Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

If you say yes to every request, you are in danger of creating a Frankenstein product—a product that is a collection of unrelated features, offers a weak value proposition, and gives rise to a poor user experience. While the product roadmap is a plan in its own right, it is a mistake to create and manage it in isolation.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 23, 2021

“If you think good design is expensive, you should look at the cost of bad design,” Ralf Speth, a former Jaguar Land Rover CEO. The study by the Design Management Institute analyzed the performance of design-led organizations that place influential design decisions at the top as compared to the Standard & Poor’s index over 10 years.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

Instead, you should engage the stakeholders, leverage their expertise, and generate as much buy-in as possible , as I explain in more detail in my article “ Stakeholder Management Tips for Product People.” ” But do not allow people to dominate and tell you what to do, and don’t agree to a weak compromise.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 12, 2018

How do you best lead the stakeholders and development team as the person in charge of the product? A feature broker is a product person who relies on others—the stakeholders, development team, management, users, or a customer—to come up with ideas and make product decisions.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 25, 2021

Product management requires you to master so many different skills, that there always seems to be a gap between what you do well and what you need to do well to succeed. As a manager of product people, it is your job to help them with this continuous growth, but it’s not always easy. The answer is, of course, yes?—?most

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The Product Coalition

JULY 12, 2022

Here are cases for when the cooperation between the product team and the client brakes down for objective reasons. Here I have tried to reveal the most common cases when the cooperation between the development team and the entrepreneur fails for reasons beyond the control of all parties involved. So I wrote this article.

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Product Management University

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

After countless conversations, articles, webinars and conference sessions, I started to feel like the profession of product management had been reduced to…. Getting product teams to “consistently” operate with this mentality…still a challenge! My favorite part as a lifelong product manager? Finding user problems.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 16, 2024

Golden rules for roadmap management. Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth” — Mike Tyson I’ve wrestled with weak roadmaps — even some downright disasters. Product managers and their teams start with enthusiasm, hit the ground running, and create a solid roadmap. The issue wasn’t the beginning.

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The Product Cafe

APRIL 14, 2024

💜 Welcome to this week's edition of Product Café, your weekly cup of coffee for everything product management, startups, and more. You are managing products well and pushing out successful products, and your customers are happy, too. You need to understand the strengths of your team members. Life is good!

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 12, 2019

At a time when so much of today’s B2B ecosystem is built around software products, I believe it has become incumbent on the people responsible for designing, developing, and building these products to take back leadership of how our companies are run, and lead us all back to a culture of responsible growth. Here I’ll discuss how.

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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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Pragmatic Marketing

JANUARY 12, 2017

In a recent Pragmatic Marketing webinar , Paul Schwada, managing partner of Locomotive Solutions and author of 8 Blocks: The Critical Realities for Growing Any Business , shared where to find the weak leak in your growth funnel (hint: it’s often in the math) and how to strengthen it. So what’s the weak link in your growth funnel?

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NextBigWhat

JUNE 12, 2020

Many founders are confused whether to outsource their MVP development to a development agency (or a freelancer) vs. build it fully in-house. The confusion lies in the fact that many investors / serial tech founders often share that one should own everything in-house and not outsource the development. Outsource the development.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 24, 2022

Whether you’re an individual contributor, manager, or director, you can leverage your own skills – and those around you – to influence growth across your team, org, and company. Every team has a valuable mix of strengths, and varying levels of skill and expertise in different areas across its members.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 12, 2019

Cultural fit is a relatively new concept in hiring and team building. This has given hiring managers the confidence to reject prospects who look perfect on paper, but might not mesh with the existing team and company norms. Culture sets the tone, permeating every aspect of the team and the quality of their work.

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UX Studio: Product Management

MARCH 12, 2024

Whatever industry you work in, one of the ways in which you can grow professionally is by taking on a manager role. While there are a lot of resources and courses to learn design or research, I believe things are slightly different regarding management. But titles in UX management and leadership vary a lot.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 10, 2019

© Knowledge Officer Product management is one of the most leading professions nowadays. If you are a junior product manager or someone who is inquiring about the role, you might find the role duties a bit confusing as the role won’t seem to have any precise or consistent definition. © Knowledge Officer 1- UpGrad Duke.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 1, 2021

Over the course of the past year, the customer support landscape has changed for good. Most support teams have seen an influx of support queries since COVID-19 hit – and those issues are more complex than ever. According to recent research, however, many teams aren’t sufficiently equipped to meet these new challenges.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Restaurants don’t put an Apprentice Chef in charge of the kitchen overnight, so why do we do this with Product Managers? Photo by Sebastian Herrmann on Unsplash Whilst it has been around for decades, product management has grown rapidly over the last few years. In 2021, Product Managers are in high demand and the talent war is rife.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 28, 2022

I stumbled upon a bunch of product management memes while preparing for a talk. I think one of the ways to minimize the chance of this happening is to have an always on routine of talking to customers e.g. standing time to talk to customers that almost gets backed into the operating rhythm of the team. Of course?—?the

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Userpilot

JANUARY 16, 2024

From analyzing market trends to churning user needs and technical feasibility into golden product ideas, there are many benefits of ChatGPT for product managers. A potent tool, ChatGPT has proven to be a strategic addition to the product management toolkit, churning out ideas in even the most unlikely scenarios.

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svpg

JANUARY 11, 2016

Lots of people have written about the challenges of managing growth. I normally write about how to evolve your organization from a weak product org to a strong one. I have seen this anti-pattern play out at every level of a company, from individual software developers all the way to CEO.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 22, 2019

If you are new to sales management, it can be hard to know what concrete steps you can take to improve your skills, be recognized, and eventually, rise to a senior leadership role. As a manager, the tasks competing for your attention only multiplies – coaching , training, interviewing, forecasting , planning, and more.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 16, 2023

In recent years it seems that product management is all about execution and delivery. Photo by Kea Mowat on Unsplash When I moved into product management, almost 20 years ago, it used to be a very senior role. Photo by Kea Mowat on Unsplash When I moved into product management, almost 20 years ago, it used to be a very senior role.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 24, 2022

Do you find being a product manager particularly challenging? Take a look at these nine indicators to determine if product management is the right career for you, or not. digital product management positions have never been more pervasive or idolized than they are right now. Product Managers are problem people.

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Product Talk

AUGUST 16, 2023

Yes, all of the content we create—whether it’s this blog, the Product Talk Academy courses , the community , or the Continuous Discovery Habits book—focuses on the various facets of continuous discovery. And she’s also always happy to coach the members of the Product Talk team in how to develop our own continuous discovery skills, too.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 14, 2019

There are thousands of articles, books , videos , and conferences that discuss the traits necessary for you to become the greatest Product Manager ever. However, information on what makes a disastrous Product Manager is much harder to come by. The “Yes PM” This type of poor Product Manager is difficult to identify.

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Product Management University

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Product experience is a vital part of product design and development. In a user-centric product development framework, PX is crucial. It’s simple to say that product managers, product owners, and user experience (UX) designers are responsible for product experience, but it’s actually a bit more complicated than that.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 10, 2020

I hope this post allows people and teams to safely talk about Product Judgment. If you ever had to face a Manager, Director or Exec as they make bad product decisions and you’re struggling to persuade them otherwise, this post will help you. It takes years to build, and therefore ranges from very weak to very strong.

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Alchemer Mobile

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The build vs. buy question is both one of the most common and one of the most challenging dilemmas facing product managers. Core competencies: How central is the software to your business, and what would you be giving up to dedicate a team to its development and maintenance? What it really comes down to, however, is delegation.

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Alchemer Mobile

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The build vs. buy question is both one of the most common and one of the most challenging dilemmas facing product managers. . Commonly, the ‘build vs. buy’ dilemma comes to an abrupt end when companies are reluctant to integrate, or even forbid integrating with, third-party software development kits (SDKs) of any sort. Time to market.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 2, 2018

Don’t let your calendar get in the way of doing what’s important as a product manager. Experienced product managers benefit from what they learned from previous successes and failures. However, they can also pick up some bad habits along the way. She is Alicia Dixon, senior product manager at Hilton.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 21, 2023

In this ultimate list of product manager interview questions, we have tried to simplify the process of hiring great product managers. Product management encompasses the entire SaaS lifecycle from ideation to launch and everything that follows. What to look for in product managers? Communication skills. Leadership.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

Instead, you should engage the stakeholders, leverage their expertise, and generate as much buy-in as possible , as I explain in more detail in my article “ Stakeholder Management Tips for Product People.” ” But do not allow people to dominate and tell you what to do, and don’t agree to a weak compromise.

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Sequent Learning

JULY 25, 2022

You’ve been working at home, you miss your team. ” Have you been paying attention to your professional development as a product manager? Regardless of your situation, whether you’re a new product manager or one with a few years of experience, you probably should put professional improvement on your agenda.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 13, 2020

When I first researched about product management, I asked seasoned product managers how they started and they gave me very different kinds of answers. A lot of them worked in other positions before moving to product management, like engineers, analysts, marketers and project managers, and learned by taking on extra responsibilities.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Be with your team every day What they don’t tell you is that Product Management is not glamorous. Day-to-day you should be down in the trenches with your team, battling it out. Do whatever it takes to win You are the captain of your team, but you are also the navigator, the sniper, and the bandleader. Lesson #2?—?Do

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