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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.

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Leading without Being the Boss: Tips for Product People

Roman Pichler

For example, the marketer has to create the marketing strategy, and the development teams have to design and build the product. For instance, the marketing strategy, the user experience (UX) design and technology choices have to align to successfully acquire new users, increase conversion, or meet another product goal.

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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.

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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.

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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. In this webinar, Brett Truka, CEO of Devetry, shares his experiences and advice on how to successfully sell your roadmap to your leadership team. In other words, you need to speak your executive suite’s language.

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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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10 Tips for Effective Product Management Meetings

Roman Pichler

For example, a product strategy workshop might have the objective to identify the key changes required to achieve product-market fit. As a rule of thumb, avoid meetings with more than ten attendees when you have to make high-impact decisions and/or rework the product strategy , product roadmap , or product backlog. 1 Set an Objective.

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Five Ways to Use Product Management Best Practices

As you move into the new year you can help your product team prepare for success by exercising those product leadership muscles and implementing product management best practices. Here are our top tips for how you can lay the right foundations and get your product strategy off to a flying start.