Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

To effectively staff the product team, I recommend including the people shown in Figure 1. [1] 1] Figure 1: The Product Team Members Let’s look at the product team members in Figure 1 in more detail starting with the person in charge of the product. 4] As you may have noticed I didn’t list the product backlog.

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Melissa Perri

JULY 23, 2024

At all of them, I start understanding the current state of Product Management. I then do various interviews with executives all the way to Product Management team members and surrounding functions. I review strategies and roadmaps. Other Times, it's due to a lack of skill set in product leaders.

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 11, 2020

This article assumes that you are familiar with the product vision board or the key elements of a product strategy : market, value proposition, standout features, and business goals. A good vision exercises pull—it describes a future state that people want to bring about. A Brief Guide to this Article.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 20, 2016

You can download the template for free from romanpichler.com/tools, and you can find more information on how to use it in my post The GO Product Roadmap. I like to use my Product Vision Board to develop a valid product strategy. Use your vision and product strategy to make the right decisions. Learn More.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 8, 2023

A solid product strategy takes time to build. Here is the method I use for creating a product strategy that makes sense. When I talk to the startups I consult to , or with the CPO Bootcamp participants, I always say that building a solid product strategy isn’t like solving a math equation.

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Product Innovation Educators

APRIL 17, 2023

Paul acquired the breadth of experience through his leadership roles at San Francisco Bay Area startups and high-growth companies. He helps rapidly scaling early-stage startups craft their Product Strategy and everything related to it. I eventually got fired as a product manager. Not really.

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 12, 2024

Similarly, you would either co-create the product roadmap or discuss an initial version together with all product team members, as I explain in more detail in the article Maximising Stakeholder Buy-in to Product Strategy and Product Roadmap. [4] 5] Figure 4 shows an extended product team that includes a coach.

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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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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 24, 2024

Expanding on a recent post ( Revenue Goals are Not Company Strategies ), I’ve been seeing lots of maker teams (product, engineering, design) struggling to form product strategies without a company strategy to hang them on.    We can’t build a sensible product strategy in a vacuum. 

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Her exposure to the product team —and the departure of a previous product manager—sparked Lisa’s interest and led to her stepping into the product manager role right around the time that Teresa began working with the product team as a discovery coach. It can also get leadership buy-in to where a team is heading overall.”–

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The Product Coalition

MAY 19, 2022

Once the product-based revenue potential is rolled up across the portfolio, an enterprise number emerges to share with leadership. Of course, that product-driven revenue potential will be negotiated with leadership. In following this approach, you are taking an important and impactful step toward product-centricity.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 26, 2021

from ‘ Drive’ All top product leaders know the importance that vision plays in the success of a product. As Marty Cagan states in Inspired : “When done well , the product vision is one of our most effective recruiting tools, and it serves to motivate the people on your teams to come to work every day.” Dan Pink’s Motivation 3.0

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Amplitude

MARCH 11, 2020

Roadmapping is at the core of product strategy and product management. As a product person, and the VP of Product at Yesware , I’ve never come to fully embrace the discussion of what each team would deliver, in what sequence and within a long timeframe. Everything flows from this vision.

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 21, 2016

I find that mindfulness is particularly helpful for product managers and product owners. Go for a walk, do some exercise, chat with colleagues (but try not to talk about work). Like any exercise, regular short meditation sessions tend to be better than an occasional, long one. Creativity needs space. Learn More.

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Mind the Product

MAY 27, 2019

At ProductTank Montevideo (Mvd) we celebrated World Product Day earlier this month with a presentation from an awesome product leader, VP of Product Strategy at Rootstrap, Neville Reeves. Neville started with a “nine dots” exercise (you must link all nine dots using four straight lines or fewer, without lifting the pen).

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 2, 2024

As the VP of Product Management at HiveMQ, Yury oversees HiveMQ product discovery and delivery by the Product & Engineering team. In his role on the leadership team, he is responsible for shaping and executing their product strategy.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 6, 2023

Cindy who helps you manage the product started to come late to meetings. It can be tempting to ignore people issues and focus on product-related tasks like reviewing the product strategy , updating the product roadmap , and refining the product backlog. But this is hardly a recipe for success.

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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

DECEMBER 31, 2023

As you might have noticed from reading this blog, I share many stories related to my personal relationships as a means to talk about product leadership. Often it’s because so much of product leadership is about relationships. At work, things are much more complex.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

I find that a product walkthrough is often needed when you are trying to make the case to leadership to green-light a new venture based on the strength of your vision for it. All of this is why I find the best way to articulate a strategy is as a set of product/market fit hypotheses that you are constantly iterating on and refining.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

It’s obvious that some companies see digital transformation as little more than a marketing exercise so that they can be seen as in touch with modern thinking. How Does Product Management Enable Digital Transformation? That’s where product management comes in. It must be driven from the top.”

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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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Roman Pichler

JULY 3, 2018

The same holds for product management: When you create a product strategy for the first time, for instance, you are likely to make plenty of mistakes. Are you, for example, critical of the other person’s work and quick to exercise judgement? It is also a great opportunity to and learn something about yourself.

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BrainMates

MAY 26, 2025

Compare this analysis to your product strategy and positioning. Sharing your findings with cross-functional teams, especially marketing, sales, and leadership, is key to driving alignment and action. Competitor analysis should inform, not dictate, your product decisions. Are we ahead, on par, or lagging?

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ProductPlan

MARCH 17, 2020

How can you take responsibility for the vision and shape the future of your product when you don’t control strategy at the corporate level?”. Developing a Product Strategy. Product Vision. But product vision alone is not enough. Product Strategy. Read five steps to a winning product strategy.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 27, 2022

This little gardening exercise and the patience it required led me to think about the things in our daily work as product leaders that simply take time, and there is nothing we can do to speed up the process. It was a lengthy process, with quite a few trials and errors, until we found the right strategy.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

In addition to delivering a keynote at the Product at Heart conference (in case you missed it, you can find the video and transcript of that presentation here ), conference co-organizer Petra Wille also invited me to participate in a fireside chat at the Leadership Forum event. Introduction: What Is Product Discovery?

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 5, 2021

Product leadership is about finding the right business opportunities to accomplish with the right product. Here is a quick exercise to see if the market is ready for you: start with the problems you see today, and ask yourself: when this problem is solved, what will become the next problem?

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People-First Product Leadership

JUNE 11, 2023

Be Curious Not Judgmental: In my course People-First Product Leadership , I do just that - I share how to put people on your team first. Remember Ted Lasso and involved your team in the exercise. You’ve read the article above and have your product vision. Now you’re ready to tackle the product strategy.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 5, 2020

The Product Leader Certificate requires a little more PM experience and demands competence in DevOps, data analytics, and hard technical skills. Key takeaways include product strategy , user research, and the UX/UI design process. It explores product leadership fundamentals and managing growth, among other takeaways.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 13, 2024

Product teams are responsible for creating a strategy and explaining the “why” behind the product. Product’s role is crucial to the development of effective product strategy and stakeholder buy-in. This creative thinking exercise encouraged everyone to consider a new market.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

And until now, I never thought to share the view a product leader has on roadmaps — at least publicly. I want to help you if you are new to product leadership -or- if you work for a product leader who doesn’t always communicate expectations, leaving you wondering what went wrong. Why share now?

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 11, 2022

I got the leadership team together in front of a whiteboard. This mapping exercise, along with empathy, will help calm their fears. I lead an enterprise software company in the healthcare space. I finally have a chance to do something about dreaded implementation experiences. What did I do? What every great consultant does?—?I

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Bain Public

MAY 26, 2022

Over the last decade, there has been advancements in the product world where the CEO is no longer the only one who calls the shots; now, there is a Product Leadership Team (PLT) who is supposed to work collaboratively with the product manager on defining the next set of features of a product.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

The role did not require a lot of experience in product management because it did not involve developing and managing a product roadmap. Being responsible for a product roadmap typically requires more experience in product management because it is related to developing a product strategy based on company objectives.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 19, 2018

This second post on the methods we use at Onfido to help us think commercially and strategically looks at State of Product meetings. This meeting is an exercise in strategy, an opportunity to take stock of where your product is, where it fits within the wider market, and where it should go. Product Strategy.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 25, 2019

And this idea of “not now” is really powerful, because saying no is really critical to any kind of product strategy and product execution. It’s the predictability of the leadership team, it’s the predictability of you, of me. Whereas “not now,” “Oh yeah, not now. ” And that’s brilliant, because obviously-.

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