Roman Pichler

MAY 5, 2020

As its name suggests, a product owner in Scrum is in charge of a product. Note that the choice of the name is intentional. The other product people involved should have roles whose names correctly reflect their scope of ownership, as I discuss below. Scrum Product Owner.

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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

It compounds quietly across every team, workflow, and decision. When data collection is messy, product managers lose visibility, teams waste hours chasing answers, and user experience suffers. This is where tools like Userpilot come in, providing product teams with comprehensive analytics that bridge these dangerous data gaps.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 13, 2020

ML products also require us to manage relatively large technology risks – this is an area where, unlike in most other product development, technical limitations might render the entire design impossible. Resolution Bot is a product that automatically answers the repetitive questions faced by customer support teams. Key takeaways.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 18, 2023

It’s a great model but the name is quite misleading. That’s why I named my strategic product-led growth course ‘Unboxing PLG’. Today I want to give you a sneak peek into this understanding, by talking about common misinterpretations of the name PLG, which could lead you to wrong expectations as to what you are entering yourself into.

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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. But do not accept inappropriate behaviour and do not allow people to treat you like a project manager, team lead, or personal assistant.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 12, 2021

As a support leader, you already know how important it is to take care of your customers – but it’s just as important to take care of your support team. Here’s why human support is so crucial for any customer-centric organization, and how it can have a significant impact on your team, your business, and your customers. Here’s why.

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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. However, these early efforts faced significant limitations.

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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. Similar stories have inspired new product and business development frameworks , thousands of articles, and numerous books. Companies simply ship too many poor products and features. Enter Lean Customer Development. The So-Lala Product epidemic.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 5, 2022

For product strategy and roadmap meetings, I recommend involving the key stakeholders , for example, someone from sales, marketing, support, and finance, as well as development team representatives—ideally members who know about the user experience (UX), architecture, and technologies. State objective and agenda. Close the meeting.

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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 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. The intent of that design and development changes a lot.

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Product Talk

APRIL 9, 2025

Last week, I shared that we often get asked, Do API teams need to do discovery ? Today, Ill be covering the most common usability issues that arise when developers start working with a new API. If we can make it as easy as possible for developers to adopt and get value from our API products, we can often acquire a customer for life.

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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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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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Roman Pichler

JULY 20, 2016

To help you develop your agile product roadmap, I have created a goal-oriented roadmap template called the GO Product Roadmap. It is built on the idea that goals are more important than features, and it consists of five elements: date, name, goal, features, and metrics, as the picture below shows. 2 Do the Necessary Prep Work.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 13, 2019

As the head of our Support Ops team, I work daily with my teammates to develop automated solutions that don’t frustrate customers, but empower them. They can also route customer conversations to the team best equipped to handle their questions and can even provide answers to simple customer questions like, “How can I add more users?”.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 9, 2021

All you need is a company providing React Native services and an outstanding team of developers who know exactly what they’re doing. Before you start planning your budget, let’s see why Uber is so popular and discuss what you need to develop a React Native app like it. yeah, don’t forget to develop a version for drivers.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 26, 2022

In today’s modern age, support teams simply need to redefine what being “personal” means. But with the development of automation, like bots and contextual help content, we’ve significantly changed our perception of what being personal means. If your team is pondering whether to use “bots versus humans?” What will they choose?

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 4, 2022

In developing live streaming digital solutions for years, we’ve collected quite a massive of valuable insights, industry challenges, app feature trends, and development key points that will help you pave the way to building a demanded high-quality streaming platform. Its market share is projected to reach $534.37

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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. Everyones chasing the next AI feature or untapped market. Theyre problem-solvers. Zero In on the Problem.

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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. I was asked to lead a moving company, where the culture was really bad. There’s also a litmus test to help someone get a sense of where a team is. If you give your team permission to say those things, they will.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 29, 2024

He was part of the team that created the PCjr, a product that flopped badly. Even better, if these criteria stayed the same over time, we could use them to guide long-term product development. They help team members understand how to use the data effectively. Tony also has 12 patents to his name.

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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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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). This reflects confusion about what product managers do (and how we really add value), and often poor role definition where product managers are also project/program managers or engineering leads.

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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. Or as we think we are. and “What?”

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 21, 2020

Text introduces us to each app, starting with its name, and text guides us to how apps work and what value they provide, from instructions and inputs to settings and disclaimers. If it’s one of the most common elements in our designs, why is it so often the last thing most teams focus on – if they focus on it at all? of the screen.

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Atlassian

JANUARY 28, 2022

It also shortchanges your team by denying them opportunities for professional growth. That means they’re missing out on the tremendous value and opportunities that delegating would provide to them and to their team members. When you fail to delegate, you’re not only cheating yourself, you’re cheating your team. 5-second summary.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 4, 2018

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. Determine the Right Learning and Development Measures.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 4, 2019

More recently, however, I’ve realized that the technology industry at large struggles with such clarity and consistency – in marketing terms, there is often a difficulty developing a clear value proposition that aligns with product and brand identity. 1 Poor definition of value proposition and feature focus. 2 First-mover disadvantage.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

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. This helps align the stakeholders and development teams, as I discuss below, and acquire a budget if required. Actionable.

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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 Culture

APRIL 30, 2025

Value Stream organizations are designed to overcome the weaknesses of Functional and Matrix orgs. Cross-functional teams report directly to a general manager in charge of a product line or market segment, shortening communication lines and making it clear who sets priorities. Ignore the power players on other teams at your own risk.

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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. Or as we think we are. and “What?”

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 17, 2023

Our guest is Dr. Robert Cooper, who discovered the now famous Stage-Gate process and was named the “World’s Top Innovation Management Scholar” by the prestigious Journal of Product Innovation Management. Show the customer something in the first three weeks of development and repeat every four weeks. ” – Bob Cooper Thanks!

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Or “We saw that you look at a lot of [Metro stations] when you use [Our App Name Here]. Now, you can get directions to [these Metro stations] faster in [Our App Name Here] because we’ve added directions from [Maps App X]. Which message is more effective? Our app is now integrated with [Maps App X]”? You may buy this ebook at [link].

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