Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

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.[ You don’t have to be a line manager to lead others.

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The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Product leaders know that career growth isn’t always linear—stepping into leadership or establishing a product management function can be as complex as it is rewarding. Moving Beyond the Individual Contributor: Elevating Your Impact as a Product Leader Transitioning from an IC role to product leadership is a defining moment in your PM career.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Leadership or investors push for short-term wins that conflict with the roadmap. Shift from fixed yearly planning to rolling quarterly reviews to allow flexibility in roadmap decisions. Run structured stakeholder sessions to ensure leadership, engineering, and marketing teams remain aligned.

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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. 2 Do the Necessary Prep Work.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 11, 2020

Unlike a line manager, you usually don’t manage the development team and stakeholders as the person in charge of the product, and the individuals don’t report to you. In order to overcome this challenge, build trust with the stakeholders and development team members. No Transactional Power.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 11, 2020

Unlike a line manager, you usually don’t manage the development team and stakeholders as the person in charge of the product, and the individuals don’t report to you. In order to overcome this challenge, build trust with the stakeholders and development team members. No Transactional Power.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

How first principles can help you design product roadmaps from the ground up. Product roadmaps are no exception. Creating or even updating a product roadmap can feel like being handed a blank sheet of paper and told you have 60 minutes to write a ten-page college essay on a topic you didn’t study for….

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

A development team does a good job if the following three conditions are fulfilled: First, the group reliably meets the agreed sprint goals and delivers product increments that offer a great user experience and exhibit the desired software quality. This can make it challenging to help a development team improve.

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 4, 2023

How product managers can navigate leadership challenges Today we are talking about four leadership motions that enable increased organizational effectiveness and productivity and alleviate organizational friction, waste, and indecision. Sharing the four leadership motions with us is Janice Fraser. They want you in person.”

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The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Chris Butler, lead a conversation around “Business Development vs. Product Management”. Ladislav focuses on user centric product development, especially on brand, usability and revenue product challenges. Vikas started his career as software developer with Siemens.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 8, 2024

The individuals whose buy-in to strategy and roadmap decisions is crucial are the players: They are interested in your product, as they, for example, will have to market and sell it. Smaller strategy updates and product roadmapping decisions, however, are not as critical. I refer to this group as key stakeholders.

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Productside

APRIL 2, 2025

But instead of telling a clear, compelling story, they send out a spec or share a roadmap deckand hope it gets read. Share it with leadership. Bringing Product Stories to Life Storyboarding is a leadership tool that helps product managers cut through confusion, align faster, and influence decisions that matter.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

This individual leads the product team, not by being the boss but by exercising emergent leadership. The development team representatives are members of one or more cross-functional development teams. The final goal in the framework in Figure 2 is the sprint goal , which directs the work of the development team members.

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Productside

MARCH 6, 2025

If you dont nail the people side, you risk losing valuable product knowledge in a mass exodus: Meet Everyone Spend 30 minutes with each PM and developer, ask about their real responsibilities (beyond the job title), and find out what they want to be doing. She standardized everythingno more 14 different ways to build a roadmap.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 5, 2022

As the head of product, you play a key part in developing the people on your team, creating an environment that helps them succeed, and improving the effectiveness of the product management function in the enterprise. [2]. Develop the individuals on the team. Note that I have kept the description of the responsibilities concise.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

Instead of creating, for example, product strategies and roadmaps and tracking KPIs , you should help the people on your team acquire the right knowledge and develop the right skills so that they can carry out the relevant work on their own. Grow Your Leadership Skills. A great way to do this is to mentor and coach people.

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 20, 2025

First, as a coach who offers strategy and leadership guidance to the person in charge of the product. Its consequently not only relevant to developing an initial offering ( MVP ) but also to achieving product-market fit and extending the product lifecycle. There are two effective ways in which the individual can be involved.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 20, 2019

Developing your product design career as an individual contributor. The other path, the one I’ll focus on in this post, continues along the journey of individual contributor : to mastery of the craft of design, to leadership without the need to manage, to above all else shipping great work. What about in five years? What’s next for me?

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Product Innovation Educators

APRIL 22, 2019

Product roadmaps are frequently used badly, almost as handcuffs for product managers. A year ago we explored roadmaps and how they should be used with Bruce McCarthy. At the time, he had recently co-authored the book, Product Roadmaps Relaunched: How to Set Direction while Embracing Uncertainty. Who the roadmap is for.

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Often, companies approach me asking for help with their product strategy and they’re really focused on the roadmap. While the roadmap and choosing features is the last step of product strategy, it’s not the whole picture. 9:00] Who is responsible for developing product strategy? Download the framework.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 3, 2023

With us is David Rogers, an expert on digital transformation, a member of the faculty at Columbia Business School, and the author of five books, including The Digital Transformation Roadmap. Thank you for taking the journey to product mastery and learning with me from the successes and failures of product innovators, managers, and developers.

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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.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Key practices to develop strategic influence, such as building deep relationships and aligning decisions with business goals. Read it now: [link] Exclusive Access to Mastery This post is part of the Roadmap to Mastery Collection , a premium series on The Product Way Patreon. Whats Inside the Article? But this is just a glimpse.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 9, 2022

An inspiring vision creates a meaningful purpose for everyone involved in making the product a success including the stakeholders and development team members. Additionally, an inspiring vision helps you apply a visionary leadership style and become a visionary leader—someone who guides others through a big, motivating goal.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

As a result, I’ve come to value 5 different aspects of product leadership. Shift #1: A leader of leaders The two top things I’ve head people reply to the question “how do I move into Product Leadership?” is to either be more strategic or to develop more as a leader. but equally the most difficult.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2021

Photo by Denise Jans on Unsplash There is a misconception that building a roadmap will define a product’s future. But a roadmap doesn’t create a clear view of the future. Your vision of the future should bring clarity to your roadmap. People usually build roadmaps by throwing a bunch of unrelated projects onto a schedule.

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Productside

APRIL 16, 2025

Product managers push for roadmaps. Explore our Optimal Product Management course to build the leadership skills, communication habits, and strategic mindset that modern PMs need to lead across functions. Engineers push back with technical constraints. Somewhere in the middle, customer needs get lost in translation.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 5, 2023

It forced me to question a belief, as a product leader, I treated as an absolute — that products always require roadmaps. Do you think every company and product needs a roadmap?” Then I thought further; maybe scenarios exist where roadmaps are optional. Roadmaps are not always needed. Roadmaps early on tend to box you in.

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 30, 2019

It is also a special interview, as a leadership coach and friend, Russel Verhey, interviewed me for his podcast, Advance Leadership Conversations. Please check that out using your favorite podcast app by searching for Advance Leadership Conversations. Useful links: Advance Leadership Conversations. Innovation Quote.

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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 1, 2020

As I explain in my book How to Lead in Product Management , setting the right goals is crucial to align stakeholders and development teams and to achieve product success. The user and business goals help select the right product goals, which I capture on the product roadmap. Goals in Product Management. Should you now use OKRs?

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 1, 2020

A handy stakeholder analysis tool is the power-interest grid developed by Ackermann and Eden. I therefore recommend that you form a stable group of stakeholders and develop it into a stakeholder community where the individuals work together on a continued basis and learn to trust, respect, and support each other.

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 16, 2022

Instead, he requests product roadmap changes by talking directly to you. Empathy, however, implies developing an understanding of what is really going on for the other person. First, empathy is the foundation for effective leadership. Not everyone we meet is a highly empathic person. Practise Active Listening.

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The product owner told me that she’d refined the product backlog as well as she could but that the development team were still not happy with it. What’s more, it is likely to contain speculative and ultimately wrong items, especially when the development effort is characterised by uncertainty and change. Third, they can be tested.

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Product Talk

JANUARY 13, 2021

And just like I encourage trios to share their discovery context before they share their roadmaps and backlogs, I’ll do the same here, before I talk about my plans for the year ahead. But I didn’t have a fully developed solution, nor did I have anything to measure. Product Talk’s Desired Outcome. Tweet This.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 12, 2024

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Introduction My first product management job wasn’t exactly what you call a success story: I was part of a team that was called in to help with a new product development effort, and I ended up working with the lead product manager.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 4, 2023

First, develop the individual product people. Second, develop the product management team. Third, develop the organisation. The following four measures will help with this: First, develop the individual product people through training, mentoring, or coaching.

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