UX Planet

JANUARY 4, 2024

As I reflect on my unique professional journey, I find myself at a juncture where the roles of Design Strategist and Product Manager converge, unveiling the potential for a powerful synergy. When I later transitioned into a Product Manager role, this customer-centric approach became invaluable.

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 15, 2023

A handy tool to capture your answers and describe the product strategy is my Product Vision Board shown in the picture below. You can download the template by clicking on the image and you can find more advice on how to use it in the article The Product Vision Board.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 5, 2021

I’ve been talking with product managers lately about how the concepts of “essentialism” can help them focus their efforts on what matters. I distilled the advice a few months ago in my book The Essentialist Product Manager and have recently been giving talks and workshops on the topic. How to Roadmap like an Essentialist.

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Product Management University

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

“What’s on our strategic roadmap?” What’s our product vision?” If you’re the head of products or strategy in a B2B organization, you’re constantly fielding the “product vision and strategic roadmap” questions. Register for our Strategic Portfolio Roadmapping Workshop in Atlanta, GA on March 28th, 2017.

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Sachin Rekhi

AUGUST 4, 2021

For years now loyal readers have been asking me to package up my learnings on product management into a cohesive course on the subject. So in 2020, I took a survey of all the available product management courses out there. There were plenty of courses introducing product management to those new to the role.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

On this episode of Intercom on Product myself and Paul Adams, our SVP of Product, take a look at roadmapping. Knowing how and when to define a roadmap, who to include and how long to plan for are key elements to finding the balanced approach that you need. As you grow functions, the audience for your roadmap widens.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

On this episode of Intercom on Product myself and Paul Adams, our SVP of Product, take a look at roadmapping. Knowing how and when to define a roadmap, who to include and how long to plan for are key elements to finding the balanced approach that you need. As you grow functions, the audience for your roadmap widens.

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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

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. It’s a model of an iterative process that systematically links the product strategy with the product roadmap , the product backlog , the development work, and the key performance indicators (KPIs).

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

How do you collectively build your marketing persona through a workshop? Preparing for a Persona Workshop. Market research and having a customer proxy are prerequisites for a persona workshop. As a product manager, you usually should take responsibility for these. Post Workshop: put Your Product Persona to use.

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Sequent Learning

DECEMBER 20, 2023

What is a Product Manager? The role of a product manager is the linchpin in product development, overseeing the entire lifecycle from inception to market launch. Product managers act as the bridge between stakeholders, engineers, marketers, and other teams. Understanding the Scope: What Does a Product Manager Do?

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 12, 2022

How product managers can align stakeholders on product projects. Today we are talking about the need for product leaders to manage stakeholders and the associated challenges this creates. Previously, Bruce joined us for a three-part series on creating and using product roadmaps. ” What a great quote.

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

Startup Product managers are in charge of setting up the foundation for product management at a new company. According to Airfocus , an optimized product manager boosts profitability and sales, by 34.2 In this guide, we will break down a few steps you can take to increase your chances of being a startup product manager.

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 29, 2020

Learn the qualities of a successful product manager and leader. Leaders of product management need agility, influence, trust, empathy, and motivating vision. Roman is a product management expert specializing in digital products. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [2:00]

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Product Management University

APRIL 12, 2021

You’ve just landed your first VP of Product Management job and expectations are sky high. And all they’re going to do is give you the saltier version of what’s wrong with product management. VP of Product Management: Your 7-Point Plan for Playing Offense. The VP of Product Management’s Real Job.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 13, 2021

It’s like driving a car with your vision blurred: You can’t see if you are heading in the right direction or getting closer to your destination. Then take into account the product goals on the product roadmap to discover additional KPIs. Without KPIs, you end up guessing how well your product is performing. Less is More.

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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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Bain Public

APRIL 17, 2020

We already knew we could deliver expert guidance via a series of on-site workshops. Our virtual workshop series provides actionable strategies, tools, processes, and skills product leaders need to create innovations, adapt to market shifts, and anticipate what’s next. We deliver content via a series of virtual workshops.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

I recently led a workshop for an organic tech farm startup that wanted to set its foot online for selling organic food to B2B customers. Let me walk through the entire workshop in the phases with its results. These 8 dimensions will be pillars of driving the vision and business outcomes right after the launch. refer to image 4).

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Sequent Learning

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Here at Sequent Learning, we regularly speak with Product Management executives around the world about their latest challenges. Faced with increased competition and aggressive profit goals, Product Management leaders can’t afford missed milestones, and certain concerns keep cropping up: How can I improve team’s performance?

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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. Time management: You have learnt to effectively manage your time, and you are able to practice sustainable pace.

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UX Studio

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Working on a product without a decent product vision resembles going into the street with eyes closed. This article will show how a product vision should look, how to create it and communicate it to all stakeholders in play. What is Product Vision? Product vision imagines a product direction in the long-term.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 23, 2022

It also made me realize that there is much to learn from boxing when it comes to being a Product Manager. With no further ado, here are 4 things that boxing learned me about product management, including links to the best free templates and tools to use, to become a Product Management Heavyweight champion. All joking aside here.

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Product Culture

MAY 7, 2020

I was supposed to give a Roadmaps Masterclass in person to the Business of Software conference in March. I switched it from a full day workshop to smaller chunks: 2 hours a day, over 4 consecutive days. So now I am trying it with a new audience: Product Roadmaps Masterclass: - Virtual , the Sequel.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

This focuses everyone on the joint outcomes you need to achieve, and it gives people the freedom to manage their work, thereby creating purpose and autonomy. The first and possibly most powerful goal is the vision , which describes the ultimate reason for creating your product and the positive change it should bring about.

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Bain Public

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Over the last 5 years, Bain Public has partnered with different accelerators, such as Centech , The Holt Xchange , and NEXT AI , to give expert product workshops to growing startups. For the first time ever, Bain Public will be hosting their own, exclusive product workshop event! Location : Montreal, QC. They will be announced soon! -.

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Sequent Learning

JULY 25, 2019

Start With A Vision. Your success as a product manager is pinned directly to the positive contributions to the firm’s bottom line. Successful products begin life with a spark of inspiration and a vision. Vision is, considered a non-negotiable for a CEO, and is often non-negotiable for a product manager.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 13, 2021

It’s like driving a car with your vision blurred: You can’t see if you are heading in the right direction or getting closer to your destination. Then take into account the product goals on the product roadmap to discover additional KPIs. Without KPIs, you end up guessing how well your product is performing. Less is More.

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Dear Strategy

MARCH 15, 2023

The podcast will continue to serve as an education tool, and will even be expanded to reflect the full array of business topics that we now cover in our classes and workshops. The complete list of revisions are outlined below: Step 1 of the process has been renamed from “Vision” to “Scope.”

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 11, 2016

1 Establish a Clear Vision. Establish a clear vision for introducing a product management group and explore why your company would benefit from it. But the core value proposition of product management is enabling growth : A product manager is responsible for making and keeping a product successful.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 1, 2018

I’ve realized that people use the words mission, vision and strategy interchangeably. Wanted to jot down some thoughts on my perspectives on this, and the topic of product vision in general - both to solidify my own thinking and in case it can be helpful to anyone reading this. The vision talks about the future?—?where

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Decision-making process for PMs: No common process, standardized No journey from OKRs to problems and solutions No articulation of the roadmap with uncertainty Not ahead of the needs Problems for making streamlined decisions, for articulating decisions. Low accountability Limited visions of the product by PMs. Low transparency.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 22, 2017

I remember very clearly meeting a Product Manager named Jim Lindstrom on my first day and asked to shadow him. I knew by the end of the first week that product management was the job I’d been looking for since graduating from college. 7 years ago, I started working at my first tech startup. If this sounds like a lot to do, it is.

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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. Time management: You have learnt to effectively manage your time, and you are able to practice sustainable pace.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 12, 2019

Building and sustaining a healthy team culture and communication is a large part of being a successful product manager. Whether co-located or distributed, a shared vision leads to shared values, which leads to shared knowledge, which leads to shared understanding. Does your team know why they’re building what they’re building?

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The Product Guy

MARCH 14, 2017

A product manager just stopped by the desk of the designer on a lazy Thursday afternoon. The manager used wide gestures to show where he wanted to move certain elements. Design workshops, like persona, jobs-to-be-done or customer journey workshops can help the team to get a better understanding of customer’s pains and needs.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 18, 2019

What to expect if you are a Product Manager in Enterprises vs Startups Startup vs Enterprise This article represents my opinions based on personal experiences working at large MNCs, mid-size companies as well as startups. ROADMAP & EXECUTION Ability to contribute to the vision and goals of the company based on your market research.

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