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Tips for Becoming a Head of Product

Roman Pichler

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. Grow Your Leadership Skills. A great way to do this is to mentor and coach people.

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10 Tips for Creating an Agile Product Roadmap

Roman Pichler

Whenever you are faced with an agile, dynamic environment—be it that your product is young and is experiencing significant change or that the market is dynamic with new competitors or technologies introducing change, you should work with a goal-oriented product roadmap, sometimes also referred to as theme-based. 2 Do the Necessary Prep Work.

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Stakeholder Management Tips for Product People

Roman Pichler

The following tips will help you with this. Collaboratively set goals , for example, user and business goals on the product strategy and product goals on the product roadmap. The most amazing product strategy and the best product roadmap are worthless if the stakeholders don’t support them. Focus on the Right Individuals.

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Building a product roadmap to avoid potholes down the road

Mind the Product

Product roadmaps: love 'em or hate 'em, you probably spend a lot of time on them. Very often, that colorful set of bars on the timeline that we artfully sell to our leadership inadvertently leads to challenges down the road. Here are some roadmap tips to get your project off and running. [.]

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How to Sell Your Roadmap to Your Leadership Team

Speaker: Brett Truka, CEO, Devetry

A product roadmap needs to both capture your product’s strategy and outline your execution plan. Because these documents are such an essential component of your job as product manager, you also need to strategize your roadmap presentation. He'll share insights into what he, as an executive, looks for in a roadmap and presentation.

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Leading without Being the Boss: Tips for Product People

Roman Pichler

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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How to Overcome 6 Key Product Leadership Challenges

Roman Pichler

The following tips will help you with this: Empathise with the individuals and make an effort to understand their perspectives, needs, and interest, for example, by practicing active listening. The latter includes carrying out product discovery and strategy work , updating the product roadmap , and prioritising the product backlog.