Roman Pichler

APRIL 15, 2024

This is useful when meeting the product goal results in a new major release or product version, for instance, iOS 17.4 The fourth row lists the product’s features. These are the outputs that are required to meet the goal. The fifth and final row captures the metrics to determine if a product goal has been met.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2025

The product teams hence have to figure out what their specific contributions will have to be. To put it differently, meeting the product goals must help achieve the portfolio objectives. As a consequence, a product roadmap is no longer exclusively directed by the corresponding product strategy.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Figure 2: Roman’s Goal-Setting Framework with Product Management Artefacts The goal-setting framework shown in Figure 2 suggests that a product team needs four different objectives: a product vision, user and business goals, product goals, and sprint goals. Let’s take a look at them.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

It therefore offers only limited support for product people. 4 Take Advantage of Product Goals I like to think of a product goal as the specific outcome that a product should achieve in the next two to three months, for example, to increase conversion, to decrease churn, or to future-proof the product by removing technical debt. [4]

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

If you’ve been at your company for a while, you might get inspired after reading a book or attending a conference. And if you’re really excited about an idea, you might look for opportunities to share it outside your company with the broader product community. There are all kinds of ways to introduce continuous discovery habits.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 10, 2024

A handy template to capture the strategy is my Product Vision Board. Once a valid product strategy is available, use it to determine the right roadmap outcomes. Similarly, if you apply a Scrum-based process, you can regard the outcome as a product goal, as I discuss in the article Product Goals in Scrum. [3]

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

” (Note that I have chosen a dual goal that captures the desired business and user benefits.). I like to take this idea further, derive several product goals from the product strategy for the next 12 months, and capture them on a product roadmap. Step 4: Prioritise the remaining product backlog items.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2022

While the role is discussed in many books and articles, I find that it is still not always correctly understood. 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. The individual is not a product backlog manager or a user story writer.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Consequently, a product manager and a Scrum product owner are leaders, too. They guide the stakeholders , development teams, and in the case of large products, other product people, to meet the agreed product goals , create the desired outcomes, and achieve product success, as Figure 1 shows.

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 17, 2021

The board encourages you to state the product vision at the top and the product strategy underneath it. You can find more information about the product vision board above in my book Strategize and the article The Product Vision Board. Can the Product Vision and the Company Vision Be the Same?

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 1, 2020

To build such a stakeholder community, try the following techniques, which I discuss in more detail in my book How to Lead in Product Management : Bring people together and have joint workshops instead of holding separate conversations with the individual stakeholders, see also the section below.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 7, 2020

A longtime consultant, author and teacher, we grabbed him for a chat focusing on some of the lessons contained in his fourth book, How to Lead in Product Management. Roman’s new book is How to Lead in Product Management. Patrick Lencioni’s book, The 5 Dysfunctions of a Team. Quote of the Episode.

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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 1, 2020

It’s worthwhile to note that OKRs were originally invented by Andy Grove at Intel in the 1970ies to facilitate “ excellent execution ,” that is, to help people set hard, measurable goals and to be able to clearly determine if these have been met. Goals in Product Management. Capturing Product-related Goals as OKRs.

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Achieve your product goals without losing yourself along the way. Creating a new product starts with excitement and the thrill of doing something different. The launch of the product is surrounded by cheers. For many product managers, it is the best part of their work. 4:17] Who is your book written for?

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

Carrying out the relevant product discovery work and taking into account product ethics. Creating and validating a product strategy including market and user research. Developing a product roadmap and setting realistic product goals/outcomes.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 1, 2020

While I really appreciate this entrepreneurial aspect of our work, it can bring up tension, stress, and frustration when we are trying to progress our products towards agreed goals but are in danger of missing them, be it a sprint goal , product goal on the roadmap , or a strategic user or business goal.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 1, 2020

While I really appreciate this entrepreneurial aspect of our work, it can bring up tension, stress, and frustration when we are trying to progress our products towards agreed goals but are in danger of missing them, be it a sprint goal , product goal on the roadmap , or a strategic user or business goal.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 5, 2022

Here are three meetings with sample input data: Product strategy workshop : product performance data ( KPIs ), competitive analysis, market trends, development progress, for example, in the form of a release burndown chart , and user feedback on recent product increments.

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Product Talk

JUNE 21, 2023

Product Talk’s North Star metric is to increase the number of product trios who adopt a continuous discovery cadence to their work. This is what inspired Teresa to write the Continuous Discovery Habits book and shift Product Talk to a course-first business.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 19, 2017

You should also investigate why you find it hard to let go and trust the team to do a good job: Are you anxious to meet an ambitious product goal? Do you doubt the team’s ability to meet the sprint goal? In the book Agile Project Management with Scrum , the meeting is changed to allow product owners to contribute (see pp.

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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. Without it, product teams become feature teams focused on outputs and not outcomes. What aligned roadmaps and OKRs together was the product strategy.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 28, 2020

Read a book (or consume content of some form) – approach content with the intention to learn – take notes, think about how you can apply what you’re learning to your work. Adding to your bag of tools and thinking of ways to approach your goals is a good way to reinvigorate your mindset.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

But in product management, there are several horizons that need to be considered—how many depends on the product planning model you use. Therefore, before determining timeframes, make sure that you have a suitable model in place like the one below, which I developed while writing my book Strategize.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 24, 2021

You can still have departmental goals, but they need to be secondary to the goals that drive the results the company wants to achieve. Mistake #2: Creating Objectives That Are Efforts and Not Outcomes Now that we have established that product goals are about the product and not about product management, what should these goals be?

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 17, 2021

The board encourages you to state the product vision at the top and the product strategy underneath it. You can find more information about the product vision board above in my book Strategize and the article The Product Vision Board. Can the Product Vision and the Company Vision Be the Same?

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Userpilot

AUGUST 18, 2024

First, prioritize your goals. Then, prioritize a handful of opportunities within your goal. Book your place in the summit today to learn more about these prioritization layers and get actionable steps for creating an effective product strategy. Ant Murphy is a product coach and founder of Product Pathways.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 8, 2024

Book a demo to learn more. Try Userpilot and Take Your Product Strategy to the Next Level Get a Demo 14 Day Trial No Credit Card Required What is a product strategy? A product strategy is an outline or high-level plan that shows how a product will achieve its key goals through its lifecycle.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 11, 2022

Finally, “ Building for Business: Product Management in Enterprise Software ” is a truly B2B-focused Product Management book, written by Blair Reeves (Salesforce) and Benjamin Gaines (Adobe) for “all the ones who aren’t part of the Silicon Valley startup bread”. They offer a great set of sample questions in the book.

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Userpilot

APRIL 23, 2023

Impact Mapping is a visual way of presenting the connections between product goals , user persona , and different solutions. Want to see how Userpilot can help you implement a product metrics framework? Book the demo! What is a product metrics framework? GAME product metrics framework.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

A big part of their job is managing the roadmap and prioritizing technical initiatives in the product backlog. Technical PMs play an important role in helping the development and product team gain a shared understanding of the product goals and technical requirements. What is a technical product manager?

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Userpilot

MARCH 4, 2025

You can choose from ready-made templates or build your own with performance metrics relevant to your product goals. Contact us or book a demo to check it out. DebugBear If your products user experience hinges on page speed and front-end performance, DebugBear zeroes in on metrics like load time and Core Web Vitals.

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Userpilot

JULY 24, 2024

So, how do you outline a product strategy framework that is the foundation of product-led growth ? TL;DR A product strategy is an overarching plan that defines product goals and how you’ll achieve them. Product strategies help you design and grow your products. Book a demo now.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Like with product goals, hiring the right person also requires understanding exactly why you are doing it and what you hope to achieve. My free e-book “ Speed-Up the Journey to Product-Market Fit ”?—?an In a large company, it is painful, but in a startup, it is a death trap.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Book the demo ! Impact mapping is a technique for collaborative strategy planning and product management. It became popular thanks to the 2012 Gojko Adzic book. This makes sprint planning easier and quicker and enhances the team’s ability to realize product goals. What is impact mapping?

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Userpilot

AUGUST 6, 2024

Userpilot helps you with product-led growth by providing actionable insights and personalized user experiences. Book a demo now to get started. PLM software is a platform that lets you manage information and business processes at every stage of the product lifecycle , from ideation and development to delivery.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 28, 2024

Want to see how Userpilot can help you track your product performance? Book the demo! What are product performance metrics? 11 key metrics to track for evaluating performance Regardless of your specific product goals, you’re likely to track a set of core product performance metrics. Pirate Metrics.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

Carrying out the relevant product discovery work and taking into account product ethics. Creating and validating a product strategy including market and user research. Developing a product roadmap and setting realistic product goals/outcomes.

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