aspect of our work, it can bring up tension, stress, and frustration when we are trying to progress our products towards agreed goals but are in danger of missing them, be it a sprint goal , product goal on the roadmap , or a strategic user or business goal. Becoming Aware of Difficult Emotions.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 1, 2020

While I really appreciate this entrepreneurial aspect of our work, it can bring up tension, stress, and frustration when we are trying to progress our products towards agreed goals but are in danger of missing them, be it a sprint goal , product goal on the roadmap , or a strategic user or business goal. Becoming Aware of Difficult Emotions.

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 31, 2017

I get pulled into lots of discussions among product managers about the best ways to represent (and then present and present and present) roadmaps or backlogs, especially to internal sales/marketing/support audiences. Each functional group has its own product priorities, so each wants a different roadmap. Just sign here.”)

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Product Management University

APRIL 12, 2021

Their feedback is welcome and will be far more constructive at this point because you’ve completely changed the complexion of the conversation from products to customer value. Then align individual product roadmaps (features sets) to that portfolio strategy accordingly. Structure Your Product Organization for Value.

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svpg

JULY 15, 2016

In recent articles on keys to product success and the alternative to roadmaps I have highlighted that if you want the benefits of product team empowerment and autonomy, then you need to provide each team with the necessary context in which to make good decisions. Leadership inspires and sets the direction, and management helps us get there.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 31, 2021

Your leadership team, stakeholders, and individuals doing the work all need to trust that your influence will result in better outcomes. Within Autodesk Construction Solutions (ACS), PMs are responsible for their individual product areas. The roadmap is just a list of things you say you’ll be working on. increase commensurately.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 1, 2016

1) Purposeful Leadership, (2) Compelling Brand Values, (3) Employee Engagement, and (4) Customer Connectedness. Get the Product Mastery Roadmap and…. create a path to executive leadership. Credit goes to L’Oreal’s leadership who allowed a chemist to pursue a problem she had as a teenager, which resulted in a new product.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

I’ve reviewed roadmaps for hundreds of different products. I’ve participated in more roadmap review meetings than I can remember. And until now, I never thought to share the view a product leader has on roadmaps — at least publicly. When reviewing a roadmap with the product team, there are six points I always look for.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

In the end, the sales team sold it anyway and I was forced into changing the roadmap as a result, putting our strategy at risk. We’ve written about this in our blog Sales Teams Close More Deals When You Give Them The Product Roadmap.) I’ve experienced issues like this throughout my product management career.

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 10, 2016

I construct the discipline of product management to span idea creation through product launch and on to eventually discontinuing the product. Get the Product Mastery Roadmap and…. create a path to executive leadership. Building and managing such teams is a challenge and many end up being dysfunctional instead of productive.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Tanya shares her ideas for nurturing a strong product strategy from this year’s #mtpcon London Product Leadership Forum. But I’ve met many teams who clogged up their roadmap with good ideas that cumulatively have little impact. What can product managers do to make sure they give their product strategy the attention it warrants?

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

It is particularly helpful when the stakes are high and you have to make a complex product decision, for example, if you should pivot, create a product variant to address new market segment, or change one of the goals on the product roadmap. Consensus is certainly not a silver bullet.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2018

Your roadmap is one of the most important things you’ll produce as a SaaS company. Who will you share the roadmap with: Just employees, or customers too? And then there’s perhaps the biggest question of all: “How do we decide what makes it on to our roadmap?” And your roadmap should change with them. They change a lot.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

The path to engaging releases starts with planning your near-term roadmap. When you’re constructing your roadmap, you should already be thinking about how you want to bundle tasks into releases and how those releases are communicated to your users. We have linked all our previous release notes in our public roadmap page.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 20, 2022

Honest feedback can be hard to take, but it’s essential to develop the type of culture that encourages people to constructively criticize processes, leadership styles, or approaches. Velocity is how fast a company can execute their product roadmap and then in a specific direction i.e. their strategy.

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 27, 2020

Roadmaps are shared. So I frame this as a leadership challenge: how do we (as product leaders) let our product managers know that what’s acceptable, and that we’ll intervene when needed? Disagreements and criticism are shared privately, respectfully, constructively. (We Demos are shown. Unscripted Q&As happen.

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UX Planet

OCTOBER 22, 2024

That initiative was a calculated yet risky investment from leadership, and the controlling group of the organization. It was accomplished by a deeply committed team, where representatives of various groups made this endeavor a priority for what they were aiming to fulfill on their roadmap.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

The only constructive byproduct is a learning experience worth communicating to save other products from succumbing to the same mistakes. An ineffective product manager can leave a pile of waste behind – a waste of time, money, hope and enthusiasm by the time the product gets launched, if it ever gets launched.

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UserVoice

MARCH 21, 2017

But within their own company, product leaders must deliver similar plans to their colleagues if they want to establish and maintain their position of leadership. “To A well-constructed and effective internal organization is also essential for a product leader and his or her team to be successful.

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Bain Public

JUNE 12, 2020

We really enjoy bringing you constructive and a typical product management research, practical work advice, and analysis. Bain Public is a product leadership firm that helps companies make informed decisions and deliver superior quality products that appeal to customers and achieve business goals. found the most interesting.

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ProductPlan

APRIL 6, 2020

Everyone gets a chance to provide an update, and leadership can emphasize priorities or answer burning questions for the group. Regular roadmap reviews. If there’s one single thing to keep a remote team aligned, it’s a well-made and maintained product roadmap. First, it keeps the product vision front-and-center.

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Product Warrior

MARCH 9, 2023

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? Product leaders need to create confidence by using the value drivers of their product strategy to frame the roadmap - or in some cases replace it.

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