Roman Pichler

JUNE 6, 2023

Sue, the Scrum Master , wanted to help the development team get better at sprint planning. But the team still over-commits and under-delivers. 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.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

And too often I’ve seen poor leaders resort to micro-management, HIPPO, and dictatorship in order to fulfil their strategies. As a result, I’ve come to value 5 different aspects of product leadership. Shift #1: A leader of leaders The two top things I’ve head people reply to the question “how do I move into Product Leadership?”

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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.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2021

Photo by Denise Jans on Unsplash There is a misconception that building a roadmap will define a product’s future. But a roadmap doesn’t create a clear view of the future. Your vision of the future should bring clarity to your roadmap. People usually build roadmaps by throwing a bunch of unrelated projects onto a schedule.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 30, 2023

It was another bad start to what seemed like Groundhog Day. “I So either we work together to understand your objectives, call them goals if you’d like, and the outcome you are looking for from the product, or we will end the discussion, and you won’t get a committed set of work on the roadmap.” So, what is an outcome-oriented roadmap?

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Highly effective Product Managers develop themselves in 5 key areas. In some jobs, you can get by with just Competence, but in the unkempt, fuzzy, team-oriented domain of Product Management, you need both. Here are 2 actions you can take to develop your Craft Competence: Craft Competence ?? and others feel that.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 6, 2019

In this #mtpcon London talk, Kate Leto examines the importance of emotional intelligence in individuals and teams and asks how it can be used to make better hiring decisions. If we want to build greater emotional intelligence into our product teams, then we need to design our hiring processes to look for it. Key Points. Hire people.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

On this episode of Intercom on Product myself and Paul Adams, our SVP of Product, take a look at roadmapping. Knowing how and when to define a roadmap, who to include and how long to plan for are key elements to finding the balanced approach that you need. As you grow functions, the audience for your roadmap widens.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

On this episode of Intercom on Product myself and Paul Adams, our SVP of Product, take a look at roadmapping. Knowing how and when to define a roadmap, who to include and how long to plan for are key elements to finding the balanced approach that you need. As you grow functions, the audience for your roadmap widens.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 23, 2019

In Part 3 of our Product Leadership Forum recap, you can see an overview of the remaining insights from this year’s #mtpcon London Product Leadership Forum (if you missed them, you can take a look back at Part 1 and Part 2). The team won’t respect me if I’m not technical”. Leading Smart People. I’m an imposter here”.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

On June 26, 2017, English football team Crystal Palace enthusiastically announced the appointment of the great Dutch defender Frank de Boer as its new manager. He announced he would take a middling team and turn them into a whirring, possession-based team emulating the lofty ideals of Total Football. The Parable.

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BrainMates

OCTOBER 20, 2024

One of the critical tools that can help product managers improve customer satisfaction is the SERVQUAL model or Customer Service Gap model , a framework for identifying and addressing gaps in service delivery. It’s about ensuring that customer experiences align with promises made during product development and marketing.

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People-First Product Leadership

APRIL 30, 2025

Here's a framework I use with my coaching clients: Tactical thinking : How do we solve this problem? Try this exercise: Take your current roadmap and ask "Why?" Consider drafting a strategy yourself, using frameworks like the Strategy Stack. This proactive approach can spark valuable conversations and align your team's efforts.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

How is the outcome-based roadmap different from regular roadmaps? 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. A roadmap example. Why do product managers need them?

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

I’ve asked friends who do the job at social events and got the same answer, and frequently asked members of my own teams, who struggled to find the time to do it. To compensate, I’ve seen UX researchers & designers pick up the mantle a lot more, and the design teams have really leaned into this space. What can be cut first?

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Folding Burritos

DECEMBER 7, 2017

This led me to reach out to 14 leading Product Managers and talk with them about how they use customer feedback in their own companies and teams. Frameworks like Jobs-to-be-Done are extremely helpful in determining exactly what the product is supposed to be doing for its customers — that is, the needs it serves.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 25, 2022

neither the product nor roadmap are ever static. The Best Product Managers use Product Management Software for: We’ve broken down this list into four stages of the feature life cycle that contributes to building the product value: opportunity identification and validation, design and prototyping, feature development, and launch and iteration.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2021

Part one of this article taught you how to align a roadmap with aspirational business goals. The initial steps of this framework took collaboration between business leadership and the product team to set a direction for development decisions. This step gets into what people think of when they ask for a roadmap.

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Sachin Rekhi

JANUARY 26, 2020

I'm a firm believer that Objectives & Key Results (OKRs), the goal-setting framework invented at Intel and popularized by Google and John Doerr , can be a highly effective leadership tool for a team of any size. I've seen teams define new OKRs every month, every quarter, or every year. Writing Effective OKRs.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 8, 2024

Think of digital transformation strategies as your roadmap to success in the digital age. The important basis is the development of a strategy for short- and long-term digital transformation based on business results rather than technology. Involve them in strategy development, gather their input, and address their concerns.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 2, 2022

Every time I navigate the ocean of Product Management frameworks, we are not tackling one essential part of our role: People and Ourselves. There is a framework for almost every stage of our Product development lifecycle, but one of the only transversal things is that we need people to make things happen. It is the only thing”.

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Lenny Rachitsky

APRIL 28, 2024

Kayvon treated sacred cows like a “built-in roadmap” of innovations worth testing. Founders of acquihired companies led the teams behind Community Notes, Spaces, Super Follows, Fleets, Communities, Tipping, and more. Building 0 to 1 is extremely hard if the entire team isn’t bought into the vision.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 23, 2020

From objectives to roadmap, the strategy behind product development?—?Part Objectives key results (OKR) is a popular management strategy framework for defining and tracking objectives (goals) and their outcomes. This framework, which is widely common in medium?—?large you are probably not challenging yourselves enough.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

As a result, the team struggled with how to prepare. I made it no longer than three minutes into the presentation and got this subtle feeling that the team was unprepared. Yeah, I was seemingly in a bad mood. The team was shutting down. I apologized to the team and said we would pick it up next week.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 1, 2023

Added functionality, new capabilities, a more robust feature set…these are the talking points product marketers salivate over and executives search for on product roadmaps. Where are product teams getting their feature ideas? Why do product teams become feature factories? But are you solving for actual customer problems?

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Userpilot

JANUARY 29, 2025

As Lead Product Manager for Core Product, youll oversee state-of-the-art technologies, collaborate with top-tier engineers, and develop products that shape the industry. Who would be a bad fit for this job? PMs unfamiliar with highly technical teams and projects. PMs familiar with safety and ethical frameworks in AI.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 21, 2023

TL;DR Product managers need to have good problem-solving, communication, and leadership skills. Product managers often work in cross-functional teams and bridge the gap between multiple departments. Leadership. What qualities do you look for in a strong product team? As such, they need to have superb communication skills.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Internal culture, data quality, analysis tools, usage strategies, analysis methods, team skills, and strong leadership all impact the data maturity of an organization. Data maturity is a framework that evaluates the maturity of a company’s data usage and how well it leverages data when making decisions. Leadership.

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Folding Burritos

DECEMBER 7, 2017

This led me to reach out to 14 leading Product Managers and talk with them about how they use customer feedback in their own companies and teams. Frameworks like Jobs-to-be-Done are extremely helpful in determining exactly what the product is supposed to be doing for its customers — that is, the needs it serves.

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Atlassian

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Creating a strong, cohesive team takes intention and planning. Researchers have been studying team dynamics for decades. There’s a significant body of knowledge about which organizational structures provide the best results given the circumstances, goals, and personalities involved in a team. 5-second summary.

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Pragmatic Marketing

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

While software development teams have been moving toward agile methods for years, many product managers are only now becoming aware of it. An agile approach applies collaborative and continuous improvement concepts to software development. It seems that agile teams do everything in a new way. What is a product owner?

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Userpilot

JANUARY 14, 2024

TL;DR A product manager leads the product management team and is responsible for overseeing all stages of the product development process. Typically, product managers are responsible for market and user research, product discovery , feature prioritization , and roadmapping. They earn around $201k/year.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 18, 2024

However, to learn more, you’ll have to listen to the man himself as he develops the topic at the 2024 Product Drive Summit. TL;DR Ant Murphy is a product coach and founder of Product Pathways who strongly believes that great product teams build great products. Ant Murphy is a product coach and founder of Product Pathways.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 13, 2021

Although Linda started her career in sales, she has spent the past twelve years scaling post-sales teams and moving hyper-growth companies like Zendesk, Slack, and now Gong upmarket into the enterprise realm. As part of that partnership, they’re going to demand more from you in terms of roadmap and key integrations.

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SidsAvenue

MAY 31, 2020

Being in Leadership position is all about decision-making. Intuition/Experience To make better sense of data To judge if the data/information is good enough The 2 frameworks we discuss in this post are for managing Information/Data part of the decision making process. Every decision has an associated outcome.

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Agile Velocity

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Value stream mapping is a common practice in the Agile space because it allows leaders and stakeholders to see where the flow of value delivery is slowing down and exposes opportunities to create better alignment across teams. Value stream mapping is even more critical if you are implementing SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework). .

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

This means you can save time and money developing features customers really care for and reduce risks of undesirable effects on your customers. In addition, this person works closely with the experimentation teams to ensure that they are aligned with the overall business objectives, measure results objectively and follow best practices.

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