Roman Pichler

MAY 5, 2020

When I need to take a break from writing, I save the document. Word is the product. But the ability to save the document is a feature, a part of the overall product. To get a more complete picture of the Scrum product owner role, take a look at my product owner guide : Featur e Owner and Component Owner.

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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.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The Eight Core Elements of a Winning Product Strategy “The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.”?—?Michael After what seemed like months of work, our product was emerging from stealth mode. The leadership team finally agreed on the vision. No choices = no product strategy. Choice made.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Instead of acting as a sole decision-maker, today’s product managers need to excel at facilitation, stakeholder collaboration, and building trust across teams. She now runs her own consultancy, helping CEOs scale their companies by transforming product vision into measurable business growth.

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The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Themes are critical building blocks for your product’s strategy, each Theme is usually a statement describing an idea that is critical to the vision of your product. Each of these items are also useful when communicating your product’s strategy to various stakeholders within your organization.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 1, 2023

What Is Product Strategy Exactly? And Why It Matters Product strategy is a creative act, to “do something new,” approaching an opportunity from a different angle. — Self So what exactly is product strategy? Why is it important if I have a solid product management team?” I snapped out of la la land.

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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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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.

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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? We asked some of the industry experts about how do they merge both the aspects and finalize the features of the product.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 14, 2020

I’ll keep this article not attached to the product itself but in the process of building it and it’s the current process up until now. Alice Product Manager”- Without Product Vision, any direction will be taken. This research was based on areas that are either directly or indirectly related to my product.

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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. What is a product strategy? How do you set a product vision?

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The Critical Role of Product Strategy When Money Is Scarce (Part 1 — Seed) A good product strategy is something every company needs. Here is how a product strategy can help you create business results, even when the market is not in your favor. Product strategy is such a vague term for most people.

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Using Your Product Strategy and Product Vision to Plan Your Roadmap. Product strategies must be rooted in the overall vision of the company and product. When each product initiative advances, the product vision is easy for everyone to be on board. Product storyline.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

I find that many product people are so busy with urgent tactical work, such as refining user stories, working with the development team, or answering a support request, that they neglect important strategic tasks like regularly assessing if the product strategy is still working. Consequently, make enough time for strategic work.

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UX Planet

JUNE 14, 2024

Over 8,000 people were interested, so I figured this would be a perfect opportunity to explore my product strategy skills. Aligning with Netflix’s goals: I refined the product vision to ensure it supports Netflix’s core objectives. This can inform future content acquisition and production/product strategies.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

I instead define a product manager as driving the vision, strategy, design, and execution of their product. It's equally important for product managers to think about each of these four dimensions as having a concrete set of deliverables. Vision: Vision Narrative. Vision: Product Walkthrough.

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Melissa Perri

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

This is how I would approach improving the product if I were working with them. The top section of our Roadmap outlines our Vision, Challenge, and Target Condition, which reflect the goals outlined in my post on Product Strategy. Roadmaps are a living document. If you invalidate a theme, update it.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 18, 2019

As product managers, we need to be skilled in a variety of areas from defining features and requirements to understanding customers, analyzing usage metrics, prioritizing features, managing releases, and the list goes on. This context and focus helps to drive everything from technical decisions to design to prioritizing features.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Reduced time-to-market : We can now release new products and features more quickly. This is enabled by a closer, ongoing collaboration with cross-functional development teams, shifting from written documentation to face-to-face conversations, and using techniques such as user stories that reduce overhead—when applied correctly.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Product Management 101 ] Great products are not accidental. They all start with a focused strategy. A good product strategy helps the team stay focused, guide the product development and manage the business during the development process. Product Roadmap?

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Mind the Product

MAY 22, 2017

Cody Simms of Techstars is convinced that everyone already knows that feature roadmaps are nothing more than a comfort blanket: “Whether you are a CEO, board member, investor, or employee…EVERYONE knows that the roadmaps that are published in these documents are a joke. Did the product they were building match up to their vision and mission?

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Roman Pichler

JULY 11, 2016

You should therefore help the team acquire the relevant market and domain knowledge—for instance, by involving the team in research and validation work, inviting them to join you when you visit customers— and ensure that they are aware of the product strategy and product roadmap as well as the business goals and KPIs.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Consequently, a platform should have its own product strategy and roadmap , KPIs , product backlog , and well-designed software architecture that leverages the right technologies. Make sure, though, that the platform decisions are guided by the needs of the products it serves.

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Product Bookshelf

APRIL 15, 2024

Martin Good Strategy, Bad Strategy by Richard Rumels Product strategy is a set of choices informed by product vision and company objectives. A good strategy consists of a diagnosis, guiding policy, and coherent actions. Why is product strategy so hard? “What is product strategy?

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Usersnap

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Gathering insights about target users through user research, such as surveys and interviews, is essential to tailor products effectively and enhance user satisfaction. 6 Goal-Oriented Questions Understanding user goals helps align product strategies with long-term business priorities and aspirations. What would it do for you?

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Product Management University

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Establishing a Strong Brand Identity for Your Product Management Team: Why It’s Necessary! 3 Reasons You Don’t Need a Sales Discovery Document for Every Product. Creating a Product Strategy: Is It Worth the Effort? Product Demo Workshop November 12, 2020. In the Trenches FAQs. 499/person.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 5, 2023

When you are early on, your goal is to learn not to document. Honestly, only once you have a product in the market that is a general release with paying users is a roadmap worth considering. Concept — What is the product concept? Define the product concept and initial capabilities/features at a high level.

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 17, 2016

It is also a tool for showing the product strategy, the why behind what they’re building. A lot of companies feel that the product roadmap is simply the backlog, but that’s not the best way to communicate the strategy. A feature list isn’t a product roadmap. The product roadmap needs to tie back to the strategy.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Product lifecycle context : During development and introduction you’ll likely be focused on prioritising core features. You might want to acknowledge your product’s context by adding things like your vision, business goals, product name, and logo – as a minimum. Roman Pichler’s product vision board.

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Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 30, 2018

Here are 5 steps for your first week: (1) define the goal, (2) rally the team, (3) focus on the future, not the past, (4) gather documentation, and (5) understand the customer problems to solve. Using product vision to create north star metric. Get the details at [link].

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 25, 2022

Yes, they are ugly, but powerful in processing numbers and producing insights that support product decisions. The best product managers will use Google Sheets at least at some point in their planning stage. That not only saves a lot of time, it levels up your product strategy entirely. Check out their features.

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Alchemer Mobile

AUGUST 2, 2018

A mobile product manager’s focus is more—but not exclusively—external. Product managers are tasked with communicating the voice of the customer, while still bridging the gap between customer and market success. A mobile product owner’s focus is more internal. Owning, assigning, and clarifying technical product requirements.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 15, 2019

A great roadmap helps PM’s achieve the following: 1, It ensures the product team understand what they are working towards, by aligning the product to the company’s short term and long term goals. Image credit: ProductPlan Roadmapping sits in the Product Strategy phase of a Product Management It’s very different to a Product Backlog.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2023

As a communication tool, use roadmaps to: Convert your strategy into a tangible product, taking an essential yet abstract concept and giving it form. Foster mutual understanding by painting a shared vision of the future and the results achieved. Narrate the product’s story and journey, illustrating how it evolves.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 18, 2021

A step-by-step approach to developing a SaaS product Take the following steps to build a SaaS platform: 1. Decide on the SaaS model, product strategy, and the pricing strategy Formulate your strategy before undertaking software development. Decide on the core features to offer, and document the requirements.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 31, 2021

Or is there a big gap between product visions that needs a coherent narrative? It may not go anywhere outside of a document or presentation. But that’s the work of a Product Leader?—?lots Organization-Wide Strategy Product strategy drives business outcomes. A lot of PMs skip the strategic framework.

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Actuation Consulting

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Over the past few weeks we’ve considered a number of key product management tools. Today we will look at two of the most important: the Product Vision and Product Strategy documents. Defining a Product Vision Document. The Product Vision document looks into the future.

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