Roman Pichler

MAY 8, 2018

Three Types of Leadership. Each role provides a distinct type of leadership. Providing the right product leadership is demanding; it requires a specific skills set and usually your full attention as the person in charge of the product. As the product owner, you lead the product and are responsible for its overall success.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 15, 2025

Watch Pedros episode: [link] Joni Hoadley : #HowIPM Ideate in Less than a Day Joni Hoadley, Product Manager Coach & Consultant, shares a 5-step workshop framework to go from sticky-note chaos to aligned priorities and test-ready ideasin a single afternoon. Thats where the roadmap reveals itself. Bring your whole team into the process.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 8, 2024

The individuals whose buy-in to strategy and roadmap decisions is crucial are the players: They are interested in your product, as they, for example, will have to market and sell it. Decisions related to a new or significantly changed strategy have a very high impact. I refer to this group as key stakeholders.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 4, 2023

What Happens When the Head of Product Determines the Product Strategy? As you might have noticed, the list above does not mention determining the product strategy. Here is why: When a head of product determines the product strategy on a regular basis, then this is likely to cause the following two issues.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 1, 2020

To build such a stakeholder community, try the following techniques, which I discuss in more detail in my book How to Lead in Product Management : Bring people together and have joint workshops instead of holding separate conversations with the individual stakeholders, see also the section below. Establish clear roles and responsibilities.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 2, 2022

Last month I had the privilege of participating in SVPG’s ‘Coach the Coaches’ workshop in Europe. I soon found out that I was going to be the only one from Israel attending the workshop. primarily focused on product teams, helping them be great at the discovery work that is at the heart of what they do Leadership coaching?—?focused

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 7, 2021

In practical terms, involve stakeholders and dev teams in decisions that affect the product strategy and the product roadmap —be it that you create the plans or that you make bigger changes to them. Then invite the right people to a collaborative workshop, no matter if it takes place online or onsite. Lead by Example.

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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. For example, the marketer must be able to create the right marketing strategy for the product. This is best done by having regular, collaborative strategy workshops as well as attending sprint review meetings.

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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.

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 16, 2022

Imagine that John is a sales rep and a key stakeholder who hardly ever attends the product strategy workshops you’ve invited him to. You should then consider asking John to change his behaviour and attend the strategy sessions to share his change requests. First, empathy is the foundation for effective leadership.

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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., Your job as a product manager is to make sure designers and engineers have crystal clear targets for customer value they can easily hit.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 5, 2022

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.

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Mironov Consulting

APRIL 10, 2020

What : “Moving Up Into Product Leadership” remote workshop. This is a restructuring of my in-person workshop as a 3-hour live online session. The leadership career funnel and ways to signal your interest in “moving up” Who should attend? Where : online (link provided to registered attendees).

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Introduction To discuss empowerment in product management, I find it helpful to distinguish three main levels of decision-making authority, product delivery, product discovery, and product strategy, as the model in Figure 1 shows. [1]

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Melissa Perri

JULY 23, 2024

I look at four dimensions for robust Product Organizations: Product Organizational Design Product Strategy Product Operations Product Culture Inside each of these are a few capabilities that are then broken down further into sub-capabilities that help me pinpoint where the issues are. I review strategies and roadmaps.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 13, 2018

We’re thrilled to announce the first of our amazing line-up of speakers and announce all our deep-dive workshops, connecting international and regional thought leaders with the vibrant product and UX community across AsiaPac. Workshop Presenters. by Jonny Schneider, Head of Product Strategy and Design.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 20, 2016

Describe and validate the product strategy —the path to realise your vision—before you create your roadmap and decide how the strategy is best implemented, as the following picture illustrates. I like to use my Product Vision Board to develop a valid product strategy. Remember: Collaboration requires leadership.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 5, 2024

The Three Pillars of Leadership: Know, Do, Be Effective product managers are more than just idea generators or task managers. To excel in this leadership role, focus on these three key areas: Know: Develop a comprehensive understanding of your product, market, and team dynamics. They are leaders who inspire and guide their teams.

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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. Product teams struggle to drive business outcomes because many companies haven’t taken the time to define their strategy. Help me in welcoming Hope as an official author. Tweet This.

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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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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

This includes sprint planning , Daily Scrum , sprint review , and sprint retrospective , as well as product strategy and product roadmap workshops. In theory, your Scrum Master should focus on providing people and process leadership. Meetings : Prepare and facilitate meetings. What the Scrum Master Should NOT Do.

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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. In this article, we’ll explore Mary’s journey, the strategies she used to reframe her experience, and the valuable lessons she learned along the way.

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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. Growing others, strategy, air cover? What should my focus be?

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 4, 2018

This helps the individuals embrace an agile mindset, take advantage of new techniques and tools—think of hypotheses-driven strategy validation, goal-oriented product roadmaps, and user stories—and effectively collaborate with the agile development teams. Strategy and leadership skills are nice-to-have but not mandatory.

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 25, 2020

The strategies the Disney Head of Innovation used to bring products customers love to life. Last year I was at a product management conference in Orlando and the keynote speaker discussed leadership at Disney. Now he is a keynote speaker and also deliverers workshops and ideation forums to companies around the globe.

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Nulab

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Traditional top-down managerial structures for leadership are being replaced with bottom-up styles of working. Organizations need to be dynamic if they want to attract and retain the best workers — and collaborative leadership is one way to do that. What is collaborative leadership? Here’s everything you need to know.

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 12, 2024

3] Figure 2: Product Team with Stakeholders The stakeholders in Figure 2 share their expertise and contribute to product decisions in collaborative workshops, and they work with the other members to achieve product success. Alternatively, you can form an extended product team that includes stakeholders, as Figure 2 illustrates. [3]

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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

MAY 31, 2019

Day 1: Leadership Forum. We started with the first-ever MTP Leadership Forum in Hamburg , a decidedly intimate event for 40 product leaders. In between we held sessions on Product Strategy and Product Principles, on Managing Product Portfolios, and on Developing Product Managers. Day 2: Workshops. Day 3: Conference.

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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 the person in charge of a product, you are responsible for achieving product success.

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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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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 12, 2021

Workshops where we work as a team. The more often I support people in their preparation, the faster we can get to the topic under discussion or of the workshop. If you're a PO or a product manager, you might need to explain this product's strategy now. That might be a workshop. Use the Purpose to Name the Gathering.

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 12, 2023

Processes include forums to sync with different members of your team and other teams, forums to get leadership alignment, ensuring high quality of deliverables, and OKR planning. Planning includes the product vision, strategy, and roadmap. How do you set the vision, strategy, and roadmap? At what cadence do you do that?

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 20, 2024

Attendees will leave with tangible strategies to implement immediately in their organisations, as well as new connections that could turn into future customers or collaborators. You can expect a fast-paced schedule with keynote talks, panel discussions, interactive workshops, and ample networking opportunities.

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Gainsight

APRIL 15, 2025

This is where the hype of AI transforms into practical solutions that deliver real ROI, fundamentally altering customer engagement strategies. These advanced tactics provide the tools to achieve tangible impacts on customer success metrics, ensuring your strategies are nothing short of magical.

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The Product Manager Coach Blog

MARCH 4, 2025

Without trust, even the most well-thought-out product strategies can face pushback, leading to misalignment, delays, and increased risks. Companies that implement structured engagement strategies reduce post-launch feature change requests and accelerate time-to-market through improved alignment and collaboration.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Pre-Conference Workshops. You can book any of our six workshops to improve specific product management skills with sessions led by international experts in their fields: User Story Mapping (with Jeff Patton). Visual Thinking (half-day workshop with Britta Ullrich). Workshop tickets are on sale now with limited availability.

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