Roman Pichler

JULY 20, 2016

It is built on the idea that goals are more important than features, and it consists of five elements: date, name, goal, features, and metrics, as the picture below shows. 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. Learn More.

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 11, 2022

The second line names the skills areas the learning goals belong to, which I’ll cover in more detail in the next section. For the first two quarters, the area is strategy; for the last two, it is leadership. Step 1: Understand the strengths and weaknesses in your product management skill set.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 8, 2024

Keep the other groups in Figure 1 informed about changes in the product strategy and product roadmap , for example, by inviting subjects to bigger review/demo sessions and having one-on-ones with context setters. A better way is to co-create the product strategy and roadmap with the key stakeholders.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 9, 2022

Additionally, an inspiring vision helps you apply a visionary leadership style and become a visionary leader—someone who guides others through a big, motivating goal. Note that such a product vision is not measurable. Despite its name, a product vision should not describe the product or solution.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 18, 2023

It took me time to understand that I need to present myself as a product leadership coach and product strategy expert rather than a consultant. One other misunderstanding that was much harder for me to explain was related to how people understood the word ‘product’ in what I do. PLG under the hood.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Organise the Team around a Product As the name suggests, a product team is focused on a product. To effectively staff the product team, I recommend including the people shown in Figure 1. [1] 4] As you may have noticed I didn’t list the product backlog.

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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. 59; Boost Your Product Leadership Power and How to Lead in Product Management , pp. A Brief Guide to this Article.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 4, 2021

Insights on roadmaps, metrics, OKRs, and more for product managers. It is a new year and this podcast is getting a new name. In a few weeks, the name will change to Product Masters Now. His name is Anup Yanamandra. My primary responsibility is defining the product strategy for the company.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 1, 2020

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. Collaboratively set goals , for example, user and business goals on the product strategy and product goals on the product roadmap.

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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

MAY 10, 2017

To do a great job as a product manager or product owner, you require two skills sets: product-specific and generic ones. As the name suggests, product-specific capabilities are limited to a single product or product portfolio. These skills are not specific to an individual product, but transferable.

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Introduction Your organization’s survival depends on its ability to successfully expand from a single product to multiple products. This episode features an in-depth conversation with Greg Coticchia, CEO of SE Healthcare and product management expert. His book, Start Your Startup Right , is available on Amazon.

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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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Userpilot

JULY 24, 2024

Launching a product without a well-defined product strategy framework is similar—you risk wasting resources without a clear path to success. So, how do you outline a product strategy framework that is the foundation of product-led growth ? Product strategies help you design and grow your products.

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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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Product Talk

MAY 13, 2020

Product teams struggle to drive business outcomes because many companies haven’t taken the time to define their strategy. Marty Cagan highlighted this in his recent post “ Product Strategy – Focus.” You’ll learn how to propose and negotiate product outcomes with your leadership team.

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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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Roman Pichler

JUNE 4, 2018

Strategy and leadership skills are nice-to-have but not mandatory. A portfolio owner, however, requires strong strategy and leadership capabilities including the ability to develop a portfolio strategy and align powerful individuals. Take the product roadmap, for example.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 19, 2022

Once the product-based revenue potential is rolled up across the portfolio, an enterprise number emerges to share with leadership. Of course, that product-driven revenue potential will be negotiated with leadership. In following this approach, you are taking an important and impactful step toward product-centricity.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

These include interviewing users, working on the product roadmap, updating the product backlog, engaging with the stakeholders, and working with the development team, to name just a few. If it doesn’t, then include it in the product roadmap —assuming it serves a user or business goal stated in the product strategy.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 26, 2020

If you don’t deal with the strategic aspects of the product definition, my advice would be to start ASAP. One way to do so is as part of the CPO Bootcamp , where the participants learn the deep aspects of product strategy and get explicit guidance on building it for their own products. and crosses all domains.

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Productside

MARCH 24, 2025

Why Product-Market Fit Isnt a One-and-Done Too many teams celebrate early revenue like its the final boss of product strategy. Companies assume that revenue equals product-market fit. But if you plateau at $1M ARR and cant scale beyond early adoptersyou dont have product-market fit. Theyre problem-solvers.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 20, 2024

Mind The Product Venue: London Date: 22nd Oct, 2024 Mind the Product, a yearly conference for product management, occurs in two locations: London and San Francisco, spanning both sides of the Atlantic. This event aspires to gather the most innovative and advanced leaders in product management.

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 2, 2024

As the VP of Product Management at HiveMQ, Yury oversees HiveMQ product discovery and delivery by the Product & Engineering team. In his role on the leadership team, he is responsible for shaping and executing their product strategy.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 16, 2023

My personal passion is to bring back this very important dimension into product management and leadership. Product Leadership Is a Business Role I make a distinction between product management and product leadership. Job titles generally reflect that distinction but not always.

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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. Not because the reality is black and white, but because otherwise you can’t see clearly.

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

In this case, the researcher admitted that he focused on data that helped him defend his perspective of product strategy and ignored data that didn’t support his position. Product management career ladder – what associates, PdMs, directors, and VPs do. This is product lifecycle management.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Our commitment was firm, leadership backed the change, and it was underway. 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. Often, product managers skip this step in favor of speed.

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Mind the Product

MAY 25, 2018

So we decided to come up with a sub-brand that would help us position the product differently and talk more about what it was rather than what it wasn’t. And for that, we needed a new name… Output of one naming brainstorm. After a lot of deliberation we settled on the name Yimby, which stood for “yes in my backyard”.

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Product Management University

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

After countless conversations, articles, webinars and conference sessions, I started to feel like the profession of product management had been reduced to…. Convincing stakeholders the above supports company goals (product strategy). After hearing this, my gut reaction was OMG, the product gods are alive and well!

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The Basics of Product Management

JULY 17, 2020

Choosing the right product strategy framework is very important for every product manager. Remember, choosing the right product strategy will go a long way in making sure that the entire product life cycle proceeds flawlessly. Product Strategy Frameworks. Each strategy has its pros and cons.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

In addition to delivering a keynote at the Product at Heart conference (in case you missed it, you can find the video and transcript of that presentation here ), conference co-organizer Petra Wille also invited me to participate in a fireside chat at the Leadership Forum event. Introduction: What Is Product Discovery?

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Userpilot

MARCH 8, 2022

So to celebrate International Women’s Day – as usual – we’re casting the spotlight on some of the most prominent influencers and thought-leaders in Product – who also happen to be ladies. Melissa Perri – Speaker, consultant, and teacher in Product Management. CEO of Product Labs.

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Amplitude

MAY 29, 2019

Today, I am excited to share that we are growing our leadership team at Amplitude with world-class executives to take on these challenges. She has innovated and delivered several product lines and services specializing in Security, Distributed Systems, Cloud Computing, Big Data and Machine learning. She has a Ph.D. We’re hiring.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 27, 2022

Creating a Solid Product Strategy One of the CEOs that I work with as part of my consulting services recently reflected with me on the process we went through for creating their new product strategy. It was a lengthy process, with quite a few trials and errors, until we found the right strategy.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Much has been written about designing products based on the job they’re hired for – it’s important that as you look to get hired for more jobs, you keep a core value proposition at the heart of your product strategy. Assuming you have this, how do you expand your product portfolio without risking brand stretch?

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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. Product Talk is a valuable resource for product professionals.

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