Productside

MAY 27, 2025

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 5, 2022

Here are three meetings with sample input data: Product strategy workshop : product performance data ( KPIs ), competitive analysis, market trends, development progress, for example, in the form of a release burndown chart , and user feedback on recent product increments. Silence phones and other devices; disable notifications.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

2 Use Scrum for Products that Experience Uncertainty and Change Scrum is often seen as the standard way to create digital products, and I have met more than one company where the product managers were told to be agile and do Scrum. As I mentioned earlier, Scrum is not a product management framework.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

An effective product strategy is key to successfully create, enhance, and manage a product. There is no point in worrying about the product details and writing user stories if a sound product strategy is missing. But what exactly is a product strategy? The vision is transformed into needs and business goals.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 1, 2020

While I really appreciate this entrepreneurial aspect of our work, it can bring up tension, stress, and frustration when we are trying to progress our products towards agreed goals but are in danger of missing them, be it a sprint goal , product goal on the roadmap , or a strategic user or business goal.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 1, 2020

While I really appreciate this entrepreneurial aspect of our work, it can bring up tension, stress, and frustration when we are trying to progress our products towards agreed goals but are in danger of missing them, be it a sprint goal , product goal on the roadmap , or a strategic user or business goal.

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The Product Backlog is Too Big. A few years ago, I was asked to help a healthcare company with their agile transition and its impact on product management. One of the challenges the agile transition team was concerned about was the choice of the right product backlog tool, which at first seemed odd to me.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Additionally, the person in charge of the product must have the necessary expertise. Note that including stakeholders on the product team replaces a traditional stakeholder management approach with a much more collaborative one. All self-managing teams I have worked with greatly benefited from an experienced coach.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

For example, a product manager might determine the product strategy and one or more development teams might be tasked with executing it. I call these outcomes product goals. With an actionable product roadmap in place, move on and stock your product backlog. Enter the Cycle.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Consider These Product “Owner” Teams Effective product owners need to collaborate with several kinds of teams: They work with “their” feature/product team, to write stories and create good backlogs for the near-term work. However, in a small organization, that someone might be a VP, not a product manager.

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

The roles of managing a mobile product team and managing an entire company share many similarities. The biggest difference is that mobile product managers deeply interact with nearly every function within their organization, yet none of them report to them. The same is true for an effective product leader.

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Product Management Today Submitted Articles

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

This is my complete guide to Product Goals in 2020.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Setting smart product goals is a vital skill for any sensible SaaS owner or product manager to get right. In this article, we’re going to explore what makes an effective product goal, the difference between goals and product initiatives, how to set them and make them work with your product backlog, and more.

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Product Talk

JANUARY 8, 2025

The product manager in their squad recommended reading Continuous Discovery Habits and the team was inspired to start applying the concepts right away. Start with clear business and product outcomes. Make sure you have a clear understanding of your business goals so your product goals are aligned with them.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

From explaining the benefits and drawbacks to taking a collaborative approach to setting the right goals, Roman Pichler shares his thoughts on setting effective product-related goals using OKRs. [.] Read more » The post OKRs in product management by Roman Pichler appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Goals in Product Management. As I explain in my book How to Lead in Product Management , setting the right goals is crucial to align stakeholders and development teams and to achieve product success. Does this mean that there is a natural fit between goals in product management and OKRs?

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

This is where product portfolio roadmaps come in. [2] Youll benefit from such a plan when you manage a cohesive portfolio like Microsoft 365 or a product bundle like Netflix. The product teams hence have to figure out what their specific contributions will have to be. Lets make this more concrete and look at an example.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 15, 2024

To make this more concrete, let’s look at an example: Objective : Grow the product management team. Key result 1 : Three product managers are hired. Key result 3 : The product management processes are adapted to preserve the productivity level of the team. The fourth row lists the product’s features.

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Folding Burritos

DECEMBER 4, 2019

I talk to a lot of PMs and I ask them (and everyone who subscribes to my newsletter) the same question: what’s your biggest struggle as a Product Manager? Having put together a fairly popular resource on product prioritization methods, I would’ve hoped the situation to be different. That’s our real job as Product Managers.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Process and collaboration : Teach agile values, principles, and practises to the product owners, development teams, stakeholders, and management. Instead, the person should teach the Scrum product owner and development team how to how to proactively manage a sprint and a release , respectively.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Who doesn’t struggle to manage their time effectively, at least occasionally? As product managers we have so many priorities that organizing them into a short list can be the hardest challenge each week. Here are four ways that product managers can plant themselves in the world of deliberateness.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

Instead, you should engage the stakeholders, leverage their expertise, and generate as much buy-in as possible , as I explain in more detail in my article “ Stakeholder Management Tips for Product People.” Myth #2: The product owner is a tactical role focused on managing the product backlog.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 13, 2021

To select the right KPIs, I recommend taking the following three steps: First, use the user and business goals in the product strategy to select an initial set of indicators. Then take into account the product goals on the product roadmap to discover additional KPIs. Step 3: Add Health Indicators. Less is More.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 4, 2022

But what Scrum lacks in my mind, is a way to involve the key stakeholders in strategic product decisions and the product discovery work. That’s understandable, as the framework is focused on the development of complex products. You need the stakeholders’ active contribution to progress the product and reach the product goals.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 30, 2018

Learn about our client’s business problems and product requirements. These objectives make for a better product, and a more successful company. When I started my product management career, I mostly relied on my experience, common sense and intuition when making product decisions. More About The Product Mentor.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 10, 2024

To put it differently, instead of focussing on what needs to be delivered, you ask why it is worthwhile progressing the product. However, I find in my coaching work that management and business stakeholders can be very attached to feature-based plans and expect to see roadmaps that state when a feature will be delivered.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Step 1: Ensure that you know who the product is for and why people will want to use it. I’ll never forget the day when I suggested to the product manager of a brand-new healthcare product to prioritise its features. ” (Note that I have chosen a dual goal that captures the desired business and user benefits.).

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

And if you’re really excited about an idea, you might look for opportunities to share it outside your company with the broader product community. Today’s Product in Practice features a continuous discovery champion who did all three. Texthelp has over 50 million users served by 12 product teams in the US, the UK, and in the Nordics.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 19, 2017

The Daily Scrum meeting, sometimes also referred to as stand-up meeting, wants to help the development team manage its work. In Scrum, the team collectively agrees to a sprint goal and is responsible for meeting it. Do you doubt the team’s ability to meet the sprint goal? Tip #1: Know what it’s all about.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

A colleague, Tom, told me about this question he received in an interview: “The product owner and dev team cannot decide on a sprint goal, even after hours of discussion. They (the team) feel that the tasks for the sprint are too varied to manage to a single sprint goal. Let me start with the idea of a sprint goal.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Leading as the Person in Charge of the Product When you hear the term leadership , you might first and foremost think of a senior manager like the head of product, Director of Product Management, VP of Product, or Chief Product Officer.[

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 23, 2017

A friend, who’s recently become a product manager, asked me that recently. She’d inherited a technical product where the engineers already had a view of the direction and deliverables required. As a product manager, what should her role on the team be? How Much Should I Understand? How could she best add value?

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The Product Guy

APRIL 23, 2019

Guest Post by: Surbhi Gupta (Mentee, Session 8, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Tim Nunn]. For a Product Manager, building the right product is more important than building the product right.”. However, it is highly unlikely that a product can solve the needs for all humans. The Product Guy.

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Alchemer Mobile

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Our new guide, Five Hard Questions for Mobile Product Managers , covers tough questions product leaders should ask themselves, especially through a mobile lens. If you’re aiming to push yourself and your product to the next level, analyzing yourself is the best place to start! Question #1: Am I the CEO of the product?

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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Product success is not something you can achieve on your own as a product manager or Scrum product owner. Instead, you rely on the contributions and the support of the key stakeholders , the development team members, and possibly other product people who help you manage a large product.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

Be Prepared to Look after People, Not Products. 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. But I find that it usually not enough.

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