Roman Pichler

MARCH 11, 2020

You consequently don’t have any transactional power : You cannot tell people what to do; you cannot assign tasks to them; and you are typically not in a position to offer a bonus, pay raise, or other incentives. What’s more, do not de-prioritise your leadership work even when push comes to shove and you are pressed for time.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2017

A Product manager tasked to lead and manage her team while still providing product management capabilities; that was my position when I was selected to be part of the product mentorship program and paired with Amanda Ralph, my new mentor. The Search Inside yourself book provides a great practical introduction to mindful leadership.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

When you become a head of product, you move into a line management position. Instead of creating, for example, product strategies and roadmaps and tracking KPIs , you should help the people on your team acquire the right knowledge and develop the right skills so that they can carry out the relevant work on their own.

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Productside

APRIL 16, 2025

Product managers push for roadmaps. The Power of Influence Over Authority Another myth Guy breaks down is the idea that product managers need positional power to lead effectively. Engineers push back with technical constraints. Somewhere in the middle, customer needs get lost in translation. Guy doesnt sugarcoat this dynamic.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Much has been written about the process of creating product roadmaps, not least the six great articles written by my own team. I believe the actions of a product leader all too often are the root cause of a “bad” roadmap. Without thoughtful leadership around them, it may not be in product manager’s gift to achieve a “good” roadmap.

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 20, 2025

First, as a coach who offers strategy and leadership guidance to the person in charge of the product. The business goals, finally, state the positive impact the product should achieve for the business. The GO Product Roadmap is the template I have developed to capture an outcome-based roadmap.

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Product Management University

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Market Analysis Before and With AI Customers are clamoring for a number of improvements to your product and youre on a mission to get them funded and on the roadmap. AI has put you in the best position to do that in a fraction of the time it would take you otherwise. AI has no idea which sales deals are hinging on your roadmap.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

This individual leads the product team, not by being the boss but by exercising emergent leadership. The vision describes the ultimate purpose for creating the product and the positive change it should bring about. Additionally, it is based on my leadership work, especially my book How to Lead in Product Management. [2]

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 9, 2022

It helps people understand how their work relates to a bigger whole and how their efforts create a positive change. 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. The vision pulls you.”. A shared vision unites people.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Congratulations on your new leadership position! Assuming a new leadership role is a significant challenge, whether you’ve transitioned within your current organization or stepped into an entirely new one .Each Each time I stepped into a leadership role was exhilarating and demanding. Welcome to leadership!

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

As a result, I’ve come to value 5 different aspects of product leadership. Shift #1: A leader of leaders The two top things I’ve head people reply to the question “how do I move into Product Leadership?” Moving into product leadership moves you away from the day-to-day hands-on tools and into a primarily coaching role.

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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. To make things worse, some of the stakeholders might be more senior than you.

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The Product Manager Coach Blog

JANUARY 14, 2025

Tailor Your Communication: Adapt your messaging for different audiences, whether its engineering teams or senior leadership. Connect Decisions to Customer Needs: Show how your roadmap addresses customer pain points to build trust. Present a high-level roadmap by your 90-day mark to demonstrate strategic planning.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

But product management at the lower levels is still an individual sport, while product leadership at the highest levels is a team sport. They learned how to play the team sport called product leadership. If this is an individual play, it turns your roadmap into a mess and forces you to deal with after-the-fact consequences.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

It’s the first step to bring about positive change. You are not in a position to decline feature requests. As you are not empowered to determine the product features, you are not in a position to manage the product and significantly impact the value it creates. I certainly don’t intend to make anyone feel bad.

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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 1, 2020

The user and business goals help select the right product goals, which I capture on the product roadmap. Third, the second OKRs are the equivalent of the first entry on a goal-oriented product roadmap. If you want to work with a roadmap that looks further ahead, you will have to add additional OKRs to the ones in figure 3.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 1, 2020

As the person in charge of the product, you lack transactional power : You cannot tell the stakeholders what to do, you cannot assign tasks to the individuals, and you are typically not in a position to offer a bonus, pay raise, or other incentives. Ask the Scrum Master to help you build a stakeholder community.

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The Product Guy

DECEMBER 15, 2019

In this role, Gaudio drives the strategy behind roadmap management, agile product development, and cross-functional communication. Prior to iFundWomen, Maya held positions at JPMorgan Chase and Techstars. The Best Product Turnaround. The Sun Mobile / David Clements.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 2, 2021

Our guest, Kenton Hansen, was in that position at Roll20 three years ago. 1:34] What was going on at Roll20 that cased leadership to hire their first product person? It was a time of targeted growth, and leadership was excited about growing the platform. I treated the position as a consultancy role.

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Product Talk

MAY 10, 2017

The most obvious way to be output-oriented is to give your teams a roadmap that lists features and release dates and ask them to deliver against that roadmap. The value of this approach is that rather than having all of the decision-making power come from the leadership team, it gets diffused to the teams closest to your customers.

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 29, 2020

Hard skills like market research or roadmapping are important, but they’re not enough. Product leaders can’t succeed if they neglect people skills and leadership skills. We don’t have any positional authority or transactional power. We don’t have any positional authority or transactional power.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2023

If you do things that are purposeful, you’ll eventually be successful.” — Howard Schultz Several years ago, I found myself in a heated discussion about product roadmaps with a client. So as he leaned across the table and looked me in the eyes, he demanded, “Explain why I need a product roadmap.” Why not, indeed?

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 30, 2023

So either we work together to understand your objectives, call them goals if you’d like, and the outcome you are looking for from the product, or we will end the discussion, and you won’t get a committed set of work on the roadmap.” We went away from detailed, long-term, feature-committed roadmaps. I explained this many times.

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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. To achieve this, refer to the needs and business goals stated in the product strategy and the product goals on the product roadmap. Additionally, have the courage to take ownership of the KPIs.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 23, 2019

In Part 3 of our Product Leadership Forum recap, you can see an overview of the remaining insights from this year’s #mtpcon London Product Leadership Forum (if you missed them, you can take a look back at Part 1 and Part 2). Then see what they put on their backlog or roadmap. I’ll sound stupid if I ask questions”.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 20, 2019

The other path, the one I’ll focus on in this post, continues along the journey of individual contributor : to mastery of the craft of design, to leadership without the need to manage, to above all else shipping great work. Another dimension on which behaviors can be assessed is whether you are demonstrating leadership in your role.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 28, 2019

. “If your product team isn’t taking roadmap input from your sales team, you’re not listening to the potential market” Second, sales and product need a way to collaborate on the product roadmap. If your product team isn’t taking roadmap input from your sales team, you’re not listening to the potential market.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 3, 2017

See it as an opportunity to improve your product management practice and leadership skills. Additionally, bring to mind the positive qualities of the difficult person. What’s more, tolerating wrong behaviour sets a precedence and creates an unhealthy work atmosphere; disrespect invites disrespect. Therefore, do not ignore conflict.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

How is the outcome-based roadmap different from regular roadmaps? 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. A roadmap example. Why do product managers need them?

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Important roadmap deadlines? A positive product review in a major industry publication? What if I told you the team is celebrating the fact that they released the new version of their product a day before the internal deadline on their roadmap? Themes—Not Dates—Are the Stars of Your Roadmap. A revenue milestone?

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Behaviors are assessed based on your ability to successfully work with others and on your demonstration of leadership in your role. Leadership can be demonstrated through: Project leadership: For instance, conceptualizing and realizing new and innovative product ideas. Drives positive change. Is well crafted and polished.

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Ronke PM

MAY 8, 2024

Table of Contents What does culture-driven leadership mean? The importance of culture-driven leadership in product management. Influential product leaders manage their teams with well-being in mind, necessitating culture-driven leadership. What does culture-driven leadership mean? Final thoughts.

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 22, 2024

The latter includes harmonising the strategies and roadmaps of the portfolio members, resolving dependencies, coordinating major releases (if required), as well as adding and removing products. Which Specific Information Should the Portfolio Strategy Contain?

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 24, 2024

However, as Mary Baird’s inspiring story shows, a successful pivot from nonprofit leadership to product management is not only possible but also incredibly rewarding. However, Mary’s experience in nonprofit leadership provided her with a unique set of transferable skills that would prove invaluable in her new role.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

I find that a product walkthrough is often needed when you are trying to make the case to leadership to green-light a new venture based on the strength of your vision for it. Design: Product Roadmap. Probably the most visible aspect of the product manager role is driving the product roadmap.

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