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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Userpilot

JUNE 30, 2022

While everyone talks about product-market fit, finding product-customer fit is equally important when it comes to engaging the right customers and driving success. You’ve achieved product customer fit when your product and its functionality help the user get their job done in the easiest and fastest way.

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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 HQ

MAY 10, 2024

Startup Product managers are in charge of setting up the foundation for product management at a new company. Since product development is such a lucrative field, this is a crucial role for the company. According to Airfocus , an optimized product manager boosts profitability and sales, by 34.2

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Userpilot

JANUARY 16, 2024

From analyzing market trends to churning user needs and technical feasibility into golden product ideas, there are many benefits of ChatGPT for product managers. A potent tool, ChatGPT has proven to be a strategic addition to the product management toolkit, churning out ideas in even the most unlikely scenarios.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 8, 2022

Because scribes display more diligence and industry than printers.” Source: Wikipedia Gutenberg’s Entrepreneurial Journey Under these conditions, imagine how hard it was to launch a world-changing product. Too many potential investors, Gutenberg’s plan to build on technology more than a thousand years old lacked imagination.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 6, 2019

Working as a product manager can be a busy, unpredictable and octopus-like existence. Bringing team members together, organizing user research, product demos, road mapping and more. If you’re a mobile app product manager there’s a whole additional layer of complexity to add to that cake.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 13, 2023

How do you develop a robust UX strategy? We also look at: What a UX design strategy is Why it’s important Its core principles and elements A practical example of a company with well-established UX strategies Let’s dive right in! Start designing your strategy by clarifying the business goals.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

The Product Leadership Conundrum. As the person in charge of a product, you are responsible for achieving product success. But you can’t accomplish it on your own and rely on the development team and stakeholders. Their contributions are vital to design, implement, provide, and support a successful product.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 14, 2019

We all treat our products with care, respect, and diligence. We agonise over decisions and strategic direction, we think deeply about product direction, we care about the experience our customers get and the impact we have on our businesses. This kind of serendipity is not a viable career strategy! Find a Mentor.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2023

If you do things that are purposeful, you’ll eventually be successful.” — Howard Schultz Several years ago, I found myself in a heated discussion about product roadmaps with a client. This exchange unfolded over weak, black coffee in your typical, bland white-walled corporate conference room. That’s simply a byproduct.

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 10, 2023

When plotting out our product’s trajectory, there’s a constant tension between two competing mindsets. Where charismatic leaders rally the troops around an ambitious vision with a massive potential payoff. Meanwhile, the slow, steady drumbeat of cautious experimentation and incremental enhancements always makes the product better.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Time management remains an essential theme for product teams because there aren’t enough hours in the day. Hence the need to have young and innovative minds who follow the trends of the industry to come up with these strategic thoughts while the senior leaders review and align it with the organization’s business goals.”.

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Sachin Rekhi

JUNE 25, 2017

I've organized this collection into several sections, starting with product management 101. I then break down the resources into the way I think about what a product manager does, which is drive the vision, strategy, design, and execution of their product.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 23, 2023

A purpose we could share with the company’s leadership team, customers, and those working on the product. Through this, I learned a key lesson — don’t build a product solely based on a problem or motivated by profit. Products need purpose because purpose gives the product meaning and a reason for being.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

Product Mastery by Geoff Watts teaches you how to be a successful product owner within agile software development practices with the use of case studies. Inspired by Marty Cagan contains a little about everything in product management and is based on how the most successful tech companies in the world build products.

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UserVoice

JULY 28, 2017

What it is: Asana is a versatile task management solution that allows you to manage both personal and team projects. What it does well: With a slogan like “Teamwork without email,” Asana is just that, a good collaboration tool for your team that is intended to reduce the number of back and forth emails about what needs to be done and when.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 3, 2020

The Hard Thing About Hard Things) At Latin American travel technology company Almundo , we believe that leaders are responsible for the people, whether that is via one-on-one meetings, career opportunities, company culture, or employee satisfaction. So, it was natural that we should want to develop a talent growth plan for our people.

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BrainMates

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Up until now, Product Leaders have had to rely on the approaches and frameworks designed specifically for Product Managers or use generic leadership practices which don’t necessarily cover the unique leadership challenges Product Leaders experience. Many Product Leaders start a new role by focusing outwards.

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Bain Public

MARCH 14, 2022

But unfortunately, in many companies, the product leadership team can perpetuate a negative culture — setting up product managers to fail. There’s a lack of teaching that happens in the early stages of a product manager’s career, forcing people to make career decisions just to survive rather than thrive.

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 10, 2023

When plotting out our product’s trajectory, there’s a constant tension between two competing mindsets. Where charismatic leaders rally the troops around an ambitious vision with a massive potential payoff. Meanwhile, the slow, steady drumbeat of cautious experimentation and incremental enhancements always makes the product better.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 18, 2018

If you work in a product team or in a digital business, you’ve probably heard a lot about this topic, or might even have lost some sleeping nights due to the lack of it in your daily basis. It seems pretty obvious that designers and product teams have different ways of thinking, but have you ever wondered why?

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Throughout the year, we’ve talked to business leaders, experts, and pioneers about all kinds of topics: from creating world-class customer experiences to the challenges of running a business during the pandemic, from being an ally and addressing gaps in diversity to building technical leadership careers.

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Bain Public

MAY 29, 2020

The right mentoring and coaching support facilitates a startup’s transformation and enables roadmap planning and execution, without straying from the ultimate vision and goal. MAIN: Developing Entrepreneurship in Quebec. of startups assess their chances of survival as weak. The foundation of any successful team is their leader.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Frequently-Asked Product Roadmapping Questions. The biggest reason people stick with the timeline roadmap is due to other stakeholders, like their boss or customers. They know that markets and constraints change and that the best way to take advantage of opportunities is to remain lean with a flexible product roadmap.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 19, 2019

Secondly, as great product managers are also great capacity builders for their teams, you should start looking for opportunities that AI can present for your product. That’s why it’s incredibly important to develop a good level of empathy and user understanding, not only for yourself, but for the whole team.

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BrainMates

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Up until now, Product Leaders have had to rely on the approaches and frameworks designed specifically for Product Managers or use generic leadership practices which don’t necessarily cover the unique leadership challenges Product Leaders experience. Many Product Leaders start a new role by focusing outwards.

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Mind the Product

MAY 25, 2018

JustGiving’s goal is to grow the world of giving, enabling more money to be raised for good causes through the use of technology. Initially JustGiving supported only registered charities on its website, but the founders’ vision was to support all good causes. Initially we worked with a team from ThoughtWorks for 12 weeks.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Your first 90 days as a product manager can feel overwhelming. Many of the resources we have here at Exponent are dedicated to nailing your tech interviews so you can ultimately receive an offer. But what should you do in your first 30, 60, or 90 days as a product manager to set you up for success?

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 15, 2020

Product strategy, discovery, and delivery: These are the three general dimensions for which product managers are responsible to optimize in a customer-centric organization. Product strategy exists outside the well defined guideposts of dual-track agile (a product discovery and delivery methodology).

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JULY 13, 2020

Bachelor’s in Marketing, an MBA, or a technical degree depending on which company you’re targeting.) PMs come in all shapes and sizes, but ultimately they’re responsible for managing the product through its lifecycle. To ship a great product. Technical expertise. It’s your responsibility to build the product roadmap.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Product managers can make better decisions if they’ve built transparency and trust with their team. Product Decisions. Product decisions are either tactical or strategic. Strategic decisions include delineating the product vision, value proposition, product differentiators, and product roadmap.

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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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Hutwork

MARCH 9, 2018

Mind the Product says it’s time to take the good things you learned from agile and adapt them to the ever-evolving product management needs of the future. Just like you use the latest technology to inform products of today, you need to change the way you build products to optimize for the future.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 28, 2018

Think of yourself as the gatekeeper to your teams time. Allow your development team to focus on the important tasks required to meet your long term goals. Evaluating the True Cost of Your Decision As a Product Manager it is important to understand the true cost of a request. Good products are an inch wide and a mile deep.

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Department of Product

MAY 22, 2020

Why Product Features Matter Product strategy, features and the value chain What outcomes are you trying to achieve? How does what we’re building align with the wider strategy of the business? And the product team responsible got some pretty brutal reviews in the process. They’re addictive.

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People-First Product Leadership

JULY 17, 2023

As I shared in the prior newsletter , being a product person means that by definition you're living in a world where no one knows the right answer yet because if somebody did, they would've already built it. To ensure your team’s success, think beyond your own team. Now let’s dive in.

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