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. Note that the choice of the name is intentional.

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 11, 2020

It can also result in a large product backlog and high development cost: The greater the number of people who should benefit from your product is, the more diverse their needs are likely to be, and the more features are usually required to address them. 59; Boost Your Product Leadership Power and How to Lead in Product Management , pp.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 5, 2022

For product strategy and roadmap meetings, I recommend involving the key stakeholders , for example, someone from sales, marketing, support, and finance, as well as development team representatives—ideally members who know about the user experience (UX), architecture, and technologies. State objective and agenda. Close the meeting.

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Product Management University

OCTOBER 19, 2023

company name] expands its AI coach language to 96, the most in the industry. company name] introduces fully integrated video that expands the power of the [company name] technology platform. Lackluster sales and/or poor adoption shouldn’t come as a surprise. The intent of that design and development changes a lot.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Unfortunately, the research backs this up, with a staggering 90% of users reporting that they stopped using an app due to poor performance. Poor performance includes slow loading times, complex design, confusing navigation, and unresponsive features. To assign meaning to whether the numbers are good or bad, context is crucial.

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Userpilot

APRIL 16, 2025

This fragmentation occurs when critical business information becomes scattered across disconnected systems, creating dangerous blind spots for product managers trying to make informed decisions. It compounds quietly across every team, workflow, and decision. Multiply that across a team, and operational drag becomes a real cost.

Data Visualization 105

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 4, 2018

Recognise the Importance of Product Management. Embracing new technologies like machine learning, micro services, big data, and Internet of Things (IoT) is part of that change, as is the introduction of agile practices including cross-functional and self-organising teams, DevOps, Scrum, and Kanban.

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Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 3, 2025

How AI captures customer needs that human product managers miss Watch on YouTube TLDR In my recent conversation with Carmel Dibner from Applied Marketing Science, we explored how artificial intelligence is transforming Voice of the Customer (VOC) research for product teams. However, these early efforts faced significant limitations.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 1, 2020

Here is why: We routinely interact with individuals who have different perspectives, interest, and needs, such as users, customers, stakeholders , development team members. Users don’t always have the same wants and needs as customers, and the ideas of the stakeholders and dev team may diverge.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 1, 2020

Here is why: We routinely interact with individuals who have different perspectives, interest, and needs, such as users, customers, stakeholders , development team members. Users don’t always have the same wants and needs as customers, and the ideas of the stakeholders and dev team may diverge.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 29, 2024

Outcome-Driven Innovation – for Product Managers Watch on YouTube [link] TLDR Tony Ulwick, creator of Jobs-to-Be-Done, introduces Outcome-Driven Innovation (ODI), a revolutionary approach to product management. He was part of the team that created the PCjr, a product that flopped badly.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 13, 2020

ML products also require us to manage relatively large technology risks – this is an area where, unlike in most other product development, technical limitations might render the entire design impossible. Resolution Bot is a product that automatically answers the repetitive questions faced by customer support teams.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 8, 2019

Once we had a couple dozen big names, it was easy to convince the laggards. Similar stories have inspired new product and business development frameworks , thousands of articles, and numerous books. Companies simply ship too many poor products and features. We went into a frenzy and wanted to grow bigger.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 18, 2023

It’s a great model but the name is quite misleading. That’s why I named my strategic product-led growth course ‘Unboxing PLG’. Today I want to give you a sneak peek into this understanding, by talking about common misinterpretations of the name PLG, which could lead you to wrong expectations as to what you are entering yourself into.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 12, 2021

As a support leader, you already know how important it is to take care of your customers – but it’s just as important to take care of your support team. Here’s why human support is so crucial for any customer-centric organization, and how it can have a significant impact on your team, your business, and your customers. Here’s why.

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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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Roman Pichler

JULY 8, 2024

1] They might include senior management, marketing, sales, service, operations, finance, and HR. It can be hard to reach the required level of buy-in without using design-by-committee , brokering a weak compromise, and agreeing on the smallest common denominator—which is hardly the foundation of a successful product.

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Product Talk

APRIL 16, 2025

We used detailed checklists on Trello cards to manage each use case. But then, one day, I found myself reading Ask Your Developer by Jeff Lawson and I realized I was the one making the mistake. But then, one day, I found myself reading Ask Your Developer by Jeff Lawson and I realized I was the one making the mistake.

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 18, 2024

We covered how to manage messy opportunity solution trees , the most common challenges teams face when getting started with the discovery habits, what Im working on next, and so much more. Discovery is a team sport. Its not the exclusive domain of product managers. By the team that’s building the product.

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Product Innovation Educators

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Rethinking product portfolio management to optimize performance. What happens when you or your organization has more than one product to manage? It’s hard enough managing resources to sell and improve one product, but throw another one in the mix and see what happens. Road mapping for portfolio management.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 27, 2021

The secret to acing a product management interview isn’t just knowing what questions to expect. The Most Common Product Management Interview Questions What do you see as a Product Manager’s main role within product development? How do you see your career developing in the next 5 years? How do you stay user-focused?

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Roman Pichler

JULY 20, 2016

To help you develop your agile product roadmap, I have created a goal-oriented roadmap template called the GO Product Roadmap. It is built on the idea that goals are more important than features, and it consists of five elements: date, name, goal, features, and metrics, as the picture below shows. 2 Do the Necessary Prep Work.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 25, 2021

Product management requires you to master so many different skills, that there always seems to be a gap between what you do well and what you need to do well to succeed. As a manager of product people, it is your job to help them with this continuous growth, but it’s not always easy. most of us didn’t start as product managers?—?so

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 4, 2022

In developing live streaming digital solutions for years, we’ve collected quite a massive of valuable insights, industry challenges, app feature trends, and development key points that will help you pave the way to building a demanded high-quality streaming platform. Its market share is projected to reach $534.37

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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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Productside

MARCH 24, 2025

Productside | Product Management Courses & Training Refining Product-Market Fit and Scaling B2B SaaS Products Most startups dont stall because of bad ideasthey stall because they stop refining their product-market fit and what works. Takeaway: Great product managers arent just builders. Theyre problem-solvers.

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 3, 2018

She was named a Top 100 Leadership Speaker for 2018 and is here to tell us how we can have a happier workplace. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [3:27] I was asked to lead a moving company, where the culture was really bad. There’s also a litmus test to help someone get a sense of where a team is.

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The Secret PM Handbook

MAY 12, 2017

Product managers tell me – and the people managing product managers tell me – that one of their biggest challenges is communicating with the development team. People complain about: Developers being poorly motivated, or having a bad attitude about what you want them to build. Or as we think we are.

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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 17, 2021

Half of the calls I get from CEOs include requests for Product Management to boost productivity in Engineering (aka Development aka Makers). This reflects confusion about what product managers do (and how we really add value), and often poor role definition where product managers are also project/program managers or engineering leads.

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The Secret PM Handbook

MAY 12, 2017

Product managers tell me – and the people managing product managers tell me – that one of their biggest challenges is communicating with the development team. People complain about: Developers being poorly motivated, or having a bad attitude about what you want them to build. ” and “What?”

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Mind the Product

JUNE 28, 2018

Is there a difference between developing an enterprise and a consumer product? And the fact that an enterprise is a legal entity makes product management for enterprise products a little different. An IT administrator in the CIO’s organisation would use such a tool very differently from a developer who reports to a VP of engineering.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 17, 2023

Lessons from the discoverer of Stage-Gate for product managers Today we are talking with a legend in product management. Our guest is Dr. Robert Cooper, who discovered the now famous Stage-Gate process and was named the “World’s Top Innovation Management Scholar” by the prestigious Journal of Product Innovation Management.

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Atlassian

JANUARY 28, 2022

It also shortchanges your team by denying them opportunities for professional growth. Managers often don’t delegate because of limiting mindsets, such as “No one can live up to my standards,” or “It’s easier to do this myself.” Before becoming a manager, she was a standout individual contributor.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 15, 2018

Will Larson has managed infrastructure teams for some of the biggest names in software. Partnering with the Infrastructure, Data and Developer Productivity teams, his group builds the tools that support every Stripe engineer and keep Stripe reliable and performant. That was just a transformational experience.

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Mind the Product

MAY 17, 2018

Over the past year I’ve worked with hundreds of product managers in dozens of companies, and there’s been one question that has sounded like a persistent drum beat: “ What is the difference between the role of a product owner and a product manager? ”. In Agile that person is called the product manager. You see the rub?

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Two friends share tools they learned from improv comedy to help you on your product journey By Becca Groner and Gabby Zilkha As product managers with improvisational comedy training, we’ve been surprised how often our improv skills have helped us be more effective in our roles. We hope they come in handy for you and your team.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 4, 2019

More recently, however, I’ve realized that the technology industry at large struggles with such clarity and consistency – in marketing terms, there is often a difficulty developing a clear value proposition that aligns with product and brand identity. 1 Poor definition of value proposition and feature focus. 2 First-mover disadvantage.

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