Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Introduction To discuss empowerment in product management, I find it helpful to distinguish three main levels of decision-making authority, product delivery, product discovery, and product strategy, as the model in Figure 1 shows. [1]

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Roman Pichler

MAY 8, 2018

Three Types of Leadership. Scrum is a simple framework with three roles: product owner, development team, and Scrum Master. Each role provides a distinct type of leadership. As the product owner, you lead the product and are responsible for its overall success. If you can do the UX design, then why hire a designer?

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Mind the Product

JUNE 7, 2019

When you have one team learning Agile, another learning Lean, and yet another learning Design Thinking, how are you supposed to get to alignment? Everyone speaks a different language, works at a different pace, aims for different goals, and leadership is in the middle trying to understand how best to help. What is Agile Really About?

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Mind the Product

JULY 9, 2018

Since it’s still a relatively new role, there’s a lot of confusion around product management job titles, seniority, and hierarchy. Associate Product Manager. Junior Product Manager. A junior product manager typically has some work experience under their belt already and can come from any background.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 18, 2021

In this #mtpcon Digital APAC session, Product Leadership Consultant Anthony Marter shares with us a three-step guide for getting product discovery right, which can lead to highly motivated teams that build great products. Creating the right environment Anthony begins by sharing one of the agile [.]

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Mind the Product

MAY 13, 2020

Jeffrey Fredrick and Douglas Squirrel know this well, and their new book Agile Conversations , focuses on the five critical conversations you’ll have and how to perfect them. The Product Experience is hosted by Lily Smith and Randy Silver. Quote of the Episode. Quote of the Episode.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Sustainable pace is an important agile principle. The Agile Manifesto defines it in the following way: “The sponsors, developers, and users should be able to maintain a constant pace indefinitely.” Please refer to my article “ Scaling the Product Owner Role ” for more information on how to jointly manage a product.).

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

To effectively staff the product team, I recommend including the people shown in Figure 1. [1] 1] Figure 1: The Product Team Members Let’s look at the product team members in Figure 1 in more detail starting with the person in charge of the product. 4] As you may have noticed I didn’t list the product backlog.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 5, 2022

Additionally, as the person in charge of the product, you typically have to contribute to the meeting, share your expertise, and actively shape product decisions. This might be your Scrum Master or an agile coach. For a more detailed discussion, see my article Use Decision Rules to Make Better Product Decisions.).

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Amplitude

DECEMBER 7, 2020

According to the 2020 State of Agile Report , 95% of organizations say they’ve adopted Agile development methodologies within their team. So why do 84% of those respondents feel like they’re not doing Agile the right way? The answer is simple—there’s no right way to do Agile.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 4, 2022

Scrum is a popular agile framework. This team consists of a product owner , a Scrum Master , and several developers, which are also known as development team. Forming such a team connects the person in charge of the product—the product owner—with the people who design, architect, program, test, and document the solution—the developers.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

What’s more, it’s not uncommon in my experience that product owners have to do their job without the support of a Scrum Master or agile coach. Staffing : Help find people who have the right skills and are motivated to work on the product and who can fill the roles. So why is the role important?

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Mastering the craft of product management is no easy task. I instead define a product manager as driving the vision, strategy, design, and execution of their product. It's equally important for product managers to think about each of these four dimensions as having a concrete set of deliverables.

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Product Management University

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Fear not, product managers. It’s going to make you a better product manager than you ever imagined. Taking You Out of Your Comfort Zone Get ready, product managers because AI is definitely going to change your job if it hasn’t already, but you’re going to love it! AI isn’t going to take your job.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 9, 2022

Additionally, an inspiring vision helps you apply a visionary leadership style and become a visionary leader—someone who guides others through a big, motivating goal. See my article Making Effective Product Decisions for more advice on how to decide together with stakeholders and dev teams.). The vision pulls you.”.

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Mind the Product

JULY 12, 2024

Marte Patel is the VP of Product and Agile at educational publishing house Aschehoug Education. With over 16 years of experience working in the digital product and technology space, we caught up with her to understand the keys to leading product functions and managing product teams.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 22, 2021

I had joined the Infrastructure and Operations ‘tribe’ as an Agile Coach and some of my fondest memories (both personally and professionally) were from working in my Agile Coach ‘chapter’. Read more » The post The PM Competency Framework: Making Product Management growth a team effort appeared first on Mind the Product.

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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. Here, to help you, are five product management tricks and tools for every product leader. Product Lifecycle.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

I believe the future of product management is product thinking. And product coaching is how we get there. I have worked with in product for most of my career. Building products for big corporates, small startups and scale-ups. Just adding more product managers, is not the answer.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 16, 2023

In recent years it seems that product management is all about execution and delivery. Photo by Kea Mowat on Unsplash When I moved into product management, almost 20 years ago, it used to be a very senior role. The discussion was about whether or not someone is senior enough to move into product management.

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Product Management Unpacked

MAY 27, 2021

“I realized that I wanted to expand my focus into product management.”. He began this new career path by moving from India to Pittsburgh and joining Carnegie Mellon University’s intensive, one-year MS in Product Management program. “I UPMC Enterprises Provides Deep Insight Into Product Management.

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The Product Guy

DECEMBER 15, 2019

The Product Management Awards (#TPMAS) are the leading international award honoring excellence in Product Management. The Best Product Person & The Best Product Leader. In this role, Gaudio drives the strategy behind roadmap management, agile product development, and cross-functional communication.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 13, 2022

Agility isn’t optional if you want to win. Let’s look at the most common mistakes when interpreting the Agile Manifesto. Continue reading on Product Coalition ».

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Mind the Product

MARCH 6, 2019

Tim is Product Director at Iridion, a trainer and coach, a co-organiser of ProductTank Hamburg, a frequent speaker, and the author of Lateral Leadership. Links mentioned in this episode: The Agile Peer Canvas. Lateral Leadership – Buy the book now! The Product Experience is hosted by Lily Smith and Randy Silver.

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The Product Guy

JULY 4, 2019

As Product Manager for a scrappy startup, I led agile sprints, collaborated with leadership and engineers, created user stories, and managed Jira. Magdaline is an Enterprise Product Manager who has played a key role in major electronic communication & collaboration initiatives. Better Products.

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Alchemer Mobile

APRIL 14, 2020

How do you promote gender diversity in the product management field? I’m a product manager at Dropbox , and I have been a product manager now for about just under 10 years. I’m a product manager at Stripe. Can you provide any interesting insights on being a female PM? Priya : Sure.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 23, 2022

The Problem Maybe you can identify with some or all of that, and while it might sound ridiculous to some of you, the reality is this is how many product teams function! It was certainly how I worked for a long time, even before formally donning the title of product manager. Your customers will love you. You boss will love you.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

 —  @ant_murphy Product Management is complex. Complex because it’s situational which makes being a good Product Manager about being adaptive. sweeping statements about product management like “Product Managers are the CEO of the product” are generally only half-true.

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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…. Convincing stakeholders the above supports company goals (product strategy). Cranking user stories through the agile factory. Finding user problems. Never gonna be!

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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. What’s more, an agile, self-managing team is collectively responsible for their performance. You would interfere with and damage the team’s self-management.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 25, 2022

Product managers (PMs) are ninjas of aligning people, management, and processes. No product tool or template can save you if you’re not killing it in these three areas. The best product managers are in a continuous state of discovery and know that?—? neither the product nor roadmap are ever static.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 3, 2022

How product managers can use the Modified Agile for Hardware Development Framework. Many teams have tried adopting Scrum for developing hardware products, not always successfully. Dorian has a deep background in product development, starting in engineering and then moving to business leadership roles.?

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Mind the Product

JUNE 20, 2023

Product leader Liz Clow introduces an holistic approach to product leadership, covering strategy, customer centricity, agility, leadership, and execution Read more » The post Navigating different org sizes as a product leader appeared first on Mind the Product.

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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. Agile methods like Scrum are not a one-size-fits-all framework.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 30, 2021

10 steps plan with workbook and cheat sheet for Marketing teams to get started now with Agile and make the most out of it. Continue reading on Product Coalition ».

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 23, 2022

If you’re into building up or developing an organisation or you’re deep into agile coaching, sooner or later you might come around the question for a Product Manager and/or a Product Owner. Introducing Product Management means to install a discipline and to make the company product led and vision oriented.

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Mind the Product

JULY 28, 2020

That’s another level of difficulty and in her new book, The Team That Managed Itself: A Story Of Leadership, Christina Wodtke does just that. The post Leading Teams to Success – Christina Wodtke on The Product Experience appeared first on Mind the Product. It goes well beyond analytics, frameworks, and agile.

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