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. For instance, you might show the individuals how they can make effective strategic product decisions, create an actionable product roadmap, and effectively use the right KPIs.

User Testing 321

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Roman Pichler

MAY 4, 2022

But what Scrum lacks in my mind, is a way to involve the key stakeholders in strategic product decisions and the product discovery work. That’s understandable, as the framework is focused on the development of complex products. You need the stakeholders’ active contribution to progress the product and reach the product goals.

Product Research 298

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People-First Product Leadership

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Part 3 brings together the Product specific Vision, Roadmap and Goals. Product Vision puts a company’s Vision and Mission into action The Product Vision ensures the Roadmap reflects the priorities which matter the most to the company’s customers and to the company. No worries.

Vision 52

Vision Roadmap Onboarding KPIs Customer Experience 52

Userpilot

JULY 18, 2023

It takes a fair bit of effort and time to keep up with the constant innovation in the product management software space. The tools are constantly evolving and changing their pricing plans, so it may be difficult to ensure that your product team is using the right tools and getting the best value for the money.

Analytic Tools 87

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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

The SAFe product owner is tactical in nature and focuses on working on the product backlog and guiding the development teams. The strategic work is taken on by another role, the SAFe product manager. It can therefore be tempting to view the product owner as a project manager substitute.

Weak Development Team 325

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 1, 2020

To focus your stakeholder management effort, identify your key stakeholders —those individuals with whom you want to establish a trustful connection and collaborate on a regular basis. This is particularly helpful when you are faced with a large group of stakeholders, which is not uncommon in bigger companies. Build Trust.

Weak Development Team 305

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Alchemer Mobile

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Our new guide, Five Hard Questions for Mobile Product Managers , covers tough questions product leaders should ask themselves, especially through a mobile lens. If you’re aiming to push yourself and your product to the next level, analyzing yourself is the best place to start! Question #1: Am I the CEO of the product?

Product Management 147

Product Management Product Manager Management Management 147

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. A powerful stakeholder or line manager determines the KPIs —not the person in charge of the product. Then ask yourself how you can tell that these goals have been met.

KPI 285

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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Product success is not something you can achieve on your own as a product manager or Scrum product owner. Instead, you rely on the contributions and the support of the key stakeholders , the development team members, and possibly other product people who help you manage a large product.

Leadership 279

Leadership Technical Review Reporting Tools User Testing 279

Pragmatic Marketing

JANUARY 17, 2017

We’ve all heard about “strategic” product roadmaps. A roadmap is a plan for your strategy that maps out the direction of your product. Ideally, it’s a high-level visual summary that helps product managers get everyone on the same page. A product roadmap isn’t simply a list of features or the backlog.

Roadmap 70

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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. For instance, you might show the individuals how they can make effective strategic product decisions, create an actionable product roadmap, and effectively use the right KPIs.

User Testing 156

User Testing Product Research Weak Development Team Customer Experience 156

Userpilot

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Product managers, have you ever wondered what user story mapping is? User story mapping is a simple method for converting your vision of a product into a roadmap that allows broad team collaboration and enables your entire team to see the bigger picture, how everything connects, and how to plan the minimum viable product.

User Testing 95

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JANUARY 18, 2022

Many tech professionals follow a product manager career path because it blends responsibilities and exciting job duties. Product managers are often called "mini-CEOs" because of the influence they have at a company. They manage complex products and work with team members in all departments.

Product Management 52

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Userpilot

APRIL 25, 2022

Are you using a friction log to track and prioritize what to improve in your product? In this guide, our aim is to help savvy product managers understand what friction logs are, where you might use them, and how to create them. Product friction describes anything that causes your users difficulty. Let’s dive in!

Feedback Software 93

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UX Planet

DECEMBER 15, 2023

According to the NN group, UX maturity measures an organization’s desire and ability to successfully deliver user-centered design. Even if UX work seems fine at your organization, know that there are still some things to set a budget for, like improving the product’s creation process, or your customers’ and users’ experiences.

UX 90

UX User Testing Development Team Review Customer Experience 90

Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

The SAFe product owner is tactical in nature and focuses on working on the product backlog and guiding the development teams. The strategic work is taken on by another role, the SAFe product manager. It can therefore be tempting to view the product owner as a project manager substitute.

Weak Development Team 156

Weak Development Team Product Research User Testing Customer Experience 156

Userpilot

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

In this article, we look at 13 different ways to collect feedback that product managers can leverage to gain a deep understanding of customer needs and make informed product decisions. However, in this article, we’ll be focusing only on the feedback that’s relevant to product managers. Feature request form.

User Testing 81

User Testing Customer Feedback Feedback Software Product Research 81

Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 24, 2024

  This is a recipe for failure: there are no generic product strategies or corporate strategies , and IMHO therefore no context-free prioritization models, metrics, or product goals.    Do Sales, Marketing, Finance, HR, Engineering, and Product know/have what they need to support the plan?    Etc. 

Strategy 119

Strategy Product Strategy Onboarding KPIs Data Visualization 119

Userpilot

JUNE 26, 2023

Choosing the right feature request prioritization framework enables product teams to make informed decisions and deliver the maximum customer value possible, especially when resources are limited. They can also help product managers secure key stakeholder buy-in. Provides clear and easy-to-interpret visualization.

Framework 83

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 26, 2022

When do you need it and how does it help product managers build better products? Impact mapping is a collaborative strategic planning technique used by product managers, product owners , and senior technical leadership, who work mostly in Agile software delivery. Roadmap management.

Onboarding KPIs 91

Onboarding KPIs Customer Experience Product Research User Testing 91

Ask Benny

JANUARY 25, 2020

Your Team is Your Product One of the hardest things for a VP Product to do, as the team of product managers under his lead grows, is to release control. As a VP Product, you need to trust your product managers to make the right decisions. All my product managers must come to product from humbleness.

Customer Experience 136

Customer Experience Vision Framework Roadmap 136

Userpilot

AUGUST 13, 2023

To avoid it, involve a diverse group of stakeholders, including customers, to ensure more objective and customer-centric prioritization. Next, put them on the roadmap , considering feature interdependencies and timelines. A feature prioritization matrix is a product management tool that helps teams decide what features to develop next.

Data Visualization 86

Data Visualization User Testing Customer Experience Feedback Software 86

The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 14, 2018

by Ashley Sefferman , Head of Content at Apptentive When Ben Horowitz published his thoughts on the idea that product managers are the CEO of their products in “ Good Product Manager/Bad Product Manager ” nearly two decades ago, the concept was profound, but divisive. Here are four of our favorites.

Product Management 60

Product Management Product Manager Feedback Software Reporting Tools 60

Bain Public

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Thanks to Livescale, live shopping allows brands to monetize their social influence, promote their products on video, and sell online with live streaming solutions where orders and payment systems go right to their e-commerce platform. Who is the face behind the innovative product management?

Research Software 52

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The Product Guy

MARCH 30, 2018

Because market awareness drives roadmaps that have the highest likelihood of “changing the game”. You’ll learn things that change your roadmaps for the better. You’ll learn things that confirm your roadmap is right. You’ll learn things that have no impact on your roadmap. And I wasn’t half bad.

User Testing 119

User Testing Feedback Software Research Software Customer Experience 119

Bain Public

MAY 24, 2019

At Bain Public, we have learned a lot in the many hours and conversations spent mentoring, advising and consulting in product management. They fail to appreciate the necessity of having a simple, clear, succinct product roadmap that everyone can internalize and use as a guiding light for making difficult choices.

Roadmap 40

Roadmap User Testing Research Software Customer Experience 40

Ask Benny

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Your Team is Your Product One of the hardest things for a VP Product to do, as the team of product managers under his lead grows, is to release control. As a VP Product, you need to trust your product managers to make the right decisions. All my product managers must come to product from humbleness.

Customer Experience 104

Customer Experience Vision Framework Roadmap 104

Ask Benny

JANUARY 25, 2020

One of the hardest things for a VP Product to do, as the team of product managers under his lead grows, is to release control. As a VP Product, you need to trust your product managers to make the right decisions. One of the best ways to do it is to understand that your product is no longer “the product”.

Customer Experience 78

Customer Experience Vision Framework Roadmap 78

Ask Benny

JANUARY 25, 2020

One of the hardest things for a VP Product to do, as the team of product managers under his lead grows, is to release control. As a VP Product, you need to trust your product managers to make the right decisions. One of the best ways to do it is to understand that your product is no longer “the product”.

Customer Experience 78

Customer Experience Vision Framework Roadmap 78

Ask Benny

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

One of the hardest things for a VP Product to do, as the team of product managers under his lead grows, is to release control. As a VP Product, you need to trust your product managers to make the right decisions. One of the best ways to do it is to understand that your product is no longer “the product”.

Customer Experience 78

Customer Experience Vision Framework Roadmap 78

Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Goal-oriented (a.k.a. Traditionally, product roadmaps are output-focussed plans that map features like registration, search, and reporting onto a timeline. Such a roadmap essentially states when a piece of functionality will be delivered. Listen to this article: [link]. Outcome-based).

Roadmap 268

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Product Innovation Educators

APRIL 17, 2023

How organizations can empower product managers Today we are talking about what a product-led organization is, barriers that can prevent an organization from being product-led, and actions to create the product-led organization. I eventually got fired as a product manager.

Customer Experience 95

Customer Experience Leadership Startups Engineering 95

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 ).

Reporting Tools 339

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

2 Use Scrum for Products that Experience Uncertainty and Change Scrum is often seen as the standard way to create digital products, and I have met more than one company where the product managers were told to be agile and do Scrum. As I mentioned earlier, Scrum is not a product management framework.

Product Research 342

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Does your organization really need such a role if you already have a product manager ? The product launch manager coordinates the work of cross-functional teams and supports the product manager during product launches. Their job is to support the product management function.

Product launches 89

Product launches Product Research User Testing Research Software 89

Bain Public

MARCH 30, 2020

Nearly all Product Managers are now exposed to high-level business objectives and strategies and are challenged by the growing demands on time and responsibilities. Here’s a list of our product-centric articles that our contributors published. Originally published by Loren O'Brien-Egesborg Any company + product manager ?

Article 52

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 13, 2019

Your Team is Your Product One of the hardest things for a VP Product to do, as the team of product managers under his lead grows, is to release control. As a VP Product, you need to trust your product managers to make the right decisions. All my product managers must come to product from humbleness.

Customer Experience 60

Customer Experience Vision Framework Roadmap 60