Roman Pichler

MARCH 9, 2022

It helps people understand how their work relates to a bigger whole and how their efforts create a positive change. If that’s not the case, then it will be difficult to encourage the individuals to agree to more specific goals and to follow a product strategy and a product roadmap that are based on the vision.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Organise the Team around a Product As the name suggests, a product team is focused on a product. The vision describes the ultimate purpose for creating the product and the positive change it should bring about. This sounds simple enough. Let’s take a look at them.

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 17, 2021

The product vision describes the ultimate purpose of a product, the positive change it will bring about. Not tied to a solution : Despite its name, I recommend keeping the product vision free from assumptions about the actual product or solution. Contrast this with the product strategy and the product roadmap.

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 12, 2021

We have seen many organizations in the last few years move the product group and product roles to more prominent positions, putting clearer focus on creating great products for customers. You likely already know his name, which is Todd Olson, who joined us previously in episode 185. We’re buying the roadmap.

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 29, 2020

His popular blog is also available as a podcast and both are simply named Roman Pichler. Hard skills like market research or roadmapping are important, but they’re not enough. We don’t have any positional authority or transactional power. Roman is a product management expert specializing in digital products.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 1, 2020

As its name suggests, the grid analyses the stakeholders by taking into account their power and interest; it assumes that people take a low or high interest in your product and have low or high power. Collaboratively set goals , for example, user and business goals on the product strategy and product goals on the product roadmap.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

Talk to any of the product managers, and one of the main problems they will share how difficult it is to create an achievable product roadmap. I have mentioned “achievable” in the title because, most of the time, the product team comes up with a roadmap only to realize that it’s not achievable. This could happen for multiple reasons.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 30, 2023

So either we work together to understand your objectives, call them goals if you’d like, and the outcome you are looking for from the product, or we will end the discussion, and you won’t get a committed set of work on the roadmap.” We went away from detailed, long-term, feature-committed roadmaps. I explained this many times.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 13, 2021

Then take into account the product goals on the product roadmap to discover additional KPIs. This, of course, assumes that you have a validated product strategy and a realistic product roadmap in place. To do so, I might measure market share, for instance, by tracking the product’s position in the appropriate app store.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 1, 2020

While I really appreciate this entrepreneurial aspect of our work, it can bring up tension, stress, and frustration when we are trying to progress our products towards agreed goals but are in danger of missing them, be it a sprint goal , product goal on the roadmap , or a strategic user or business goal.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 1, 2020

While I really appreciate this entrepreneurial aspect of our work, it can bring up tension, stress, and frustration when we are trying to progress our products towards agreed goals but are in danger of missing them, be it a sprint goal , product goal on the roadmap , or a strategic user or business goal.

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 10, 2021

Her name is Monika Murugesan and she is Vice President of Product Management at Sentient Energy. She focuses on portfolio roadmaps, innovation, strategy, and customer success. . Product management isn’t an easy job, because PdMs are the CEOs of the product without any positional authority.

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Mind the Product

MAY 25, 2018

From there we put together a basic roadmap and started writing user stories. The output from a product in a box game, where we imagined how we would position the product if it was on sale in a supermarket. And for that, we needed a new name… Output of one naming brainstorm. The initial vision was to.

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 22, 2024

As its name suggests, product portfolio management is the process of managing a group of products. The latter includes harmonising the strategies and roadmaps of the portfolio members, resolving dependencies, coordinating major releases (if required), as well as adding and removing products.

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Alchemer Mobile

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

If you’re ready to submit your app to the app stores next week, condense the most important elements of pre-launch into a one-week period and move the other items to your post-launch roadmap. The first step of any go-to-market strategy is to lock in a compelling positioning statement: Who is your app intended for? Launch: Go Time!

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 20, 2019

Progress is a feeling that your time and effort is actually moving you towards positive goals. Consider the name of a key artefact that product managers own: the roadmap. The roadmap literally explains “we are here” and “next we will be there, and then there”.

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Userpilot

APRIL 16, 2025

Your roadmap, now skewed by partial data, doubles down on solving the wrong problem. Early signals look positive, so you start rolling it out. Instead of feeling understood, they feel like just another name in the system. You dig in and notice a sharp drop-off among marketing-qualified leads. Personalization also breaks down.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 2, 2019

Many organizations struggle with roadmaps, finding them difficult to maintain and hardly ever coming true. They say, a roadmap in its first edition barely resembles what they get in the end. It all misleads into believing that the product roadmap is just some mumbo jumbo that has little in common with real business problems.

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Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 15, 2021

This podcast will soon be changing its name to Product Mastery Now. The logo will look the same—just the name is changing. . The role of product manager is shifting, and you can position yourself for future success if you know how it is shifting. They create the roadmaps and vision.

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Alchemer Mobile

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

If you’re ready to take your mobile app to the next level, start a 30-day free trial with Apptentive.Within a matter of days, you can start driving more positive ratings and reviews, capturing feedback, analyzing data, and using those findings to prioritize your product roadmap. Increase visibility in search results. Description.

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Vital to delivering successful products at Clickatell , an effective product roadmap can quell the confusion and missteps that often derail well-meaning product delivery organizations. Roadmaps provide the required context to understand how individual initiatives combine to meet strategic objectives.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 18, 2022

They return your phone calls, buy more licenses, leave positive reviews, etc. With finite, precious resources and an aggressive roadmap, you need to retain talent and resources passionate about both your product and your customers. It’s important to know what your competitors are doing to get a pulse of your relative positioning.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2021

Part one of this article taught you how to align a roadmap with aspirational business goals. Participants: Product Manager (required), Product Owner (required), Development Manager (required), Business stakeholders (optional) Guiding Questions: What are the highest value projects that will help realize your strategy at the end of the roadmap.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

So you have done your planning and now want to communicate your roadmap to management or to the team. Here is a template that will help you not only communicate your roadmap better but also build it the right way from the get-go. They named it after the feedback I constantly gave them on their presentations.

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Melissa Perri

APRIL 20, 2017

I once joined a B2B company as a Product Manager in the the middle of the year, so their entire product roadmap was set and in motion. So it’s easy to understand why it became the norm for salespeople today to promise the world in features just to snag that name on the dotted line. How can the product team Help?

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

FigJam generates the outcomes I’m looking for, namely teams exposing their critical thinking and collaborating with ease. There were a lot of shortcomings to Miro, but also to the position I was in at the time,” says Thomas. The roadmap feature also allows you to chart solutions and opportunities on a Now Next Later roadmap.

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 10, 2021

Her name is Monika Murugesan and she is Vice President of Product Management at Sentient Energy. She focuses on portfolio roadmaps, innovation, strategy, and customer success. . Product management isn’t an easy job, because PdMs are the CEOs of the product without any positional authority.

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Lenny Rachitsky

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Shower them with positivity. ” Company roadmaps might be linear, but customer insights from outside the building are (rightfully) a jungle. So I keep a Notion database of feedback screenshots, charts, support tickets, links to Gong calls, Slack threads, you name it. Make it clear how much you welcome that proactivity.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 24, 2021

Photo by Ono Kosuki from Pexels OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) are a useful tool for goal setting and team alignment, and in recent years they have gone from being used primarily in quantitative parts of the organization (namely sales and marketing) to being very popular in product and technology as well.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 16, 2020

The pitch went well and I was assigned a budget plus a single resource in a graduate named Venus (aka ‘the navigator’). We then identified and quantified the pain points around this core job to get our first cut and roadmap (see the process I’ve since developed here ).

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

I’ve reviewed roadmaps for hundreds of different products. I’ve participated in more roadmap review meetings than I can remember. And until now, I never thought to share the view a product leader has on roadmaps — at least publicly. When reviewing a roadmap with the product team, there are six points I always look for.

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BrainMates

MAY 26, 2025

Step 4: Summarise Competitor Strategy and Positioning Once youve gathered your data, organise it into a simple comparison table. Suggested headings include: Company name and description Product purpose and high-level functionality Price and pricing model Target market(s) Strengths and weaknesses Market strategy (e.g.

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Lenny Rachitsky

MAY 6, 2025

When you position yourself as the solution to their challenges—not just another candidate—the power dynamic shifts immediately. What’s the history behind this position? And how can I best show up for [name other team member(s)]? A: Align with their needs. Stop selling your resume. I: Influence key stakeholders.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 19, 2021

The positive impact we had on engineering was readily apparent, which led to more investment in the core technologies area. This would become evident when incident review action items wouldn’t have obvious owners, or excessive operational work began to appear on product teams’ roadmaps. Areas of ownership for Team Core Technologies.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 4, 2019

You are then happy to lose ground on certain aspects of the product while you develop a defensible position in the market. Mapping your product roadmap across the Brand Architecture Matrix. A defensible strategy is choosing one, two, three, core things you want to win on, and you focus on developing features with that in mind.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 13, 2021

Then take into account the product goals on the product roadmap to discover additional KPIs. This, of course, assumes that you have a validated product strategy and a realistic product roadmap in place. To do so, I might measure market share, for instance, by tracking the product’s position in the appropriate app store.

Feedback Software 156

Feedback Software Analytic Tools Data Visualization Research Software 156

Roman Pichler

AUGUST 17, 2021

The product vision describes the ultimate purpose of a product, the positive change it will bring about. Not tied to a solution : Despite its name, I recommend keeping the product vision free from assumptions about the actual product or solution. Contrast this with the product strategy and the product roadmap.

Vision 156

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