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. But this didn’t seem to matter much as everybody was in great spirits and had high hopes for the new product. To Collocate or Not.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

Instead, you should engage the stakeholders, leverage their expertise, and generate as much buy-in as possible , as I explain in more detail in my article “ Stakeholder Management Tips for Product People.” ” But do not allow people to dominate and tell you what to do, and don’t agree to a weak compromise.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 28, 2020

According to Customedialabs , the typical bounce rate for good performing e-commerce and retail products is 20%?—?45%, 45%, for B2B products it is 25%?—?55%, Interestingly, the bounce rate tells a lot whether you are close to your product/market fit or not. 55%, and for lead generation websites it is 30%?—?55%.

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Userpilot

MARCH 24, 2021

Defining your product strategy is the most important aspect of deciding to build something new. It helps your entire team rally around a vision and a set of outcomes, making sure everyone is aligned in reaching those product growth goals. It helps you find product-market fit and gives your team direction.

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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? You can successfully prevent these problems by starting software development with a Minimum Viable Product (MVP). a skateboard.

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 11, 2020

It can also result in a large product backlog and high development cost: The greater the number of people who should benefit from your product is, the more diverse their needs are likely to be, and the more features are usually required to address them. 94, How to Lead in Product Management , pp. Needs are Features.

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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.

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Userpilot

JUNE 30, 2022

While everyone talks about product-market fit, finding product-customer fit is equally important when it comes to engaging the right customers and driving success. You’ve achieved product customer fit when your product and its functionality help the user get their job done in the easiest and fastest way.

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Userpilot

MAY 1, 2024

He also hosts a job board for product professionals and has created a GPT-4 chatbot, Lennybot, that is programmed to answer questions from Lenny’s newsletter and podcast. Before starting his own venture, Lenny worked in the product and engineering teams of companies like Airbnb and Neustar.

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Userpilot

APRIL 30, 2024

Marty Cagan is a popular name in the product management world. In many ways, he has shaped how successful products are built and how teams can be organized to work toward excellence. Marty Cagan is a well-known figure in the product management and technology industry. Who is Marty Cagan?

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svpg

JANUARY 11, 2016

I normally write about how to evolve your organization from a weak product org to a strong one. But in this article I want to talk about a pattern that I see in many companies that are actually doing really well, growing aggressively, yet they will sometimes, over time and unintentionally, replace their good behaviors with bad ones.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 12, 2019

At a time when so much of today’s B2B ecosystem is built around software products, I believe it has become incumbent on the people responsible for designing, developing, and building these products to take back leadership of how our companies are run, and lead us all back to a culture of responsible growth.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 24, 2018

I joined Setapp as a product manager in January last year, at the same time as the company was launching its main product. Setapp provides Mac users with a way to use and discover new apps, and developers with a new way to reach customers and generate extra revenue. We didn’t know know if our sales predictions were good or bad.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The Lean Product Playbook Summary?—?How How to Find Product-Market Fit “Main reason why most of the products fail is due to lack of product-market fit.” ~Dan Dan Olsen Product-Market Fit is inarguably one of the main factors deciding on product success or failure. And how to achieve it?

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

TL;DR Customer discovery questions enable product teams to better understand customer needs and problems so that they can build products that the potential customer truly needs. Other data sources include product analytics, asking customer-facing teams, competitor analysis, and industry events.

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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. Contrast this with a sprint review meeting , which might help you determine if users can easily sign up for the product. Assess product strategy and adjust if necessary.

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Userpilot

APRIL 29, 2021

The myth of the ‘killer feature’ and believing that all your product problems can be fixed with more features (or the ‘one big thing’) leads to the so-called ‘Build Trap’. The Build Trap leads to spending more and more of your development resources on building and maintaining new features, rather than improving UX and feature adoption.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

Instead, you should engage the stakeholders, leverage their expertise, and generate as much buy-in as possible , as I explain in more detail in my article “ Stakeholder Management Tips for Product People.” ” But do not allow people to dominate and tell you what to do, and don’t agree to a weak compromise.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 10, 2020

The truth is that Product Judgment is a complex topic, and in my opinion, one that is very poorly understood by many. I hope this post allows people and teams to safely talk about Product Judgment. How to obtain product judgment. Product Judgment does exist, and it is learned. It is not innate. This is not enough.

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The Product Bistro

MARCH 16, 2021

The most powerful phrase in product management isn’t something witty about product market fit, or positioning, or market segmentation. You are the product manager, you own it, and while you could play the blame game (and be correct), you shouldn’t. It’s my fault. That is it.

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Sachin Rekhi

JANUARY 22, 2016

One aspect of startups that the ecosystem is getting better at is designing our startups for learning from our customers to find product/market fit. But what I've found surprising is that these learnings haven't been readily applied to the development process and they definitely should be. What exactly do I mean by this?

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 29, 2021

So while preparing for the ProductTank Rotterdam panel discussion, I decided to take the time and actually write a piece about “Killing Product Features”, sharing my learnings, since this is something that product people come across and usually feel quite stressed with handling it. Is it maybe diluting our product fundamental value?

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The Product Coalition

JULY 25, 2021

Even people with a developed growth mindset?—?ones No one likes to see their gaps pointed to, and for people who don’t have a developed growth mindset, it’s twice as hard. If your product managers don’t have an intrinsic motivation to grow, and you still need them to, you must instill it in them. Really really want it.

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Usersnap

MARCH 19, 2019

Should the Voice of Customer influence product development? In Frost & Sullivan’s survey research on R&D/innovation and product development priorities, 84% of the respondents declare that they employ the voice of customers (VoC) in their product development cycle. Do you consider customer feedback?

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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. For instance, you might show the individuals how they can make effective strategic product decisions, create an actionable product roadmap, and effectively use the right KPIs.

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Mixpanel

MAY 3, 2019

Throughout his career, Al has focused on helping companies develop and execute digital strategies to grow their business and stay ahead of the curve. Developing a mobile product is a daunting task. This Growth process is ongoing and ever-evolving, requiring your team to continuously iterate. Poor Data Integrity.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

The smarter your investment in testing, the better your chances of product success. Here’s what we’ve learned based on our experience of adopting a testing mindset and seeing your way through innovative product development. Product/Market fit Cannot be Planned. Chaos Report 2015. Reduce the Costs of Failure.

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

A four-layer framework to create a winning product strategy Today we are talking about creating product strategy. He is a strategic practitioner, having spent 20 years leading product, marketing, and business functions for large international corporations. 9:00] Who is responsible for developing product strategy?

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Userpilot

APRIL 6, 2023

Developing and releasing sophisticated products with all the bells and whistles imaginable might seem like a great idea. Overengineered products are difficult to use, filled with bugs, and instead of improving your users’ lives, they make them unnecessarily complicated. Why do developers overengineer software products?

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Product Marketing is a fairly new domain and the role of ‘Product Marketing Manager’ differs greatly from organization to organization. You may want to jump to a relevant section: Who’s a Product Marketing Manager? Product Marketing Manager’s Role and Responsibilities (depending on the company).

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

It’s not rocket science that awesome products come from awesome teams, so what’s the key to creating and managing a team that’s designed for maximum impact? Here, taking advice from a number of product pros, we look at a selection of ways to build product teams and empower them to achieve success.

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Userpilot

MARCH 22, 2021

The world of software is crowded with a variety of product marketing tools that are ‘supposed’ to transform your workflow. Product Marketing tools that can add real value to your business do exist, but finding the right software in such a noisy environment can be challenging. Product Marketing Tools Overview.

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Userpilot

APRIL 21, 2021

Put simply, good product marketing software helps your SaaS solve two fundamental problems: Build a product that users love on the basis of customer feedback Acquire and retain users of that product. But how do you choose good product marketing software? What is product marketing?

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 9, 2021

In the competitive world of SaaS products, product positioning is definitely something your product marketing team can’t afford to ignore. Product positioning allows you to identify your market niche. Why is product positioning important? The sales team could be a good source of information.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

In many cases, an economic downturn simply reveals your already existing weaknesses since they now have more impact. When people (and VCs) aren’t spending money easily, you must be super sharp with your value proposition, positioning, product, marketing, and sales. Here is how it works.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 29, 2023

Without validating features, it’s easy to create products that aren’t aligned with their vision or are difficult to differentiate. Developing features without validation results in bloated products and unnecessarily drives the cost of development up. Product teams should invest in validation when developing the MVP.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Tough market conditions would cause your sales to dramatically drop or even cease. On one hand, that’s expected in a rough market, but is that really the root cause? In many cases, an economic downturn simply reveals your already existing weaknesses since they now have more impact. Here is how it works.

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