Roman Pichler

JUNE 4, 2018

Embracing new technologies like machine learning, micro services, big data, and Internet of Things (IoT) is part of that change, as is the introduction of agile practices including cross-functional and self-organising teams, DevOps, Scrum, and Kanban. Determine the Right Learning and Development Measures.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 1, 2020

For a unique fast track to learning and inspiration, however, conferences cannot be beat. We’ve written about the best conferences for product managers here —today let’s review the can’t miss conferences for product leaders (executives, C-Suite, and the like). 14 Can’t Miss Conferences for Product Leaders. SaaStr Annual.

Research Software 107

Research Software Onboarding KPIs Technical Review Agile 107

Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

On June 26, 2017, English football team Crystal Palace enthusiastically announced the appointment of the great Dutch defender Frank de Boer as its new manager. He announced he would take a middling team and turn them into a whirring, possession-based team emulating the lofty ideals of Total Football. The Parable.

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Weak Development Team Vision Systems Review Workshop 156

Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 13, 2020

She currently leads Product Management at Obo, where she is working on agile product management software that aims to reduce the high failure rates for new products. Also, we talk in the beginning about Jill’s experience developing the Adobe Creative Cloud; lots to learn just from that. I believe that career is a team sport.

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User Testing Product Research Marketing Research Software 230

Roman Pichler

APRIL 19, 2017

It’s all too tempting to fall back onto less skilful habits and become impatient, tense and stressed, say something we regret afterwards, or pass on the pressure to the development team. Additionally, keep an eye on market developments, new trends and technologies, and the competition. Nothing beats meeting real users.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Corporations started re-structuring so that teams were self-managing, and were given more autonomy and ownership. There was a gap between development and tech which needed to be filled. Product Management developed organically, as the intersection between engineering and brand management. After all, many paths lead to product!

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Reporting Tools Product Manager Product Management User Testing 179

Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 4, 2025

How AI captures customer needs that human product managers miss Watch on YouTube TLDR In my recent conversation with Carmel Dibner from Applied Marketing Science, we explored how artificial intelligence is transforming Voice of the Customer (VOC) research for product teams. However, these early efforts faced significant limitations.

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Artificial Inteligence Research Software Product Research User Testing 235

The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Highly effective Product Managers develop themselves in 5 key areas. In some jobs, you can get by with just Competence, but in the unkempt, fuzzy, team-oriented domain of Product Management, you need both. Here are 2 actions you can take to develop your Craft Competence: Craft Competence ?? and others feel that.

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Weak Development Team Development Analytic Tools User Testing 108

Product Management University

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

After countless conversations, articles, webinars and conference sessions, I started to feel like the profession of product management had been reduced to…. Cranking user stories through the agile factory. Getting product teams to “consistently” operate with this mentality…still a challenge! Finding user problems.

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Reporting Tools Weak Development Team Marketing Product Manager 130

Pragmatic Marketing

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

While software development teams have been moving toward agile methods for years, many product managers are only now becoming aware of it. An agile approach applies collaborative and continuous improvement concepts to software development. There is no single, definitive “agile method.”

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Weak Development Team Agile Research Software Reporting Tools 70

Mind the Product

MARCH 26, 2020

You go beyond developing a solution and like to be involved in the definition of the solution itself, giving your perspective and suggesting appropriate changes. It’s not just about developing a feature, you also make sure that is robust enough, so it doesn’t cause a bad impression. You care about quality.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 17, 2024

“How World-Class Product Teams Are Winning in the AI Era” is one of the talks at this year’s Product Drive Summit. Delivered by Carlos Gonzalez de Villaumbrosia, it tackles the challenges and opportunities AI-revolution poses for product teams. AI enables product teams to achieve more with fewer resources. Think about Agile.

Data Visualization 104

Data Visualization Product Research Weak Development Team Analytic Tools 104

Mind the Product

JANUARY 21, 2020

Joe coaches and mentors product teams, supporting them to make good decisions and good user-centred design choices. I’ll be told ‘we’re not shipping stuff when we should, UX is poor, we’re struggling to keep staff’. At the moment he coaches the teams doing the work, but he’s starting to coach business leaders about product strategy.

Banking 167

Banking Weak Development Team Workshop Customer Experience 167

Mind the Product

JUNE 11, 2018

Having worked on teams using agile methodologies for several years, retrospectives are a major part of my life as a product manager. Retros are intended to review your team’s successes and failures, with the goal of continuous improvement. If your team is really on their game, these action items are reviewed at the next retro.

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Weak Development Team Agile Product Research Document 116

Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

As a product leader, you are the product manager for a leadership team, and the tricks you learned in product teams remain valuable, they just need a little tweak. Myths that an organisation tells itself can act as a reality distortion field that masks failing products and poor return on investment. Develop new opportunities.

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Mind the Product

JULY 16, 2019

Occasionally, I run into a CEO who had a really bad childhood. I’m happy when my team picks whatever framework they like – whatever flavour of scrum or kanban or agile something else, or any process they want to use, I don’t care how they write user stories – if they write user stories.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Photo by Skitterphoto from Pexels In 2014, at the ProductX conference, I won second place for my presentation on time management for busy product managers. If you are the developer who is supposed to write this feature, you would ask the product manager for very specific instructions as to when and how to predict where this person is going.

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User Testing Data Visualization Product Manager Product Management 154

The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

As product managers, it’s our job to develop solutions that solve real problems for our customers and create value for the business. Chances are, it might have been because the team wasn’t using the hypothesis-driven approach correctly. But with so many potential ideas to pursue, how do you know which ones are worth pursuing?

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svpg

MAY 2, 2016

Exactly a year ago I was invited to give a keynote at the Craft Conference in Budapest and I discussed the 10 biggest reasons why product teams fail. So it inspired me to think hard about the most important characteristics of very strong product teams, and I forced myself to pick what I consider the ten most important.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 17, 2019

For many years CSSSR has been developing IT systems for the biggest online banks, witnessing their success firsthand. This experience has led to several key insights: You Don’t Need a Large IT Department “We operate in small teams. To begin with, the development of new functionality requires considerable resources, including people.

Banking 107

Banking Development Team Review Software Review Technical Review 107

ProductPlan

DECEMBER 13, 2021

In the past 20 years, we have seen Digital and Agile Transformation Programs grow and swell to $1.3 It’s a word that isn’t commonly favoured by the Product community because Transformation Programs rarely allow Product Teams to autonomously decide how they’ll achieve their mission. It means the introduction of: Agile SDLC Practices.

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Weak Development Team Agile Technical Review Product Research 98

Business of Software Conference

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Agile methodology sounds confusing and difficult, but Bethany Pagels-Minor breaks it down to bite-size slices of delicious cakes that will will help every team work better, communicate better, and provide better returns. from Business of Software Conference. Why does everyone come to me about Agile Methodology?

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 20, 2019

Proceedings kicked off with workshops and leadership discussions on Thursday, followed by the conference itself at London’s famous Barbican Centre. The best way to tackle this issue, Kriti explained, is to ensure that our teams reflect the diversity of the users they serve. Expose Bad Ideas. Change up your decision making.

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Weak Development Team Data Visualization User Testing Customer Experience 93

ProductPlan

JUNE 11, 2019

While this can occasionally be blamed on poor execution, it is often simply a result of poor goal setting. But why do product teams have such a hard time creating the right goals to achieve our objectives? No matter how smart you are, how much experience you have, and how much subject matter expertise your team possesses.

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Roadmap Weak Development Team User Testing Product Research 89

The Product Coalition

JUNE 14, 2020

Prototypes and Minimum Viable Products (MVP) are a critical part of product development. Sure, you could dive right in, spend months developing an expensive product with all the bells and whistles. They’re also a great communication tool between you and your designers/tech teams, and they help you understand what it is you’re building.

User Testing 117

User Testing Feedback Software Customer Experience Data Visualization 117

Good Product Manager

APRIL 28, 2019

Many product teams – especially those working on software-as-a-service offerings – spend most of their time and energy enhancing existing products. Many product teams apply the term MVP incorrectly, leading to confusion and frustration from colleagues and customers, as well as missed opportunities.

Events 74

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The Product Coalition

MAY 15, 2019

A story of love, hate, oppression and triumph I’ll admit, I’ve started to fall out of love with agile over the past year or so?—?don’t I wholeheartedly believe that you need to be adaptable to survive today but the further I travel on my own journey the more I wonder if we as an industry are moving past agile. including myself?—?went

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Product Manager Product Management User Testing Product Research 92

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Once you start talking to customers and they start buying your product on the basis of what’s coming around the corner, you’re starting to lose a lot of agility. Getting this right allows your teams to work in lockstep together. But then we brought in four teams – four product managers, four designers, et cetera.

Roadmap 165

Roadmap Feedback Software User Testing Reporting Tools 165

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Once you start talking to customers and they start buying your product on the basis of what’s coming around the corner, you’re starting to lose a lot of agility. Getting this right allows your teams to work in lockstep together. But then we brought in four teams – four product managers, four designers, et cetera.

Roadmap 165

Roadmap Feedback Software User Testing Reporting Tools 165

The Product Coalition

JUNE 2, 2019

What used to be misplaced somewhere between Gantt charts and marketing plans, is now considered vital for developing succesfull products. We product managers started to embrace our newly gained importance, by celebrating the craft on conferences, meetups and Medium posts. Still, a product is bigger than the sum of its parts.

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Weak Development Team Research Software Feedback Software User Testing 75

Good Product Manager

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

On the Product Love podcast , host Eric Boduch and I had a wide-ranging discussion including how product management leaders need to support the product managers on their team, the most important traits of product managers, and some simple practical ways to be “customer-focused.” We're an #agile company."

Events 74

Events Product Manager Product Management Weak Development Team 74

Userpilot

DECEMBER 22, 2021

A few mentioned democratization of product management, especially in SaaS , which means that there is more competition and that SaaS companies cannot get away with bad product experience: “More and more people will build SaaS products irrespective of their tech expertise.” – Raman Sharma, the VP of Product Marketing at DigitalOcean, told us.

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Analytic Tools Feedback Software Onboarding KPIs Data Visualization 143

Good Product Manager

APRIL 28, 2019

Many product teams – especially those working on software-as-a-service offerings – spend most of their time and energy enhancing existing products. Many product teams apply the term MVP incorrectly, leading to confusion and frustration from colleagues and customers, as well as missed opportunities.

Events 60

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Instead, product teams are experimenting their way to viable solutions. We are putting our customers first, taking the time to discover unmet needs, and developing solutions that address those needs. Last fall, I spoke at Productized, a product conference in Lisbon, Portugal, on this very topic. The Agile Manifesto [7:06].

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Centercode

DECEMBER 22, 2020

This year has forced us to grow and change many, many aspects of our lives, from how we work (#remote), to how we communicate with our team (“Can you guys see my screen?”), Beta guru Le’Darien Diaz speaks directly to how COVID has impacted Intuit’s beta program — the good, the bad, and the uncertain.

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Reporting Tools Feedback Software User Testing Customer Feedback 75

UX Studio: Product Management

MARCH 12, 2019

Interestingly, business leaders in companies with the best financial returns answered in a way that showed an implicit understanding of the four themes that the researchers uncovered when asked to name their single greatest design weakness. De-risk development by continually listening, testing and iterating with end-users.

Data Visualization 91

Data Visualization Reporting Tools User Testing Customer Experience 91

Good Product Manager

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

On the Product Love podcast , host Eric Boduch and I had a wide-ranging discussion including how product management leaders need to support the product managers on their team, the most important traits of product managers, and some simple practical ways to be “customer-focused.” We're an #agile company."

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