The Product Guy

JANUARY 17, 2025

Featuring an engaging discussion with Inis Hormann (Marketing Director Germany, Cepheid) and Steve Kury (Leadership Development Consultant, SHK Leadership Consulting), the session provided actionable insights for PMs at every level. Leverage Data: Use findings to guide decisions, reduce uncertainty, and inform future product iterations.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 7, 2025

For example, the vision for a presentation tool like Microsoft PowerPoint or Google Slides might be “inform and inspire people.” A product’s target group and value proposition will change as it develops, grows , and serves a larger audience with more diverse needs. Its business goals are likely to change, too.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Recently, at Hemnet, Sweden’s beloved property platform, she led product development that drove a 130% increase in top line revenues, making it the growth engine of the business. Our guest is Francesca Cortesi, CPO and consultant for some of Europe’s multi-billion dollar brands and fastest growing businesses.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 12, 2025

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Overview of the Matrix The Innovation Ambition Matrix, which was developed by Bansi Nagji and Geoff Tuff, considers the newness of the product on its horizontal axis and the newness of the market on the vertical axis. Using an incubator can help you with this.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

At JCDecaux, I led the development of an information kiosk for airport passengers. The kiosks are interactive devices that provide concession, flight, point of interest and flight information to the passenger. Passengers can scan their boarding pass on the kiosk and obtain flight, gate and concession information.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

To ensure everybody is clear on how the tool suite will develop over the coming years and the outcomes it should achieve, you create the portfolio roadmap shown in Figure 1. [3] So far, weve discussed what a portfolio roadmap is, what information it should contain, and how it directs the product roadmaps.

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The Product Guy

MAY 23, 2025

Coaches support individual growth and mindset development. When discovery does not inform decisions, it becomes a drain on team energy and trust. One-size-fits-all coaching often leads to disengagement or missed opportunities. Coaching and management must remain distinct : Managers drive performance and business outcomes.

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Productside

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Managing Uncertainty: The Zero to One Playbook From handling imposter syndrome to validating ideas quickly, Scott shares how he builds confidence while leading new product initiatives without waiting for perfect information. Why Listen to This Episode?

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 9, 2021

The product owner is accountable for “developing and explicitly communicating the product goal.” Scrum is a simple framework designed to facilitate the development of complex products. Such a goal aligns the stakeholders and development teams, and it directs their work. Figure 2: Sample Goals.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 7, 2025

Does this include meeting selected target users and developing a deep understanding of their needs ? After all, a key prerequisite for developing a winning product strategy is the ability to empathise with users and customers. Strategy development will therefore continue to be a deeply human activity. See, for instance, [link].

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

For example, a product manager might determine the product strategy and one or more development teams might be tasked with executing it. Instead, strategy and execution have to be closely connected: The former should not only guide execution, but execution should inform strategy changes and help adapt the strategy.

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 11, 2022

The third row contains the most important information. For example, the guidelines I have developed for the GO product roadmap template directly apply to the roadmap in figure 1. Third, derive the right learning goals, put them on your learning roadmap and add the additional information. If that’s the case, then don’t feel bad.

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 12, 2021

You know, though, that it is impossible to add the feature to the development effort. The development team is struggling to implement the agreed features, and, as you know, we can’t push out the date.” If the answer is yes, then you should consider adapting the development effort.

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Productside

MAY 27, 2025

While searching for a better way forward, Heather discovered the Productside Blueprintan outcome-driven approach to product work that emphasizes strategic discovery, lo-fi experimentation, and data-informed decision-making. Investigate With strategic context in place, its time to dig into discovery.

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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 6, 2022

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. For example, the marketer has to create the marketing strategy, and the development teams have to design and build the product. Practise active listening.

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 20, 2025

Its consequently not only relevant to developing an initial offering ( MVP ) but also to achieving product-market fit and extending the product lifecycle. This stream guides the product discovery and delivery work and leverages development insights. Since then, its become one of the most popular product vision and strategy tools.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JANUARY 14, 2025

Core 4 pulls everything they’ve learned from working with thousands of teams into a single unified developer productivity framework. Laura Tacho is the CTO at DX , has taught over 1,000 tech leaders through her course on developer productivity metrics , and on the side is an executive coach for engineering leaders.

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Lilac has over 20 years of product development experience in the telecommunications, consumer electronics, and medical devices industries where she has led cradle-to-grave product development efforts, and she holds 19 US patents. ” Compile all of that information. Defining use cases has a few challenges.

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Why market research is product managers’ secret ingredient for successful products Watch on YouTube TLDR Market research is a key part of product development and management. Chip digs into the world of market research, exploring why it’s important, how to do it, and how to use it when developing products.

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Product Management University

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

The pace of product management has accelerated exponentially in recent years because of agile development and the relentless focus on metrics. Agile is a great software development methodology but it has consumed product managers to the point where they have almost no capacity to do product management. You’re done! It’s not AI.

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The Product Guy

JULY 2, 2020

These three areas are within my development team, with other stakeholders within the business and thirdly, and within the market. Development Team: Setting the rules and boundaries of communication . One of the first areas my mentor Brad and I discussed was how to get the most out of your development team.

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The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

By defining priorities rooted in market research, user insights, and business goals, PMs ensure that development efforts deliver meaningful impact. PMs must: Navigate ambiguous, high-stakes decisions with limited information. PMs are not mere “task managers”; they are the custodians of a product’s vision.

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Applying the criteria will significantly increase your chances of creating a realistic, actionable product roadmap that clearly describes the value your product should create and that aligns stakeholders and development team members. Alternatively, don’t show any temporal information and remove the row. Specific : Make the goal—a.k.a.

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

This information empowers teams across your company to make informed decisions based on customer experiences and perceptions. Course evaluations are crucial for educational institutions, assessing participant satisfaction with course content and delivery methods, guiding curriculum development.

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Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 3, 2025

This hybrid approach offers tremendous potential for innovation, particularly in the early stages of product development. Their initial focus was on developing algorithms that could effectively analyze textual data and extract meaningful customer insights. However, these early efforts faced significant limitations.

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Product Talk

JULY 9, 2025

So when our stakeholders and leaders are still expecting their specific solution requests, mandates, however it’s framed, that immediately starts to challenge the pilot teams who are working towards an outcome agnostic of the solutions that they might develop on the way. Let me give you information you might not have.”

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Product Innovation Educators

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

This episode is sponsored by PDMA, the Product Development and Management Association. Hershey offers a wide portfolio of products and numerous career development opportunities, so you have an opportunity to learn, grow, and develop into whatever you want to be. [4:47] We share a mutual respect for each other. Take action. [10:09]

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Product Talk

MAY 15, 2024

OneSignal allowed her to design a pop-up that linked to a Typeform survey where she could get more demographic information and prioritize who she wanted to talk to. This meant that they could attach information like the user ID to the Typeform page and review it as part of the responses users provided.

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Product Talk

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

We caught up with Teeba to learn more about how she mapped out a product’s revenue model and then used that to derive the product’s outcomes and how she used this knowledge to inform her job interviews and ultimately land a new job. Interested in developing your own revenue modeling skills? Come join us!

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 14, 2023

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] What Information Should a Product Strategy Provide? Which benefits does the product create for the company developing and providing it? Say that I want to develop a product that helps people eat more healthily. Who are the users and, if appropriate, who are the customers?

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