Roman Pichler

MARCH 9, 2022

If that’s not the case, then it will be difficult to encourage the individuals to agree to more specific goals and to follow a product strategy and a product roadmap that are based on the vision. Visioning Workshop Attendees. Encourage the participants to describe the purpose that they associate with the product.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 5, 2022

For example, a product strategy workshop might have the objective to identify the key changes required to achieve product-market fit. As a rule of thumb, avoid meetings with more than ten attendees when you have to make high-impact decisions and/or rework the product strategy , product roadmap , or product backlog. 1 Set an Objective.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Traditionally, product roadmaps are output-focussed plans that map features like registration, search, and reporting onto a timeline. Such a roadmap essentially states when a piece of functionality will be delivered. This makes the product roadmap more susceptible to change and it increases the effort to update it.

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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. Process and collaboration : Teach agile values, principles, and practises to the product owners, development teams, stakeholders, and management. So why is the role important?

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Before the advent of agile frameworks like Scrum , a product person—the product manager—would typically carry out the market research, compile a market requirements specification, create a business case, put together product roadmap, write a requirements specification, and then hand it off to a project manager.

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 5, 2021

A few years ago, I was asked to help a healthcare company with their agile transition and its impact on product management. One of the challenges the agile transition team was concerned about was the choice of the right product backlog tool, which at first seemed odd to me. Collaborative Product Backlog Workshop.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

This includes a sound understanding of the market, the user and customer needs, and the competition as well as solid product management skills such as the ability to develop an effective product strategy and an actionable product roadmap (as I explain in more detail in the article The T-Shaped Product Professional ).

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

You use an outcome-based product roadmap and/or an opportunity solution tree , personas , user journey maps, and the product backlog to capture and validate your decisions and guide the product delivery effort. You should therefore involve them in creating and updating the plans, preferably in the form of collaborative workshops.”

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

On this episode of Intercom on Product myself and Paul Adams, our SVP of Product, take a look at roadmapping. Knowing how and when to define a roadmap, who to include and how long to plan for are key elements to finding the balanced approach that you need. As you grow functions, the audience for your roadmap widens.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

On this episode of Intercom on Product myself and Paul Adams, our SVP of Product, take a look at roadmapping. Knowing how and when to define a roadmap, who to include and how long to plan for are key elements to finding the balanced approach that you need. As you grow functions, the audience for your roadmap widens.

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Melissa Perri

JULY 23, 2024

I review strategies and roadmaps. At the end of this review, I do a Product Leadership workshop with C-Suite and Product leaders, where I show them what good looks like, and they have a chance to reflect on where they are. Then we put together a roadmap for change, and I check in with them along the way as they transform.

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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. Take the product roadmap, for example. What do mean?”

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bpma ProductHub

JUNE 21, 2017

An Agile Product Open meetup recap. By Lisa Sieverts – The BPMA sponsors many different groups that provide practical educational and workshop type events. The Agile Product Open meetup is one such group that is dedicated to advancing the principles and practices of product management. Topics included: My First Roadmap.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 24, 2021

In Part 1 and 2 of this series, I wrote about how an agile approach might offer strategic benefits. And because an agile approach changes your culture, I said the agile approach was part of your strategy. So let's ask this question: Can any tool—agile or otherwise—offer you a strategic advantage? (I

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 29, 2020

Leaders of product management need agility, influence, trust, empathy, and motivating vision. 2:00] What is agile product management? Agile product management is product management infused or enriched by agile practices and principles. Learn the qualities of a successful product manager and leader.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 13, 2018

We’re thrilled to announce the first of our amazing line-up of speakers and announce all our deep-dive workshops, connecting international and regional thought leaders with the vibrant product and UX community across AsiaPac. Workshop Presenters. Workshop tickets Conference tickets. More conference speakers coming soon!

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 19, 2017

Additionally, you may want to ask the team to help refine product backlog items or update the product roadmap , for instance. [2]. Therefore, don’t turn it into a product backlog or roadmapping workshop. Similarly, if you require the help of the team to work on the product roadmap, then hold a separate workshop.

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Product Management University

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

In this issue we cover everything from requirements to roadmaps to rollouts. We also throw in a few tips for hiring the best Agile Product Owners, and a universal product management framework that’s been sitting right under our nose. Five Reasons You Need a Strategic Portfolio Roadmap. Click here for details.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 10, 2016

My first MVP had little resemblance with the finished product: I used my product strategy and roadmap workshop as the initial minimum viable product. This helped me better understand which strategy and roadmap-related challenges product managers commonly experience and which advice is helpful for them. Learn More.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

That's one of the reasons they create huge backlogs and long roadmaps. Yet, even those backlogs and roadmaps don't offer certainty. But most of my business focuses on coaching, workshops, or consulting. Does that sound like an agile team to you? However, managers don't create features as agile teams do.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

During the Definition process, a series of workshops are conducted to review the specific problem to be solved (or Job-To-Be-Done), understand what can be done to fix it, design the physical and technical solution, and prepare for the development sprints to start. As-Is and To-Be scenarios) as part of these workshops.

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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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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

I have a new book: Project Lifecycles: How to Reduce Risks, Release Successful Products, and Increase Agility. I wrote it because I'm concerned about what I see in too many supposedly agile teams: Crazy-long backlogs and roadmaps. Instead of thinking about “agile,” consider agility in your efforts.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 2, 2018

Waterfall vs Agile. Roadmaps with dates vs Roadmaps with no dates. So even the age old (at least in internet time) debate on agile vs waterfall often misses the point. I recently ran a workshop for a team focused on proto-personas (where the team brainstorms personas based on their intuition, not hard data).

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 22, 2019

Noticing early indications of patterns of behavior can help product managers to plan ahead and work specific questions into their learning roadmaps. Over the past few months, I’ve been lining up the pieces for the fourth full-day workshop to be offered by Mind the Product Training, entitled “Mapping for Product Managers”.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 9, 2020

Mind the Product has launched a new training workshop for product leaders on mapping. I meet a lot of product people – product managers, product owners, agile coaches, scrum masters, business analysts, project managers – and I’ve learned that there are a couple of constants, whatever the title or role.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Agile Development Things don’t necessarily get better with agile development. Agile dev did away with project waterfall?—?Specification On the flip side, many development teams are now fully immersed in “Agile world” that is all about delivering small increments of working code according to strict rituals. Specification

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 18, 2018

I've met a number of agile coaches recently. Even though the client asked for agile coaching, that might not be what the client needs. Even though the client asked for agile coaching, that might not be what the client needs. These questions have nothing to do with a “better agile” or “better Scrum.”

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The Product Coalition

JULY 10, 2019

TL; DR: The Liberating Structures Immersive Workshop for Scrum Why running a Liberating Structures immersive workshop? Since the beginning of 2019, the Hands-on Agile meetup in Berlin has been exploring how to apply Liberating Structures to Scrum. We ran that workshop last week, and this is what we learned.

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 12, 2024

You might talk to the sales rep, for example, and ask them about the viability of using existing sales channels or get their feedback on a draft product roadmap. You’ll then repeat the process with the other stakeholders until you have acquired enough information or managed to create a roadmap everybody accepts.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 5, 2021

You can sign up here for our weekly ‘Food of Agile Thought newsletter’ and join 29k other subscribers. ?? Join us on February 3, 2021: Hands-on Agile #29: Scrum Guide 2020?—?Reloaded. These should allow an interviewer to deep dive into candidates’ understanding of Scrum and their agile mindset. probably more valuable?—?product

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 18, 2017

We launched corporate product management training this year and have watched it grow faster than we could have hoped, and seen the number of our public workshops double. It IS our job to be the best communicator, and stories, in our roadmaps, our specs, and everyday work, are one of our best tools.”. Tools for the Job.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 11, 2019

An outcome-based roadmap sounds like a good idea. Instead of a long list of context-free features and enhancements the roadmap is constructed to accomplish specific goals critical to the success of the business. The Problem With Outcome-Based Roadmaps. But it is greatly diminished when folks are betting on unrealistic results.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 5, 2021

And learn a lot about agile product management, Scrum, empiricism, product design, and user experience along the way. If you intend to live up to Scrum and agile product development’s full potential, creating a shared understanding of how empiricism works among all co-workers in your organization is essential. practicing Scrum?—?on

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Mind the Product

APRIL 6, 2020

Product (and company) strategy is the backbone that guides product goal-setting and roadmap definition, although it’s sometimes overlooked or confused with having a vision. We started working with the product teams on how each tool – product strategy, OKRs, and roadmaps – should be used so that we could merge them together.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Strategy and Product Feedback Loops About 20 years ago, I taught a project management workshop to IT people. During that workshop, the participants all had the same question, “How do we engage our stakeholders? Adam, a product leader, has changed his meetings and workshops. What do they get out of this partnership?

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 6, 2023

Random Feature Roadmap for One Program. ” These people claim there is no need for either role in an effective team, especially an agile team because the team can manage its own deliverables. While some agile teams can manage their own deliverables, that's not the only role for a project or program manager.

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