Mind the Product

DECEMBER 18, 2019

So, it was natural that we should want to develop a talent growth plan for our people. Each month we send out an NPS survey to assess whether the company is being a great place to work, but a few months ago I also sent Google’s manager feedback survey to my team of 10 product managers. Team execution and development.

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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. Decline stakeholder requests if they aren’t aligned with the product strategy. 6 The Roadmap is a Fixed Plan.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Introduction To discuss empowerment in product management, I find it helpful to distinguish three main levels of decision-making authority, product delivery, product discovery, and product strategy, as the model in Figure 1 shows. [1] I certainly don’t intend to make anyone feel bad.

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 11, 2020

This article assumes that you are familiar with the product vision board or the key elements of a product strategy : market, value proposition, standout features, and business goals. Target Group is (too) Big and Heterogenous. A Brief Guide to this Article. Additionally, such a vision is hardly inspiring.

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 25, 2023

Many of my discussions with product leaders (CPOs, VPs and others who manage teams of product folks) are about the substance of product management: portfolios, competing stakeholders, pricing & packaging, tarot cards as a revenue forecasting model.  Last A competitor announces ChatGPT-based retirement investment advice.  

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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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Roman Pichler

JUNE 7, 2022

While common sense suggests that managing a product without the right measurements is not a sensible approach, I’ve seen product teams who did not use any KPIs. Consequently, these teams relied on: Anecdotal feedback : “Customers love our product, they told me so.” If this data is actioned, bad product decisions will be made.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Highly effective Product Managers develop themselves in 5 key areas. In some jobs, you can get by with just Competence, but in the unkempt, fuzzy, team-oriented domain of Product Management, you need both. At best, if you are properly equipped, being a PM is like being on an epic quest with a group of adventurers.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JANUARY 11, 2021

At UX Studio , while we develop our products, uxfol.io and copyfol.io , we are mainly focused on agency work, meaning that we cooperate with several clients as external teams. This post was written from the perspective of designers, mainly intended for external teams and entrepreneurs. Five challenges and solutions.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

I once worked with a telco company that was developing a brand-new commercial product. Product management and development were located at separate sites in different countries. The technical complexities were greater than anticipated and the development progress was slower than forecasted. To Collocate or Not.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

I once worked with a telco company that was developing a brand-new commercial product. Product management and development were located at separate sites in different countries. The technical complexities were greater than anticipated and the development progress was slower than forecasted. To Collocate or Not.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

” But do not allow people to dominate and tell you what to do, and don’t agree to a weak compromise. The individual should carry out product discovery and strategy work in addition to taking care of the product backlog work. Myth #3: The product owner is responsible for the team performance.

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Userpilot

APRIL 30, 2024

In many ways, he has shaped how successful products are built and how teams can be organized to work toward excellence. Marty Cagan is the founder of the Silicon Valley Product Group (SVPG), a consultancy firm that helps companies build successful products. Marty Cagan is a popular name in the product management world.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 5, 2022

For example, a product strategy workshop might have the objective to identify the key changes required to achieve product-market fit. As a rule of thumb, avoid meetings with more than ten attendees when you have to make high-impact decisions and/or rework the product strategy , product roadmap , or product backlog. 1 Set an Objective.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 13, 2023

How do you develop a robust UX strategy? We also look at: What a UX design strategy is Why it’s important Its core principles and elements A practical example of a company with well-established UX strategies Let’s dive right in! Start designing your strategy by clarifying the business goals.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 3, 2019

But for every success story, there’s a graveyard of failed products laid low by bad product strategies. A bad strategy is hard to overcome. What Does a Bad Product Strategy Look Like? What Does a Bad Product Strategy Look Like? Those are slogans, not strategies.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 1, 2020

The first one carries the risk of being a feature broker and offering a product that has a weak value proposition, gives rise to a poor user experience, and consists of a loose collection of features. But do not accept inappropriate behaviour and do not allow people to treat you like a project manager, team lead, or personal assistant.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

Consequently, your focus shifts from managing a product to looking after the product people on your team and empowering them to do a great job. Another key aspect to support the people on your team succeed is to create the right environment for people to succeed. Grow Your Leadership Skills.

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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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Userpilot

JUNE 27, 2022

What is developer marketing, and what is the point of it? As the name suggests, developer marketing is marketing to developers. In short, developer marketing is more than just capturing the attention of software developers and getting them to use your product. What is developer marketing?

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Minimum Viable Products: Why You Should Test Before Investing In Ideas Let’s analyze the advantages of MVP-based software development. Why should you invest in MVP development? Boston Consulting Group estimates that 70% of digital business transformation projects fail. First, the developers create a wheel. a skateboard.

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Userpilot

MAY 8, 2024

Also, it helps you make data-driven product development decisions instead of relying on guesswork. Based on the insights, you can inform your future product development. You can use various tools, such as in-app surveys, focus groups, and user interviews, to analyze user requirements. Book a demo now to get started.

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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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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 5, 2023

  (For fun, let’s call those things strategies.) Pure revenue may be helpful for the Sales organization, since they probably need to hire 35% more account teams each year.  ” And this is usually wrapped around an organizational ownership fistfight about who “owns” company-level strategy. 

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 16, 2017

As a product manager who has managed offshore development teams, I’ve learned that it’s not easy, and that having engineering teams on the other side of the world is not always congruent with delivering great products. This is a 12-and-a-half-hour time difference between the local office and these teams.

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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? Build and cultivate collaborative teams, even if everyone’s virtual. However, contemplation allows you to think more carefully about your strengths and weaknesses.

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Ronke PM

MARCH 26, 2024

These leaders understand that bringing effective products, solutions, and services to market requires consensus building and engaging cross-functional teams in the journey. After all, the partner teams build products, not the product manager alone. We just execute differently, and sometimes we have a bad day or week.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

A market gap can be caused by missing functionality or poor user experience. Tracking user behavior in-app enables product teams to find ways to improve product experience. Market research techniques, like industry-specific surveys and customer segmentation analysis, can help you find underserved user groups in the market.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Team issues can have a negative impact on a project and your people long term. There are a bunch of ways they might manifest themselves – and I’ve written them down as I’ve heard them over a decade of building digital products in cross-functional teams. This list is most useful for in-flight project teams, off and sprinting.

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Userpilot

JUNE 20, 2023

Cultivating user trust is critical to the success of any long-term product strategy. It also explores 15 strategies that help UX designers build trust in potential users. Some effective strategies for building user trust include: Mapping the customer journey to understand the difficulties users face as they progress through your app.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Sales has an unavoidable reality: sometimes, your team won’t hit their numbers. If your team isn’t reaching their goals, what are you doing as a leader to help them get up and over the line? This coaching helps them drive their team and their company to greater productivity and higher sales.

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

An essential role of CPOs and other product leaders that’s never listed in the job description is giving organizational 'air cover' to product managers to postpone almost all new requests — so that their teams can finish work already underway.    Lately, I’m calling this permission to stay focused.

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

 Can the executive team?  Are But for calendars, the scarce resource is time rather than development capacity.  Just Green: solo thinking time , planning, strategy, doing "real work" I find pie charts useful to see the overall picture.  Are fellow employees offended when I decline meeting requests?

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Userpilot

MARCH 15, 2022

Why a go-to-market strategy plays an integral of your SaaS product success? This is where the GTM strategy comes in. In this blog post, you’ll learn everything about go-to-market strategies. Successful product launches stand on the back of an effective GTM strategy. What is a go-to-market (GTM) strategy?

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 16, 2020

A topic that’s come up several times recently in my product leader coaching sessions: how much to delegate to the (individual contributor) product managers on our teams – including different ways of building product skills and balancing personal empowerment against good results.

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Business of Software Conference

APRIL 13, 2021

In a Cambridge career spanning 25 years Gareth has, at one time or another, managed every part of a software business: HR, sales, product development, engineering, marketing, finance, and IT. Trust in your leaders, teams, and peers. But you don’t have to do it alone if you can find and develop trust. What you will learn.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 16, 2024

Perform a SWOT analysis, identify the strengths and weaknesses of your top competing products, etc. Task ChatGPT with identifying and formulating the best pricing strategy for your industry. You may want to learn who your top competitors are, their value proposition , and their weaknesses. Please put data in a tabular format.

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