Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Different people have suggested different definitions for the term software platform. Let me briefly share mine: I view such a platform as a collection of software assets that are used by several products, as the following picture illustrates. In the picture above, product A, B, and C are built on the platform and use its assets.

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The Product Guy

MAY 7, 2020

Hence it is critical that one is aware of the best practises of the role and develops his own philosophy which results into maximum positive leverage for the organization. As I strive towards becoming a product leader, I wanted to understand the best practises in product management and in the process develop my own product philosophy. .

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Mixpanel

MAY 20, 2020

Having worked with many product leaders over the past 20 years, I’ve repeatedly heard that balancing the needs of users, engineering teams and the business—all while building a successful product function that drives innovation—is tough. Lifting & shifting: the common pitfall of product teams.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Every software team out there uses some sort of planning system or tool to do product roadmaps and sprint plans, and yet many are unhappy with the tools, or frustrated at the lack of getting things done, or getting “pointless” things done, and the list goes on. What do the product roadmapping or planning tools offer us?

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Userpilot

AUGUST 21, 2023

Because of the fast-paced nature of tech companies, the ability to solve problems quickly and think on your feet is a crucial skill for product managers to have. Product managers often work in cross-functional teams and bridge the gap between multiple departments. What qualities do you look for in a strong product team?

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ProductPlan

MARCH 31, 2022

When it comes to the product team’s organizational structures and strategies, product operations is the hot new thing. More and more teams realize the value of having an operationally-focused professional. The role frees up time for product managers. This insight helps build trust with other teams.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 29, 2019

The developers will handle it. Product managers don’t want to spend time worrying about security. It definitely doesn’t delight users or reduce friction. Yes, you, the product manager, you have to worry about cybersecurity, too. Why is such a seemingly non-essential topic critical to your product’s success?

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2018

Your roadmap is one of the most important things you’ll produce as a SaaS company. It provides a glimpse into the future of your product and aligns everyone around the same goals. Who will you share the roadmap with: Just employees, or customers too? And your roadmap should change with them. Who Should See the Roadmap?

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

If so, you should definitely watch the talk that Jason Knight , a product consultant and advisor, gave at this year’s Product Drive hosted by Userpilot. In his talk, Jason talked about how product managers can upskill to meet the challenges in their daily work and how to make sure that their organizations value their work.

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Dear Strategy

JULY 23, 2019

Dear Strategy: “How do I align my product strategy and product roadmap with our technology roadmap, in the face of a strong engineering organization?”. Ahh, the product roadmap… such an overused yet somehow still elusive term! So, let’s see if we can clear that part up just a bit.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

As a product leader, you are the product manager for a leadership team, and the tricks you learned in product teams remain valuable, they just need a little tweak. Here, to help you, are five product management tricks and tools for every product leader. As a Digital Team in a Large Enterprise.

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 5, 2023

  We could conceivably do this by raising prices; opening new geographic markets; expanding the current product line; building and launching a new e-commerce business alongside our enterprise CRM business; getting the ticket concession for Taylor Swift’s next tour; or inventing cold fusion to save the planet. ” What To Do?

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 28, 2022

Product consolidation refers to combining several products that sell separately but have overlapping functionality or user personas into one product. Note: product consolidation has different definitions in different industries. Why Would You Want to Consolidate Products? Here are a few examples.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 5, 2023

Lists of trends that survey the past should be easier by definition, right? Organizations that have more recently recognized the importance of product management to the success of their business are those that are transitioning from being “sales-led” or “customer-led” to “product-led.”. Outcome-driven vs. feature-based roadmaps.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 13, 2020

Listen to understand the basic definition of marketing, marketing roles that may have resources useful to product managers, and how product managers can make better use of marketing resources. Also, we talk in the beginning about Jill’s experience developing the Adobe Creative Cloud; lots to learn just from that.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 6, 2022

ProductPlan is the product management platform that operationalizes product strategy and execution best practices and drives innovation, trust, and accountability. To fully realize this and empower product teams to change the world through their products and the people they serve, ProductPlan is more than roadmapping.

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Tyner Blain

MAY 24, 2017

Taking agile, a process otherwise optimized for small, cross-functional, collaborative teams and making it work at scale is fascinating. ” I’ve spent the last half-year in the beginning of my journey understanding how agile product management at scale can work. Getting Faster at Building the Wrong Thing.

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Under 10 Consulting

JUNE 6, 2019

Only three things happen naturally in organizations: friction, confusion, and underperformance. In my first job in product management, I was based in DC and my developers were based in California. Instead, I flew to LA once a month and stayed for a week of development team meetings. Product management in Marketing.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 31, 2018

I hope you get an active product, but sometimes it will be something that sounds like “we used to sell it but now revenue has dropped so we maintain it until the time for EoL (end of life) comes…” How are you going to manage a product that nobody wants? With no resources, no developers, no release cycle, no roadmap?

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Dear Strategy

JUNE 24, 2020

And, in the case of today’s question (or, more accurately, today’s answer), that is most definitely going to be the case. Back in Episode 92 , I talked about the 5 biggest product strategy pitfalls to avoid; one of which was making the assumption that you will be able to implement your strategy for free.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 29, 2019

Product managers act as the glue between multiple cross-functional teams and effective communication is the foundation of their success; from here the general sense that product managers can’t do their job productively unless they are co-located with their teams. But how does this apply to the PM role?

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Creating Product Outcomes: What I’ve Learned From The Soccer Pitch “Great things in business are never done by one person; they’re done by a team of people.” — Steve Jobs Soccer is more than just a game for me. It’s become a lens through which I’ve come to view much of my life, including my work in product management.

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BrainMates

DECEMBER 12, 2019

The gap between rich and poor is widening, and this is causing an increasing disenchantment with the model which has been so successful. I think that as business and society is changing, our Products need to change too. It seems mission-driven Product Management is still being defined.

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Userpilot

JUNE 9, 2021

How to get your first Product Management job. How to get your first Product Marketing job. A Product Manager builds the product by identifying customer needs and creating specifications for developers. A Product Marketer’s role is to communicate the value of the product to the market.

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Andrew Chen

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Growth is an emerging field, and there’s hardly a playbook on how to ace your growth interview (whichever side of the table you’re on), and yet hiring and team could be the most important “growth hack” of all. 6-Month Roadmap. A lot of people try to understand a candidate’s weaknesses, but Elena Verna wants to know your superpower.

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Department of Product

MAY 22, 2020

Why Product Features Matter Product strategy, features and the value chain What outcomes are you trying to achieve? How does what we’re building align with the wider strategy of the business? And the product team responsible got some pretty brutal reviews in the process. They’re addictive. And stimulating.

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Roadmunk

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Listen to it below: For context: As a company that builds roadmapping software for product people, we’re immersed in the product community. We’ve seen how helpful product people are when it comes to helping their peers. This episode features Inga Chen , a product manager at Squarespace.

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Roadmunk

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Some sit outside the product domain, but still directly pushed me as a product manager to connect and empathize with other team members. Here’s my list of favorite online posts for product managers. 12 things about product-market fit. This is a post that’s really informs how I interact with team members day-to-day.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 9, 2021

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. The entire Scrum team is “focused on one … product goal” at a time.

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Tyner Blain

AUGUST 1, 2013

How can Theodore Levitt’s classic Whole Product approach help with defining a product roadmap? I’ve been revisiting his concepts and their use recently, thinking about how to revise them for some exercises I’ve been doing with product teams. Whole Product Game Background. Thanks, Luke!

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

In this Path to PM post, Saeed shares his advice if he were applying for product management careers all over again, and why great product leadership is about influence, service, and patience. How did you break into product management? I started my career as a software developer, working on database applications.

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The Product HQ

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

(Needs Images) Interested in learning the difference between product development and product management? Product development and product management may seem to be similar concepts, but in reality, they’re quite different. What is Product Development? Well, you’re in the right place!

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Roadmaps are a unique tool for creating and maintaining stakeholder alignment, resource planning, and budgeting purposes. But what happens when you’re managing a product that is being continually updated? This is the situation for countless SaaS product management professionals lucky enough to manage products via this model.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 9, 2021

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. The entire Scrum team is “focused on one … product goal” at a time.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 4, 2018

Embracing new technologies like machine learning, micro services, big data, and Internet of Things (IoT) is part of that change, as is the introduction of agile practices including cross-functional and self-organising teams, DevOps, Scrum, and Kanban. To get the roles definition right, start by identifying the company’s products.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 1, 2023

When your product can do more than it could do before, that sounds like a good thing. Added functionality, new capabilities, a more robust feature set…these are the talking points product marketers salivate over and executives search for on product roadmaps. Where are product teams getting their feature ideas?

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 4, 2019

More recently, however, I’ve realized that the technology industry at large struggles with such clarity and consistency – in marketing terms, there is often a difficulty developing a clear value proposition that aligns with product and brand identity. 1 Poor definition of value proposition and feature focus.

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