Roman Pichler

JULY 5, 2022

The Head of Product Role. A head of product is someone who manages a group of product people—individuals who look after one or more products and who may be called product manager or product owner. The responsibilities I share below are based on my work with product leaders and product practitioners.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

Consequently, your focus shifts from managing a product to looking after the product people on your team and empowering them to do a great job. Grow Your Leadership Skills. Group dynamics: You know what it takes for a group of people to effectively work together , and you are able to help a group of individuals jell.

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BrainMates

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Disrupting the Product - Strategy Questions Answered By DIANE SEXTON Even though periods of decline are a normal part of the economic cycle, there is no denying the enormous pressure these periods place on our organisations. What can the average PO/PM do to change that narrative within Product Leadership groups?

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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. How to Define Your Product Strategy You’re working through Marty Cagan’s pyramid or maybe you’re a fan of the Reforge Product Strategy Stack. Yep, twelve.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Introduction To discuss empowerment in product management, I find it helpful to distinguish three main levels of decision-making authority, product delivery, product discovery, and product strategy, as the model in Figure 1 shows. [1]

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Ronke PM

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Use your leadership voice to bring out change. Be passionate and always curious about your product. You must have exceptional communication skills to bring your product strategy and vision to fruition. Here are my 15 rules of great product leadership: 1. Use your leadership voice to bring out change.

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Userpilot

APRIL 25, 2022

What is product leadership and how is it different from product management ? In the article, we’ll be discussing what the product leadership role entails and how it is different from the product management role. Product leaders are responsible for building the right teams and organizational cultures.

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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Influence and Trust as Leadership Building Blocks. It’s important for me to point out that effective leadership must be based on the intention to support the people you want to lead, not on the desire to control or manipulate anyone. Measures to Build Trust with Stakeholders, Dev Teams, and Other Product People.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 4, 2022

For a commercial, revenue-generating product the key stakeholders might include a marketer, sales rep, and customer service rep, for instance. Consequently, a product team is a cross-functional group that comprises everyone required to progress the product and achieve product success.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Held in the lovely Barbican Conservatory , this year’s #mtpcon London Product Leadership Forum brought together a group of senior product leaders for the type of conversations that can only happen behind closed doors. The Forgotten art of Product Strategy. How to Create Effective Product Strategies.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

Consequently, your focus shifts from managing a product to looking after the product people on your team and empowering them to do a great job. Grow Your Leadership Skills. Group dynamics: You know what it takes for a group of people to effectively work together , and you are able to help a group of individuals jell.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

I became a product manager because I wanted to take a more strategic role at my company. First, I did not know how to frame, develop and present product strategy in a systematic way, and second, as a startup, my company has not historically had a good track record of strategy being developed outside of senior management (read: founder).

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

PM280 Group’s webinar emphasizes the importance of a strong team culture in enhancing product management leadership and team success. Chameleon’s webinar with Janna Bastow highlights the deep significance of customer centricity in product leadership for organizational success.

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Amplitude

JULY 29, 2020

When it comes to product strategy, there is so much conflicting advice that getting started can be confusing. Some companies’ strategies are so generic that they could mean anything, or nothing at all—as perfectly illustrated in this product strategy madlibs , which fills in the blanks with buzzwords and jargon and calls it a strategy.

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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. More Information : 8 Tips for Creating A Compelling Product Vision and Strategize , pp. Target Group is (too) Big and Heterogenous.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 1, 2020

This is particularly helpful when you are faced with a large group of stakeholders, which is not uncommon in bigger companies. As its name suggests, the grid analyses the stakeholders by taking into account their power and interest; it assumes that people take a low or high interest in your product and have low or high power.

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Product Talk

MARCH 13, 2024

The new team was a group of about ten people, some who had moved roles from their old teams and some who were new hires across design and engineering. They started with a clear product strategy, aligning on the top customer problems they wanted to focus on in the first six months. Create a safe space to share progress.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2017

Indeed the role of a product leader is different to that of a product manager. A product leader not only has to manage products but also to guide and direct the overall product strategy and team, and ensure that products are delivered to market. Resource management. Stakeholder engagement.

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Gainsight

OCTOBER 16, 2020

The Impact of NRR on Valuation for Public SaaS Companies, Software Equity Group; July 2020 [link]. Unicorns like Canva , Asana , Airtable , Notion , and Coda get it—with their emphasis on leveling up their product and driving net retention, their valuation has skyrocketed. That’s why we created four tracks for this event.

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Ronke PM

MARCH 26, 2024

At the heart of an organization that creates product magic is a product leader who is an expert at leadership and coalition building. These leaders understand that bringing effective products, solutions, and services to market requires consensus building and engaging cross-functional teams in the journey.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 7, 2018

Map Your Products to the Lifecycle. You need to map each of your products to the lifecycle. This then gives you the objectives and investment required for each of them – which is the start of a product strategy. You Have to Kill Some Products. Be a virus. Get some air cover.

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Product Innovation Educators

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers [4:07] What are the characteristics of a good product team that is able to create great products for customers? Great product teams all understand the customer. Great products teams are not just focused on the how; they also understand the what and the why.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 7, 2022

The value the product should create is not clearly understood : A validated product strategy and an actionable product roadmap are missing. If this data is actioned, bad product decisions will be made. Do this at least once per quarter, as a rule of thumb, ideally as part of the product strategy reviews.

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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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Bain Public

JUNE 4, 2020

As business advisors and executive coaches, we've worked with dozens of CEOs to help them build and grow their product leadership team as they scale their company. Getting external support, such as product management consulting, can help establish the product leadership team responsible for nurturing and guiding the product team.

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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. Keeping an Objective Eye on the Marke Do people really need your product?

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The Product Guy

MAY 15, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Dustin Levy, lead a conversation around “Product Strategies for Non-Strategists”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Krishna Madhuvarsu Director of Product Strategy, Oracle Inc.

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Tyner Blain

MARCH 31, 2024

Shaping a product strategy involves both. Your product won’t spring into existence fully formed and ready to compete like Athena emerging fully armored from the head of Zeus. ” To tease apart the difference between shaping releases vs. sequencing work, it helps to contrast two different ways to think about timing.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 5, 2022

For example, a product strategy workshop might have the objective to identify the key changes required to achieve product-market fit. Contrast this with a sprint review meeting , which might help you determine if users can easily sign up for the product. Assess product strategy and adjust if necessary.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

This article explores both hard and soft skills that product managers need in their everyday work, so if you’re curious to learn more, dive right in. TL;DR Hard skills, like technical knowledge, are job-specific and enable product managers to perform their core responsibilities. Product manager skills: market research.

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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

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. Keep your roadmap realistic: Don’t speculate and don’t oversell your product.

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 28, 2018

Now, a product master means having the influence you want and need to drive product strategy. Product masters are leaders. And I appreciate that you are because organizations need you — product masters. This discussion is focused on another tool to help you become a product master and accelerate your career.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 9, 2021

We had a group of new hires ready and excited to join Intercom the following Monday, expecting to meet lots of folks in the office, join brainstorming sessions in a conference room, and grab a nice cup of coffee or a cold beer at a local bar with their new teammates after work. Product demos . Monthly social connect.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 2, 2022

In my last piece, I discussed many of the tools that product leaders have for building a customer-obsessed culture. Part 1 of this series also discussed the foundation you need for these tools to work, which is the right leadership.) Power Users All products have power users. This can help you discover and validate new concepts.

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Userpilot

JULY 13, 2022

Product Coalition publishes the most popular one of the product manager blogs on our list. The Reforge blog helps product managers with topics like analytics , team management and development, product leadership , or product strategy. SaaS Product Adoption: The Ultimate Guide.

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Bain Public

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

During the in person workshop, Paul will lead a group of early stage startup founders through the process of revisiting and assembling their value proposition, establishing their product mission and strategies, and completing their product roadmap.

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