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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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

My journey to product management was not what you might expect , but then again, maybe you would. Three years later I became a web application engineer at a startup that built software for military and private industries. I became director of communications, leading the development of intranets and web applications.

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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.” ” But do not allow people to dominate and tell you what to do, and don’t agree to a weak compromise.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

How long an activity takes can have a huge impact on success or the perception of success when developing products. More often than not, teams are overly optimistic on the timeline that will be required to complete an activity. You can put unnecessary pressure on your team. You might design your organisation or team poorly.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Minimum Viable Products: Why You Should Test Before Investing In Ideas Let’s analyze the advantages of MVP-based software development. Why should you invest in MVP development? You can successfully prevent these problems by starting software development with a Minimum Viable Product (MVP). a skateboard.

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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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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Prescriptive Agile frameworks make it hard for designers to add valuable contributions to the team. I designed every detail in Photoshop before handing the mockups to the developers. After failing to convince my manager to change our waterfall methodology, I joined a company where Agile was deeply ingrained in the culture.

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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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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Steve, a software development manager, thought John was a “10x” developer. Was I willing to support and coach the other people in Steve's group to all become “10x” developers? Was I willing to support and coach the other people in Steve's group to all become “10x” 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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Alchemer Mobile

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The build vs. buy question is both one of the most common and one of the most challenging dilemmas facing product managers. By integrating third party software, you’re neither contaminating your app nor admitting that the software solves a problem you couldn’t solve with your own code.

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Alchemer Mobile

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The build vs. buy question is both one of the most common and one of the most challenging dilemmas facing product managers. . Commonly, the ‘build vs. buy’ dilemma comes to an abrupt end when companies are reluctant to integrate, or even forbid integrating with, third-party software development kits (SDKs) of any sort.

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TechEmpower - Product Management

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

When speaking with founders and CEOs, we often hear concerns like this: My project manager is losing confidence in the development team. I think that poor communication and differing team cultures might be part of the problem, but how can I know for sure? These are the worries that keep team leads up at night.

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svpg

JANUARY 11, 2016

Lots of people have written about the challenges of managing growth. I normally write about how to evolve your organization from a weak product org to a strong one. I have seen this anti-pattern play out at every level of a company, from individual software developers all the way to CEO.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 19, 2022

Managing a warehouse is not easy. A warehouse management system will help to organize the workflow effectively. What is a warehouse management system? A warehouse management system combines software, specific devices (for example, data collection terminals with a scanner), and IoT sensors to track inventory information.

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Userpilot

APRIL 6, 2023

Developing and releasing sophisticated products with all the bells and whistles imaginable might seem like a great idea. After all, you want your newly released software to be as good as it gets when it’s finally launched, right? Poor prioritization and external pressure are also common causes. But worry not!

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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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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

Startup Product managers are in charge of setting up the foundation for product management at a new company. Since product development is such a lucrative field, this is a crucial role for the company. According to Airfocus , an optimized product manager boosts profitability and sales, by 34.2 percent for a corporation.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 27, 2022

At the beginning of any software development project, managers think of which methodology is between waterfall and agile. It’s essential to follow clearly defined processes or software development life cycle (SDLC) to ensure software development quality. Differences between waterfall and agile 1.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

we got this request long before our MVP development agency was founded. Hey, my name is Kristina Spiridonova, I’m an account manager at Purrweb. So, when it comes to contacting the development company, product owners tend to skip the whole-picture level and go straight into details i.e There were no other details.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2019

What do you do when your team is working their socks off and yet they are getting little credit for the work being done, mainly because the team isn’t able to set concrete expectations with the stakeholder? This obviously reflected as a failure to deliver on part of the engineering team. THE CHALLENGE. THE CAUSE.

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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.” ” But do not allow people to dominate and tell you what to do, and don’t agree to a weak compromise.

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Weak Development Team Product Research User Testing Customer Experience 156

The Product Coalition

JUNE 24, 2022

Do you find being a product manager particularly challenging? Take a look at these nine indicators to determine if product management is the right career for you, or not. digital product management positions have never been more pervasive or idolized than they are right now. Product Managers are problem people.

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 16, 2020

A topic that’s come up several times recently in my product leader coaching sessions: how much to delegate to the (individual contributor) product managers on our teams – including different ways of building product skills and balancing personal empowerment against good results.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 29, 2018

“We just pushed it live,” the release manager belts out, to a team fresh off the battlefield that is software product development. I was new to it all, a team whose mantra was to create, build and release. In particular, how to work with, understand, and successfully manage a distributed development team.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 11, 2017

My journey to product management was not what you might expect, but then again, maybe you would. Three years later I became a web application engineer at a startup that built software for military and private industries. I became director of communications, leading the development of intranets and web applications.

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Userpilot

JUNE 27, 2022

What is developer marketing, and what is the point of it? As the name suggests, developer marketing is marketing to developers. In short, developer marketing is more than just capturing the attention of software developers and getting them to use your product. What is developer marketing?

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The Product HQ

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Are you looking for crucial technical program management skills to become a successful technical program manager? Technical program manager (TPM) roles range from mid to senior-level positions that support organizations with their product goals. They work with leaders and their own teams across organizations.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Often people stumble into the Product Management career without any Technology background. When I was at Hutchinson Telecoms, I was a Product Manager within the Marketing function. I never had to deal with developers on a day to day basis?—?the I had no idea what I was doing and how I could lead a dev team. As a tip?—?always

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Mind the Product

MARCH 7, 2017

Or “ How to Manage Software Development in Teams who Think Nothing Like you “ Product management has two diversity problems. Cultural homogeneity in product teams is dead, welcome cultural diversity. It simply doesn’t work. We’re Trapped in our Cultures. How’s that for a mini-UN?

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

It also requires product managers to engage much more directly with data scientists about models, predictability, how products work in production, how/why users interact with our products, and how our end users measure success. (Hint: most users don’t understand or care about F1-scores ; they just want to get the right answer.).

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Does your product team celebrate launching that feature they’ve spent the last three months working on and then never give it another thought until it breaks? Are you too busy to reflect on how your product team can work better together? How does a product team become a feature factory? What is a feature factory?

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Modus Create

JUNE 18, 2019

When I first attended Scrummaster training, I went in wide-eyed and excited to learn all of the secrets behind this amazing “new” agile project-management strategy called Scrum. But my employer had just paid for me to go through the training, and I was expected to help improve their development processes.

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Split

MARCH 29, 2024

A production environment in software development is the final stage where applications meet end-users. This environment plays a pivotal role in delivering new features, shaping the user experience, and driving the success of any software product. This gives clarity on this vital aspect of software development.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 13, 2018

The last of the four topics particularly caught my eye: “how do you increase the commercial acumen of product managers?”. The article suggested that “product people (especially those in Europe) are weak commercially”, which “can lead to bad assumptions, particularly in more complex environments”.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 27, 2018

Agile vs. Being Agile Agile became popular shortly after ‘The Agile Software Development Manifesto ’ was published in 2001. Blindly adopting Agile is not a guarantee that a team will be agile , as these additional Agile rules are not essential to being agile. This is why one-size-fits-all Agile solutions are a bad idea.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 24, 2021

I truly believe that our bad mental model i.e. expecting people to execute like machines is at fault here. Or those stupid project managers, they don’t get it! Management doesn’t care about engineering! As you become better at your transformation efforts and become more aware; you start seeing your weak spots.

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