Roman Pichler

MAY 3, 2023

You should be aware of new trends, be able to make an informed guess if they are likely to impact your market and product, and decide if a technology needs to be further investigated. This usually doesn’t require in-depth technical skills like being able to write code or understand how a specific machine learning framework is used.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

I recently led a workshop for an organic tech farm startup that wanted to set its foot online for selling organic food to B2B customers. I have some takeaways and learnings to share that I covered as a coach for their onboarding strategy. Let me walk through the entire workshop in the phases with its results.

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Dear Strategy

MARCH 15, 2023

You see, the reason I started the Dear Strategy podcast was mostly to educate. Now, I’m sure I didn’t go about the process in exactly the most effective way, but, even so, that particular strategy has resulted in absolutely zero leads! But – remember – I’m a strategy guy! Now what about the new framework? Cue evil laugh].

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Dear Strategy

OCTOBER 6, 2021

On this episode of Dear Strategy, we talk about the difference between a product strategy and a go-to-market plan, and why it’s important to have both of these key planning tools working together in harmony. That’s really all a strategy is – an overarching plan that provides context and meaning to a set of actions.

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Bain Public

APRIL 17, 2020

Career Development Program Details: Whether you are a Founder or part of the Product, Engineering or leadership team, you need actionable strategies and impactful techniques that drive results today. We already knew we could deliver expert guidance via a series of on-site workshops. The 3 steps to product innovation.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 31, 2023

Photo by Pixabay I recently led a product-market fit workshop at a known company in the Israeli tech industry. It is a well-established company, a leader in its domain, but it still needs to deliver new products to the market so product-market fit is a very relevant topic.

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Bain Public

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Bain Public has agreed to collaborate with the new Quebec program to propel scaleups on the world stage by providing workshops and peer to peer coaching to develop the management teams of these companies to think slow, act fast, and build roadmaps, brick by tiny brick.

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Sachin Rekhi

AUGUST 4, 2021

Others leverage a prioritization framework like RICE to prioritize their initiatives. Or take OKRs, a common goal setting framework used by many product teams. By doing so, they explicitly build their product intuition through each and every quarter's OKR loop. Marketing Programs : Marketing Strategy.

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Sequent Learning

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

If a Product Manager doesn’t understand who their customers are, they can’t understand their needs and thus can’t possibly build effective products. Our Product Management workshops are designed and taught by professionals who have grappled with the same day-to-day challenges that attendees currently face.

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Bain Public

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Bain Public’s SOAP™ methodology and tool offers a full picture of your product strategy, tactics, metrics and roadmap all in one place. SOAP™ is a methodology that Bain Public created for product planning and roadmap prioritization based on principles of Product Strategy, Lean Startup, User-centered design, Data Science and more.

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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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Dear Strategy

MAY 26, 2020

On this episode of Dear Strategy, we answer the following question…. Dear Strategy: “What are the key elements to have in a successful strategy for a non-core product? The key to this answer has to do with the way you choose to define what a “non-core product” is. And what things should we avoid?”. Problem solved.

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Bain Public

DECEMBER 2, 2020

We created SOAP™ an actionable 12-week virtual workshop series to help you jump through the hoops of prioritization and roadmap planning by using a clear, measurable, reproducible process for prioritizing features and initiatives. Leadership in Product, Connect & Explore Workshop for Teams. SOAP™ Workshop Series.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 4, 2021

For example, if you are doing Product Discovery on a new major feature with an established, existing product in a large organisation, then you will likely have customer data, a strategy and OKRs. is this solution compatible with our go-to-market strategy? Business development risk?—?does Marketing risk?—?is Sales risk?—?is

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 7, 2021

The company provides iOS Native App Development, Android Native App Development, Flutter Cross-Platform App Development, Web App Development, Digital Product Design, and Product Design Workshop. itCraft has a specialized mobile team (Android, iOS & Flutter) and web team working according to the Agile Scrum framework.

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Bain Public

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Read the rest of this article to find out more on why we believe in giving back, the many workshops and initiatives we offered pro bono that benefited the Montreal, Toronto and North American startups, our new holiday campaign, and our plans for 2022. Why We Believe In Giving Back We understand that running a startup isn’t easy work.

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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

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Unlike featured-based roadmaps, which focus on the delivery and output of capabilities, outcomes-oriented roadmaps prioritize desired outcomes or results — a key element of product strategy. Once optimized, it’s critical to tie the outcome back to the company’s strategy and objectives. Do not skip this step. The root cause?

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Bain Public

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Read the rest of this article to find out more on why we believe in giving back, along with the many workshops and initiatives we have to offer that benefit the Montreal, Toronto and Western Canadian startups. Get 40% Off Our ‘SOAP™ Workshop Series’. Why We Believe In Giving Back. We understand that running a startup isn’t easy work.

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Bain Public

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Over the last few years, products have become more and more complex, but what’s shocking is that fewer than 15% of organizations have tackled this level of complexity through product-led strategy and roadmap planning. So how are you managing your products exactly? Do you have a solid strategy, focus and vision in place?

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Product managers can make better decisions if they’ve built transparency and trust with their team. Here’s a straightforward framework for collaborative decision making that is founded in transparency and trust. Product Decisions. Product decisions are either tactical or strategic. A culture of trust develops.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Leaders should understand the company’s vision and strategy, be able to communicate it in a meaningful way, and clarify the role their “unit” (*) plays in that strategy. Part of empowering the team is letting them explore the opportunity space and even challenge the strategy. This post is based on my new book Product Direction.

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Mironov Consulting

MARCH 9, 2024

One technique that I teach in my product courses/workshops is something I call “count the digits.”    To be useful, Count The Digits and similar heuristics fit into a larger framework where we have strong customer insights and thoughtful goals/strategies/OKRs.

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Amplitude

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

At Amplitude we’re big believers in product teams aligning their vision and strategy to a north star metric. In fact, we believe so strongly that this framework helps transform product organizations that we host workshops about it across the globe. But what do you do when your strategy changes?

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Innovatemap

AUGUST 31, 2020

Some choices are long-standing and are reflected in the product vision, some play into the foundation of a product strategy, and many more reside in the plan to pull it off – the roadmap. All of these are important frameworks and tools. This is obviously something we want to avoid! How Innovatemap can help.

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Modus Create

APRIL 30, 2020

Modus Create, a disruptive consulting, product strategy and Agile development firm, today announced the release of Modus Kickstart, a structured, facilitated set of workshops and deliverables designed to help customers prepare for a successful software development project. Modus Kickstart was created to achieve that alignment.”

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 10, 2020

To overcome this we need a framework that allows us to test and learn. The product growth engine provides a framework for getting up the adoption curve. As a product person, if you follow a framework that focuses on aligning the organization around the user and attaining repeat users then you can have a successful product.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Pro Pass: $395, you get everything included in the open pass plus ProductWorld PRO Technical Workshops Feb 17 and PRO Sessions Feb 18-19. If you are a PMA member ($299 annual fee), you also get access to exclusive content, all the PMM summits OnDemand, Slide-decks and frameworks, and access to PMM Mentors, among other perks.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 1, 2018

In speaking with many product people (PMs, designers, engineers, data scientists) over the last few months?—?I’ve I’ve realized that people use the words mission, vision and strategy interchangeably. Positioning it as a Q&A for readability (and to mix things up a bit) Mission, vision, strategy?—?I’ve Not going to lie?—?I’ve

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Bain Public

JUNE 4, 2020

Getting external support, such as product management consulting, can help establish the product leadership team responsible for nurturing and guiding the product team. What Is Product Management Consulting? This is where product management consulting firms step in to help. Thiga Locations: France, Spain, Australia.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

QA, but it didn’t fix the planning waterfall : Strategy? Management and business folk therefore still live very much in “waterfall world” where big projects are delivered according to well-defined, largely immutable strategies, roadmaps and project plans. To demonstrate, I will reference my own GIST framework . Development ?

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 27, 2019

Here are four sets of challenges that are different from managing individual products: [1] Designing, Building, and Nurturing a Product Team. [2] 2] Driving Strategy, Tooling and Outcomes. [3] 1] Designing, Building, and Nurturing a Product Team. See Melissa Perri’s product kata ). Hiring strategy.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 6, 2020

Our goal was to define how we would set and communicate the company strategy, and how that strategy would lead OKRs and backlog definition. Product (and company) strategy is the backbone that guides product goal-setting and roadmap definition, although it’s sometimes overlooked or confused with having a vision.

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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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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

TL; DR: Product Discovery Anti-Patterns Scrum has proven to be an effective product delivery framework for all sorts of products. However, Scrum is equally well suited to build the wrong product efficiently as its Achilles heel has always been the product discovery part. Participation is free.)

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UX Studio

MAY 8, 2018

Business and Strategy. Workshop Facilitation. It will also set a good framework for discussion to help people identify their strengths and weaknesses. Competency prioritization: Synthesize the results with product life-cycle. You need different competencies as you go through on the product lifecycle stages.

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Amplitude

APRIL 9, 2019

Jessica Wagner believes that building products should be a user-centric process from beginning to end. Her career in digital product and strategy has taught her that products only succeed when they offer solutions that users actually need.

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