Roman Pichler

AUGUST 11, 2020

It can also result in a large product backlog and high development cost: The greater the number of people who should benefit from your product is, the more diverse their needs are likely to be, and the more features are usually required to address them. Many Needs but No Compelling Reason for Using the Product.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 4, 2018

Recognise the Importance of Product Management. Embracing new technologies like machine learning, micro services, big data, and Internet of Things (IoT) is part of that change, as is the introduction of agile practices including cross-functional and self-organising teams, DevOps, Scrum, and Kanban.

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 22, 2024

2] Figure 2: A Sample Product Portfolio Strategy If you are familiar with my work on product strategy , you’ll recognise the structure I’ve used in Figure 2: It is based on the Product Vision Board —the tool I’ve developed to capture a product vision and a product strategy.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 1, 2020

Here is why: We routinely interact with individuals who have different perspectives, interest, and needs, such as users, customers, stakeholders , development team members. Users don’t always have the same wants and needs as customers, and the ideas of the stakeholders and dev team may diverge.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 1, 2020

Here is why: We routinely interact with individuals who have different perspectives, interest, and needs, such as users, customers, stakeholders , development team members. Users don’t always have the same wants and needs as customers, and the ideas of the stakeholders and dev team may diverge.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 29, 2024

Outcome-Driven Innovation – for Product Managers Watch on YouTube [link] TLDR Tony Ulwick, creator of Jobs-to-Be-Done, introduces Outcome-Driven Innovation (ODI), a revolutionary approach to product management. He was part of the team that created the PCjr, a product that flopped badly.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Unfortunately, the research backs this up, with a staggering 90% of users reporting that they stopped using an app due to poor performance. Poor performance includes slow loading times, complex design, confusing navigation, and unresponsive features. To assign meaning to whether the numbers are good or bad, context is crucial.

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Userpilot

APRIL 16, 2025

Your customer information lives in Salesforce, while your support tickets are in Zendesk, your product usage data in Mixpanel, and your marketing campaigns in HubSpot. It compounds quietly across every team, workflow, and decision. Multiply that across a team, and operational drag becomes a real cost. Sound familiar?

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Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 3, 2025

How AI captures customer needs that human product managers miss Watch on YouTube TLDR In my recent conversation with Carmel Dibner from Applied Marketing Science, we explored how artificial intelligence is transforming Voice of the Customer (VOC) research for product teams.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 8, 2019

Once we had a couple dozen big names, it was easy to convince the laggards. We became a so-lala product: So-Lala [zo la la] – German word for so-so or meh. The So-Lala Product epidemic. Similar stories have inspired new product and business development frameworks , thousands of articles, and numerous books.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 1, 2020

The first one carries the risk of being a feature broker and offering a product that has a weak value proposition, gives rise to a poor user experience, and consists of a loose collection of features. A stakeholder is anyone who has a stake in your product, who is affected by it, or who shows an interest in the offering.

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Product Management University

OCTOBER 19, 2023

company name] expands its AI coach language to 96, the most in the industry. company name] introduces fully integrated video that expands the power of the [company name] technology platform. Lackluster sales and/or poor adoption shouldn’t come as a surprise. For sure, but let’s not stop with the product value story.

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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 Coalition

JUNE 18, 2023

I talk about it a lot when I speak about product strategy and in the CPO Bootcamp. But recently, I find myself clarifying this even further with the very confusing term product-led growth (PLG). It’s a great model but the name is quite misleading. That’s why I named my strategic product-led growth course ‘Unboxing PLG’.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 27, 2021

The secret to acing a product management interview isn’t just knowing what questions to expect. The Most Common Product Management Interview Questions What do you see as a Product Manager’s main role within product development? What main changes would you make to [our product]?

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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. A better way is to co-create the product strategy and roadmap with the key stakeholders.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

One of my goals at Product Talk is to showcase what good product management looks like. Today, I’m excited to introduce a new series, Product in Practice, where I’ll profile product managers doing great work. To kick off the series, we interviewed Rachel Allen , Director of Product at Omnitracs.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 25, 2021

Product management requires you to master so many different skills, that there always seems to be a gap between what you do well and what you need to do well to succeed. As a manager of product people, it is your job to help them with this continuous growth, but it’s not always easy. The answer is, of course, yes?—?most

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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. Its not the exclusive domain of product managers. By the team that’s building the product.

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Product Talk

APRIL 16, 2025

But then, one day, I found myself reading Ask Your Developer by Jeff Lawson and I realized I was the one making the mistake. Dont Ask Humans to Do Tasks That Should Be Automated If you arent familiar with Ask Your Developer, its a great read. API teams need to think about onboarding just like everyone else. This got me curious.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 28, 2018

Is there a difference between developing an enterprise and a consumer product? In both cases your software product is used by humans, but an enterprise is a legal entity, while a consumer is a person. And the fact that an enterprise is a legal entity makes product management for enterprise products a little different.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Two friends share tools they learned from improv comedy to help you on your product journey By Becca Groner and Gabby Zilkha As product managers with improvisational comedy training, we’ve been surprised how often our improv skills have helped us be more effective in our roles. We hope they come in handy for you and your team.

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Mind the Product

MAY 17, 2018

Over the past year I’ve worked with hundreds of product managers in dozens of companies, and there’s been one question that has sounded like a persistent drum beat: “ What is the difference between the role of a product owner and a product manager? ”. In Scrum that person is called the product owner.

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The Secret PM Handbook

MAY 12, 2017

Product managers tell me – and the people managing product managers tell me – that one of their biggest challenges is communicating with the development team. People complain about: Developers being poorly motivated, or having a bad attitude about what you want them to build.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 19, 2019

What does it mean for us as product managers? We all use AI or machine learning (ML)-driven products almost every day, and the number of these products will be growing exponentially over the next couple of years. What does it mean for us as product managers? Imagine that you’re going to a coffee shop.

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Productside

MARCH 24, 2025

Productside | Product Management Courses & Training Refining Product-Market Fit and Scaling B2B SaaS Products Most startups dont stall because of bad ideasthey stall because they stop refining their product-market fit and what works. Takeaway: Great product managers arent just builders.

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 3, 2018

She was named a Top 100 Leadership Speaker for 2018 and is here to tell us how we can have a happier workplace. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [3:27] I was asked to lead a moving company, where the culture was really bad. If you give your team permission to say those things, they will.

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 24, 2022

A digital customer experience coupled with rapid physical product creation – insights for product managers. Today we are talking about what Andrew Wolgemuth has learned creating a unique product business called Wove. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [2:16]

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The Secret PM Handbook

MAY 12, 2017

Product managers tell me – and the people managing product managers tell me – that one of their biggest challenges is communicating with the development team. People complain about: Developers being poorly motivated, or having a bad attitude about what you want them to build.

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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 17, 2021

Half of the calls I get from CEOs include requests for Product Management to boost productivity in Engineering (aka Development aka Makers). It also signals a lack of trust between the executive team and the development organization: “how do I know I’m getting my money’s worth out of this mysterious process?

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 17, 2023

Lessons from the discoverer of Stage-Gate for product managers Today we are talking with a legend in product management. Besides his best-selling books Winning at New Products and Portfolio Management for New Products , he has published more than 130 articles on R&D and innovation management.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

If you manage AI products, the answer is probably “many”. AI product management is a unique beast that can be quite challenging, but there are ways to make it easier. Photo by Skitterphoto from Pexels In 2014, at the ProductX conference, I won second place for my presentation on time management for busy product managers.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 25, 2022

Product managers (PMs) are ninjas of aligning people, management, and processes. No product tool or template can save you if you’re not killing it in these three areas. The best product managers are in a continuous state of discovery and know that?—? neither the product nor roadmap are ever static.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 5, 2019

It’s always there, and it follows you around like a bad penny. Tech debt is all of the little things that aren’t quite right about your product behind the scenes. It’s all the workarounds that you’ve found to quickly make the product look and behave the way that it does.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

There is probably one part of the product management job we can all agree is the hardest – people. We all come to product management from different backgrounds, but one thing that has long been true and is only just starting to change, is that when we start this job our training generally consists of Googling.

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Product Management University

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

After countless conversations, articles, webinars and conference sessions, I started to feel like the profession of product management had been reduced to…. Convincing stakeholders the above supports company goals (product strategy). After hearing this, my gut reaction was OMG, the product gods are alive and well!

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 4, 2023

How product managers can navigate leadership challenges Today we are talking about four leadership motions that enable increased organizational effectiveness and productivity and alleviate organizational friction, waste, and indecision. The product piece has always been with me. These are things great leaders already do.

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