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. Provide guidance on the product, including its market, value proposition, business goals, and key features. Treat the Team as an Equal Partner.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Before the advent of agile frameworks like Scrum , a product person—the product manager—would typically carry out the market research, compile a market requirements specification, create a business case, put together product roadmap, write a requirements specification, and then hand it off to a project manager.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 16, 2024

“Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth” — Mike Tyson I’ve wrestled with weak roadmaps — even some downright disasters. Product managers and their teams start with enthusiasm, hit the ground running, and create a solid roadmap. Tie feedback-based changes to tests planned for the current development cycle.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Before the advent of agile frameworks like Scrum , a product person—the product manager—would typically carry out the market research, compile a market requirements specification, create a business case, put together product roadmap, write a requirements specification, and then hand it off to a project manager.

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BrainMates

JULY 31, 2023

Innovation Is Just Good Product Management By ADRIENNE TAN Innovation has become a buzzword in countless organisations. CEOs want it, strategists write about it, marketers talk about it, and product managers strive to deliver it. Every product has a lifecycle. What Exactly Is Innovation? Why Bother Innovating?

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The Product Manager Coach Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

Being a product manager requires a balance of assertiveness and diplomacy, particularly in stakeholder management. The art of saying “no” is a critical skill that, when done respectfully and decisively, can significantly contribute to the success of your product and your career.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Team issues can have a negative impact on a project and your people long term. There are a bunch of ways they might manifest themselves – and I’ve written them down as I’ve heard them over a decade of building digital products in cross-functional teams. But most of all don’t be a promoter of negative views in the team.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

How do product managers identify market gaps? A market gap can be caused by missing functionality or poor user experience. Canva identified a market need for a user-friendly graphic design tool for non-designers and DocuSign for a secure solution to sign and manage digital documents and contracts.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 6, 2019

Working as a product manager can be a busy, unpredictable and octopus-like existence. Bringing team members together, organizing user research, product demos, road mapping and more. If you’re a mobile app product manager there’s a whole additional layer of complexity to add to that cake.

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Userpilot

MAY 5, 2022

What does the product management process involve? Why is it important for product managers to follow them? Product managers lead interdisciplinary product teams to deliver products that bring value to customers. Product Development is when most of the code is written and tested.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Why do product managers need them? That’s what Dave Martin , a product leadership coach, has talked about in his talk at this year’s Product Drive Summit hosted by Userpilot. Dave Martin on how product roadmaps kill outcomes. Build a product that users love by delivering value and a good product experience.

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Sachin Rekhi

JUNE 25, 2017

I'm often asked what's the best way for a new product manager to learn the fundamentals of the role or for an experienced product manager to continue to master their craft. I've organized this collection into several sections, starting with product management 101.

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Department of Product

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Product Principles – Examples for Product Managers Make decision making easier with inspiration from top product companies Product principles are used by product teams to help guide decision making. Principles can help guide both strategic decisions and tactical decisions.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Early in the pandemic, this led me to resent virtual meetings, especially virtual product review meetings. This particular product review meeting was a breaking point. I struggled to figure out how to run the product review meeting effectively. As a result, the team struggled with how to prepare. Why was this prioritized?”

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Platforms offer several benefits: They can help grow a product portfolio faster and cheaper and they can help increase revenue. If the teams developing the different apps all created their own user-interface layers, there would be considerable code duplication, added development costs, and increased development time.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 7, 2023

How to prepare for a user interview, all the way to sharing the results with your team. The skill of running effective user interviews is key to defining your target users, finding product-market fit , growing your product, figuring out what to build next — or just simply understanding how users perceive your product.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 5, 2023

Organizations that have more recently recognized the importance of product management to the success of their business are those that are transitioning from being “sales-led” or “customer-led” to “product-led.”. They focus on the results that the team is looking for. Trends (still) impacting the newly converted.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 27, 2023

If you’ve been in a product for a while, you’ve almost certainly run into the problem of inconsistent documentation. This post will focus on the last example, product roadmaps. This inconsistency is the most insidious sign of a poor product strategy. Or you may work at a very small company.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 31, 2022

When it comes to the product team’s organizational structures and strategies, product operations is the hot new thing. More and more teams realize the value of having an operationally-focused professional. The role frees up time for product managers. Product roadmap delays. Trust issues.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 23, 2023

By the look on the face of the product manager asking me, she didn’t want a canned answer; she was looking for a reason to believe, to rekindle her energy. I knew why the company existed, but I never thought about the purpose behind the product other than the problem it solved for the customer and the value it delivered.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 29, 2019

Product managers act as the glue between multiple cross-functional teams and effective communication is the foundation of their success; from here the general sense that product managers can’t do their job productively unless they are co-located with their teams.

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Userpilot

MAY 19, 2022

Have you ever wondered what makes a successful product and how a product manager can build one? If yes, you’re in the right place as we’re just about to explore the 12 must-have characteristics of successful digital products. To be successful, your SaaS product needs to provide the right mix of features.

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Bain Public

JANUARY 11, 2022

Let’s face it, most organizations have poor habits around roadmap completion — this is why getting leadership (or stakeholders) to develop consistent, stable and familiar routines reinforced through repetition and communication is valuable. But how you handle these requests is where it matters. Let’s dive deeper!

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2023

If you do things that are purposeful, you’ll eventually be successful.” — Howard Schultz Several years ago, I found myself in a heated discussion about product roadmaps with a client. This exchange unfolded over weak, black coffee in your typical, bland white-walled corporate conference room. That’s simply a byproduct.

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UX Studio: Product Management

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

After our team at UX Studio started using product management tools, the time spent on communication surprisingly decreased. As a product manager, you know the drill. Coordinating designer and developer teams simultaneously while reporting to the boss via email becomes a drag. Collaboration tools.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 17, 2019

A mental model started to emerge as I was trying to represent the product manager role in a similar way to the Maslow hierarchy of needs for human beings. Its main merit is to represent product management role as something that is easy to explain visually. This is the most basic need for a product.

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ProductPlan

DECEMBER 3, 2020

What All Industries Expect from Their Product Managers. Whether the industry is pharmaceuticals, furniture, or food, product managers representing all types of products share a few common high-level responsibilities. They develop a strategic direction and drive the development of their companies’ products.

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UX Planet

DECEMBER 15, 2023

These thoughtful considerations will ensure that you have the correct assessment of your company’s UX maturity , your product’s current standing, future needs, and your user requirements — all of which will form the foundation of your UX budget. It also helps in saving on directionless development costs.

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Userpilot

JULY 27, 2023

Engineering Manager: In charge of planning, designing, and overseeing projects. They also manage finances and supervise one or more engineering teams. Product Manager : In charge of creating product strategy and overseeing the design process, among other things. Average salary: $151,254/yr.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Your first 90 days as a product manager can feel overwhelming. But what should you do in your first 30, 60, or 90 days as a product manager to set you up for success? But what should you do in your first 30, 60, or 90 days as a product manager to set you up for success? Talk to Users & Customers ??

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Bain Public

MARCH 14, 2022

But unfortunately, in many companies, the product leadership team can perpetuate a negative culture — setting up product managers to fail. There’s a lack of teaching that happens in the early stages of a product manager’s career, forcing people to make career decisions just to survive rather than thrive.

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Userpilot

JUNE 9, 2021

Are you thinking about a career in product, but you’re not sure whether you should pursue Product Marketing or Product Management? To explain the difference in the simplest of terms: Product Managers build product features and Product Marketers promote them to their audience and users.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Every software team out there uses some sort of planning system or tool to do product roadmaps and sprint plans, and yet many are unhappy with the tools, or frustrated at the lack of getting things done, or getting “pointless” things done, and the list goes on. What do the product roadmapping or planning tools offer us?

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Tyner Blain

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

It is important to not describe a situation as self-evidently bad , but rather to reshape your framing to discuss the problem which attends. Product managers operate within an environment of uncertainty – and embracing uncertainty is critical to creating value, but product managers have a responsibility to eliminate ambiguity.

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Tyner Blain

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Using Problem Statements to Make Choices I talk about using problem statements to “shape” a product strategy. Using problem statements is an operational approach to shaping and expressing a product strategy which makes it actionable. Most teams lack this. I want to take a step back and explain.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

Product requirements are there to help the team understand what you want to build. Whether you write them in detailed documents or share them briefly and verbally with the team, it’s easy to go directly to the bottom line and give clear instructions. Photo by Gin Patin from Pexels Early in my career, I had a mentor.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 1, 2019

They know that markets and constraints change and that the best way to take advantage of opportunities is to remain lean with a flexible product roadmap. A timeline roadmap simply doesn’t leave room for discovery and iteration, and at the end of the day, makes the product person look bad when delivery fails or the wrong product is built.

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