Reveal

JUNE 24, 2025

Make sure your platform meets compliance standards like GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA, and SOC 2. The right self-service BI tool depends on your product goals, not just data access. It is AI-guided, context-aware, and personalized—your product strategy should align with that shift. The future of BI moves beyond self-service.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 9, 2021

Product Goals Defined. The Scrum Guide released in November 2020 states that “the product goal describes a future state of the product … [It] is the long-term objective for the Scrum team.” It also suggests that “the product goal is in the product backlog. Figure 1: The Product Goal in Context.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Traditionally, strategy and execution are often viewed as separate, sequential pieces of work that are carried out by different people. 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.

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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? Figure 1: My Product Strategy Model.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 5, 2022

Be clear on the reason why the meeting is needed. What’s the meeting about? For example, a product strategy workshop might have the objective to identify the key changes required to achieve product-market fit. Carefully consider who should participate in the meeting to achieve the objective you have set.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 9, 2021

Product Goals Defined. The Scrum Guide released in November 2020 states that “the product goal describes a future state of the product … [It] is the long-term objective for the Scrum team.” It also suggests that “the product goal is in the product backlog. Figure 1: The Product Goal in Context.

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Specific : Make the goal—a.k.a. product goal —so detailed that you can tell what needs to be roughly done to achieve it and how long it is likely to take. Measurable : Describe the goal so that you can determine if it has been met. Do not state any product details such as user stories.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

This includes a sound understanding of the market, the user and customer needs, and the competition as well as solid product management skills such as the ability to develop an effective product strategy and an actionable product roadmap (as I explain in more detail in the article The T-Shaped Product Professional ).

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

To successfully manage your product and maximise value delivery, you should use additional artefacts including the following five: An inspiring vision that describes the ultimate reason for offering the product; A validated product strategy that captures your approach to realise the vision and make the product successful.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 15, 2024

The objective is the goal, which describes what you want to achieve. The key results state the specific criteria that have to be fulfilled to meet the objective. 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. It depends.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 4, 2022

You might not know, for example, which marketing strategy is most appropriate or which sales channels are most effective. You need the stakeholders’ active contribution to progress the product and reach the product goals. Invite the individuals to product strategy review meetings and sprint reviews.

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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.

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 17, 2021

Not tied to a solution : Despite its name, I recommend keeping the product vision free from assumptions about the actual product or solution. This allows you to pivot, to change the product strategy and the product while staying grounded in your vision. Who Owns the Product Vision?

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 1, 2020

Collaboratively set goals , for example, user and business goals on the product strategy and product goals on the product roadmap. In other words, involve the key stakeholders in product discovery and product development work. Involve the Stakeholders in Important Product Decisions.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Organisational change and empowerment : Work with senior management, HR, and other business groups to implement the necessary organisational changes required to fully empower product people and leverage agile practises. Meetings : Prepare and facilitate meetings. The same is true for setting product goals.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

And, they might need to collaborate across the organization with a variety of product and portfolio leaders if the organization wants to EOL (End of Life) one product and start a new kind of business. Move between strategy and tactics and back again.) For lack of a better word, I'll call this the product strategy team.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 10, 2024

Step 2: Use the Outcome to Determine the Features With a specific, measurable, and outcome-based goal in place, determine the features that have to be delivered to meet the goal. A practical way to achieve this is to focus the product backlog on the outcome. Then determine how the product has to change to meet the goal.

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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 24, 2024

Expanding on a recent post ( Revenue Goals are Not Company Strategies ), I’ve been seeing lots of maker teams (product, engineering, design) struggling to form product strategies without a company strategy to hang them on.    There are no generic product strategies.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

I therefore recommend applying a different product roadmapping approach and using goal-oriented roadmaps , which are also called outcome-based. As their name suggests, these roadmaps focus on product goals or outcomes such as acquiring customers , increasing engagement , and future-proofing the product by removing technical debt.

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Userpilot

JULY 24, 2024

Launching a product without a well-defined product strategy framework is similar—you risk wasting resources without a clear path to success. So, how do you outline a product strategy framework that is the foundation of product-led growth ? Product strategies help you design and grow your products.

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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 6, 2022

For instance, the marketing strategy, the user experience (UX) design and technology choices have to align to successfully acquire new users, increase conversion, or meet another product goal. Involve people in product decisions. You might do this, for example, by running collaborative product strategy reviews.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 19, 2018

This second post on the methods we use at Onfido to help us think commercially and strategically looks at State of Product meetings. This meeting is an exercise in strategy, an opportunity to take stock of where your product is, where it fits within the wider market, and where it should go. Product Strategy.

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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 Innovation Educators

JUNE 19, 2023

How product managers can build trust and alignment on virtual teams Today we are talking about making virtual product teams more effective. Our guest is Anna Marie Clifton, Head of Product at Vowel. She is leading the effort to make virtual meetings more effective by turning them into searchable, sharable knowledge.

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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.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

In the product planning model above, the vision describes the ultimate purpose for creating the product; the product strategy states how the vision will be realised; and the product roadmap states how the strategy will be implemented. Now how far is Tortuga?

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 6, 2023

Cindy who helps you manage the product started to come late to meetings. It can be tempting to ignore people issues and focus on product-related tasks like reviewing the product strategy , updating the product roadmap , and refining the product backlog. But this is hardly a recipe for success.

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Product Innovation Educators

APRIL 17, 2023

He helps rapidly scaling early-stage startups craft their Product Strategy and everything related to it. He also helps middle market and scrappy companies generate new product strategies for significant, sustainable growth. 12:59] Where have you seen product teams getting pushed out of cross-functional collaboration?

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 17, 2021

Not tied to a solution : Despite its name, I recommend keeping the product vision free from assumptions about the actual product or solution. This allows you to pivot, to change the product strategy and the product while staying grounded in your vision. Who Owns the Product Vision?

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 24, 2021

For example, I have seen product teams that create OKRs around meeting with customers, and engineering teams that created OKRs around closing the tech debt. The problem with this approach is that it leaves a huge gap in the company’s ability to deliver on its top OKRs: the product itself. Is that realistic?

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

I therefore recommend applying a different product roadmapping approach and using goal-oriented roadmaps , which are also called outcome-based. As their name suggests, these roadmaps focus on product goals or outcomes such as acquiring customers , increasing engagement , and future-proofing the product by removing technical debt.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 6, 2019

We’ve taken all these findings onboard and put together this comprehensive product strategy checklist for you to follow. Simply follow the below steps and tick them off in turn to deliver the best mobile app product you can. What needs are you planning to meet through the app? What are you trying to achieve?

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 7, 2021

In practical terms, involve stakeholders and dev teams in decisions that affect the product strategy and the product roadmap —be it that you create the plans or that you make bigger changes to them. I therefore recommend using a dedicated, skilled facilitator who runs the meeting and facilitates the decision-making process.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

A big part of their job is managing the roadmap and prioritizing technical initiatives in the product backlog. Technical PMs play an important role in helping the development and product team gain a shared understanding of the product goals and technical requirements. Product vision. Product roadmap.

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Userpilot

JULY 29, 2024

to guide product teams at every stage. Top-notch products. So, which product management frameworks should your team use? In this article, we’ve outlined an extensive list to help inform your product strategy. JTBD (jobs-to-be-done) is based on the principle that people use a product to complete a specific job.

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 20, 2019

“What is it that you would actually do, now that you won’t be responsible for one product, but a portfolio of them?”. This parallels the outcomes-versus-busyness challenge for individual product managers. Stakeholders see product managers attending meetings, writing stories, presenting roadmaps or presenting shipment data.

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Userpilot

JULY 18, 2023

Fear not though, as our product management software guide will give you insights into some of the best-in-class applications that will boost your team performance and help you build successful products! Roadmapping software visualizes and plans product development over time, facilitating coordination and alignment across teams.

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