Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Before I discuss how you can help an underachieving team, let’s briefly explore what good performance looks like, assuming that an agile, Scrum-based process is used. Second, the team participates in continuous discovery and strategizing , and its members regularly help refine the product backlog. What is Bad Performance?

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Before the advent of agile frameworks like Scrum , a product person—the product manager—would typically carry out the market research, compile a market requirements specification, create a business case, put together product roadmap, write a requirements specification, and then hand it off to a project manager.

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Melissa Perri

JUNE 29, 2017

“What is the difference between a Product Owner and a Product Manager?”. Let’s look at where these terms and disciplines originated from and how some common frameworks explain them. Honestly, I did very little of what I teach as Product Management now either. I liked this name. I’m confused.”

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 25, 2022

Learn how to better understand, nurture, and convert leads with the Intercom integration with HubSpot. A great customer relationship management (CRM) platform is at the core of every marketing and sales team’s tech stack. Our customers recognize the Intercom name and are reassured they will always get the right help.”.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The eternal debate: product manager vs. project manager. In this article, we’re going to unpack the day-to-day activities of a product and project manager, describe the key areas of overlap and differences between these distinct roles, and, most importantly, cover how they can work together effectively.

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 6, 2020

What is Product Discovery? Product discovery describes the activities required to determine if and why a product should be developed and offered. This increases the chances of creating a product that users actually want and need and achieving product success. What makes the product stand out?

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

Be Prepared to Look after People, Not Products. When you become a head of product, you move into a line management position. Consequently, your focus shifts from managing a product to looking after the product people on your team and empowering them to do a great job.

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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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Userpilot

JULY 17, 2023

How to choose the right product team structure for your SaaS? We also look at: Responsibilities of product teams Key roles you may want to include Different ways to structure your team Examples of different structures Let’s get right to it! In structure by metrics, different teams work to improve different KPIs.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 9, 2019

Organise Around Products. In order to grow your product management team, start by reviewing your product portfolio. Once you’ve identified the products, determine the skills required to manage each asset. Determine How Many People are Needed. Do common product discovery and strategy practices exist?

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Roman Pichler

JULY 9, 2019

Organise Around Products. In order to grow your product management team, start by reviewing your product portfolio. Once you’ve identified the products, determine the skills required to manage each asset. Determine How Many People are Needed. Do common product discovery and strategy practices exist?

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 15, 2023

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] 1 No Strategy The first and most crucial mistake is to have no product strategy at all. When that’s the case, a product is usually progressed based on the features requested by the users and stakeholders. Take a productivity tools suite like Microsoft Office or Google Workspace.

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Product Innovation Educators

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Hershey chocolate company’s InnovationOps story I am interviewing speakers at my favorite annual conference for product managers, the PDMA Inspire Innovation Conference. This episode is sponsored by PDMA, the Product Development and Management Association. Learn more about them at PDMA.org.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Before the advent of agile frameworks like Scrum , a product person—the product manager—would typically carry out the market research, compile a market requirements specification, create a business case, put together product roadmap, write a requirements specification, and then hand it off to a project manager.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 6, 2023

We asked product leaders how they lead daily standup activities. By Tremis Skeete , for Product Coalition Daily standups — the daily meetings product team members are either excited about or quietly dread. What work and/or research will you do today? Are there blockers preventing your work?

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Lenny Rachitsky

APRIL 9, 2024

Each week I tackle reader questions about building product, driving growth, and accelerating your career. What it is: Work alongside me to learn how I do what I do, share your unique knowledge with the world (through guest posts), and jump-start (or simply explore) a newsletter/podcast career.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

How product management teams can make better innovation decisions I am interviewing speakers at my favorite annual conference for product managers, the PDMA Inspire Innovation Conference. David has more than two decades of portfolio and innovation management experience. Learn more about them at PDMA.org.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

If you’re a product or project manager, an account person, or leader who finds themself in a facilitation role, this exercise is one you’ll want to add to the agenda. Think of them as deadlines or windows by which you’d like to see work completed (e.g., You know that really long follow-up email that goes out after most meetings?

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 19, 2023

In product management, prioritization is the compass that guides teams towards their ultimate goal: delivering a product that pays off and truly resonates with their audience. It’s the practical tool that helps managers navigate the complex path of development. What is a backlog? No focus equals no success.

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Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 18, 2024

Product management insights from medical innovations Today we are talking about product management and innovation of medical products. You’ll learn where insights for new or improved products come from and the pitfalls to avoid in getting products launched. It was not very comfortable or safe.

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CardBoard

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Product Development. As a product owner, you’re in the thick of it all. Balancing requirements, managing deadlines, and aligning stakeholder expectations are just a part of your daily routine. Players pack closely together with their heads down and attempt to gain possession of the ball. What a wild ride.

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Product Talk

APRIL 8, 2020

Welcome to the latest installment of Product in Practice! For this post, we spoke with a product team from Simply Business about some of the major lessons they’ve learned since adopting continuous discovery habits like interviewing their customers, questioning their assumptions , and using the opportunity solution tree to guide their work.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Plus, your work environment is always changing, so you’ll constantly need to adapt to your current settings and stakeholders. If your sales team isn’t bought in, for example, they won’t want to sell your new product or feature. A Critical Lesson in the Importance of Showing Your Work. Tweet This.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 5, 2024

Challenging an emerging myth that Agile is dead, and providing insight on key principles & tactics to finding success with Agile-based product teams. Nowadays it seems to have an opinion of Agile product methods like Scrum. Any method with gains like that is clearly alive and well. People are by far the messiest variable.

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Product Talk

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

One of the primary benefits of working in a product trio is we reduce the hand-offs between functional roles. It’s no wonder we end up with software that doesn’t work for our customers. Good discovery establishes a direct communication line between the team who is building the product and the customer. Tweet This. .

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UX Studio: Product Management

MARCH 5, 2024

In this article, we’ll share reasons causing capacity issues, how our agency can support these challenges, and why we can successfully handle these collaborations. What can cause capacity challenges, and how can we help? How can we help solve these situations? Our agency is working with clients from all over the world.

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 10, 2022

How product managers can support serial innovators. Today we are talking about being a serial innovator and how that can greatly improve the innovation results of an organization. Before moving to consulting, she was in brand management at Unilever, working with the Dove brand.

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Userpilot

JULY 30, 2021

What exactly is the product manager role? And the role of a product manager can vary drastically depending on the type of product manager. That’s why we’ve put together a comprehensive post on everything you need to know about the product manager role, including: Responsibilities of a product manager.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 30, 2023

This was the third conversation we were having about the product, an app that served our own company along with external customers. And we all know that internal customers take more work to manage. That’s how budgets were constructed up until this year. But it’s not like we shut the product down. We were at odds.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 29, 2023

Product management is equal parts art and science – and it’s vital to the success of your SaaS. TL;DR Product management describes the continual process of overseeing the development of a product across its entire lifecycle. Product teams are staffed with various skilled professionals.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

A Tale of Two Products. I once worked with a telco company that was developing a brand-new commercial product. Product management and development were located at separate sites in different countries. But this didn’t seem to matter much as everybody was in great spirits and had high hopes for the new product.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

A Tale of Two Products. I once worked with a telco company that was developing a brand-new commercial product. Product management and development were located at separate sites in different countries. But this didn’t seem to matter much as everybody was in great spirits and had high hopes for the new product.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

In this series, I look at what I wish I had known when I started as Head of Product… Summary Understanding strategy allows you to effectively delegate, motivate and align so you can move from a nice boss to an effective leader. There’s no separate ‘product strategy’ from company strategy?—?strategy Poor strategy is everywhere?

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

This is a free sample story from my book The Making of Product Managers. Negar studied marketing in university and later worked as a Marketing Executive at a professional association. Then she decided to acquire technical skills in web development to get closer to the product development process.

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Product Innovation Educators

APRIL 26, 2021

How product managers can benefit from Scrum for joyful, prosperous, and sustainable work. The move to remote work last year impacted how teams work, including their use of Scrum. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [1:55] million certifications.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

It also integrates with other tools in your business’s tech stack so you can work seamlessly with other customer-facing teams – like marketing, sales, and product – to help, delight, and retain customers all from one inbox. Below, we’ll share everything you need to future-proof your tech stack for the new conversational support era.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 7, 2021

Complex and high-impact decisions, however, are best made together with the stakeholders and development teams. There are two reasons for this: First, you usually require people’s expertise to help you tackle complex issues, for instance, to understand technical risks or the impact on the ability to market and sell the product.

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