The Product Guy

MAY 15, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Dustin Levy, lead a conversation around “Product Strategies for Non-Strategists”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Vikas started his career as software developer with Siemens.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

A development team does a good job if the following three conditions are fulfilled: First, the group reliably meets the agreed sprint goals and delivers product increments that offer a great user experience and exhibit the desired software quality. Third, the team observes sustainable pace. But this would be wrong.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 13, 2021

To select the right KPIs, I recommend taking the following three steps: First, use the user and business goals in the product strategy to select an initial set of indicators. Then take into account the product goals on the product roadmap to discover additional KPIs. Then consider how you can tell if they have been met.

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Melissa Perri

JULY 23, 2024

For the past eight years, I’ve been working with C-Suite leaders at companies big and small to set up their Product Management organizations. Some of these are Fortune 10 software-enabled companies going through digital transformations. At all of them, I start understanding the current state of Product Management.

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 22, 2024

These guide and align the strategies of the portfolio members , as Figure 1 illustrates. Figure 1: The Product Portfolio and Product Strategy Using Microsoft Office as an Example In Figure 1, the strategies of the individual products—Word, PowerPoint, and Excel—implement the Office strategy.

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Arkenea

APRIL 10, 2025

In a fastmoving digital economy, many organizations leverage outsourced software product development to accelerate innovation, control costs, and tap into global expertise. Table of Contents What Is Outsourced Software Product Development? What Is Outsourced Software Product Development?

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Roman Pichler

MAY 3, 2023

This usually doesn’t require in-depth technical skills like being able to write code or understand how a specific machine learning framework is used. But you should take an interest in software technology, and you should have a basic understanding of how your product is currently built. This will not only benefit your product.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Once you’ve identified and selected a specific product, you can take the next step and determine the people who are required to create or progress it and generate the desired user and business benefits. Finally, the individual must be empowered to decide if no agreement can be reached within the product team.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

To successfully manage your product and maximise value delivery, you should use additional artefacts including the following five: An inspiring vision that describes the ultimate reason for offering the product; A validated product strategy that captures your approach to realise the vision and make the product successful.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 20, 2016

You can download the template for free from romanpichler.com/tools, and you can find more information on how to use it in my post The GO Product Roadmap. I like to use my Product Vision Board to develop a valid product strategy. This would turn your product roadmap into a feature soup, a random collection of features.

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Product Talk

MAY 14, 2025

Chi started sitting in on quarterly business reviews with top vendors. These were review sessions Chis companys account management team was already having, and they gave her the chance to ask vendors about their order volume. With the calendar year change, many of her largest clients were now focused on new company strategies.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 2, 2019

While initially, there wasn’t enough work to keep so many people busy, the development teams didn’t want to twiddle their thumbs and started writing software. This led to a bloated, over-complicated code base and a product that was difficult to adapt and expensive to maintain. 6 Employ Feature Owners and Feature Teams.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 12, 2025

Companies like Canva grew by defying industry conventions around complex, professional-focused design software making powerful design tools accessible to everyday users and businesses. Every meeting becomes a performance review rather than a space for creative problem-solving. and pursue the answers.

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 6, 2020

As it’s notoriously difficult to correctly forecast how much time a bigger piece of discovery work will require, I recommend timeboxing the product discovery work. Additionally, I recommend running weekly review sessions to understand the progress of the discovery work and adapt it if necessary. Are there any new market entrants?

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Mironov Consulting

OCTOBER 19, 2022

 (I mostly see this proposed by technical leaders who come from non-revenue development organizations – those building software for internal use by companies in another business such as banking or airlines). " Code creators own quality.*  But fixing what’s broken still belongs to whoever broke it. [2]

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Userpilot

JULY 18, 2023

It takes a fair bit of effort and time to keep up with the constant innovation in the product management software space. The tools are constantly evolving and changing their pricing plans, so it may be difficult to ensure that your product team is using the right tools and getting the best value for the money.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 13, 2021

When we talk about product strategy, we often go back to the double diamond approach: identify the problem that you need to solve, then work on creating & optimising a solution for it. There’s a similar approach to Product careers — first, we need to get the job, then we need to excel in it. [.] Quote of the Episode.

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Userpilot

JULY 29, 2024

What’s a cost-effective way to manage and grow a product ? Using software for product management. This article will examine some of the best product management software in the market. Userpilot is a top product management software that enhances user experiences by effectively monitoring user behavior.

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 12, 2024

Similarly, you would either co-create the product roadmap or discuss an initial version together with all product team members, as I explain in more detail in the article Maximising Stakeholder Buy-in to Product Strategy and Product Roadmap. [4] An effective product team, however, does not have a hierarchy.

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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 24, 2024

Expanding on a recent post ( Revenue Goals are Not Company Strategies ), I’ve been seeing lots of maker teams (product, engineering, design) struggling to form product strategies without a company strategy to hang them on.    Product management malpractice.  

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Instead of preparing perfect presentations for the boardroom, successful product managers: 1. Incorporate diverse viewpoints into product strategy 4. As organizations grow, product management roles typically become more specialized and focused on smaller components of the overall product strategy.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 13, 2021

To select the right KPIs, I recommend taking the following three steps: First, use the user and business goals in the product strategy to select an initial set of indicators. Then take into account the product goals on the product roadmap to discover additional KPIs. Then consider how you can tell if they have been met.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Productive work environment : Help set up an environment that is conducive to creative teamwork and encourage people to practice sustainable pace —to do a great job without getting overworked, losing motivation, and falling ill. Having an effective Scrum Master allows you to focus on your job—to maximise the value the product create.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 2017

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients.

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 14, 2018

If the data shows a largely flat performance over the last few months, then the product is likely to be mature. Ideally, you should continuously track the product performance and regularly review the product strategy—at least once per quarter as a rule of thumb. Finally, consider the product’s health.

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Amplitude

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Now, we’re putting all our product management software on the table to give you an inside look at our tech stack within three categories: analytics, product development, and communication. Some of these tools are for managing everyday tasks, while others are critical for making strategic product decisions. Communication.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 27, 2020

You might wonder why this is worth noting, it’s because many APIs, especially those offered by enterprises and enterprise software providers are bizarrely not this straight forward. I could see how to resolve this by writing actual code. Sample code is provided in multiple languages/technologies: json, curl, java.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Funnel tracking software can solve this problem. But with so many tools in the market, which one should you choose for product analytics ? Unlike sales funnel software, funnel-tracking tools track numerous funnels such as goal completion, conversion , and review funnels. What is a funnel-tracking software solution?

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

This leverages the team members’ creativity and expertise, creates a shared understanding, fosters collective ownership, improves the quality of the requirements, and ultimately results in better products. This mitigates the risk of discovering late that the product cannot be shipped on time or that some features were implemented incorrectly.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 18, 2021

Businesses and individuals are increasingly making SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) applications their choice software platform for their business needs. Are you an enterprise business leader or a start-up leader planning to offer your software product as a SaaS platform? Scalability: SaaS products utilize cloud platforms.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

In reality, rarely does an executive or strategy team set off on new research or a strategic direction by starting with “what’s our thinking on bugs?”. The organisation and product strategy is usually already determined by the time you’re thinking about bugs. Product Prioritisation IV. Code Reviews VI.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 8, 2018

While the three roles exercise different leadership, the people involved must effectively collaborate to achieve product success and align product strategy, roadmap, backlog, design and technology, and process decisions—without losing focus of their respective core responsibility. [1]. Lead the Product.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 7, 2021

Fireart Studio Fireart Studio is a boutique design and software development company with a headquarter in Warsaw, Poland. Fireart Studio provides a full spectrum of product development services, from MVP development to web and mobile app development. Also, the company has received many positive customer reviews on Clutch and GoodFirms.

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