Roman Pichler
JULY 11, 2016
Manage the Product, not the Team. Focus on your job as the product manager or product owner, and manage the product, not the team. Treat the Team as an Equal Partner. The team members are not your resources but the people who create your product. Assume that the team members want to do their best.
Roman Pichler
NOVEMBER 1, 2022
If you say yes to every request, you are in danger of creating a Frankenstein product—a product that is a collection of unrelated features, offers a weak value proposition, and gives rise to a poor user experience. But a product roadmap with unrealistic goals can turn the development effort into a “death march.”
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Roman Pichler
OCTOBER 5, 2021
One of the challenges the agile transition team was concerned about was the choice of the right product backlog tool, which at first seemed odd to me. Another time, I was asked to help a team of a major charity in the UK whose task was to create a new website for their fund-raising campaigns. The Product Backlog is Too Big.
Roman Pichler
FEBRUARY 19, 2024
1] Figure 1: An Empowerment Model for Product People and Teams Level one represents the authority to decide how features are detailed and guide their implementation. Level three, finally, allows product people and teams to develop the product strategy including the value proposition and business goals.
Roman Pichler
JUNE 7, 2021
Be Clear on When to Involve the Stakeholders and Development Teams. Complex and high-impact decisions, however, are best made together with the stakeholders and development teams. Additionally, include the development team members in product backlog decisions , and always choose sprint goals together.
The Product Coalition
DECEMBER 13, 2022
In a recent poll, many of my fellow facilitators shared that the most challenging part of designing a workshop lies in picking the right methods and activities to apply, then pacing against them. As guides, we want so badly to steer our teams in the right direction and toward the best possible outcomes. Hey, I get it!
Mironov Consulting
JUNE 25, 2023
Many of my discussions with product leaders (CPOs, VPs and others who manage teams of product folks) are about the substance of product management: portfolios, competing stakeholders, pricing & packaging, tarot cards as a revenue forecasting model. Last A competitor announces ChatGPT-based retirement investment advice.
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