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Tips for Becoming a Head of Product

Roman Pichler

Consequently, your focus shifts from managing a product to looking after the product people on your team and empowering them to do a great job. 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.

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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 same is true for making product decisions together with the stakeholders, which I discuss next. Involve the Stakeholders in Important Product Decisions.

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Tips for Becoming a Head of Product

Roman Pichler

Consequently, your focus shifts from managing a product to looking after the product people on your team and empowering them to do a great job. 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.

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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. To make things worse, it’s not clear who has the final say on product strategy changes. Use a Dedicated Facilitator.

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How to Offer Constructive Feedback: A Framework for Product People

Roman Pichler

Cindy who helps you manage the product started to come late to meetings. It can be tempting to ignore people issues and focus on product-related tasks like reviewing the product strategy , updating the product roadmap , and refining the product backlog. But this is hardly a recipe for success.

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How Execution Can Make a Big Difference: A Go-to-Market Strategy and Process Guide

The Product Coalition

During that time, I started a T-shirt printing business, took embedded systems classes for school kids, built an electronic automation device, incorporated a solar engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) company, and built a food export business. The six steps towards finding PMF are: Line up your product goals first.

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

Roman Pichler

To successfully manage your product and maximise value delivery, you should use additional artefacts including the following five: An inspiring vision that describes the ultimate reason for offering the product; A validated product strategy that captures your approach to realise the vision and make the product successful.