Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

As the person in charge of the product, you depend on the work of the development team and you are, of course, affected by poor performance. Additionally, you’ve invited the senior management sponsor to the upcoming sprint review meeting to secure the individual’s continued support. This did not solve anything, of course.

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Product Management University

APRIL 25, 2023

Here we are in the early part of 2023 and so many of my talented friends, former colleagues and customers have fallen victim to the mass layoffs in high tech. For example, if you’re looking for a product marketing role, your H1 headline might be something like “ Making Technical Products Easier to Market, Sell & Buy.”

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Sachin Rekhi

AUGUST 23, 2022

But despite doing this, garnering glowing press reviews, and growing to over 100,000 users, we still ultimately failed to find PMF because we were never able to find a viable business model for our product. With this course, we hope to offer an actionable alternative that increases your odds of finding product/market fit on your next venture.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

A Technical Exercise In this post, I’ll offer my idea of the sort of technical abilities expected from a product manager. But is a surprisingly small amount of materials about the technical aspect of PM work. The Product Interview?—?A This can be highly useful for hiring managers, as well as for PMs planning their roadmap.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Consequently, a platform should have its own product strategy and roadmap , KPIs , product backlog , and well-designed software architecture that leverages the right technologies. Ensure that the Platform is User-Led, Not Technology-Driven. Treat the Platform as a Product.

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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. Learn More.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 21, 2019

Some 84% of people trust online reviews as much as a personal recommendations, reason enough why every business should be concerned with who reviews their product and what they have to say about it. What do we mean by the term “review sites”? Not all review sites are made equal. Peer review sites.

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Like many aspects of continuous discovery, there’s no single right way to build your tech stack. Although I wouldn’t claim that every team interacts with customers on a weekly basis, over the course of a year, each product squad would generally be involved in at least a couple dozen customer sessions,” says Rebecca. Tweet This.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 8, 2020

As Kristen says: She predicts that this strategy of letting the product guide the sales process is the future of tech: “I think that’s where a lot of the future of sales and tech in general is going to go to some extent, which is to really let the product guide the people. Crowning the customer.

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Feasibility assumptions address why we think we can build our solutions, and can include several elements like legal, compliance, security, organizational, and technical concerns. Does the necessary technology exist? I don’t limit feasibility to technically possible, though. What Are Feasibility Assumptions?

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Alchemer Mobile

APRIL 14, 2020

How deep does your understanding of the technology go as a PM? And how much do you try to be, like, a subject matter expert from a technological standpoint compared to your engineering team? How do you manage executive expectations, customer expectations, and technical resources? So that’s me. Christy : Awesome.

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Product Talk

MARCH 13, 2024

“Each team has a clear mission and will have distinct product outcomes (I’m only on week three of the Defining Outcomes course, so this part is a work in progress!).” They received a lot of pushback from the engineers initially because it created complexities around code reviews, tech debt management, release processes, etc.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 13, 2024

New technologies alone introduce change and uncertainty—think of the Internet of Things, Blockchain, machine learning, and generative AI, for example. Additionally, schedule regular collaborative strategy reviews —at least once per quarter—and invite the key stakeholders and development team members to them.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 12, 2021

Jaime DeLanghe’s secrets to bring cross-functional teams together for optimal performance Before my career in tech, I worked in food service. Restaurants showed me the ropes of what it takes for cross-functional teams to succeed, and I still draw on the same strategies as a product manager in tech.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 19, 2021

In this episode, sponsored by Pendo , listen to learn about: * Product Management in transport tech. * The different stages of tech companies. * Is technology consumption sustainable? Consumers are changing at a faster rate than they ever have, and of course we’re feeding that by instant everything. Quote of the Episode.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 1, 2021

Over the course of the past year, the customer support landscape has changed for good. And although 69% of respondents say that personalized support experiences are the key to building strong customer relationships, less than half believe that they can deliver those personalized support experiences at scale with their current tech stack.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 13, 2021

This, of course, assumes that you have a validated product strategy and a realistic product roadmap in place. These indicators suggest that achieving product success will be much harder in the future, due to an increase in technical debt , higher absenteeism or turnover rate. Therefore, limit the number of KPIs you use.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

As well as being a critical philosophy behind how we build software, it also represents how I feel about the software industry and technology in general. Basic technology execution is becoming easier too. There are more technology jobs than ever before. Choose standard technology. Choose standard technology.

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 13, 2023

DarkBlue intelligence, the product Thomas works on, can support activities like investigations, due diligence, and cyber threat intelligence. It’s not like most apps where it’s not even a consideration—of course Slack knows whether I sent messages and it probably knows who I sent messages to,” says Thomas.

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 2, 2018

If you are not sure which time box is right for you, then start with one month and hold weekly review meetings where you assess the progress and decide if and how to continue. The world doesn’t stand still; markets and technologies change; new competitors emerge. Continuous Strategizing. What would help your product perform well?

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 18, 2022

Sarah Dayan is a staff engineer at Algolia , a “Search-as-a-Service” platform that helps developers build index and search capabilities into their own platforms through an API, and the host of two tech podcasts: Developer Experience and Entre Devs. How would she provide the right technical direction for the company? Brian: Super.

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Product Management Unpacked

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Autonomous driving has become an area of huge interest for me, and even is the subject of my ongoing research for my Human-AI Interaction course at CMU,” he says. This race has been, indeed, a very technical and special project,” he says. Plus, I’m a big motorsports fan, so when I saw this opportunity, I couldn’t say no.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Of course, the lesson here is: innovate or die. This is a well known mantra among tech CEOs, especially Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg. For the purposes of our example, I chose only two drivers (Technology and Isolationism), so we’ll have just one 2 x 2 matrix. congratulations! Not all ideas are equal.

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Productside

AUGUST 26, 2022

There are definite technical similarities between the powerful rockets, and both have shaped space technology in new, innovative ways. The NASA waterfall model includes System Requirements Review, Preliminary Design Review and Critical Design Review. In the race for deep space – we’re now betting on SpaceX.

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Userpilot

MARCH 7, 2024

I asked DALLE to ‘Give me an image of a tech CEO’. Then I tried regenerating the image to see on which try it would give me a tech CEO of a different gender (or colour). Check out this viral post by Andrew Gazdecki to learn more about what a ‘tech CEO’ is like US Census data from 2022 revealed that only 17% of tech CEOs are female.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

As its name suggests, this roadmap focuses on product goals and outcomes, such as acquiring customers, increasing engagement, and future-proofing the product by removing technical debt. This, of course, assumes that you are adequately empowered and that you have the final say on strategic product decisions.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 23, 2021

With the worldwide revenue from the financial technology sector to double by 2024 , fierce competition evolves. Fintech software represents specific challenges due to diverse dynamic content, graphs, tables, and more. Companies already use this tech novelty for authentication and expediting transactions.

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UX Planet

JULY 11, 2024

As a UX recruiter and team manager, I will reviewing a Google Course case study from Kevin, a self-taught UX designer based in Illinois. He studied Creative Technologies, which is an interdisciplinary major that covers several topics such as motion graphics, interactivity, and web design. Let’s get into it.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 27, 2022

If you’re short on time, here are a few quick takeaways: If you’re starting a business, make sure you have the technical skills to build, manage, and grow your services internally. Where does your interest in SaaS and tech come from? I was passionate about tech and coding. None of us had technical skills. Alex: A lot.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 20, 2020

Integrations: What other tools are in their tech stack? Recently I was discussing a technical integration with a customer and we were deep into the details before I realized we were operating off different assumptions. Assuming you and your customer share the same level of technical knowledge.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

A stakeholder would ask a product design team for a mockup and they would groom the tickets for that specific feature with the tech team. “It Having the courses spread out over several weeks helped the teams put the concepts into practice between each session and get the good habits in motion.” We’re trying to work on that.”

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UserVoice

JUNE 21, 2017

Thanks to these powerful analytics tools, you do not need to be a data scientist to collect and analyze data anymore, and according to a piece published by Harvard Business Review , you don’t even have to be a “math person” to make smart data driven decisions. Product Management Careers are Trending Toward Data.

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Alchemer Mobile

AUGUST 6, 2020

12 Product Management Myths | Due to its murkiness, there are a few common myths that plague product management across industries and company size. Ratings and Reviews: Where to Start and How to Win | You likely understand the importance of making a good first impression through your app’s positive ratings and reviews.

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 18, 2023

But this is exactly what we do when we try to make our first idea match the customer need we are trying to address, within the technical constraints we encounter, while still managing to deliver the right business results. We cover all of these methods in-depth in our Identifying Hidden Assumptions course. Why do we do this?

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 3, 2021

There have been two seminal memos that have, in a sense, rocked the tech industry. And if you feel confident about your business post-vaccine, now is the time to carefully step on the gas (or step on the accelerator pedal if, of course, you’re driving an electric car).” And then, of course, the speculation too.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 13, 2021

In due course, the startups need to invest a good amount of time in organizing the strategy and roadmap to track the product performance to get an early product-market fit and scalability. Defining strategy takes time and should be reviewed multiple times. Avoid writing tasks or steps while defining strategy.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 13, 2020

But she originally went to art school with the intention of becoming a painter, and only became involved in tech when someone showed her what was then called computer-altered photography. “It Over the course of her long tech career she has worked at Yahoo! What Could Possibly go Wrong?

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