Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 13, 2025

Even more concerning, products typically lose 50% of their innovative value during development as unique ideas get compromised to fit existing systems. Products typically lose 50% of their innovative value during the development process. Doug shared that the average manager wastes 3.5

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Productside

MAY 27, 2025

In this serialized story, youll meet Heather Leaf , VP of Product at WellNest Health, and her lead PM, Tommy Trunk. Introduction to WellNest Health Heather Leaf, VP of Product Management at WellNest Health, calls over her top product manager, Tommy Trunk, for their weekly meeting. Its a product strategy problem.

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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. Some view it as the product vision , others equate it to the product’s value proposition. Figure 1: The Product Goal in Context.

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The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

While strategy, vision, and execution are critical, there’s a powerful leadership principle that’s frequently overlooked: gratitude. This type of culture can be nurtured by encouraging peer recognition programs or dedicating time in meetings for team members to acknowledge each other’s contributions.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

She shared insights from her experience leading product teams at various organizational scales and helping companies transform their product vision into measurable business growth. She now runs her own consultancy, helping CEOs scale their companies by transforming product vision into measurable business growth.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

And what’s their relationship to the product vision and the product backlog? To answer these questions, I have developed the model shown in figure 1. At the heart of the model in figure 1 are four artefacts: the product vision, the product strategy, the product roadmap, and the product backlog.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 7, 2025

Lack of Empathy While you can use sentiment analysis to uncover user emotions, AI-based tools are no replacement for meeting users and customers. 10] Conversely, if you cannot meet actual users, you risk making suboptimal or wrong strategic decisions. Strategy development will therefore continue to be a deeply human activity.

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Productside

APRIL 2, 2025

Everyones Pulling in a Different Direction When theres no shared vision, product, engineering, and business teams fill in the blanks differently. Tom put it this way: A storyboard is worth a thousand meetings. When people see the vision, they align faster. Heres why it works: It makes the abstract concrete. It aligns quickly.

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 23, 2024

How product managers are transforming innovation with AI tools Watch on YouTube TLDR In this deep dive into AI’s impact on product innovation and management, former PayPal Senior Director of Innovation Mike Todasco shares insights on how AI tools are revolutionizing product development.

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Productside

MARCH 6, 2025

Meet Brian Fugere , a pro whos navigated the high-stakes terrain of M&A more times than he can count. From surfacing hidden landmines during due diligence to bringing entire product orgs under one cohesive vision, Brians got the battle scarsand the winsto prove it. People issues come first. Technology and processes?

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

This includes a sound understanding of the market, the user and customer needs, and the competition as well as solid product management skills such as the ability to develop an effective product strategy and an actionable product roadmap (as I explain in more detail in the article The T-Shaped Product Professional ).

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The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

It’s a job that requires influence without authority, empathy without favoritism, and vision without control. Far from dictating terms, PMs serve as facilitators, synthesizing input from engineers, designers, marketers, and other stakeholders to ensure that products meet customer needs and business objectives.

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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 4, 2023

I like to think of a product strategy as a high-level plan that helps you realise your vision and achieve product success. Which benefits does the product create for the company developing and providing it? A handy tool to capture the product strategy is my Product Vision Board shown in Figure 2.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] 1 Complement Scrum with a Product Discovery and Strategy Process Scrum is a simple framework that helps teams develop successful products. Continue the discovery and strategy work while the product is being developed. But don’t stop there. Otherwise, you discard it, at least for now.

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 18, 2020

1:38] Summit Lessons Learned Meeting. Just like after a product launch, I conducted a lessons-learned meeting with the Summit team to discuss: What worked (best practices). Developed a schedule. [5:58] Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [1:38] What to do differently (mistakes and insights).

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 1, 2018

You have to work with different stakeholders to define the product vision and strategy, define the set of features that the product will have and figure out a rollout plan. Define Product Vision and Strategy. I recommend you also add to this board the product vision as suggested by Roman Pitchler’s Product Vision Board.

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The Product Guy

MAY 23, 2019

Leaving your job means saying goodbye to these people, and to the teamwork and sense of collaboration you’ve developed during your time together. The goal would have been to better understand the company, the customer and the product(s) we’re developing for the customer. Every development team member. My 60 days plan.

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 22, 2024

Their visions, target groups, needs, standout features , and business goals must comply with the overall portfolio strategy. [1] To get started, create your own Portfolio Vision Board by downloading and adapting the Product Vision Board or by recreating it in your favourite tool.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 4, 2022

This team consists of a product owner , a Scrum Master , and several developers, which are also known as development team. Forming such a team connects the person in charge of the product—the product owner—with the people who design, architect, program, test, and document the solution—the developers. Invest in team building.

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The Product Guy

JULY 30, 2020

Product Managers (PM) need to effectively communicate product vision, strategic roadmaps and concepts to a variety of different stakeholders through the different stages of the product life cycle. This may help help to reduce your 20+ person meetings into small group meetings of under 10 people only.

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Product Talk

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Meet the Continuous Discovery Champion, Teeba Teeba’s career so far has included four years in non-product roles, four years as a business owner, and four years working in fintech/banking product roles. Meet our continuous discovery champion, Teeba Alkhudairi. Interested in developing your own revenue modeling skills?

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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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Product Innovation Educators

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

I started a new series to explore the Product Development and Management Body of Knowledge. Our guest is Dr. Allan Anderson, past chairman of PDMA and the person who led the development of the first and second editions of the Body of Knowledge. You must develop organizational identity from a personal perspective within your company.

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 11, 2022

I’ve chosen quarters in the sample roadmap above, but you can use shorter time frames, of course, if you can meet your learning goals more quickly. The fourth and final line states how you intend to meet the learning goals. The first row describes when the learning goals should be met for the next 12 months.

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The Product Guy

MAY 7, 2019

Our startup’s sales team is incredibly talented and sells successfully – but does not necessarily sell products that have already been developed. With that, our product team and developers would often be found scrambling to create all these promised features to make sure our clients were happy.

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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! Just a few.

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 29, 2020

Part of the path to becoming a product master is developing as a leader. Leaders of product management need agility, influence, trust, empathy, and motivating vision. 6:15] You recently published How to Lead in Product Management: Practices to Align Stakeholders, Guide Development Teams, and Create Value Together.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

Consequently, a Scrum product owner should own a product in its entirety—from the product vision to the product details. The SAFe product owner is tactical in nature and focuses on working on the product backlog and guiding the development teams. Additionally, don’t make the mistake to interfere with the work of the development team.

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Arkenea

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

But, it’s usually challenging to assess what’s the right way to go about it – how much of iteration should be that from user feedback versus founder’s vision for the product? Want to get your app development project off the ground? Arkenea is a trusted, app development firm with 13+ years of experience.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

But without clear priorities, the development team lacks direction, and there is only a slim chance of creating a successful product. The benefit might be to reduce the risk of developing type-2 diabetes. A tool like my product vision board helps you capture and validate your product strategy.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 20, 2020

” When it appeared we were getting stuck trying to create a plan for the next big thing, he would tell me to schedule a meeting to make a plan for the plan — a meeting to discuss what would need to go into a plan since we don’t yet really know what the plan should be. Consider your launch vision and goals.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 20, 2023

The expanding market for augmented reality app development services enables the company to explore novel methods of maximizing this technology’s potential. It is a developing trend among organizations engaged in mobile computing and, in particular, commercial apps. What is augmented reality app? By 2024, there will be 1.73

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

There has been a significant 31% increase in IT outsourcing app development services in the past year, with the numbers still growing. You can find everyone at one place and hire front-end developers, testers, UI/UX designers, and group a team dedicated to your project. It allows to develop and deliver solutions at a much lower cost.

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Lenny Rachitsky

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

And by helping your team develop a natural instinct for collaborating with AI, you’re not just improving their productivity; you’re building a more capable, adaptive, and high-impact product team. For PMs, synthesizing meeting notes isn’t “just admin work.” ” It’s a critical skill.

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Product Management University

JUNE 5, 2023

Most product managers know how to create a product vision, but that’s not the hard part. The extent to which stakeholders get behind your product vision has everything to do with how the product vision is articulated. What is a Product Vision? Why is a Product Vision Important? Your product vision shouldn’t.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 19, 2024

The LAUNCH framework, developed by James Whitman, helps organizations bring new products to market more effectively. Once a year, clients get to meet with a senior product manager to discuss their priorities. More than half of B2B product launches don’t reach their financial goals.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 4, 2022

We’re pushing the boundaries of computer vision and machine learning. 8:00] Tell us more about how you’re developing your core capabilities, especially AI visual recognition. Training a computer vision model is very hard and usually requires an AI research team, but we wanted to make that problem accessible to anyone.

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