Roman Pichler

JANUARY 11, 2022

Overview of the Learning Roadmap. Like a modern product roadmap, a learning roadmap states the specific outcomes or benefits you’d like to achieve to become a more competent product person, and it captures them in form of learning goals. To make these ideas more concrete, let’s look at a sample learning roadmap.

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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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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

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. A great way to discover an effective product strategy is to capture your initial ideas, using a tool like my Product Vision Board , and then systematically correct and refine them.

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The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Invest in Team Development : A great leader empowers their team members to grow and succeed. Lead with Influence : Align teams, shape strategy, and drive organizational vision. Pro Tip from Aarti Iyengar : Focus on outcome-driven roadmap planning. Insight from Tom O’Rourke : Balancing leadership and execution is essential.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

How does it differ from a product roadmap and how do the two plans relate? 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. This includes the stakeholders, the management sponsor, and development teams.

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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. Figure 2 contains a set of cascading goals: vision, user and business goals, product goals, and sprint goals. Goals in Product Management.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 14, 2023

I like to think of the product strategy as a high-level plan that helps you realise your vision and that answers the following four questions: Who is the product for? 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.

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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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Productside

MARCH 4, 2025

Stepping into product leadership means balancing strategic vision, customer focus, and emerging tech. Key topic #3 Thriving as a Product Leader Why adaptability, data fluency, and domain expertise are the future of product managementand how PMs can develop these critical skills. Why Listen to This Episode?

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 10, 2024

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Traditional vs Outcome-based Roadmaps Before I share the four steps, let me briefly describe the main differences between a traditional, feature- and an outcome-based product roadmap. A traditional roadmap is essentially a list of features, which are mapped onto a timeline.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 7, 2025

5] What about Product Roadmap Generation? You might have noticed that I didnt list the creation of product roadmaps as an AI benefit, even though several tools offer it. There are two reasons for this: First, the AI-generated roadmaps I came across during my research were feature-based, which is a roadmapping approach I dont recommend.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 3, 2023

How to Achieve Success in Your Product Strategy In today’s rapidly evolving market, having a clear product vision and a well-defined strategy is essential for the success of any tech product. A compelling product vision is a guiding light, providing direction and purpose to the development process.

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DevelopmentCorporate

APRIL 18, 2025

Demystifying Product Roadmaps: Your Strategic Foundation A product roadmap is more than a simple schedule. It connects the initial vision with the practical steps of execution, providing a clear direction for product development. It's the strategic backbone of any successful product.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Decision-making process for PMs: No common process, standardized No journey from OKRs to problems and solutions No articulation of the roadmap with uncertainty Not ahead of the needs Problems for making streamlined decisions, for articulating decisions. Low accountability Limited visions of the product by PMs. Low transparency.

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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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The Product Guy

JUNE 20, 2019

As the first and most senior PM, I recognized the need to clarify vision, formalize processes, and set a proactive agenda moving forward. They need to shift their focus to leveraging teams to execute their vision and it is up to you to help with this transition. Start at the Top. In most companies, this process is ongoing.

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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. Everyones Pulling in a Different Direction When theres no shared vision, product, engineering, and business teams fill in the blanks differently. When people see the vision, they align faster. It aligns quickly.

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Productside

MARCH 6, 2025

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. Technology Roadmap Figure out the dev stack, the product backlog tools (Jira vs. Aha?), She standardized everythingno more 14 different ways to build a roadmap.

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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 Coalition

MAY 3, 2021

Roadmaps don’t need to be complex, nor should you need a PhD to create one. Photo by Matt Duncan on Unsplash Ahh the dreaded word roadmap… The mere mention of a roadmap can divide the room, and send Product Managers into a world of panic. Let’s face it, roadmaps have a bad reputation. the simple roadmap by David Webb 1.

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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. It’s a model of an iterative process that systematically links the product strategy with the product roadmap , the product backlog , the development work, and the key performance indicators (KPIs).

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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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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Photo by AP Vibes Outcome-based roadmaps are considered the best practice; however, they are not as common as you would expect. We created a beautiful vision and design that laid the foundation for anything that would be needed in the future until the existing system could be fully replaced. The concept has been around for a while now.

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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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Productside

APRIL 16, 2025

Product managers push for roadmaps. But PMs bring something different : systems thinking, long-term vision, and the ability to synthesize inputs from across the business. Download our Product Leader First 90 Days Template Pack to define your teams values, vision, and KPIsand create alignment from day one. Whats your take?

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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.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 20, 2019

Developing your product design career as an individual contributor. As a designer on the management path, a large part of my focus has been to help individual contributor (IC) designers to develop in their role. Results: The main ingredient of career development. Behaviors: The secret sauce of product design career development.

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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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The Product Guy

MAY 7, 2020

Hence it is critical that one is aware of the best practises of the role and develops his own philosophy which results into maximum positive leverage for the organization. As I strive towards becoming a product leader, I wanted to understand the best practises in product management and in the process develop my own product philosophy. .

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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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The Product Guy

JULY 2, 2017

Think of your product management career development as a new product that is going to be released into the market. In product management you’re schooled to, identify who your customers are; identify a value proposition strategy and to persuade stakeholders of the vision you want to achieve. Do you have a Product Roadmap?

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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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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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The Product Coalition

JUNE 28, 2022

Let’s talk about how to define a product vision, and why the lack of a product vision is so detrimental to your team. As I’ll explain below, the “why” and “where” form your product vision, and your product team (especially your engineers), not only want this from you, but need it in order to do their best work. Directionality.

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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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