Roman Pichler

MARCH 12, 2018

How do you best lead the stakeholders and development team as the person in charge of the product? A feature broker is a product person who relies on others—the stakeholders, development team, management, users, or a customer—to come up with ideas and make product decisions.

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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. Sprint planning meeting : product goal , prioritised product backlog with enough ready items , development team capacity for the next sprint, and any action items from the last sprint retrospective.

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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] I certainly don’t intend to make anyone feel bad.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Before the advent of agile frameworks like Scrum , a product person—the product manager—would typically carry out the market research, compile a market requirements specification, create a business case, put together product roadmap, write a requirements specification, and then hand it off to a project manager.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] 1 Complement Scrum with a Product Discovery and Strategy Process Scrum is a simple framework that helps teams develop successful products. Continue the discovery and strategy work while the product is being developed. But don’t stop there. But it’s not enough on its own.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 19, 2017

Judging by what product managers have told us , my guess is that it sounds familiar to a good chunk of you reading this. Managing the “Shadow Product Team”. Responsibility for defining the roadmap may officially rest with the product team, but there are others in the organization who can directly influence it.

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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 4, 2023

My intention with this article is to show how product teams can use a product strategy to guide their discovery work and maximise the chances of creating successful products. Encourage teams to start with outcomes—business and user/customer benefits—rather than outputs—features and deliverables.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 20, 2016

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. 1 Focus on Goals and Benefits.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 5, 2020

A feature owner who manages a major capability with which end users interact like search and navigation on an online retailer’s website. A platform owner who manages a platform as a collection of shared software assets. A portfolio owner who manages a group of (related) products. None is per se better or worse.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 3, 2018

At the same time, it offers you, the person in charge of the product, the necessary context to make the right strategic product decisions, for example, the market your product should serve and the business goals it should meet. What is the company’s vision? Do you intend, for instance, to address existing markets?

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Alchemer Mobile

JULY 13, 2021

Bad product experiences increase customer frustration, potentially creating resentment around having difficulty completing tasks within an application and increasing customer churn. Beforehand, make sure your team is aligned on: Their definition of product experience. The goals you hope to achieve by investing in product experience.

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Melissa Perri

JULY 14, 2016

When I replay this scene in my head, I can hear the CTO very audibly yelling (slash pleading) with our product team. To create a backend system that will allow the sales team to manage their leads.” “To To create a front of the funnel website that markets to our target users and converts them.” YOU NEED A STRATEGY.”

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

When you become a head of product, you move into a line management position. Consequently, your focus shifts from managing a product to looking after the product people on your team and empowering them to do a great job. For some people, that’s straightforward. Grow Your Leadership Skills.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 3, 2023

How to Achieve Success in Your Product Strategy In today’s rapidly evolving market, having a clear product vision and a well-defined strategy is essential for the success of any tech product. A compelling product vision is a guiding light, providing direction and purpose to the development process.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 8, 2018

We can and should learn product management lessons from a diverse range of environments. It’s absolutely worth looking to the likes of Google’s Sundar Pichai, but it’s also worth looking to less celebrated entrepreneurs, outside of the multinational mega-corporations, to learn about lean front-line product management.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 4, 2019

That clarity is one of the main reasons I was so excited to join Intercom earlier this year – the company entered an industry dominated by impersonal and disconnected tools like ticketing systems and email with a vision to “make internet business personal.”. And whatever you stand for must resonate with your identified target market.

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The Secret PM Handbook

AUGUST 4, 2017

The Secret Product Management Framework. Finally writing down the Secret Product Management Framework was a revelation for me. It put all the activities I do as a product manager into perspective. We find and validate market problems for which customers will pay for a solution. And then we take the solutions to market.

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UserVoice

JULY 28, 2017

Task Management Tools for Product Managers. What it is: Trello is a project management tool that’s intended to keep groups organized, but it also works well for personal to-do list tasks. What it is: Asana is a versatile task management solution that allows you to manage both personal and team projects.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 8, 2024

1] They might include senior management, marketing, sales, service, operations, finance, and HR. 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. I refer to this group as key stakeholders.

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 15, 2023

What are the benefits the product should generate for the company developing and providing it? A handy tool to capture your answers and describe the product strategy is my Product Vision Board shown in the picture below. It consequently fails to align everyone involved in developing and providing the product.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2021

Your vision of the future should bring clarity to your roadmap. That approach works fine until your sales team gets on the phone to tell a customer about the Next Big Thing. When you define a roadmap as a group of project commitments, you’ve set your team up for failure. It aligns business decisions with strategic vision.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 18, 2019

So, it was natural that we should want to develop a talent growth plan for our people. Each month we send out an NPS survey to assess whether the company is being a great place to work, but a few months ago I also sent Google’s manager feedback survey to my team of 10 product managers. Team execution and development.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

I became a product manager because I wanted to take a more strategic role at my company. First, I did not know how to frame, develop and present product strategy in a systematic way, and second, as a startup, my company has not historically had a good track record of strategy being developed outside of senior management (read: founder).

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Mind the Product

MARCH 15, 2017

When Ben Horowitz wrote his groundbreaking memo good product manager, bad product manager nearly 20 years ago he described a product manager as the CEO of the product. A product manager ultimately has a CEO behind them somewhere, and can always pass the buck. Does that sound like any product manager you know?

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

One of my goals at Product Talk is to showcase what good product management looks like. Today, I’m excited to introduce a new series, Product in Practice, where I’ll profile product managers doing great work. I met Rachel when she was a product manager at Arity (an Allstate company). You are a product manager.”

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The Secret PM Handbook

AUGUST 4, 2017

The Secret Product Management Framework. Finally writing down the Secret Product Management Framework was a revelation for me. It put all the activities I do as a product manager into perspective. We find and validate market problems for which customers will pay for a solution. And then we take the solutions to market.

Framework 150

Framework Product Management Product Manager Weak Development Team 150

The Secret PM Handbook

AUGUST 4, 2017

The Secret Product Management Framework. Finally writing down the Secret Product Management Framework was a revelation for me. It put all the activities I do as a product manager into perspective. We find and validate market problems for which customers will pay for a solution. And then we take the solutions to market.

Framework 150

Framework Product Management Product Manager Weak Development Team 150

The Product Guy

MAY 7, 2020

Hence it is critical that one is aware of the best practises of the role and develops his own philosophy which results into maximum positive leverage for the organization. As I strive towards becoming a product leader, I wanted to understand the best practises in product management and in the process develop my own product philosophy. .

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Creating a new product category also creates a plethora of challenges – from spotting the right market niche to convincing customers that yours is a service they need. Nico joined me on Inside Intercom this week, where we discussed everything from the three stages of company growth to how growing companies can address new markets.

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UserVoice

JULY 28, 2017

Product management intuition is still a great thing to develop, but statistics and analytics will help you hone your product sense and justify your decisions to stakeholders. As product managers, data is especially important at work where key metrics and KPIs are vital signs to our organizations and products. Solve for “Why?”.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 13, 2022

If only books on product management had labels that say “pre-PMF” or “post-PMF”. Here are 10 great product books on pre-product market fit (pre-PMF)! ?? Poor questions yield little value. ?? Work with engineers: “Agile Product Management with Scrum” (Roman Pichler) There are zillions ways to apply scrum.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 28, 2022

I stumbled upon a bunch of product management memes while preparing for a talk. I think one of the ways to minimize the chance of this happening is to have an always on routine of talking to customers e.g. standing time to talk to customers that almost gets backed into the operating rhythm of the team. Of course?—?the That said?—?just

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 12, 2023

And What You Can Do to Avoid Them Disclaimer: I don’t really believe you can ‘teach’ Product Management. Not enough people spend enough time on defining vision and purpose Everybody talks about Simon Sinek’s golden circle, about Ikigai, about purpose and other synonyms, but no one really puts a lot of effort on finding purpose and meaning.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 2, 2023

Develop a Rummy Game — Comprehensive Guide to Card Game App Introduction Card games have a rich and storied history, that attracts players of all ages across the globe. With the enlargement of smartphones and mobile apps, traditional card games like Rummy have found a new digital home, opening up exciting opportunities for game developers.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 12, 2022

Here are cases for when the cooperation between the product team and the client brakes down for objective reasons. Here I have tried to reveal the most common cases when the cooperation between the development team and the entrepreneur fails for reasons beyond the control of all parties involved. So I wrote this article.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 24, 2019

Everyone believes their vision is really the Minimum Viable Product. You can simply declare “it’s not really minimum” if you want to do something less than their vision, or declare “it’s not really viable” if you want to do more! But MVP is a key concept in product management. That’s the tug of genuine market enthusiasm.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Before the advent of agile frameworks like Scrum , a product person—the product manager—would typically carry out the market research, compile a market requirements specification, create a business case, put together product roadmap, write a requirements specification, and then hand it off to a project manager.

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