Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

Don’t make the mistake to cover the Scrum Master’s work over an extended period, as this will either cause you to neglect some of your core responsibilities or sacrifice your health —neither of which is desirable, of course. A great way to resolve any performance issues is to address them in the sprint retrospective.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The importance of measuring the small outcomes associated with their product goals or visions is the key to churn expected benefits throughout the product life cycle. In summary, this framework gives an opportunity to discover, experiment, build, measure, learn and sell the product for outcomes aligned with the product vision.

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ProductPlan

DECEMBER 20, 2018

To understand the problem with technical debt roadmaps, we’ll start with a quote from renowned philosopher, Homer Simpson. When you create a dedicated roadmap for technical debt, you are removing the the problem from your immediate sight. In this article, we’ll discuss why technical debt roadmaps don’t work.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 15, 2022

Storyboards help Product designers to test multiple versions of products, product flows, and customer journey maps until there’s a final design for all team members. Storyboards on Unsplash by Matt Popovich Start with the product goal to create a storyboard. After clapping of course!) It's essential.

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UX Planet

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Even if UX work seems fine at your organization, know that there are still some things to set a budget for, like improving the product’s creation process, or your customers’ and users’ experiences. Have you defined your short-term and long-term product goals? It also helps in saving on directionless development costs.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 9, 2021

Product Goals Defined. The Scrum Guide released in November 2020 states that “the product goal describes a future state of the product … [It] is the long-term objective for the Scrum team.” It also suggests that “the product goal is in the product backlog. Figure 1: The Product Goal in Context.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

Don’t make the mistake to cover the Scrum Master’s work over an extended period, as this will either cause you to neglect some of your core responsibilities or sacrifice your health —neither of which is desirable, of course. A great way to resolve any performance issues is to address them in the sprint retrospective.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 5, 2023

Annual planning and the product roadmap. Annual planning determines where we want the product and how we intend to get there, which typically results in a high-level product roadmap. While your product roadmap doesn’t need release dates on it, the upcoming year’s calendar should get surfaced during this process.

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Modus Create

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Communicating the impact of technical debt in business terms makes it visible, which helps stakeholders prioritize issues on the product roadmap. . Align Technology & Product Roadmaps. provides an elegant way to look at both technology and product roadmaps — they are two sides of the same coin.

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BrainMates

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Making things even less straightforward is that each Product Manager will likely have a different combination of skills. The Product Management profession itself is still relatively new. Even the little wins can give everyone a morale boost as they make progress towards your bigger product goals.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 7, 2021

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. Additionally, include the development team members in product backlog decisions , and always choose sprint goals together.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Strategic product management focuses on those aspects of product development that are key to long-term product success. This includes inbound activities like defining product vision and product strategy, setting product goals, developing the product roadmap , or planning the product launch.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 31, 2023

Of course, none of this is possible without the right tool for the job: Userpilot is a powerful customer activation platform that’ll help you meet your product goals (at a reasonable price point, and without writing a line of code). Set individual in-app goals to build an even deeper understanding.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

.” (Note that I have chosen a dual goal that captures the desired business and user benefits.). I like to take this idea further, derive several product goals from the product strategy for the next 12 months, and capture them on a product roadmap.

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The Product HQ

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Technical program manager (TPM) roles range from mid to senior-level positions that support organizations with their product goals. TPMs must communicate strategies, roadmaps, and program issues with all key stakeholders. We recommend taking the AWS Certification Course.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Aligning Meaningful Metrics via the Product Roadmap. One place where product strategy and metrics can intersect is the product roadmap. We all know product roadmaps aren’t just a chronological list of scheduled features. But those metrics may or may not line up with those of the business.

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Userpilot

APRIL 6, 2023

Use opportunity solutions trees to align the problems you try to solve with product goals. Pick the right prioritization framework and make data-driven prioritization decisions to manage the roadmap. Poor communication: even if you nail your product goals , make sure to communicate them clearly to the development team.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JANUARY 18, 2022

They assist other product managers on their team gather customer feedback along with other relevant product data. Using this data, APMs can help influence the product development roadmap, if need be. Together, they collaborate to drive development goals and actualize the product vision.

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Userpilot

APRIL 25, 2022

Product friction describes anything that causes your users difficulty. Function friction is primarily about users being blocked from reaching their product goals because of an error, poor UX, or other factors. Those logs will quickly drive out a roadmap of areas to improve. Identify and fix bugs in the product.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 7, 2021

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. Additionally, include the development team members in product backlog decisions , and always choose sprint goals together.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

For some products, a Product Hunt and WOM are more suitable, whereas for others in-app announcements work better. Product launch managers collaborate with the marketing manager to set the launch and product goals and timelines. They also work with the customer success team on product onboarding to drive adoption.

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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? Do we want to work on multiple product goals at once? That’s our real job as Product Managers. Why is that? Chock-full of Themes, Epics, Releases and Features.

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Product Talk

JUNE 21, 2023

Product Talk’s North Star metric is to increase the number of product trios who adopt a continuous discovery cadence to their work. This is what inspired Teresa to write the Continuous Discovery Habits book and shift Product Talk to a course-first business. She’s been a great source of support on a lot of levels.

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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. Having an effective Scrum Master allows you to focus on your job—to maximise the value the product create. The same is true for setting product goals.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 29, 2023

Agile release planning allows teams to deliver value in less time and collect user feedback while they are still working on the product. A product roadmap is a general long-term plan of how to deliver on the product vision whereas an agile release plan focuses on short iterations, often called sprints, and are more detailed.

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Gainsight

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

In this blog, we break down the basic tenets of customer training, outline four traditional training methods that companies use today, and present ways to supplement them with online courses to create more effective customer training programs. What Is Customer Training? These are just the tools, however.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 11, 2022

Yet, only a few have this “sense” when coming into Product, they argue. To not try to please everyone, Ben and Blair advise “staying the course, given your strategy is sound”. Product Management is about solving customer problems.” This is the case because PMs are often faced with too many requests from too many sides.

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Usersnap

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

It’s about aligning feedback with your product goals and the company’s vision A simple framework you can use: Impact vs. Effort: How impactful is the feedback, and what’s the effort required to implement it? Aligning feedback with your product’s raison d’être ensures you remain on course.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 5, 2021

In terms of day-to-day work, associate product managers do everything a product manager does, but on a smaller scale. In other words, you may not set the product strategy or own the product roadmap , but you will set priorities for your projects. Do you always start as an Associate Product Manager?

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Product Management University

AUGUST 5, 2019

Consider for just a moment that your company and its products don’t exist, but the customer organizations that you serve do. Of course not. The better each product supports its business goal, the closer you are as an organization to making your portfolio vision a reality. On to product strategy. Sales Training.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 5, 2021

In terms of day-to-day work, associate product managers do everything a product manager does, but on a smaller scale. In other words, you may not set the product strategy or own the product roadmap , but you will set priorities for your projects. Do you always start as an Associate Product Manager?

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User Testing Product Research Product Management Product Manager 98

Userpilot

JULY 14, 2023

The process of creating a product analytics framework starts by identifying internal stakeholders it will benefit from. Next, each stakeholder group sets relevant product goals , chooses corresponding metrics , and selects data sources. Solid product analytics tools include Amplitude , Google Analytics 4 (GA4) , and Hotjar.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 16, 2019

You also need to encourage word-of-mouth virality based on the strength of your product. Goal of website. Of course, the content burden is significant and thus is more appropriate for well-funded startups. At this level, you want to encourage users to experience the application themselves and to see the benefits first-hand.

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BrainMates

MAY 7, 2019

They should be able to: Communicate and defend a worthy Roadmap that demonstrates the Product path for the next 12-18 months. Recognise when the Product reaches Market Fit (or not). Know the levers that drive Product success. Product Leaders need to be capable of doing Product Manager work so that they can: Build trust.

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Gainsight

JUNE 17, 2021

Product key performance indicators (KPIs) will be a lifesaver as you craft your product development road maps, laying the groundwork to support decisions. How do you create a product road map? A digital product road map is a master plan that lays out a shared vision about your product. Path Analysis.

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Product Management University

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Consider for just a moment that your company and its products don’t exist, but the customer organizations that you serve do. Of course not. The better each product supports its business goal, the closer you are as an organization to making your portfolio vision a reality. On to product strategy. DON’T PANIC!

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Sequent Learning

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Perhaps product people will write a better user story, or prioritize a backlog, or produce different roadmap; these are tactical activities. The system of product management touches and influences all the organic supporting structures—all the business functions. How Does a Company Benefit from Product Management?

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