Roman Pichler

MAY 8, 2018

Three Types of Leadership. Scrum is a simple framework with three roles: product owner, development team, and Scrum Master. Each role provides a distinct type of leadership. As the product owner, you lead the product and are responsible for its overall success. Lead the Product.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The Critical Role of Product Strategy When Money Is Scarce (Part 2 — Rounds A, B, and Later) When you start selling your product, you feel great, but that doesn’t last for too long. A product strategy is often the missing link that would convert your efforts into actual revenue. Here is how it works.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The Critical Role of Product Strategy When Resources Are Limited (Part 2 — Rounds A, B, and Later) When you start selling your product, you feel great, but that doesn’t last for too long. A product strategy is often the missing link that would convert your efforts into actual revenue. Here is how it works.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

In this series, I look at what I wish I had known when I started as Head of Product… Summary Understanding strategy allows you to effectively delegate, motivate and align so you can move from a nice boss to an effective leader. There’s no separate ‘product strategy’ from company strategy?—?strategy

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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. This shows how important the role is.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 30, 2021

My day was filled with back-to-back meetings discussing org design, hiring, and people issues. Instead of designing the product, I found myself writing performance reviews. Senior designers are actively involved in roadmapping and strategy conversations for their team. Leadership. They help others deliver better work.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

As a freshman NCAA swimmer, I was excited and terrified for the first team meeting. Jack Welch Product strategists = coaches You, as the product strategist, are the coach. The product strategy acts as the playbook for the team, taking them to victory. err I mean product team, as they execute.

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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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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The Critical Role of Product Strategy When Money Is Scarce (Part 1 — Seed) A good product strategy is something every company needs. Here is how a product strategy can help you create business results, even when the market is not in your favor. Product strategy is such a vague term for most people.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Leadership without authority is product management 101. But as a product executive, you must take it to the next level?—?and Last week’s learning session in the CPO Bootcamp was dedicated to product strategy. One of the things I said there is that strategy starts with the goals.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 23, 2023

This means setting up regular check-ins and team meetings and establishing a process for sharing updates and progress reports. This means demonstrating a deep understanding of the product and the market and articulating a clear vision for its future — a difficult thing to do when you are new to the rule but gets more apparent as time passes.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 6, 2020

Without it, product teams become feature teams focused on outputs and not outcomes. We started working with the product teams on how each tool – product strategy, OKRs, and roadmaps – should be used so that we could merge them together. What aligned roadmaps and OKRs together was the product strategy.

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 11, 2022

I’ve chosen quarters in the sample roadmap above, but you can use shorter time frames, of course, if you can meet your learning goals more quickly. For the first two quarters, the area is strategy; for the last two, it is leadership. The fourth and final line states how you intend to meet the learning goals.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 23, 2023

If so, chances are you were working without the benefit of a concrete product strategy. Product strategy helps with feeling overwhelmed because it Helps your product team see how your product contributes to your company’s goals. Guides your product decisions. Their product strategy is reactive.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 4, 2023

For example, ensure that the individual’s role and responsibilities are clear; help the person grow as a product professional, be it by coaching and mentoring them or by encouraging them to attend training courses; offer clear and helpful feedback and hold them accountable for meeting agreed goals.

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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 6, 2022

For instance, the marketing strategy, the user experience (UX) design and technology choices have to align to successfully acquire new users, increase conversion, or meet another product goal. Influence and Trust as Leadership Building Blocks. Measures to Build Trust with Stakeholders, Dev Teams, and Other Product People.

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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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Mironov Consulting

MAY 20, 2019

In addition to my formal coaching of product leaders (Directors, VPs and CPOs who directly manage teams of product managers), I talk with lots of senior individual contributors about the risks and challenges of moving “up the ladder” into product leadership roles. So I have a strong sense of what product managers want.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 21, 2019

A strong product strategy is often neglected because of the absence of any strategic thinking in product teams. What can product managers do to make sure they give their product strategy the attention it warrants? But today many, if not most, product teams fail this very first test. Sound familiar?

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 22, 2024

These guide and align the strategies of the portfolio members , as Figure 1 illustrates. Figure 1: The Product Portfolio and Product Strategy Using Microsoft Office as an Example In Figure 1, the strategies of the individual products—Word, PowerPoint, and Excel—implement the Office strategy.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 5, 2022

To make the duties more accessible, I have grouped them into four sets: people management, processes and tools, business strategy and organisational development, and self-leadership. Be aware that there is no one right way to apply the head of product role or a golden standard for doing the job. Self-Leadership.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 13, 2021

Product strategy is one of the most important tasks of the product leader, and definitely one of the hardest things to do. This should be your first step into product strategy. Since product strategy is so hard, many companies simply skip it. Even higher-level goals can be refined and detailed.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 4, 2022

Invite the individuals to product strategy review meetings and sprint reviews. This ensures that the members are involved in strategic and tactical product decisions and have a holistic understanding of how the product is evolving. Align the product team members through shared goals.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 19, 2017

Challenging situations are great opportunities to grow as a human being and by doing so, you increase your leadership power. Nothing beats meeting real users. It’s great to know your product and market. As Superman puts it, “You are much stronger than you think you are. Trust me.”. Strengthen Your Expertise. But that’s not all.

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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. Outcome-Based Planning. Everything flows from this vision.

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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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Product Talk

MARCH 13, 2024

Sam Lightowler’s Advice: Use a Diagram to Demonstrate Value Meet Sam Lightowler, Senior Manager of OTT Operations at Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Himanshu Swaroop’s Advice: Get Everyone on the Same Page with Clear Strategy and Tactics Meet Himanshu Swaroop, Transformation Consultant. 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. Organize a product meeting.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Iterative planning enables product management teams to respond quickly to changes in the market and emerging trends. The ability to adapt and adjust to changing product strategies positions companies for continuous improvement and sustained success. Ongoing planning is crucial for staying ahead in a competitive landscape.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Companies had to shift their product strategy. A creeping sense of dread as clients contacted them to cancel training and in-person meetings. “It They had to shift their product strategy. We’ve also explored resilient leadership with ProductPlan’s CEO, as well. Assess and Defend.

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ProductPlan

APRIL 17, 2024

One way that Teresa practices driving early alignment from leadership is by using proactive prompts in the design phase. To foster productive discussion, ask questions like: What are you excited about? These clearly defined discussion points help gain alignment with stakeholders and leadership by making entry to discussion easier.

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 16, 2022

Imagine that John is a sales rep and a key stakeholder who hardly ever attends the product strategy workshops you’ve invited him to. Instead, he requests product roadmap changes by talking directly to you. But act in an empathic way: Find out first what’s going on with John and try to understand why he missed the meetings.

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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. How did the meeting go for you?

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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. Most product strategies don’t cover all of this.

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ProductPlan

APRIL 12, 2022

Slack’s product strategy put it on a trajectory for success. So far, Salesforce only plans to add the messaging app to its enterprise software suite without immediately changing Slack’s functionality, branding, or leadership. Let’s explore the company’s product strategy to see what makes it different.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Companies had to shift their product strategy. A creeping sense of dread as clients contacted them to cancel training and in-person meetings. “It They had to shift their product strategy. We’ve also explored resilient leadership with ProductPlan’s CEO, as well. Assess and Defend.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 27, 2021

Creating a solid product strategy is an ongoing process, not a one-time effort. But how can you test a strategy? Photo by Ron Lach from Pexels As I said in the first post of this series , product strategy starts with getting very detailed about what you are trying to do and why it would work.

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