Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

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. Another key aspect to support the people on your team succeed is to create the right environment for people to succeed. Grow Your Leadership Skills.

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UX Planet

MARCH 29, 2025

Written by MaryMoore If youre new to UX design and havent considered strategy yet, now is the time to start. Youre probably thinking, Ill figure it out as I go along, or, Do I really need a strategy? There may be times when you question yourself, or someone on your team wonders, Why are we doing it this way?

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] 1 Complement Scrum with a Product Discovery and Strategy Process Scrum is a simple framework that helps teams develop successful products. Continue the discovery and strategy work while the product is being developed. But don’t stop there. But this is not enough.

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Product Talk

APRIL 9, 2025

Last week, I shared that we often get asked, Do API teams need to do discovery ? Today, Ill be covering the most common usability issues that arise when developers start working with a new API. If we can make it as easy as possible for developers to adopt and get value from our API products, we can often acquire a customer for life.

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Alchemer Mobile

AUGUST 27, 2020

do not interface with developers in a technical way). Instead, you should conduct customer research, ask great questions, and facilitate all aspects of the internal decision-making process across teams. The post Key Advice and Strategies for Mobile Product Managers appeared first on Apptentive. Want to learn more?

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

You use them to take a fresh look at something that might feel overwhelming or vague — whether it’s a roadmap or a strategy — and start with what’s truly essential. While it would have been easy to blame the product strategy, marketing, or any number of other potential targets, they weren’t at the heart of the problem.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The Eight Core Elements of a Winning Product Strategy “The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.”?—?Michael The leadership team finally agreed on the vision. To build a successful product strategy, you must be willing to make tough choices that have a lasting impact and represent big moves. Back to the dilemma?

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 7, 2021

Be Clear on When to Involve the Stakeholders and Development Teams. Complex and high-impact decisions, however, are best made together with the stakeholders and development teams. Additionally, include the development team members in product backlog decisions , and always choose sprint goals together.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 27, 2016

It wasn’t too long ago that designers and developers were disciples of strictly separate crafts – but today, someone who can do both well is quickly labelled a “unicorn”, and sought after by many a unicorn-thirsty start-up. To quote Adaptive Path co-founder Peter Merholz from this blog: “The experience is the product.”.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 2, 2020

But obsessing over efficiency can mask what’s most important, and most rewarding, to support teams – actually helping customers. Support teams exist to solve customers’ problems, not to deflect them or find the fastest way to hit the “close” button. It’s an effective strategy for building customer loyalty.

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Product Innovation Educators

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

His integration of project management, product management, and strategy makes him the right person to learn proper portfolio management from. As product managers take on more responsibility and become product leaders, you’ll need to know how to construct and manage a portfolio and the best approach is Dynamic Portfolio Management.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Instead of relying on someone else (like a coach or leader) to tell them what to do next, product teams can use an opportunity solution tree to keep track of their desired outcome , the opportunities they’ve identified to chip away at that outcome, and the solutions they’re considering to address those opportunities.

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Folding Burritos

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

The reason is that we often fail to be constructive and pedagogic; if we don’t try to change their mindset, we’re sentencing ourselves to be thought of as “those pesky Naysayers.”. You want the stakeholders’ input, but you need it to be (and need them to think) in terms of problems for you and your team to solve. features.).

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

My team is too small. Speaking up might spur a conversation around how to adjust your role to better fit your needs, or better yet, to bring in another team member to share your workload. Limited team bandwidth. The three most common challenges include: I have too many responsibilities. I don’t have enough time in my day.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 29, 2021

Complexity Does Not Need To Look Complex Photo by Karina Zhukovskaya from Pexels You are still on a high from developing that elegant Product idea that would solve all your users’ problems. It took me north of six months to Conceive, Construct and Convince. Each construct, each word acts as a trigger for your audience to ask for more.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 30, 2020

What high performing Product Teams actually look like This is something that comes up often for me?—?I They are all coming from an individual perspective, not a team one ?—?I’ll As a team you're now faced with a hard decision, do we start again or continue forward knowing that there is now a large gap? Who does what?” “But

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2021

If you’re a senior engineer and want to further your career, what skills should you develop? Moving forward in your career, avoid the trap of doing work that feels high-impact, but it’s actually not , or work that makes you look good at the expense of the project and the team. How do people move into staff engineering roles?

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Product Management University

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

If you thought there were a million ways to define product management, product strategy might have it beat by a longshot. Just think about how many ways product strategy is defined within your own organization. It’s the number one thing that makes product strategy both challenging and frustrating at the same time. Here we go.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 5, 2023

Not only does this help them develop their skills and expertise, but it also ensures that your team is constantly improving and growing. It’s a very positive shift, for feedback is essential for growth and development. Lead by example, and demonstrate the skills and behaviors that you want to see in your team members.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

Shift your individual focus from design and execution to vision and strategy. I think one of the first challenges that new product leaders face is understanding exactly the division of labor between themselves and their team members. Doing this right means a lot more than simply supporting your team.

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Mind the Product

JULY 10, 2017

Let’s establish this right upfront: nothing beats a well-managed full-time in-house team of local developers. Are there enough skilled developers at your location? And done right, I believe that outsourcing means you can come very close to your team next door in terms of productivity and innovation.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

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. Another key aspect to support the people on your team succeed is to create the right environment for people to succeed. Grow Your Leadership Skills.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

I’ve asked friends who do the job at social events and got the same answer, and frequently asked members of my own teams, who struggled to find the time to do it. To compensate, I’ve seen UX researchers & designers pick up the mantle a lot more, and the design teams have really leaned into this space.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

” But do not allow people to dominate and tell you what to do, and don’t agree to a weak compromise. The individual should carry out product discovery and strategy work in addition to taking care of the product backlog work. Myth #3: The product owner is responsible for the team performance.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Frameworks have drastically improved the capabilities of small teams to produce amazing experiences for people in very short periods of time. We have a small but really great infrastructure team who help maintain fast development environments. There was a time when you couldn’t do anything serious without jQuery.

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

In this episode, product managers and innovators will learn: the difference between product portfolio management and Agile portfolio management, how to create Agile portfolios, how to navigate some of the common issues encountered with Agile portfolio management, and the importance of keeping high-performing teams intact.

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Mironov Consulting

JULY 25, 2018

Many infrastructure development teams don’t have a product manager, or have a fractional product owner/analyst working primarily on detailed technical requirements. Said another way, great development teams want to work on great technical problems. Product managers and development teams solve different problems.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Stacks can be developed at the project, team, or functional level and are regularly used to improve internal collaboration, measure the impact of marketing activities and reach customers in new ways. Strategy first, technology second. But here’s the thing: a tool is not a strategy. Alternatives: AdRoll, Quantcast.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

A Scrum Master should recognize that different stages of a Scrum Team’s development require different approaches: some, teaching; some, coaching; and some, mentoring. A Scrum Master’s principal objective should be to remove themselves from daily operations by enabling the Scrum Team to be self-organizing. A cross-functional?—?be

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Take, for instance, a food scientist who believes that a new flavour enhancer could improve consumer demand, or a pharmaceutical company that have developed a medication which they believe could relieve high-blood pressure. This is simply bad return on effort. If it sounds too good to be true, there is often a catch (or two).

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 30, 2023

It was another bad start to what seemed like Groundhog Day. “I That’s how budgets were constructed up until this year. Unlike featured-based roadmaps, which focus on the delivery and output of capabilities, outcomes-oriented roadmaps prioritize desired outcomes or results — a key element of product strategy. The root cause?

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 13, 2019

Additionally, there are some product managers out there who don’t understand why it’s important to foster a constructive relationship with engineering. Misconceptions of the role of product management Many engineers that I’ve met have been skeptical of the real value that product managers bring to a team. optimizing for excitement.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 27, 2022

Thus, it’s crucial to track your churn rate to develop strategies to improve engagement and reduce churn. Churn impacts SaaS companies in a number of ways, including the spread of bad reviews, reduction in the overall market, and poor brand image. Bad user experience. Bad customer support.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 20, 2022

We surveyed and interviewed key people in our teams to understand how they worked and how they saw Intercom’s internal operations. 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. Paul: Yeah.

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UX Planet

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Anyone in Product Ownership related discipline or those affiliated with Development, need to be aware of the time it takes to go through Research, Ideation, Iteration, before the subsequent steps of the Design Thinking process can occur (this impacts sales strategies, go to market strategies, communication outreach, just to name but a few tasks).

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 8, 2020

I work in the tech industry & manage a team of around 12 people with a range of product, delivery & engineering skills. As a leader in tech, I have a variety of responsibilities, but I see my main role as building, enabling & motivating teams to deliver great digital products. To my mind, these are the most important parts.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

As a result, the team struggled with how to prepare. I made it no longer than three minutes into the presentation and got this subtle feeling that the team was unprepared. Yeah, I was seemingly in a bad mood. The team was shutting down. I apologized to the team and said we would pick it up next week.

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