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How to Offer Constructive Feedback: A Framework for Product People

Roman Pichler

Framework Overview To help you successfully tackle people issues, structure difficult conversations, and offer constructive feedback, I have developed the framework shown in the picture below. This allows you to get better at offering constructive feedback in the future. You can download the infographic by clicking on it.

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Tips for Becoming a Head of Product

Roman Pichler

It means that you’ll have to deal with people issues on a regular basis, help and support the individuals who are on your team, constructively address problems and offer advice. Feedback: You are able to offer constructive feedback so that the other person can receive it and benefit from it.

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Succeeding with Product Delivery and Scrum: 10 Tips for Product People

Roman Pichler

It therefore offers only limited support for product people. 4 Take Advantage of Product Goals I like to think of a product goal as the specific outcome that a product should achieve in the next two to three months, for example, to increase conversion, to decrease churn, or to future-proof the product by removing technical debt. [4]

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Stakeholder Management Tips for Product People

Roman Pichler

Collaboratively set goals , for example, user and business goals on the product strategy and product goals on the product roadmap. The post Stakeholder Management Tips for Product People appeared first on Roman Pichler. Ask the Scrum Master to help you build a stakeholder community.

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Five Product Owner Myths Busted

Roman Pichler

This includes showing the dev team how agile processes can be applied and suggesting specific techniques, facilitating meetings, and teaching people how to constructively deal with conflicts. But as the product owner, you should focus on the product , not the team and the process.

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Decoding Product Leadership

Roman Pichler

Consequently, a product manager and a Scrum product owner are leaders, too. They guide the stakeholders , development teams, and in the case of large products, other product people, to meet the agreed product goals , create the desired outcomes, and achieve product success, as Figure 1 shows.

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Making Effective Product Decisions: Tips for Deciding with Stakeholders and Dev Teams

Roman Pichler

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.