Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

Instead of creating, for example, product strategies and roadmaps and tracking KPIs , you should help the people on your team acquire the right knowledge and develop the right skills so that they can carry out the relevant work on their own. Grow Your Leadership Skills. A great way to do this is to mentor and coach people.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

“Feedback is the breakfast of champions.” -Ken What outcome did it achieve for the user and the customer?” Yet, all I was trying to do was adapt to a foreign format for the meeting and ensure we got the best possible product, one customers would love, into their hands as fast as possible. Ken Blanchard. Why share now?

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Ronke PM

MARCH 26, 2024

At the heart of an organization that creates product magic is a product leader who is an expert at leadership and coalition building. Product leaders must influence and engage all stakeholders, from sales and technical support to client success, design, research, marketing, and engineering.

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The Product HQ

JUNE 10, 2024

Hard skills are useful for creating a successful product roadmap and product strategy. As a product lead, you need to effectively communicate with customers. A clear understanding of the product allows you to empathize with customers. Research is necessary if you are looking to break into an alternative industry.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

We then jammed those models into our platform so that customers could access the outputs in many ways.” We’ve onboarded many customers onto our predictive suite and every time we get the same question: ‘How can I test that it works?’ And web notifications also pop up whenever a customer visits your website. Tweet This.

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 27, 2020

I have a narrow, somewhat puritanical view about product manager conversations with customers and prospects: we should never lie to them. These are complex deals on the customer side with buying committees, unique integration requirements, internal champions for each competing vendor, and reputational risk for choosing the wrong product.

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Ronke PM

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Table of Contents What is customer-centricity? Essential customer experiences to consider. Final thoughts Those products that have changed us and made our lives easier, or even enhanced humanity, have that impact and reach because the people who built those products emphasize customer-centricity above all else.

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Product Warrior

MARCH 9, 2023

Unfortunately, without anything better, many product leaders rely on the product roadmap to demonstrate their strategy. What happens when you show a senior leader a roadmap? The first reaction is an issue because they do not have visibility of the research or assumptions and can only form opinions with bias. This is a mistake.

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Product Warrior

MARCH 9, 2023

Unfortunately, without anything better, many product leaders rely on the product roadmap to demonstrate their strategy. What happens when you show a senior leader a roadmap? The first reaction is an issue because they do not have visibility of the research or assumptions and can only form opinions with bias. This is a mistake.

Product Strategy 52

Product Strategy Roadmap Onboarding KPIs Strategy 52

Lenny Rachitsky

APRIL 7, 2024

Brought to you by: • Orb —The flexible billing engine for modern pricing • Dovetail —Bring your customer into every decision • Vanta —Automate compliance. This means setting measurable goals and behaviors that align with your leadership principles and organizational values.

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

However, transitioning from project manager to a higher leadership role like the product lead without no experience needs different strategies like working on your complete projects and following professional courses to fill the skill gaps. Enhance Your Leadership Skills Product lead is a senior leadership position.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 5, 2024

However, successfully implementing agility into your company can provide 20%-30% financial gains according to research by McKinsey & Company, and increased parallel process and employee experiences have a direct causal impact on revenue by more than 50% according to Harvard Business Review. People are by far the messiest variable.

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

To do so, startup product managers will need to conduct market research to maximize product-market fit. Here, you will have to supplement your initial market research with additional context that will help you to optimize how you position your product in its respective market. Don’t try to memorize possible responses.

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 24, 2024

However, as Mary Baird’s inspiring story shows, a successful pivot from nonprofit leadership to product management is not only possible but also incredibly rewarding. However, Mary’s experience in nonprofit leadership provided her with a unique set of transferable skills that would prove invaluable in her new role.

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Split

MARCH 20, 2024

This spans planning, development, testing, approval, deployment, release, and post-implementation support. With established release review procedures, code progresses to staging and production only after passing predefined quality checks and acceptance tests. What is the Release Management Process Flow?

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 31, 2017

I get pulled into lots of discussions among product managers about the best ways to represent (and then present and present and present) roadmaps or backlogs, especially to internal sales/marketing/support audiences. Each functional group has its own product priorities, so each wants a different roadmap. Just sign here.”)

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Userpilot

JULY 28, 2024

Product Teams Can Use Userpilot to: Improve Product Adoption with Insights from Analytics Improve User Onboarding Interactive Guidance Collect User Feedback with No-Code In-App Surveys Get a Demo 14 Day Trial No Credit Card Required What is a project manager? Book a demo to see it in action!

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ProductPlan

JUNE 8, 2021

By helping our audience—from sales and marketing to engineering and QA—connect with the customer problem, we will drive better outcomes. The processes with IMPACT that help ensure we’re working on interesting problems include: Product discovery—Helps you better understand the customer problem and interestingly tell that story.

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The Product HQ

JUNE 1, 2024

Having an understanding of their demands, challenges, and goals as software engineers will lay the foundation to provide and receive feedback and constructive criticism from both parties. Research Skills Research is a fundamental element of the product development process.

Startups 52

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Roman Pichler

JULY 11, 2016

But let the ScrumMaster or coach tackle people, process, and organisational issues; let the development team figure out what needs to be done to implement the user stories and other product backlog items. Provide constructive feedback and share your concerns. Be aware that collaboration requires leadership.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

They work at the intersection of the User Experience, Business, and Technical teams, and have the opportunity to tap into the collective knowledge of these teams, in addition to their own interactions with the market. We’ve written about this in our blog Sales Teams Close More Deals When You Give Them The Product Roadmap.)

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Bain Public

JUNE 12, 2020

We really enjoy bringing you constructive and a typical product management research, practical work advice, and analysis. It is very rewarding to think about the content that fits into product managers lives and makes their work better. Here are some illustrations that are most useful and important today.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2018

Your roadmap is one of the most important things you’ll produce as a SaaS company. Who will you share the roadmap with: Just employees, or customers too? And then there’s perhaps the biggest question of all: “How do we decide what makes it on to our roadmap?” And your roadmap should change with them.

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Userpilot

JULY 14, 2024

A project manager plans the project, evaluates what is needed to get the project done, draws up the plan or a roadmap to get the job done, vets it thoroughly for any loophole or roadblock, presents it to the stakeholders, and gets their approval to execute the project. Book a demo to see it in action!

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Bain Public

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Product managers play an important role in steering leadership to evolve the product strategy and corresponding tactics. Companies that are neglecting to take large roadmap bets to competitively capture markets, industries, and geographies will find that this recession will make gaps insurmountable.

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Product Management University

APRIL 12, 2021

Meet Customers. Schedule a series of 1-hour meetings with 15-20 customers that best represent your target markets. In fact, tell everyone your start date is the day after the last customer meeting. Build 10 minutes into the end of the agenda to hear what customer have to say about your products.

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Bain Public

OCTOBER 19, 2019

Here are the 3 roles Product Managers must perform to achieve roadmap leadership: The Diplomat It’s not our role to dictate through authority where the product should go. What walls are getting hit by customer success? What problems can we solve for the customer? What walls are getting hit by customer success?

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 1, 2020

Here is why: We routinely interact with individuals who have different perspectives, interest, and needs, such as users, customers, stakeholders , development team members. Users don’t always have the same wants and needs as customers, and the ideas of the stakeholders and dev team may diverge.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 1, 2020

Here is why: We routinely interact with individuals who have different perspectives, interest, and needs, such as users, customers, stakeholders , development team members. Users don’t always have the same wants and needs as customers, and the ideas of the stakeholders and dev team may diverge.

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Bain Public

MARCH 20, 2021

The answer is simply: product roadmaps and product development ! Roadmap Development is a process of discovery, creativity and problem-solving. The most successful businesses use roadmaps to chart their long-term development initiatives, which showcases better results than the companies that don’t!

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Bain Public

AUGUST 22, 2022

As a Product analyst, you’ll work as part of a team of problem solvers engaging in planning the product roadmap while helping drive the scope definition and product development course of action. Measure the impact of the released features output through data.

Research Software 52

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Tanya shares her ideas for nurturing a strong product strategy from this year’s #mtpcon London Product Leadership Forum. But today many, if not most, product teams fail this very first test. And of course, it makes sense to improve experiences for the user. Teams can see low-hanging fruit. Tackle Problems like NASA.

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Bain Public

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

The role of a product manager could never fit into a box. Defining the ‘why’ behind your roadmap Product management is a discipline responsible for defining the ‘why’ behind your roadmap. Doing the research and identifying the market Product opportunity is all about timing. It’s difficult to define.

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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 17, 2019

Many CEOs tell me that they (personally) are the best-informed people within their companies about what customers need , and they (personally) are best positioned to drive decisions on product priorities. Somehow, interpreting customer needs can feel different. First, some context. But that’s an illusion.

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 27, 2019

I measure this in ratios: how many “makers” (including developers, designers, DevOps, researchers) are lined up against each product manager? Over-allocated product managers are forced to cut corners, usually on direct customer validation and on product strategy. Champion outcomes tied to real customer value, especially in OKRs/KPIs.

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Bain Public

JANUARY 24, 2022

As a Product analyst, you’ll work as part of a team of problem solvers engaging in planning the product roadmap while helping drive the scope definition and product development course of action. Measure the impact of the released features output through data.

Research Software 52

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Bain Public

JANUARY 24, 2022

As a Product analyst intern, you’ll work as part of a team of problem solvers engaging in planning the product roadmap while helping drive the scope definition and product development course of action. Measure the impact of the released features output through data.

Research Software 52

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