Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Note that including stakeholders on the product team replaces a traditional stakeholder management approach with a much more collaborative one. The specific tasks the coach should carry out include helping the team members collaborate, for example, by using a Kanban board, facilitating meetings, and removing blockers and impediments. [2]

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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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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2024

However, product managers often face even greater challenges when navigating high-stakes situations with senior leadership or dealing with conflicting priorities across departments. These moments can be politically challenging, as they require balancing the immediate demands of stakeholders with long-term product goals.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 4, 2022

You need the stakeholders’ active contribution to progress the product and reach the product goals. As the Scrum product owner, you should therefore establish close and trustful connections with the key stakeholders, collaborate with them, and involve them in important product decisions on a regular basis.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 13, 2021

Effective KPIs help you understand if your product is creating the desired value for the users, the customers, and the business. Without KPIs, you end up guessing how well your product is performing. Then take into account the product goals on the product roadmap to discover additional KPIs. But it is not enough.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

In other words, you should have addressed the key assumptions and risks in the product strategy, and you should have carried out the necessary validation work. A tool like my product vision board helps you capture and validate your product strategy.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

I view the roadmap as a product plan that describes how you intend to implement the strategy and which specific benefits or outcomes the product should provide over the next, say, 12 months, based on the needs and business goals stated in the product strategy. I call these outcomes product goals.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

This requires full-stack ownership : having the authority to make strategic product decisions in addition to tactical ones. Consequently, a Scrum product owner should own a product in its entirety—from the product vision to the product details.

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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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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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Userpilot

OCTOBER 11, 2022

What are some good product vision examples? How is the product vision different from the company vision? What makes a great product vision? How should product managers develop effective product vision statements? Product vision development takes a few iterations.

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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. Discussion and Follow up.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Too often, the team no longer considers the product owner as a team member—even though the product owner needs to be an integrated team member. If you were on a team and someone jumped into your planning meeting and said, “We're doing x, y, z, end of discussion,” how might you react?

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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. You should therefore regularly review your plans and revise them.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 13, 2021

Effective KPIs help you understand if your product is creating the desired value for the users, the customers, and the business. Without KPIs, you end up guessing how well your product is performing. Then take into account the product goals on the product roadmap to discover additional KPIs. But it is not enough.

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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

DECEMBER 4, 2018

As the person in charge of the product, you may not be terribly concerned about how clean and well-structured the code is. The messier the code and the less modular the architecture is, the longer it takes and the more expensive it is to change your product.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 11, 2022

Chapter 1: Why Product Management in the Enterprise is different First, Ben and Blair explain what a Product Manager (PM) is. “…the To execute well a Product Manager “ harnesses incentives built into all of the other teams and aligns them toward a single destination ”, Ben and Blair describe. Establish clear metrics of success.

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Usersnap

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Asking the right product discovery questions helps uncover the deeper needs driving user behavior and expectations. Without a clear understanding of these factors, products risk failing to meet real-world demands. Exploring unmet needs and validating hypotheses helps refine product direction while avoiding costly assumptions.

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Userpilot

JULY 24, 2024

So, how do you outline a product strategy framework that is the foundation of product-led growth ? TL;DR A product strategy is an overarching plan that defines product goals and how you’ll achieve them. Product strategies help you design and grow your products. Let’s get right to it.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

The Product Owner is also accountable for effective Product Backlog management, which includes: a) Developing and explicitly communicating the Product Goal; b) Creating and clearly communicating Product Backlog items; c) Ordering Product Backlog items; and, d) Ensuring that the Product Backlog is transparent, visible and understood. (See

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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

This requires full-stack ownership : having the authority to make strategic product decisions in addition to tactical ones. Consequently, a Scrum product owner should own a product in its entirety—from the product vision to the product details.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Tech PMs work actively with product teams on the product vision and strategy. A big part of their job is managing the roadmap and prioritizing technical initiatives in the product backlog. Regular product managers are more customer-centric in their approach. Product vision. Heatmaps in Userpilot.

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Product Management University

OCTOBER 29, 2019

The trouble starts when you have multiple products that target the same exact markets and customers. Individual product goals force each product team to compete for development resources, marketing resources and mind share with the sales team – all in the interest of individual product goals.

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Userpilot

APRIL 24, 2025

In this role, you will leverage your extensive experience turning ambiguous problems into clear and actionable deliverables, aligning internal and external leaders on a shared, ambitious vision. An individual adept at owning and driving roadmap strategy and definition, with a track record of end-to-end product delivery.

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Product Management University

AUGUST 5, 2019

One set of market and business requirements from the customer’s perspective to drive all products in the portfolio accelerates that maturation process. Vision & Strategy. If you have 20 products, that equates to 20 product visions and 20 product strategies. ” Product 3 Goal: etc.

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Sequent Learning

OCTOBER 29, 2024

For product managers, this complexity means adopting a more strategic approach to ensure your product meets customer needs, aligns with organizational goals, and delivers measurable value. Product managers must ensure that the product vision aligns with the company’s broader goals.

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Userpilot

JULY 17, 2024

TL;DR Product management principles serve as the guiding core of your product. They ensure that your product abides by its basic values. But, they are different from the product vision. Use the JTBD framework and develop a product-thinking mindset for it. Your product can't have everything.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 25, 2022

To define the product vision , product managers need to take their market research results along with the company objectives and use them to outline what they want the product to be like in the future. What is product strategy? Product strategy defines how you are planning to realize the product vision.

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Userpilot

JULY 29, 2024

Product managers can collect customer data through in-app surveys and one-on-one interviews to get a better idea of JTBD. This product management framework helps tailor your product offering to meet user needs and identify new opportunities for innovation. Product team competencies. CIRCLES framework. Should-Have.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 13, 2019

After the first few weeks at the company, it was a messy situation where they were trying to be both a product and a service company. Due to constant change in direction that did not align with the company vision which caused key lead engineers and product managers to lose hope and quit the company. What happened next?

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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 24, 2024

  This is a recipe for failure: there are no generic product strategies or corporate strategies , and IMHO therefore no context-free prioritization models, metrics, or product goals.  I think of this first as an organizational and company culture question, not first as a Porter -meets-slideware-meets-research exercise. 

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Userpilot

JANUARY 6, 2023

Developing only the features that are in line with product vision also increases velocity. Regular backlog grooming and demo meetings give the team a chance to clarify what to build. They are higher-level projects that you need to achieve the product goals , called themes. What are initiatives ? Source: Jira.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

TL;DR Product managers define the overall product direction and oversee the entire product lifecycle. Their responsibilities include product discovery, developing product vision, prioritization , roadmapping , analyzing product performance and its iterative development, and leading the product team.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 5, 2021

Collaborate with other product owners, design, and engineering to bring your ideas to market through rapid iteration. Build business cases, articulate strategy, sell your vision to leadership, understand the market, analyze consumer engagement, lead your team, etc. You’ll regularly meet with your peers throughout the company.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 15, 2023

First, the process helps you ensure that your ideas are aligned with your product vision and strategic goals. Thanks to it, you avoid investing money, time, and energy in ideas that won’t help you achieve your goals. This is crucial for developing products or services that have a strong market demand.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Product managers, have you ever wondered what user story mapping is? User story mapping is a simple method for converting your vision of a product into a roadmap that allows broad team collaboration and enables your entire team to see the bigger picture, how everything connects, and how to plan the minimum viable product.

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