Roman Pichler

MARCH 9, 2021

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.” The product owner is accountable for “developing and explicitly communicating the product goal.” The entire Scrum team is “focused on one … product goal” at a time.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 11, 2016

Manage the Product, not the Team. Focus on your job as the product manager or product owner, and manage the product, not the team. Treat the Team as an Equal Partner. The team members are not your resources but the people who create your product. Assume that the team members want to do their best.

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 11, 2022

I’ve chosen quarters in the sample roadmap above, but you can use shorter time frames, of course, if you can meet your learning goals more quickly. The fourth and final line states how you intend to meet the learning goals. This can help you tie individual learning goals to team and department goals.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

” But do not allow people to dominate and tell you what to do, and don’t agree to a weak compromise. Consequently, a Scrum product owner should own a product in its entirety—from the product vision to the product details. Myth #3: The product owner is responsible for the team performance.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 19, 2017

I wasn’t in that meeting, but I think it’s because…”. Managing the “Shadow Product Team”. Responsibility for defining the roadmap may officially rest with the product team, but there are others in the organization who can directly influence it. “Oh, it’s for a big deal of Laura’s which she expects to close this quarter…”.

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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 4, 2023

My intention with this article is to show how product teams can use a product strategy to guide their discovery work and maximise the chances of creating successful products. Encourage teams to start with outcomes—business and user/customer benefits—rather than outputs—features and deliverables.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] 1 Complement Scrum with a Product Discovery and Strategy Process Scrum is a simple framework that helps teams develop successful products. Continue the discovery and strategy work while the product is being developed. But don’t stop there.

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The Product Guy

MAY 7, 2020

Hence it is critical that one is aware of the best practises of the role and develops his own philosophy which results into maximum positive leverage for the organization. As I strive towards becoming a product leader, I wanted to understand the best practises in product management and in the process develop my own product philosophy. .

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 18, 2019

At Latin American travel technology company Almundo , we believe that leaders are responsible for the people, whether that is via one-on-one meetings, career opportunities, company culture, or employee satisfaction. So, it was natural that we should want to develop a talent growth plan for our people. Team execution and development.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

It’s also essential to creating a team where great people want to work. In a perfect product development world, communications are seamless, specifications are clear, and product and engineering teams work together without friction. These are team goals that get shared across the company. Share Leadership and Credit.

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Amplitude

JANUARY 23, 2018

As VP of Product at Amplitude, I get the opportunity to work with hundreds of different products teams every year?—?ranging So in the mode of Ben Horowitz’s classic essay Good PM/Bad PM , I’ve captured my thoughts on what I believe makes a good product team vs a bad product team. PM, Design and Engineering?—?are

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 3, 2018

At the same time, it offers you, the person in charge of the product, the necessary context to make the right strategic product decisions, for example, the market your product should serve and the business goals it should meet. What is the company’s vision? It is therefore a key input for any product discovery work.

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Sequent Learning

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Strategic Product Management: Sunset Decisions, Platform Benefits, and Team Structures Introduction Strategic decisions around product lifecycle management, platform integration, and team structures are critical for product managers in established tech companies.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 8, 2024

It can be hard to reach the required level of buy-in without using design-by-committee , brokering a weak compromise, and agreeing on the smallest common denominator—which is hardly the foundation of a successful product. This approach makes it easier to reach unanimity and consent without making weak compromises.

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

9:00] Who is responsible for developing product strategy? I’m a big proponent of developing strategy with a team, but there does need to be one person accountable for it. As long as there’s a process where product managers are responsible for developing strategy, a negotiation will happen.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 14, 2017

The developers sitting nearby just watched the show for the first time, but after a while they stood up to join the party one by one. Soon the whole team was standing behind the designer’s screen shouting new ideas and tips about the layout, the colors, the icons, the fonts and everything else. What to expect from a design team?

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

The latter would work with one or more development teams to get the specification implemented. During the development phase, the product manager would be only loosely involved, typically attending a project steering meeting and possibly issuing change requests.

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 12, 2023

First, how can product managers establish processes to enable their teams to succeed? Processes include forums to sync with different members of your team and other teams, forums to get leadership alignment, ensuring high quality of deliverables, and OKR planning. 6:10] Tell us more about processes to help our teams succeed.

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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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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 15, 2023

What are the benefits the product should generate for the company developing and providing it? A handy tool to capture your answers and describe the product strategy is my Product Vision Board shown in the picture below. It consequently fails to align everyone involved in developing and providing the product.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 27, 2018

Use a simple product statement to align your team and meet your goals. It’s also a good bet that people on your product team, and most certainly in your organization outside the core team, have different understandings of what the product is about. The tool that brings order to the chaos is vision.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 23, 2020

The Product Group helps young product people develop ways to maximize their learning; during a time when a young product person is way outside of their comfort zone. Going through the early stages of being a PM with a mentor, have helped me get the most out of being outside my comfort zone, by introducing zone of proximal development.

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 18, 2024

We covered how to manage messy opportunity solution trees , the most common challenges teams face when getting started with the discovery habits, what Im working on next, and so much more. Discovery is a team sport. I did classic web development before there were frameworks back in the ’90s. I hate definition wars.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

1] Figure 1: An Empowerment Model for Product People and Teams Level one represents the authority to decide how features are detailed and guide their implementation. Level three, finally, allows product people and teams to develop the product strategy including the value proposition and business goals.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

If the teams developing the different apps all created their own user-interface layers, there would be considerable code duplication, added development costs, and increased development time. After all, a platform exists to help teams build better products faster and cheaper. Assign a Platform Owner.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 9, 2019

The challenge to the product managers is to translate these into a more functional plan for our engineering team. We perceive strategy from the management as the gospel – Usually the opposite, a good leadership team usually expects the individual contributors to provide iterative feedback. Simple task, right? First Attempt.

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UserVoice

JULY 28, 2017

What it is: Asana is a versatile task management solution that allows you to manage both personal and team projects. What it does well: With a slogan like “Teamwork without email,” Asana is just that, a good collaboration tool for your team that is intended to reduce the number of back and forth emails about what needs to be done and when.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 28, 2017

Here are some of the essentials that I ensure I have before even meeting a stakeholder: Know who Your Stakeholders are. The Vision as a Tool. The outcomes should be clear in the vision you have, as we saw above. It’s simply not good enough to just feel or think that something is a good or a bad idea. Bullet dodged!

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

But you can’t accomplish it on your own and rely on the development team and stakeholders. The development team and stakeholders then use these goals to determine the work they have to do—be it creating a marketing strategy, investigating a new technology, or preparing the distribution channels.

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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 4, 2018

To understand if and to what extent your product is affected by technical debt, talk to the development team, for example, in the next sprint retrospective. I find that development team members usually have a good understanding where issues in the architecture and code are.

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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. Development. Product Definition.

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UX Studio: Product Management

MARCH 28, 2022

If you want to know what the culture is like in a product team, you should visit one of their product meetings. The way they do the meeting will tell you everything. Who speaks at the meeting? Do they talk about tasks and deadlines or blurry visions about the future? How were we developing our teams?

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svpg

MAY 2, 2016

Exactly a year ago I was invited to give a keynote at the Craft Conference in Budapest and I discussed the 10 biggest reasons why product teams fail. So it inspired me to think hard about the most important characteristics of very strong product teams, and I forced myself to pick what I consider the ten most important.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 25, 2019

You may be limiting your ability to meet customer needs because of an unconscious bias across your organization. It can happen in any team, even in teams with a commitment to diversity. We had completed a round of interviews and I wanted her to work on my team. Next, diverse teams get better outcomes.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 21, 2019

As product managers our job description is pretty simple: to make all of our software development projects succeed. In fact, I would go so far as to say any failures or successes of the team are failures or successes of product management. Without defining success, it is quite likely the team may work towards different objectives.

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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 and company vision overlap in single-product organizations.

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UX Planet

MARCH 29, 2025

There may be times when you question yourself, or someone on your team wonders, Why are we doing it this way? In any case, hang around because well go over why UX design strategy is crucial, how to create one, and what the problems arefor you, your team, and, most importantly, your customers. Heres the thingyoudo.

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