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Decoding Product Leadership

Roman Pichler

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Leading as the Person in Charge of the Product When you hear the term leadership , you might first and foremost think of a senior manager like the head of product, Director of Product Management, VP of Product, or Chief Product Officer.[

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Building High-Performing Product Teams

Roman Pichler

To effectively staff the product team, I recommend including the people shown in Figure 1. [1] 1] Figure 1: The Product Team Members Let’s look at the product team members in Figure 1 in more detail starting with the person in charge of the product. Let’s take a look at them.

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Prioritising a Product Backlog When Everything is Important

Roman Pichler

But without clear priorities, the development team lacks direction, and there is only a slim chance of creating a successful product. A common root cause of not being able to prioritise a product backlog is a lack of understanding of who the users of the product are and what specific value it should create for them.

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Leading without Being the Boss: Tips for Product People

Roman Pichler

Product success is not something you can achieve on your own as a product manager or Scrum product owner. Instead, you rely on the contributions and the support of the key stakeholders , the development team members, and possibly other product people who help you manage a large product.

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Technical Debt and Product Success

Roman Pichler

As the person in charge of the product, you may not be terribly concerned about how clean and well-structured the code is. The messier the code and the less modular the architecture is, the longer it takes and the more expensive it is to change your product. Technical Debt and Your Product.

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Product in Practice: Introducing Opportunity Solution Trees at Texthelp

Product Talk

When they read Continuous Discovery Habits , Tali says she found the methods both inspiring and practical and she started by mapping opportunity solution trees: “It raised so many questions about the business goals and the product goals. It was a great experience,” says Tali.

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How to Offer Constructive Feedback: A Framework for Product People

Roman Pichler

Here are four examples: Joe, the sales rep, has promised a feature to an important customer without first talking to you—the person in charge of the product. Sue, the Scrum Master , wanted to help the development team get better at sprint planning. But the team still over-commits and under-delivers. Instead, they may even get worse.