Roman Pichler

JANUARY 20, 2025

If extended product teams own the product strategies, whats the role of the head of product , also called Chief Product Officer and Director/VP of Product Management, in making strategic decisions ? First, as a coach who offers strategy and leadership guidance to the person in charge of the product.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 10, 2022

She cofounded the Radical Product Thinking movement of leaders creating vision-driven change, along with authoring the book Radical Product Thinking: The New Mindset for Innovating Smarter. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [1:56] 1:56] What put you on the path to being a product leader?

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Mastering the craft of product management is no easy task. I instead define a product manager as driving the vision, strategy, design, and execution of their product. It's equally important for product managers to think about each of these four dimensions as having a concrete set of deliverables.

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The Product Guy

JUNE 25, 2024

In product management, where data and features often take the spotlight, the power of storytelling is sometimes underestimated. Yet, it is this very skill that can elevate a product from a mere concept to an inspiring vision. Craft a Compelling Vision : Articulate a clear and inspiring vision for your product.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 5, 2022

For example, a product strategy workshop might have the objective to identify the key changes required to achieve product-market fit. Contrast this with a sprint review meeting , which might help you determine if users can easily sign up for the product. What’s the meeting about? Which outcome do you want to achieve?

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 3, 2017

In working at Seedcamp and helping over 100 startups understand product thinking, Taylor Wescoatt has learned some valuable lessons he’d like to share, together with some real-world examples to drive the point home! It takes a while to reach that fit to the point that you can optimize business and product strategy independently!

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Vikas Batra, lead a conversation around “Emotional Intelligence for Product Managers”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Ladislav Bartos Product Manager, Gumtree.com.

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The Product Guy

JUNE 20, 2019

As the first and most senior PM, I recognized the need to clarify vision, formalize processes, and set a proactive agenda moving forward. The founders have filled the role of product manager since the company was conceived and it is difficult for them to hand that management over. Start at the Top.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 13, 2022

If only books on product management had labels that say “pre-PMF” or “post-PMF”. Here are 10 great product books on pre-product market fit (pre-PMF)! ?? Plan your product: “story mapping” (Nielsen Norman Group) Often teams rely on lengthy requirements documents to move from a vision to a product.

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Product Management University

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Since this entire series of articles is about the ripple effect of product management, there’s a good chance the content for your product positioning (post 7 of 10), sales enablement tools (post 8 of 10) and marketing launch activities was created in a silo in product management long before the product or feature set was ever built (posts 4-6).

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 13, 2020

How marketing and product management work together. Turns out if you ask 50 different people what marketing is, you’ll hear 50 different answers. That is what our guest did to investigate what people think about marketing and how it fits into the work product managers do.

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Mind the Product

MAY 15, 2017

In Josh’s Product Tank NYC presentation, he explains his evolution as a product manager. His roles over the last 15 years have started with engineering and architecture, and moved on from there to product management, and now he oversees product, but also data science, engineering, and UI/UX teams.

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Product Management University

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Here’s why a portfolio vision is so critical to the success of your products and how it elevates Product Management, Product Marketing, Sales and Customer Success teams to plan and execute more strategically. That’s why it’s referred to as your North Star. It never changes!

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Arkenea

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

But, it’s usually challenging to assess what’s the right way to go about it – how much of iteration should be that from user feedback versus founder’s vision for the product? We asked some of the industry experts about how do they merge both the aspects and finalize the features of the product.

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Product Management University

JANUARY 13, 2020

A lot of people think solutions marketing is just a fancy term for product marketing, especially since the term solution has been so overused. In a product marketing model, products are the star. In a solutions marketing model, the star is the buyer’s vision for success. Here’s the deal.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

And yet, useful improvements do not always add up to the desired results , especially when growth is a problem and the market is saturated with similar solutions. In this article, I talk about spotlight vision, when and how to switch focus, and provide six research ideas to consider when ready to broaden the view.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 31, 2022

If you are on the journey toward product-market fit, you know it’s not easy. Every new product has its own fit to find. One of the hardest challenges of any product and any startup is of course reaching product-market fit. product-market fit under the hood. So here it is?—?product-market

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Product Management University

JULY 23, 2020

It’s not a way to do product management. It’s not how you do product marketing or sales. There is, however, one critical part of product management that got lost in the shuffle! The Critical Part of Product Management That Got Lost. Is Agile Ruining Your Product? But that’s it!

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Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 15, 2021

The skills product managers need in a changing environment. This podcast will soon be changing its name to Product Mastery Now. You don’t need to do anything to keep listening, but it will show in your podcast player not as The Everyday Innovator but as Product Mastery Now. They create the roadmaps and vision.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Guest Post by: Julian Dunn (Mentee, Session 6, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Vikas Batra]. I became a product manager because I wanted to take a more strategic role at my company. Thus, I arrived at the Product Mentor program with ambitions to learn strategy development from a seasoned product mentor.

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Userpilot

MAY 30, 2024

Overlapping responsibilities and conflicting priorities are just a couple of the many friction points between product managers and product marketing managers – leading to inefficient workflows and potential product failures. Product managers focus on building the right product.

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Product Management University

JUNE 21, 2021

If you’re waiting for someone to crown your product management team the kings and queens of strategic direction, you better get a nice comfy chair with all the reclining, heating and massaging accoutrements because you’re in for a long wait! Here’s the thing about product management though.

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Sequent Learning

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Achieving and Scaling Product-Market Fit: A Guide for Product Managers in Mid-to-Large Tech Companies Introduction As product managers in mid-to-large technology companies, you’re no stranger to the challenges of maintaining and scaling product-market fit (PMF).

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 13, 2021

Product strategy is one of the most important tasks of the product leader, and definitely one of the hardest things to do. In the effort to bring the company’s vision into reality, the details matter, often more than the innovation and completeness of the vision itself.

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Product Management University

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

B2B Product Manager September 2021. The highest performing product management teams know the market as well or better than they know their products. A regular cadence of job rotation is an easy way to keep the product management cupboard stocked with market expertise. In This Issue.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 24, 2020

What is each flavour of product manager responsible for? In my previous post, I introduced the four different flavours of product manager, depicted by the PM quadrants matrix. What are the four flavours of product manager? It’s a non-negotiable for me, that a product manager must have emotional intelligence.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 5, 2020

A platform owner who manages a platform as a collection of shared software assets. The SAFe product owner who owns the product details. A portfolio owner who manages a group of (related) products. The strategic product responsibilities are taken on by another role, the SAFe product manager.

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Alchemer Mobile

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Our new guide, Five Hard Questions for Mobile Product Managers , covers tough questions product leaders should ask themselves, especially through a mobile lens. If you’re aiming to push yourself and your product to the next level, analyzing yourself is the best place to start! Question #1: Am I the CEO of the product?

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Product Management University

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

This guide to portfolio product management and marketing answers the following seven questions. What is Portfolio Product Management and How Does It Differ From Traditional Product Management? What are the Core Principles of Portfolio Product Management? Vertical Market Segmentation.

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 26, 2023

Why product managers need to understand customers’ needs We have had a lot of valuable guests on this podcast, and one of my favorites is Ken Gray. He has also been a long-time supporter of the University of Iowa Institute for Vision Research, which is creating cures and solutions everyone can afford for vision diseases.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 5, 2023

Credit: Alex Padurariu Early-stage Product Managers, you’ve been lied to. You can regain focus with the Product Management Yin and Yang. If you’re a product manager (PM) you’re maybe juggling with 10 things. If your customers pull your product so hard that you can’t catch up with demand. My focus? ?

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 20, 2020

How product managers can use the Planning Canvas to go from an idea to making money. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [2:16] Product management should take a back seat to development. Again, product management is less involved than development. [17:41]

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Product Management University

OCTOBER 20, 2020

The B2B Product Manager October 2020. The product led growth model is gaining tremendous momentum. This month we look at the impact on product management and product marketing. As most companies deal with leaner sales pipelines, your product demos are even more critical to making the shortlist.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 9, 2021

All Product Roles Are Not Alike Photo by Lennart Nacke on Unsplash My first gig as a Product Manager was in a Startup. The Product I worked on did not exist. We started from two half-baked basic Computer Vision algorithms to objects. To top it off, I had no real Product Manager experience.

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Lenny Rachitsky

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

Raaz was one of the first five employees at Wiz, joining as the first product manager, and helped the team pivot to what may be the most intense PMF in history. Before Wiz, Raaz led security products at Microsoft, including Azure Sentinel. Dive into the role, listen to experts, and figure things out as you go.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 3, 2023

How established organizations can overcome barriers to digital transformation – for product managers Today we are exploring digital transformation in large organizations as well as other challenges leaders are facing in a digitally transforming business environment. There’s a tension between the external and the internal.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Product managers come in different shapes and sizes (i.e., However, if there’s one skill that is common to all product managers, it’s continuous market monitoring and research. That’s where a market requirements document comes into play. That’s where a market requirements document comes into play.

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