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. Establish clear roles and responsibilities.

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Product Management University

JANUARY 18, 2022

The leadership side of product management reaches its pinnacle when you have the complete trust of executives, marketing, sales, engineering, finance, customer success, and customers. Product management leadership comes in two flavors. You might even be in a position to influence and shape “the finance department of the future.”.

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Product Management University

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Staples of the Product Manager Job Description Most product management job descriptions still list responsibilities for vision, strategy, customer discovery, growth mindset, thought leadership, etc., only to be followed by things like writing detailed product specifications, orchestrating sprints, and so on. Here’s the honest truth.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 5, 2024

Introduction: The Product Manager’s Unique Challenge Product managers often find themselves in a unique position: responsible for a company’s future success but lacking the formal authority to implement changes directly. Be: Embody the leadership qualities that align with your values and organizational culture.

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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. This is best done by having regular, collaborative strategy workshops as well as attending sprint review meetings.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 13, 2022

In a recent poll, many of my fellow facilitators shared that the most challenging part of designing a workshop lies in picking the right methods and activities to apply, then pacing against them. In my experience, most workshops follow a common arc from beginning to end, with five very distinct chapters along the way. Hey, I get it!

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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

JULY 3, 2017

I really wish that for once, you gave us clear priorities,” Jane said accusingly at the end of the workshop and walked out of the room. [1] 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.

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Product Management University

JULY 10, 2020

is critical to the reputation of the company, its leadership and financial future. It’s important to understand industry best practices here before you build or position a solution. You never know where their heads are! Credibility with investors, shareholders, financial analysts, industry analysts, etc. Related Articles.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 24, 2020

If we have to keep pushing for the rest of our careers, we’ll lose more and more often because as we rise on the corporate ladder there are fewer positions, and our skills will never be as good as when we were younger. Everything I do is teaching—conversations like this, workshops, coaching, speeches. 11:33] Tell your story.

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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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Product Talk

MAY 13, 2020

She coaches teams using my Continuous Discovery Habits curriculum and is helping me bring the Continuous Discovery Habits workshop to more companies. This illustration can help focus a cross-functional leadership team who shares the business outcome goal to determine which leading indicator outcomes each functional team will own.

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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. At some point, I might want to be in a position like yours.

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Product Management University

OCTOBER 28, 2019

And that market knowledge is the key to leading from a position of strength. That influence is the key to strong leadership. The words vision, leadership, market knowledge and influence are tattooed all over them. I still hear it routinely from my clients today. The diagnosis is simple. Imagine This. What would change?

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The Product Coalition

MAY 11, 2021

I have also complemented this with a second meeting where I share wider topics linked to management & leadership (HR news, leadership ongoing topics, new processes and tools …) and provide space for questions and debate. Even in remote settings, a good leader shows positive energy, inspires and challenges their team.

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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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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

You’ll never have to explain the importance of your discipline, nor explain what it is you do, to anyone in the leadership team. Leadership doesn’t understand what it is you do. They are big, great for workshops, for putting design work up on the walls. Leadership don’t talk about the mission. We understand you.

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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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Product Talk

APRIL 17, 2024

A Workshop Kicks Off a New Commitment to Discovery Teresa: It sounds like recently, you had a workshop that had a big impact. I initiated a workshop as a kickoff for 2024 saying, team, I see we’ve done a great job in the define and measure phase and build phase, but I feel like we’re still lacking the discovery phase.

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 12, 2022

As part of a workshop on roadmaps, I was briefly covering tips for gaining alignment, and someone told me, “I really enjoyed the workshop on roadmaps, but we need a workshop on alignment. When we wrote Product Roadmaps Relaunched , we knew just producing a roadmap is not the goal for product management teams.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

The Product Leadership Conundrum. At the same time, you can’t tell the individuals what to do or assign tasks to them, and you are typically not in a position to offer incentives, like a bonus or pay rise. As the person in charge of a product, you are responsible for achieving product success.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 5, 2022

But no matter how isolating a management position can feel, you’re not going through it alone. Lara Hogan is an author, public speaker, and coach on management and leadership. In their workshops and trainings, she found herself giving the same advice over and over again, and so she decided to write it all down.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 12, 2019

We need to experiment with how to package and position ourselves, to form career hypotheses, and then build feedback systems to evaluate our career progress. Take a moment to position yourself as a product leader, using the simple model below. I provide product leadership in a thoughtful, quirky way. 1) You are the Product.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

We’ve been really happy with the positive feedback we received for this year’s premiere – it’s great to know so many people took so much away from the event. Pre-Conference Workshops. Visual Thinking (half-day workshop with Britta Ullrich). Workshop tickets are on sale now with limited availability.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 26, 2021

Often described as the ‘North Star’ or ‘flag in the sand’ from which strategy and tactics flow from and build towards, Product Vision keeps leadership in sync with the front-line who in turn look to the vision for motivation and decision-making. a 5-day period of workshopping, making and testing. Dan Pink’s Motivation 3.0

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Mind the Product

JUNE 13, 2018

Mind the Product London 2018 on October 18-19 will be better than ever, with more workshops, more networking, and more fun than ever. Ivy has also been a contributing author to numerous books, including The Change Champion’s Field Guide and Best Practices in Leadership Development and Organizational Change. Get your workshop tickets.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 8, 2020

I recently attended an excellent leadership programme, which led me to reflect more deeply on what makes a stand out leader. Of course, a large part of leadership is about designing good domain strategy & operating models etc, but this article focuses on the more emotive, people elements. Recognition for what they do.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 19, 2018

As up and coming engineers in Silicon Valley, Jean Hsu and Edmond Lau long sought more influence and impact in their respective positions – but they couldn’t shake the feeling of being stuck. But as Jean and Edmond will now tell you, following years of engineering leadership at Quip, Quora, Medium and more, that simply isn’t the case.

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Tip #5: Be Positive. But I recommend that no matter how challenging things are, you should look for the positives, the healthy traits in people (without ignoring unhealthy habits and wrong behaviour). Developing a positive attitude will increase your wellbeing and make you an even more likeable person. Learn More.

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Product Management University

APRIL 12, 2021

You’re now in a great position to tell everyone what you’re going to do, why, and how it’s going to benefit them and the customers. With market dynamics and customer business priorities as the backdrop, you’re now in a position to make well-informed decisions on portfolio and product investment priorities.

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Bain Public

JUNE 16, 2021

(Montreal, Canada) – Paul Ortchanian, Founder, CEO, Head of Product, Data and Strategy of Bain Public , lead a workshop on June 17th in collaboration with NEXT AI for a second year in a row. Title: How to prioritize features and create product roadmaps Date: Thursday, June 17th, 2021 Where: Online Workshop (open to cohort participants only).

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Whatever the altitude, this exercise is super straightforward and something I include in many endeavors, from strategic planning workshops and idea-generation sessions, to prototyping workshops. I like to crowdsource items for the assets column first because they tend to be positive and help maintain an optimistic energy in the room.

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Bain Public

MAY 22, 2020

(Montreal, Canada) – Paul Ortchanian, Founder, CEO, Head of Product, Data and Strategy of Bain Public , will be leading a workshop on June 8th in collaboration with NEXT AI. During his workshop, Paul will take NEXT AI’s 2020 cohort through the process of creating a successful product roadmap. Date: Friday, June 8th.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 7, 2022

Workshops for the sake of workshops on an operative level are not the big thing. So in the end it’s about leadership and creating general conditions under which employees can shine. Break down standardised processes for all and everything Well, there’s nothing wrong about a framework, if you know how to handle and adapt it.

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The Product Manager Coach Blog

MARCH 4, 2025

Tailor Your Message: Different stakeholders care about different thingsexecs want impact, engineers want feasibility, marketers want positioning. How to Do It: Host Goal-Setting Workshops: Collaborate with stakeholders to define shared objectives. Speak their language. Your job is to align everyone around a shared vision.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

When you become a head of product, you move into a line management position. Grow Your Leadership Skills. Having successfully managed different products will put you in a great position to advise and support the product people who work for you. Listen to this article: [link]. Be Prepared to Look after People, Not Products.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 2, 2019

It started with a day of deep-dive workshops followed by an opening party right on Marina Bay, and culminated in the main conference in the iconic Victoria Theatre featuring fascinating keynotes and an insightful panel. Workshop Photos. Great conversation, positive vibes, humourous and interesting sessions. Conference Photos.

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