Company Positioning Weak Development Team 
Roman Pichler
JANUARY 22, 2024
Larger companies often have several portfolios; early-stage startups, in contrast, usually have a singleton one—it consists of just one offering. No matter, which option you choose, it would be a bad idea if a single person made all portfolio decisions on their own. What’s more, it might cause poor alignment and weak buy-in.
Roman Pichler
DECEMBER 2, 2024
Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Why Conflict Matters Conflict is often seen as something bad that should not occur. Think of the salespeople, marketers, and customer support team members, as well as the UX designers, architects, programmers, and testers you might interact with. But in fact, it’s perfectly normal.
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Roman Pichler
MARCH 12, 2018
How do you best lead the stakeholders and development team as the person in charge of the product? A feature broker is a product person who relies on others—the stakeholders, development team, management, users, or a customer—to come up with ideas and make product decisions.
Intercom, Inc.
OCTOBER 13, 2020
Reading papers about how Google or IBM build their ML products, it’s easy to think only the very largest companies can afford to productize machine learning. Those companies need to spend a lot of time considering problems that will occur when a system has millions of users, and have to think carefully about ML tech debt given their scale.
Roman Pichler
NOVEMBER 1, 2022
But it has the following three drawbacks: A feature-based roadmap can give rise to and strengthen a feature-factory mindset where adding features is more important than creating value and making a positive impact on people’s lives and the business. Your job is not to please the stakeholders, but to achieve product success.
Roman Pichler
AUGUST 11, 2020
Solution : Describe the ultimate purpose of your product, the positive change the product should bring about like “healthy eating”. Therefore, choose a specific market segment and develop a product for the few, not the many, as Steve Blank suggested , particularly when you manage a new or young product. Needs are Features.
Intercom, Inc.
JUNE 10, 2020
I hope this post allows people and teams to safely talk about Product Judgment. If you ever had to face a Manager, Director or Exec as they make bad product decisions and you’re struggling to persuade them otherwise, this post will help you. It takes years to build, and therefore ranges from very weak to very strong.
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