Roman Pichler

JULY 20, 2016

Whenever you are faced with an agile, dynamic environment—be it that your product is young and is experiencing significant change or that the market is dynamic with new competitors or technologies introducing change, you should work with a goal-oriented product roadmap, sometimes also referred to as theme-based. 2 Do the Necessary Prep Work.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 11, 2020

The latter includes carrying out product discovery and strategy work , updating the product roadmap , and prioritising the product backlog. What’s more, do not de-prioritise your leadership work even when push comes to shove and you are pressed for time. Leadership at Multiple Levels.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 11, 2020

The latter includes carrying out product discovery and strategy work , updating the product roadmap , and prioritising the product backlog. What’s more, do not de-prioritise your leadership work even when push comes to shove and you are pressed for time. Leadership at Multiple Levels.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

How first principles can help you design product roadmaps from the ground up. Product roadmaps are no exception. Creating or even updating a product roadmap can feel like being handed a blank sheet of paper and told you have 60 minutes to write a ten-page college essay on a topic you didn’t study for….

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2017

We started by defining the objectives I wanted to achieve over the course of my 6 months in the product mentor program, an important exercise at the beginning of any mentor partnership. A new leadership role is also a good opportunity to assess and evaluate whether you have the right skill sets and resource capacity in your team.

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Productside

APRIL 16, 2025

Productside | Product Management Courses & Training Breaking the Silos: How Product and Engineering Build Better Together In Season 3 of Productside Stories , we sat down with Guy Gershoni , Head of Engineering at genesIT, for a candid conversation on what it really takes to build great products in todays complex tech environments.

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Productside

MARCH 6, 2025

Technology Roadmap Figure out the dev stack, the product backlog tools (Jira vs. Aha?), The Product Ops Power Move Most big M&A sprees result in Frankenstein processesdifferent roadmaps, templates, product lifecycles, all living under one corporate roof. She standardized everythingno more 14 different ways to build a roadmap.

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Productside

APRIL 2, 2025

But instead of telling a clear, compelling story, they send out a spec or share a roadmap deckand hope it gets read. Share it with leadership. Bringing Product Stories to Life Storyboarding is a leadership tool that helps product managers cut through confusion, align faster, and influence decisions that matter.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 8, 2024

The individuals whose buy-in to strategy and roadmap decisions is crucial are the players: They are interested in your product, as they, for example, will have to market and sell it. Smaller strategy updates and product roadmapping decisions, however, are not as critical. I refer to this group as key stakeholders.

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Product Management University

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Market Analysis Before and With AI Customers are clamoring for a number of improvements to your product and youre on a mission to get them funded and on the roadmap. AI has no idea which sales deals are hinging on your roadmap. AI doesnt know if anything on your proposed roadmap will open up new markets, etc.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Much has been written about the process of creating product roadmaps, not least the six great articles written by my own team. I believe the actions of a product leader all too often are the root cause of a “bad” roadmap. Without thoughtful leadership around them, it may not be in product manager’s gift to achieve a “good” roadmap.

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Folding Burritos

DECEMBER 4, 2019

I believe the main culprits are Mr. Roadmap and Mr. Backlog. Culprit #1: Mr. Roadmap. How should we balance technical debt vs our feature roadmap? However, with the structure described here, it’s possible to quantify and visualize these shifts over time, so that we can show where the problem is and discuss it with leadership.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 5, 2022

To make the duties more accessible, I have grouped them into four sets: people management, processes and tools, business strategy and organisational development, and self-leadership. You might achieve this by mentoring and coaching the individuals as well as recommending suitable training courses. Self-Leadership.

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Product Talk

JANUARY 13, 2021

And just like I encourage trios to share their discovery context before they share their roadmaps and backlogs, I’ll do the same here, before I talk about my plans for the year ahead. That led to the launch of the Product Talk Academy and our first course, Continuous Interviewing. Product Talk’s Desired Outcome.

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 20, 2025

First, as a coach who offers strategy and leadership guidance to the person in charge of the product. The GO Product Roadmap is the template I have developed to capture an outcome-based roadmap. Once it’s created, it is executed, often over the course of several years.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 19, 2017

Stating a list of wholesome qualities is easy, of course. Challenging situations are great opportunities to grow as a human being and by doing so, you increase your leadership power. This will earn you the respect and trust of your followers and at the same time, it will make you a happier person. How cool is that? Trust me.”.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 4, 2023

For example, ensure that the individual’s role and responsibilities are clear; help the person grow as a product professional, be it by coaching and mentoring them or by encouraging them to attend training courses; offer clear and helpful feedback and hold them accountable for meeting agreed goals. Second, develop the product management team.

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The Product Manager Coach Blog

JANUARY 14, 2025

Tailor Your Communication: Adapt your messaging for different audiences, whether its engineering teams or senior leadership. Address Pain Points Proactively: Regularly ask for feedback to show you value their input and are ready to adjust course. Present a high-level roadmap by your 90-day mark to demonstrate strategic planning.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 16, 2022

When creating your roadmap, you need to consider what’s important to the company (not just to the product) and what is the best way to make progress across these multiple needs. Of course, it would have been ideal to find someone who had had both extensive experience and amazing learning abilities, but there’s a reason unicorns are so rare.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 5, 2023

It forced me to question a belief, as a product leader, I treated as an absolute — that products always require roadmaps. Do you think every company and product needs a roadmap?” Of course.”, Then I thought further; maybe scenarios exist where roadmaps are optional. Roadmaps are not always needed. he asked.

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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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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 5, 2021

To prevent your product backlog from becoming a wish list, follow these two tips: First, select a product goal and align your product with a strategic plan like a product roadmap (as I discuss below). See my article Boost Your Product Leadership Power for advice on increasing your authority.). Second, have the courage to say no.

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 16, 2022

Instead, he requests product roadmap changes by talking directly to you. First, empathy is the foundation for effective leadership. This does not mean, of course, that you cannot or should not have any opinions. But act in an empathic way: Find out first what’s going on with John and try to understand why he missed the meetings.

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 22, 2023

How product mangers can improve collaboration in cross-functional teams Today we are talking with Maziar Adl, the co-founder and CTO of Gocious, an organization that creates product roadmap management software. 6:52] Did you find a gap in the roadmapping tools that were available before you started Gocious? It’s evolving so fast.

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Lenny Rachitsky

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

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Lenny Rachitsky

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

For more: Hire your next product leader | Favorite Maven courses | Lennybot | Podcast | Swag Subscribe now I believe the future of product management looks like Tal Raviv. To get a taste of the course, check out his free 30-minute lightning lesson, “ Build Your Personal PM AI Copilot ,” scheduled for November 22.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 4, 2018

This helps the individuals embrace an agile mindset, take advantage of new techniques and tools—think of hypotheses-driven strategy validation, goal-oriented product roadmaps, and user stories—and effectively collaborate with the agile development teams. Strategy and leadership skills are nice-to-have but not mandatory.

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Lenny Rachitsky

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

For more: Lennybot | Podcast | Hire your next product leader | My favorite Maven courses | Swag Subscribe now Last week’s guest post about tactics for becoming a “super IC” is on track to being my most popular post of all time, so I’m thrilled to bring you a follow-up that’s designed specifically for managers.

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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.” We went away from detailed, long-term, feature-committed roadmaps. I explained this many times.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

This includes sprint planning , Daily Scrum , sprint review , and sprint retrospective , as well as product strategy and product roadmap workshops. In theory, your Scrum Master should focus on providing people and process leadership. It’s usually not something you can learn within a few days or by attending a single training course.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 15, 2022

that products always require roadmaps. Do you think every company and product needs a roadmap?” Of course.”, Then I thought further; maybe complete scenarios exist where roadmaps aren’t needed. Fast forward to the end, there are in fact scenarios where companies and products do not need roadmaps. he asked.

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Product Management University

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The word roadmap usually conjures up thoughts of a product roadmap for people in a technology product company. For customer success managers though, the intent of a customer account roadmap, while similar, is bit more surgical than a product roadmap when it comes to defining success and leading customers to it.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 3, 2017

See it as an opportunity to improve your product management practice and leadership skills. This, of course, is sometimes easier said than done: Addressing the issue requires courage. This doesn’t excuse Jane’s behaviour, of course. Therefore, do not ignore conflict. And did you contribute to the conflict in any way?

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 7, 2020

I worked with the product leadership to plan out a product strategy. Then, I created a product roadmap to move that strategy forward, which ultimately drove a 15% increase in revenue and a 20% increase in retention. I believe in focusing on outcomes to power-up aligning your product strategy with business goals onto a roadmap.

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

This move demonstrates the importance of innovation and risk-taking in maintaining market leadership. Conclusion The strategies and experiences shared by Greg Coticchia provide a roadmap for navigating the complex landscape of product portfolio management and business growth strategies.

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Productside

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Key Topics Discussed in This Episode Hiring and Developing High-Performing Product Teams Abner reveals how to hire the right talent for your team, nurture leadership potential, and balance technical expertise with soft skills like emotional intelligence. Leadership lessons for identifying potential in your team and fostering growth.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 3, 2019

“Having a solid framework for framing the discussion is a big step forward” Of course, there’s still heaps of ambiguity and subjectivity. This skill ebbs and flows in importance depending on where a team is at, and usually leadership provides clear direction on this front. Leadership behaviors.

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