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. Provide guidance on the product, including its market, value proposition, business goals, and key features. Treat the Team as an Equal Partner.

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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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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The Critical Role of Product Strategy When Resources Are Limited (Part 2 — Rounds A, B, and Later) When you start selling your product, you feel great, but that doesn’t last for too long. In many cases, an economic downturn simply reveals your already existing weaknesses since they now have more impact.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Highly effective Product Managers develop themselves in 5 key areas. Highly effective Product Managers (or what I call Exponential PMs) tend to be strong in all of these areas. This is based on studying, speaking with, and coaching PMs and product leaders. Craft Competence ?? Market Competence ?????

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 12, 2023

And What You Can Do to Avoid Them Disclaimer: I don’t really believe you can ‘teach’ Product Management. That’s what I did in 2022 and doing so, I also got to dig into a lot of clients’ products. Product Managers I work with often tell me that “the purpose” has been decided by top management “a while ago”.

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Alchemer Mobile

JULY 13, 2021

A good product experience is the primary driver behind product differentiation and ultimately, lasting customer satisfaction (measured through CSAT and NPS ) and loyalty. Beforehand, make sure your team is aligned on: Their definition of product experience. The goals you hope to achieve by investing in product experience.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 13, 2020

Guest Post by: Candice Zhang (Mentee, Session 11, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Tauheed Ahmed]. When I first researched about product management, I asked seasoned product managers how they started and they gave me very different kinds of answers. Some of them are good, and some of them are bad.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 2, 2022

Every time I navigate the ocean of Product Management frameworks, we are not tackling one essential part of our role: People and Ourselves. There is a framework for almost every stage of our Product development lifecycle, but one of the only transversal things is that we need people to make things happen.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 11, 2020

NAVIGATING THE NATURAL TENSION AMONG STAKEHOLDERS This is the first in a series on product roadmaps. The first post describes why roadmaps matter and who relies upon them. The roadmap is much more than a directive document that tells teams what to do by when. Battleground The product roadmap.

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

I first heard of Bob when he was the president of Sequent Learning, the product management training company. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers [2:09] What is product strategy? Product strategy is doing that at a product level. The product strategy is still at a big-picture level.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

On this episode of Intercom on Product myself and Paul Adams, our SVP of Product, take a look at roadmapping. Knowing how and when to define a roadmap, who to include and how long to plan for are key elements to finding the balanced approach that you need. As you grow functions, the audience for your roadmap widens.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

On this episode of Intercom on Product myself and Paul Adams, our SVP of Product, take a look at roadmapping. Knowing how and when to define a roadmap, who to include and how long to plan for are key elements to finding the balanced approach that you need. As you grow functions, the audience for your roadmap widens.

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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. The initial steps of this framework took collaboration between business leadership and the product team to set a direction for development decisions. This step gets into what people think of when they ask for a roadmap.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 29, 2019

What’s a partial product manager? We’ve all met one, and many of us have been one – a partial product manager is someone who holds the product manager title, but isn’t doing the full job. It can happen really easily, because great product management encompasses a great deal and is constantly evolving.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Early in the pandemic, this led me to resent virtual meetings, especially virtual product review meetings. This particular product review meeting was a breaking point. I struggled to figure out how to run the product review meeting effectively. As a result, the team struggled with how to prepare. Why was this prioritized?”

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Alchemer Mobile

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The build vs. buy question is both one of the most common and one of the most challenging dilemmas facing product managers. In the case of software, the dilemma becomes increasingly difficult as most enterprise companies have the resources and talent in-house to build the software. It thus becomes less a matter of “Can we do it?”

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Alchemer Mobile

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The build vs. buy question is both one of the most common and one of the most challenging dilemmas facing product managers. . In the case of software, the dilemma becomes increasingly difficult as most enterprise companies have the resources and talent in-house to build the software. and more a matter of “Should we do it?”.

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Userpilot

MAY 5, 2022

What does the product management process involve? Why is it important for product managers to follow them? Product managers lead interdisciplinary product teams to deliver products that bring value to customers. Next, you define Technical Specifications and design product prototypes.

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The Product Manager Coach Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

Being a product manager requires a balance of assertiveness and diplomacy, particularly in stakeholder management. The art of saying “no” is a critical skill that, when done respectfully and decisively, can significantly contribute to the success of your product and your career.

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Userpilot

APRIL 6, 2023

Developing and releasing sophisticated products with all the bells and whistles imaginable might seem like a great idea. Overengineered products are difficult to use, filled with bugs, and instead of improving your users’ lives, they make them unnecessarily complicated. Why do developers overengineer software products?

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ProductPlan

MAY 22, 2020

.” A key insight shared by Melissa Perri, CEO of Produx Labs and author of Escaping the Build Trap during our “Getting Started with Product Ops” webinar series. It’s no secret that product management often looks different from one organization to the next. What is Product Ops, Exactly?

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 16, 2017

In the latter case, firms are faced with blending onshore and offshore resources together to work as seamlessly and as efficiently as possible. One of the biggest challenges of offshore development is of course is the time difference, but this can also be a positive factor. There is also the time difference.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

In his talk, Jason talked about how product managers can upskill to meet the challenges in their daily work and how to make sure that their organizations value their work. How to upskill as a product manager. Measuring the value of product management is difficult too. Let’s dive in! Book the demo!

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People-First Product Leadership

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Part 3 brings together the Product specific Vision, Roadmap and Goals. Product Vision puts a company’s Vision and Mission into action The Product Vision ensures the Roadmap reflects the priorities which matter the most to the company’s customers and to the company. What ground has been covered?

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 26, 2016

Each week I scour articles, wading through the dogs, and bringing you the best insights to help product managers, developers, and innovators be heroes. HBR study – team members, not leaders, more responsible for innovation. Instead, it is how team members interact and their accomplishments that drive innovation.

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Under 10 Consulting

MAY 15, 2020

Your roadmap is a plan, not a commitment . "We We allocate 100% of our resources to the roadmap. We plan to use the other 100% of our resources for special projects." — Johnson's Roadmapping Conundrum. ?. But here’s the rub: A roadmap is not a task list or project plan. The Public Roadmap.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Platforms offer several benefits: They can help grow a product portfolio faster and cheaper and they can help increase revenue. 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.

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 25, 2022

Let’s jump in with the bad news: No organization is immune to product vulnerability. However, great product leaders protect their product teams from exploiting weaknesses and vulnerabilities. Product vulnerability, defined as an exploitable glitch or flaw in a product, can happen to any product or service.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2019

Guest Post by: Merziyah Poonawala (Mentee, Session 9, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Joni Hoadley]. What do you do when your team is working their socks off and yet they are getting little credit for the work being done, mainly because the team isn’t able to set concrete expectations with the stakeholder? THE CAUSE.

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Dear Strategy

JUNE 24, 2020

Dear Strategy: “How do you balance the creation of a long-term strategic plan with the resources needed to execute it?”. Back in Episode 109 , I talked about companies that dream big but don’t back those dreams up with the resources (and the realities) that they need to make those dreams come true.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 31, 2022

When it comes to the product team’s organizational structures and strategies, product operations is the hot new thing. More and more teams realize the value of having an operationally-focused professional. The role frees up time for product managers. This insight helps build trust with other teams.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 18, 2022

Given that we have finite engineering and product resources, what is the path forward?” Should they/you evolve the features of the core value prop for existing customers or invest in and develop new value props and features for new, adjacent customer segments? Perhaps the sales team isn’t trained adequately.

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 10, 2023

It’s not sexy and won’t land the leadership team any TED Talks. How can you justify redirecting resources to tweaking the UX or integrating an API when they could spend time building the next big thing? That means doing your homework regarding market intelligence, product-market fit, technical feasibility, and the like.

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Userpilot

APRIL 25, 2022

Are you using a friction log to track and prioritize what to improve in your product? In this guide, our aim is to help savvy product managers understand what friction logs are, where you might use them, and how to create them. Not all friction is bad. Friction logs can be created by the whole team.

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 4, 2020

If you’re a product manager or part of a startup, you’ve likely heard about the Minimum Viable Product concept for getting products to market faster. In my opinion, the definition of an MVP is often misunderstood, and I’ve seen entrepreneurs and product teams misinterpret it with unfortunate results.

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

 Can the executive team?  Are For me, this is similar to the core product prioritization problem: an infinite set of demands that each individual requestor considers to be extremely important/urgent. But for calendars, the scarce resource is time rather than development capacity.  Just

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Mind the Product

MARCH 26, 2020

What does it take for an engineer to become a product manager? If you’re considering changing from engineer to product manager , you’re not alone. Product management isn’t just for business and marketing people. Product management isn’t just for business and marketing people.

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