Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Leading as the Person in Charge of the Product When you hear the term leadership , you might first and foremost think of a senior manager like the head of product, Director of Product Management, VP of Product, or Chief Product Officer.[ You don’t have to be a line manager to lead others.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 18, 2025

What if building what customers ask for is the reason your product is failing? In this episode, Drew Falkman walks us through the evolution of his product discovery mindsetfrom sketching solutions on a whiteboard with no customer input, to learning (the hard way) why even listening too literally can lead you astray.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Today we’ll learn how to overcome some of those challenges from a product leader with experience at Target, McDonalds, eBay, and Meta, and now as Founder and CEO of Taelor. Through market research, she discovered her ideal customers weren’t whom she initially expected.

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Productside

MARCH 3, 2025

In our latest Productside webinar, Becoming an Effective Product Management Leader , Principal Consultants Roger Snyder and Kenny Kranseler delivered a no-nonsense roadmap for new leaders who want to nail their first 90 days (and beyond) and get the tools on how to become a product management leadereffectively. How do I make a difference?

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The Product Guy

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Over time, I realized that my true passion lived in product management, but when I tried to showcase my problem solving skills in multiple interviews, I failed miserably. That was an eye opener, as most of my life, I focused on jumping to solutions, but spent little or no time in defining them in the right way. 2) What should I solve?

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The Product Guy

MAY 30, 2019

Which change in users’ behaviour do we want to drive? Hypotheses are only useful if we test them (with customers), to validate or discard them. As an example, our problem statement could be: Customers encounter a series of friction points when embarking on a shopping journey in a large supermarket. But where do we start?

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Most businesses design customer experiences from the inside out, based on what is best for the company, when they should be doing the exact opposite. Few people are as passionate about customer experience as Annette, the founder and CEO of consulting firm CX Journey Inc.

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The Product Guy

DECEMBER 15, 2019

Under her leadership, Vydia’s Product team has successfully launched a record number of robust features in 2019, elevating the company’s services in content supply chain, rights management, analytics, and payments. , Foolproof and many others, Harpal’s problem solving skills are deeply rooted in design thinking, user needs and collaboration.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Each Session of the program runs for 6 months with paired individuals… Conducting regular 1-on-1 mentor-mentee chats Sharing experiences with the larger Product community Participating in live-streamed product management lessons and Q&A. Jordan lives in Manhattan and in his spare time likes to play soccer. Better Products.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 17, 2020

Others have tried, but we’ve yet to find anyone else with her depth of experience (spanning stints as a developer, designer, researcher and product manager), her empathy for both users and stakeholders, her experience as a teacher, and her sense of humour. Has clicking that icon met the user intent of the feature?

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 27, 2022

Lessons learned from a product manager’s experiences at Google and YouTube. Most of us have become product managers and then moved on (or will move on) to product leadership based on our experiences and knowledge. I want to explore experiences that help you be a better product professional.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

I view it as an entity that creates tangible value for users and possibly customers as well as the business. Once you’ve identified and selected a specific product, you can take the next step and determine the people who are required to create or progress it and generate the desired user and business benefits.

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Product Talk

JANUARY 24, 2024

The foundation of continuous discovery is weekly touchpoints with customers. It sounds simple, but what happens if your product is so new that you don’t have any customers yet? What do you do about discovery if your product is so new that you don’t have any customers yet?

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Mind the Product

APRIL 21, 2020

We’ve heard it again and again – these are odd times; we’re not working remotely, we’re working during a crisis; this is not the new normal. You’re not working the same way, and your customers have different needs than they did a month ago. Customer Discovery. Remote Working. Adapting to change.

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The Product Guy

JULY 4, 2019

My career started at Hewitt Associates which was a human capital and management consulting firm that operated 500 offices in 120 countries. We provided consulting, insurance brokerage, information technology and business process outsourcing services. However, on multiple occasions the transaction would error a second time.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 3, 2022

Dorian has a deep background in product development, starting in engineering and then moving to business leadership roles.? These include roles at Motorola and AT&T along with dozens of companies as an innovation and product development consultant. It starts with describing the customer experience through user stories.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 25, 2021

The channels we use to communicate have shifted dramatically, and customer expectations for fast, personalized support are higher than ever. As a result, companies need to understand their customers and deliver to their high standards if they want to stay competitive. Download your copy of the thought leadership paper now.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 14, 2020

There’s a lot of debate in the product and research communities about quantitative vs qualitative approaches to metrics, so we sat down with Tomer Sharon (MD/Head of User Research and Metrics at Goldman Sachs) to talk about how he uses Google’s HEART approach to track what matters. Lean User Research. Lean User Research.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 8, 2020

This is a time of great uncertainty, with everyone suddenly having to adjust to social distancing restrictions and widespread industry upheaval. Our customers are relying on Intercom more than ever, and often in a host of new and unforeseen ways. A time for the tried and tested. What information do we need to figure this out?

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The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 2017

Each Session of the program runs for 6 months with paired individuals… Conducting regular 1-on-1 mentor-mentee chats Sharing experiences with the larger Product community Participating in live-streamed product management lessons and Q&A. Jordan lives in Manhattan and in his spare time likes to play soccer. Better Products.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

Each Session of the program runs for 6 months with paired individuals… Conducting regular 1-on-1 mentor-mentee chats Sharing experiences with the larger Product community Participating in live-streamed product management lessons and Q&A. Jordan lives in Manhattan and in his spare time likes to play soccer. Better Products.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 30, 2019

David Bland is the CEO and Founder of Precoil, an author, and a long-time practitioner of agile and lean startup. He joined us on the podcast to talk about how to create focus around what matters to your users by using different testing methodologies – a topic he and Alex Osterwalder cover in their book, Testing Business Ideas.

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Mind the Product

JULY 9, 2019

After leaving the Navy and working on nuclear submarines, Dan Olsen embarked on a career that has spanned enterprises and start-ups, consulting, speaking, writing, and running the Lean Product & Lean UX meetup. Jake Knapp & John Zeratsky, Make Time ( US / UK / DE ). Jake Knapp & John Zeratsky, Make Time ( US / UK / DE ).

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 12, 2023

She is the Head of Merchant Growth and Monetization for Google’s B2B ecommerce business, where she is leading efforts to build the next $1B+ B2B business for the company. Before joining Google, Neha worked as a Management Consultant at Essex Product Consulting, where she helped organizations build products.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 7, 2025

A Story to Start During my time consulting with a Fortune 500 financial services company, I encountered a significant challenge they faced with the rollout of a digital platform aimed at streamlining client account management. And heres the best part: its a mindset anyone can adopt, no matter their role, background, or expertise.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 2, 2021

The company now has more than 9 million users on its platform, providing the best of tabletop gaming in an online environment. 1:34] What was going on at Roll20 that cased leadership to hire their first product person? It was a time of targeted growth, and leadership was excited about growing the platform.

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 21, 2021

For seven years it was called The Everyday Innovator, but I recently changed the name to better reflect our mission, which is to help you become a Product Master, creating products customers love. His name is Steve Stucky, and he has over 25 years of experience applying lean product development. . 11:28] Process. 13:40] Practice.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

Each Session of the program runs for 6 months with paired individuals… Conducting regular 1-on-1 mentor-mentee chats Sharing experiences with the larger Product community Participating in live-streamed product management lessons and Q&A. Jordan lives in Manhattan and in his spare time likes to play soccer. Better Products.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Share Leadership and Credit. Instead, in my experience, product managers can build trust by allowing others to present results, demo to executives, and share in the glory of a job well done. Share leadership and allow others to present results and demo to executives (Image: Shutterstock).

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Home assignments have become a standard practice in product management interviews, and candidates often see them as a necessary evil — especially when juggling multiple applications simultaneously, let alone a full-time job and family. A long time ago, in an interview with Google , I suggested that they develop a voice interface.

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The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Innovation Labs are popping up everywhere nowadays, from Westwood, ATT to Lowe’s, New York Times, and Zappos. These companies didn’t become the game changer overnight, it happened over successive iterations and risks that lead to the point where they dominated the customer base. This is actually a great thing. Give Autonomy.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 11, 2022

Yet we continue to think our customers won’t mind changing to use our products. They hand the contract off to the customer success team before the ink dries. Shouldn’t implementation be part of our product experience? Think hard, when was the last time you had a great implementation experience? Customer interviews.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 9, 2020

It’s the perfect storm that produces a swell of people who need to get in touch with customer support. In the midst of such a surge, it’s essential to get customers’ issues resolved quickly. Assisting both customers and support staff by offering predictive suggestions. Short on time?

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 2, 2022

and actively engaging their customers to find that fit. Pretty soon, it becomes apparent that the founders cannot keep up with the customer engagement activities they once did. This is most likely the point where others will come on board to handle several functions, customer engagement being among them. It’s a fair question.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Fortunately, I was paired with a mentor, Vikas Batra, who has several years of product management experience in enterprise telecommunications hardware. Done correctly, its contents should also not be a surprise when it comes time to circulate it around the company. They may have additional color and suggestions. About Julian Dunn.

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DevelopmentCorporate

JUNE 2, 2025

How Companies Are Funding User Research in 2025: Insights from the User Interviews Research Budget Report User Interviews 2025 Research Budget Report is a crucial resource for understanding how modern organizations are approaching the financial side of user research.

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UX Planet

MAY 27, 2025

Because todays users wont waittheres always a smarter, faster and more useful app waiting to take itsplace. Written by Alex Kreger and UXDA team Industry Disruption UXDA has witnessed how quickly markets can shift when a more compelling digital experience arrives: Netflixs streaming overtook Blockbusters rentalmodel. billion in 2020.

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