Roman Pichler

JANUARY 11, 2022

For the first two quarters, the area is strategy; for the last two, it is leadership. The first goal is about creating a new strategy, the second one talks about the product life cycle model, the third one covers decision-making, and the last one addresses active listening. The third row contains the most important information.

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People-First Product Leadership

MARCH 24, 2024

His people-first leadership approach lives on through his son who recognized his father’s skills and ability to lead by example. They're testing me." Share People-First Product Leadership Cultivating a culture of authenticity One begins to wonder when the the culture deck is 100+ pages and/or the whisper network is strong.

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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? Tanya shares her ideas for nurturing a strong product strategy from this year’s #mtpcon London Product Leadership Forum.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

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. They lack vision and lead nowhere. Many companies lack differentiation strategies and drive product development by copying competitors. Ready to dive in to learn more?

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 3, 2023

My framework address five barriers to digital transformation: Lack of shared vision: A lot of companies have a generic intent to become more digital or futureproof the business, but those phrases are meaningless and generic, as opposed to a vision that is specific to the company. Where do we see our world, context, customers,

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

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.

User Testing 321

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Roman Pichler

MAY 4, 2022

Forming such a team connects the person in charge of the product—the product owner—with the people who design, architect, program, test, and document the solution—the developers. You might not know, for example, which marketing strategy is most appropriate or which sales channels are most effective.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Soft skills, like communication or leadership , are more general and can be used in different contexts. Extensive market research is essential to assess the competitive landscape, identify opportunities, and shape the product vision. Conducting market research As a product manager, your job is to shape the product vision and strategy.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Tech PMs work actively with product teams on the product vision and strategy. Their technical expertise allows them to identify risks and develop effective mitigation strategies. However, you need the right mix of technical and leadership skills. Product vision. Product roadmap.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2018

He had to quickly determine which team members displayed a potential for leadership and teach them the fundamentals of management so they could make new hires and scale – without ruining the culture. I hosted Nick on the podcast, where we discussed the differences between management and leadership, fostering diversity in tech, and more.

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Ronke PM

MARCH 26, 2024

At the heart of an organization that creates product magic is a product leader who is an expert at leadership and coalition building. It is crucial to persuade these individuals to embody the product's concept through their coding, testing, branding, research, and design. What has always worked for me is collaboration and storytelling.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 29, 2023

A project manager is focused on the completion of a specific project, whereas product managers focus primarily on the long-term vision and evolving a product to deliver value over time. Product teams need to have a combination of hard and soft skills to succeed: technical knowledge , communication, leadership, strategic thinking, and empathy.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 9, 2019

Journey Into the World of Strategy. The notion of a strategy in product management seems like something that only high-level stakeholders at the executive level should care about. After all, many product managers tend to treat a strategy as something that’s scared and driven top-down from the executive management level.

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Mind the Product

MAY 23, 2017

The long awaited book Product Leadership is finally about to hit our Kindles, iPads and possibly even our hands. It’s a book that shows product leadership to be a mentality and style, rather than a set of rules. The core tenets of Product Management are a natural breeding ground for leadership roles. Let teams shape the how.”.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The answer presented by an entry-level or an experienced PM, or by a Group product manager (GPM) lies majorly between two parameters - execution & strategy. Product manager of Airbnb, and leadership wants you to ponder on the idea to allow guests to book cars through the Airbnb Platform. Also, define some success measures too.

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Amplitude

JULY 29, 2020

When it comes to product strategy, there is so much conflicting advice that getting started can be confusing. Some companies’ strategies are so generic that they could mean anything, or nothing at all—as perfectly illustrated in this product strategy madlibs , which fills in the blanks with buzzwords and jargon and calls it a strategy.

Data Visualization 83

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280 Group

OCTOBER 29, 2022

They typically conduct extensive research about competitors’ products and market conditions to inform their messaging and Go-to-Market strategy. They develop content and implement marketing programs and activities to generate leads or enable the sales team, and they may be involved in defining the pricing strategy , as well.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 1, 2024

When you look inside these stories, you often find a corporate explorer at the center of them—someone who has the vision, commitment, and passion to drive it through. You still need to do hypothesis testing, but you need a plan for distribution channels and routes to market. [25:13] How you combine assets is what gets you to scale.

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Amplitude

MARCH 11, 2020

Roadmapping is at the core of product strategy and product management. Earlier last year, before we transitioned to outcome-based planning, the leadership team at Yesware did a thought exercise during an offsite. Start with company vision and direction. Everything flows from this vision.

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Sachin Rekhi

AUGUST 4, 2021

There was even an emerging set of courses focused on product leadership. We'll revisit the product work you are already doing in your role and share unique tools that help you prioritize needle-moving work, develop your product intuition, empower your team, garner leadership buy-in, and focus your efforts on what truly matters.

Technical Review 166

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Mind the Product

JUNE 7, 2018

To move them forward, Jo has introduced product lifecycle thinking, shared KPIs, product portfolios, and a lean process for testing new ideas. This means there is a lack of strategy to develop digital products which meet the needs of users and generate revenue. Move From Product Delivery to a Product Function.

Leadership 91

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Mind the Product

MAY 23, 2017

The long awaited book Product Leadership is finally about to hit our Kindles, iPads and possibly even our hands. It’s a book that shows product leadership to be a mentality and style, rather than a set of rules. The core tenets of Product Management are a natural breeding ground for leadership roles. Let teams shape the how.”.

Books 70

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 4, 2018

I write a lot about product strategy, and use Netflix as an example so that others can learn from the company’s success and failure. I often highlight that half of Netflix’s high-level product strategies fail in order to help product leaders to understand how hard it is to launch and grow startups.

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280 Group

MAY 11, 2021

Teams must ensure the product solves the right customer problems with all the right features and functionality, test and validate prototypes, and make a plan for production. Sink or Swim” is a Risky Strategy. The hard work starts early—from defining the target audience to conducting market research.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

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.

User Testing 156

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 13, 2018

Instead of Half-Life or GoldenEye, I was drawn to simulation games such as SimCity , The Sims and Theme Hospital – titles that rewarded strategy over speed, patience over practice. Developing strategy skills. You have to be on top of the here and now, while still maintaining the long term vision of a product. Theme Hospital.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JUNE 22, 2021

Today there is a new school of leadership emerging to remove this frustration. It’s called empowering leadership. This leadership style encourages leaders to give freedom and responsibility to people and stop controlling and micromanaging them. If done right, empowering leadership can free up a lot of time for managers.

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 14, 2021

How product managers can succeed in innovation leadership. There are successful examples of this, like the Apple Macintosh and Lockheed’s skunkworks that developed some of the fastest planes of the 20th century, but often skunkworks don’t get enough support from headquarters and are not attuned to the overall strategy.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Being on the inside of a company as it takes off is a special kind of experience – and being in a product leadership position while that’s going on gives a unique viewpoint. He joins us on the podcast to share some of his war stories and to guide us on creating a strategy for building a defensible advantage. Related Links.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

TL;DR Product managers often don’t get the due recognition for their work and their role is often marginalized by frustrated leadership or other teams. Without vision and looking ‘ahead’ it’s easy to get bogged down in ‘urgent’ low-impact tasks. Instead of driving the product strategy , they simply fulfill requests.

Technical Review 104

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 9, 2021

We started from two half-baked basic Computer Vision algorithms to objects. I led sales meetings, talked to developers, even tested the algorithms to determine their accuracy. The Leadership should have the exact same understanding of the problem, as does the Engineering team. The Product I worked on did not exist.

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ProductPlan

MAY 4, 2023

Product-led growth : a specific growth strategy in which access to the product is the primary sales tactic. There are four that stand out: Senior leadership builds the company strategy around a well-understood – and respected – product vision. This is NOT the type of organization discussed in this glossary entry.

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Gainsight

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Back in 2000, the strategy for Product Management was: Do what Sales wants. There’s no blank slate; there’s simply the product manager’s vision for what it could be. The most successful companies with the biggest valuations place Product Management at the core of their strategy. And what Sales wants.

Product Strategy 59

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bpma ProductHub

AUGUST 1, 2016

In the pragmatic marketing framework and others like it, market understanding, strategy and definition drive all other activities for product development and delivery. To own a product requires a strong vision for what it can become and achieve. the best way to determine a strategy for your product is to let data guide you.”

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BrainMates

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

In a Q&A a couple of months ago, someone in the (virtual) audience asked if they should be working on their strategy now, or if they should wait until things calmed down again. Your strategy should never be etched in stone; you always have to be conscious of changing conditions for your customers and how best to meet their needs.

Product Strategy 83

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

The Product Leadership Conundrum. The development team and stakeholders then use these goals to determine the work they have to do—be it creating a marketing strategy, investigating a new technology, or preparing the distribution channels. As this example shows, the vision is an inspirational, visionary goal that cannot be measured.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Teresa was impressed by how Lisa took the big, hairy product idea of orchestration (more on that in a moment) and turned it into a tamable, iterative product strategy. We’ve onboarded many customers onto our predictive suite and every time we get the same question: ‘How can I test that it works?’ Tweet This.

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