Roman Pichler

AUGUST 15, 2023

What are the benefits the product should generate for the company developing and providing it? A handy tool to capture your answers and describe the product strategy is my Product Vision Board shown in the picture below. It consequently fails to align everyone involved in developing and providing the product.

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Lenny Rachitsky

APRIL 28, 2024

Kayvon treated sacred cows like a “built-in roadmap” of innovations worth testing. Founders of acquihired companies led the teams behind Community Notes, Spaces, Super Follows, Fleets, Communities, Tipping, and more. Building 0 to 1 is extremely hard if the entire team isn’t bought into the vision.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 7, 2022

While common sense suggests that managing a product without the right measurements is not a sensible approach, I’ve seen product teams who did not use any KPIs. Consequently, these teams relied on: Anecdotal feedback : “Customers love our product, they told me so.” If this data is actioned, bad product decisions will be made.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

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. For instance, you might show the individuals how they can make effective strategic product decisions, create an actionable product roadmap, and effectively use the right KPIs.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

Instead, you should engage the stakeholders, leverage their expertise, and generate as much buy-in as possible , as I explain in more detail in my article “ Stakeholder Management Tips for Product People.” ” But do not allow people to dominate and tell you what to do, and don’t agree to a weak compromise.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 6, 2022

So if you are looking to launch a new product or feature, you are prepared with some tips to reduce that blank page anxiety. Start with your company and product mission and vision. To fully realize this and empower product teams to change the world through their products and the people they serve, ProductPlan is more than roadmapping.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 8, 2024

Think of digital transformation strategies as your roadmap to success in the digital age. The important basis is the development of a strategy for short- and long-term digital transformation based on business results rather than technology. Involve them in strategy development, gather their input, and address their concerns.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 29, 2021

Personally, I think being open in realising when a feature has taken a toll is an art and unfortunately few teams depict the benefits behind it. Are you also one of the product teams where 80% of your roadmap or sprint is a stakeholder wishlist? Team member idea This one is a tricky one and I will explain why.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

Instead, you should engage the stakeholders, leverage their expertise, and generate as much buy-in as possible , as I explain in more detail in my article “ Stakeholder Management Tips for Product People.” ” But do not allow people to dominate and tell you what to do, and don’t agree to a weak compromise.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 16, 2024

Perform a SWOT analysis, identify the strengths and weaknesses of your top competing products, etc. ChatGPT can create broad multi-year roadmaps that prioritize the most critical feature requests , ideas, or improvements. You may want to learn who your top competitors are, their value proposition , and their weaknesses.

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The Secret PM Handbook

AUGUST 4, 2017

Create A Compelling Product Vision By Writing The (Amazon) Review First. Of course, a huge amount of our time and energy is taken up in the “solution” area – writing requirements, prioritizing, agile development, roadmaps, working with developers, and ensuring quality. The Challenge of Roadmaps.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 21, 2023

Product managers often work in cross-functional teams and bridge the gap between multiple departments. Product managers need to put themselves in the shoes of company executives, other team members, and of course end users so a strong affinity for empathy will go a long way. What qualities do you look for in a strong product team?

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The Secret PM Handbook

AUGUST 4, 2017

Create A Compelling Product Vision By Writing The (Amazon) Review First. Of course, a huge amount of our time and energy is taken up in the “solution” area – writing requirements, prioritizing, agile development, roadmaps, working with developers, and ensuring quality. The Challenge of Roadmaps.

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The Secret PM Handbook

AUGUST 4, 2017

Create A Compelling Product Vision By Writing The (Amazon) Review First. Of course, a huge amount of our time and energy is taken up in the “solution” area – writing requirements, prioritizing, agile development, roadmaps, working with developers, and ensuring quality. The Challenge of Roadmaps.

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Framework Product Management Product Manager Weak Development Team 150

Userpilot

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Strategic Product Management Activities and Tips. To define the product vision , product managers need to take their market research results along with the company objectives and use them to outline what they want the product to be like in the future. They tell the product management team what they need to achieve.

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Effective product team communication is not about talking to your team more often or providing them with more granular tasks. You want to make sure your team understands why what they’re doing matters. Not just from you to your team, but from them to you, and to each other. What is this data telling us?

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Prioritisation is a necessary evil of every product development lifecycle. Andy Wicks shares his take on why poor prioritisation occurs, as well as a lean solution that will ensure you continually deliver the most value to your customers. Netflix Abstracts the Team out of Product Design. How bad Ideas get on the Roadmap.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

TL;DR Product managers often don’t get the due recognition for their work and their role is often marginalized by frustrated leadership or other teams. Without vision and looking ‘ahead’ it’s easy to get bogged down in ‘urgent’ low-impact tasks. Average ships per person in the team. How to upskill as a product manager.

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The Product Manager Coach Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

Managing stakeholders is such an important skill to develop. It is about guiding your team and resources toward what truly matters for the product’s success and your company’s vision. Because when those requests and ideas sit on a list somewhere without taking any action whatsoever, bad things happen.

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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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People-First Product Leadership

DECEMBER 4, 2023

If you missed Part 1, we covered the “why” behind creating a strategy stack, with a focus on the Mission, North Star, and Vision. The Vision evolves over time, and is an inspirational guide for the company's future. The Vision evolves over time, and is an inspirational guide for the company's future.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Having said that, I always find it useful to review the points below when I am in an objective state of mind in order to ensure the team is on the right track. Having said that, all teams need to be flexible every once in a while?—?all all team members in the company are in the same boat at the end of the day?—?but

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Ask Benny

JANUARY 25, 2020

If you are writing too many details and closing all loopholes, you get less motivated developers who do not exercise their creativity and you lose their perspectives. When working with a good team you actually want to Make yourself “Redundant”. It is very flattering to feel that the development team needs us for every small decision.

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Ask Benny

DECEMBER 31, 2019

If you are writing too many details and closing all loopholes, you get less motivated developers who do not exercise their creativity and you lose their perspectives. When working with a good team you actually want to Make yourself “Redundant”. It is very flattering to feel that the development team needs us for every small decision.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Community managers, sales teams, marketing managers, and more could provide much insight into a product's users. Without this first-hand knowledge and understanding of your product, you won't be able to develop or improve your product as much as possible. Spend time getting to know people from all sorts of teams.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Roadmaps are stories. “I’ve spotted a trend: a bad roadmap is a symptom of underlying issues in the company. And a frustrated product manager is a symptom of people and alignment issues in their team.” ” A lot of roadmaps are simply incomprehensible. Go take a look at your roadmap right now.

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Ask Benny

JANUARY 25, 2020

If you are writing too many details and closing all loopholes, you get less motivated developers who do not exercise their creativity and you lose their perspectives. When working with a good team you actually want to Make yourself “Redundant”. It is very flattering to feel that the development team needs us for every small decision.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 1, 2020

If you are writing too many details and closing all loopholes, you get less motivated developers who do not exercise their creativity and you lose their perspectives. When working with a good team you actually want to Make yourself “Redundant”. It is very flattering to feel that the development team needs us for every small decision.

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Weak Development Team Vision Customer Experience Agile 78

Ask Benny

DECEMBER 31, 2019

If you are writing too many details and closing all loopholes, you get less motivated developers who do not exercise their creativity and you lose their perspectives. When working with a good team you actually want to Make yourself “Redundant”. It is very flattering to feel that the development team needs us for every small decision.

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Weak Development Team Vision Customer Experience Agile 78

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 9, 2022

Complete PM Interview Prep Course Our product management interview course teaches you the essential skills you need to ace your PM interview, with hours of example questions, videos, and interview tips. They can lead a team rather than just being part of a team. Start Learning Can You Transition from UX to Product Management?

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Ask Benny

JANUARY 25, 2020

In many organizations, the developers and testers ask us to write more and more details to make sure they understand everything and nothing gets wrong. We should also not forget that too many developers don’t read at all what we write, so it is better to make it short. Are we trusting our developers? It is a marathon.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 2, 2020

After 10 years, this internal tool supported thousands of daily internal users across countless teams, but nobody could explain exactly what the tool was providing. The system provided different functionality for different customers and the total scope was far greater than the internal team’s staffing capacity. What is the problem?

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The Product HQ

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

They work with leaders and their own teams across organizations. TPMs must communicate strategies, roadmaps, and program issues with all key stakeholders. TPMs are responsible for communicating complex technical ideas to both technical and non-technical team members. In doing so, they often act as leaders across teams.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

While I tend to focus on helping teams, Petra’s work centers around helping product leaders—the people who manage product managers. She has a big focus on people development, helping product managers and product leaders get better at their craft. You can watch the video or read an edited version of the transcript below. Tweet This.

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Department of Product

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Product Principles – Examples for Product Managers Make decision making easier with inspiration from top product companies Product principles are used by product teams to help guide decision making. Principles can help guide both strategic decisions and tactical decisions.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 14, 2017

The developers sitting nearby just watched the show for the first time, but after a while they stood up to join the party one by one. Soon the whole team was standing behind the designer’s screen shouting new ideas and tips about the layout, the colors, the icons, the fonts and everything else. What to expect from a design team?

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ProductPlan

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Situation: You’ve painstakingly constructed a roadmap after consulting with various stakeholders, the development team, and your peers. Soft skills” aren’t always part of their repertoire, not to mention loads of “ developer-speak.”. Be sure they’re aligned with the vision and goals for the product.

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