Roman Pichler

JUNE 1, 2020

The first one carries the risk of being a feature broker and offering a product that has a weak value proposition, gives rise to a poor user experience, and consists of a loose collection of features. A handy stakeholder analysis tool is the power-interest grid developed by Ackermann and Eden. Build Trust.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

This can be reassuring for customers and stakeholders. This makes the roadmap harder to understand, and it increases the effort to keep it up to date. It will also limit your ability to experiment and learn, to run sprints and discover the best way to address the user and customer needs and create value for the business.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

But the value a product creates is ultimately determined by its users: No product will be successful in the long run if it does not solve a specific user problem, create a tangible benefit, or help the users achieve a specific goal. Myth #2: The product owner is a tactical role focused on managing the product backlog.

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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. The Product Backlog is Too Big.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 13, 2020

We are at the start of a revolution in customer communication, powered by machine learning and artificial intelligence. Our Custom Bots and Resolution Bot already work for thousands of businesses every day. These bots help businesses deliver both radical efficiencies and better, faster support experiences.

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 11, 2022

These help you direct your learning efforts, track progress, and measure how much you have learnt. I’ve chosen quarters in the sample roadmap above, but you can use shorter time frames, of course, if you can meet your learning goals more quickly. This can help you tie individual learning goals to team and department goals.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

This can be reassuring for customers and stakeholders, as the individuals believe that they know when their features will be delivered. This makes the product roadmap more susceptible to change and it increases the effort to update it. In addition to goals, the template above contains dates or time frames, names, features, and metrics.

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 22, 2024

These might be end-user-facing or internal ones like a software platform, for instance; they might directly generate revenue or support commercial offerings. You can think of Microsoft Visio as a product line, as it is offered in three versions at the time of writing—basic, standard, and advanced.

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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] I certainly don’t intend to make anyone feel bad.

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Alchemer Mobile

JULY 11, 2019

So, as a product manager for a mobile application, how on earth can you build an application that stands a chance of becoming a well-used, frequently purchased application, let alone rise to the level of “top 10?”. How long does an application have to prove itself, before the user moves on to something else? “The Sounds simple, right?

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 7, 2022

Consequently, you don’t know for sure how fast you are running and if you are on track to achieve your target finish time. While common sense suggests that managing a product without the right measurements is not a sensible approach, I’ve seen product teams who did not use any KPIs. 2 Wrong Product KPIs.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] 1 Complement Scrum with a Product Discovery and Strategy Process Scrum is a simple framework that helps teams develop successful products. How can you capture the right user stories , for instance, if you are unsure who the users are and why they want to use the product?

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 5, 2022

Contrast this with a sprint review meeting , which might help you determine if users can easily sign up for the product. But for sprint review meetings , you may also want to invite (selected) users and customers to collect their feedback. This can make it harder for people to free up the necessary time and attend them.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 10, 2020

Also known as Product Intuition or Product Instinct or Product Taste, it is the idea that you can use your own judgment to (1) accurately predict what your customers need, want and value, and (2) design and ship the right solution for them. I have experienced this many times on both sides, as the receiver and the critiquer. Who has it?

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 1, 2020

We may not like difficult emotions like confusion, frustration, anger, envy, sadness, and worry, but we all experience them. This is especially true in times like these, with the Coronavirus pandemic causing many people to be concerned about their health and jobs and the wellbeing of family members and friends. What does it feel like?

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 1, 2020

We may not like difficult emotions like confusion, frustration, anger, envy, sadness, and worry, but we all experience them. This is especially true in times like these, with the Coronavirus pandemic causing many people to be concerned about their health and jobs and the wellbeing of family members and friends. What does it feel like?

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 11, 2020

The overall example I use to illustrate the mistakes is a healthy eating app that helps its users improve their eating habits and live more healthily. Examples : “Everyone who owns a smartphone”, “Business users and consumers”. 59; Boost Your Product Leadership Power and How to Lead in Product Management , pp.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 18, 2022

Recently one of the founders of a hot startup asked me, “How do we know if we should add new value props for existing customers or continue to invest in existing ones? It’s not a simple answer, but there are critical data points that will point any founder in the right direction with near certainty every time.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 11, 2021

And also is a way of preventing errors and defect bugs in the software development process. Overview of the quality assurance Quality assurance service is a systematic process to ensure the frontend and backend development satisfies specific requirements and quality standards.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Once Upon a Time in Waterfall Land. The latter would work with one or more development teams to get the specification implemented. The latter would work with one or more development teams to get the specification implemented. Products are developed using iterative-incremental processes like Scrum.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

When you become a head of product, you move into a line management position. Consequently, your focus shifts from managing a product to looking after the product people on your team and empowering them to do a great job. For some people, that’s straightforward. Grow Your Leadership Skills.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 5, 2020

The term product owner is commonly used to refer to six different product roles in my experience. A feature owner who manages a major capability with which end users interact like search and navigation on an online retailer’s website. A platform owner who manages a platform as a collection of shared software assets.

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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 4, 2023

1] It involves understanding and selecting user needs, exploring solutions, and choosing the most appropriate one. My intention with this article is to show how product teams can use a product strategy to guide their discovery work and maximise the chances of creating successful products. But how do you determine it?

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 1, 2021

Over the course of the past year, the customer support landscape has changed for good. As brick-and-mortar businesses closed worldwide, companies and customers alike had to pivot to digital-first ways of doing business. According to recent research, however, many teams aren’t sufficiently equipped to meet these new challenges.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

If the teams developing the different apps all created their own user-interface layers, there would be considerable code duplication, added development costs, and increased development time. After all, a platform exists to help teams build better products faster and cheaper.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 9, 2021

The Scrum Guide released in November 2020 states that “the product goal describes a future state of the product … [It] is the long-term objective for the Scrum team.” The product owner is accountable for “developing and explicitly communicating the product goal.” The entire Scrum team is “focused on one … product goal” at a time.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 23, 2020

Meanwhile customer expectations are rising – they expect better experiences and immediate support resolutions. The internet is also driving an explosion in customer choice, allowing them to easily switch to businesses who provide better experiences. Customer support is undergoing massive, irreversible change.

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Product Management University

JUNE 3, 2024

It’s refreshing to see so many discussions and articles themed around product management outcomes. After all, it’s the reason we product managers do what we do, right? Here’s a look at the good, the bad and the ugly when it comes to product management outcomes. THE UGLY This is the worst part if you’re a product manager!

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Modern customers expect quick, personal, and effective service. To provide this, you must understand how your customer experience stacks up against these expectations. But with so much data to consider, how can you define the help desk metrics that matter for your team? What are help desk metrics?

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Product management is a challenging role, no matter what industry you work in. But with great challenges come great opportunities, and most product managers thrive on taking on new tasks and solving difficult problems. Product managers must live and breathe their product. I don’t have enough time in my day. We hear ya.

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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. For example, I’ve seen organisations where the Scrum Masters work with HR and the development teams to recruit new team members. What the Scrum Master Should Do.

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Product Talk

JANUARY 31, 2024

Because discovery involves changing the way you work on an individual, team, and even company level, it’s all too easy to make mistakes and missteps. You’ll hear from: Leann Schneider , Product Manager at Plum.io , Sebastian Wramba , Product Manager at Netfonds AG (finfire), and Jelena Stajic , Vice President of Product at ScholarshipOwl.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 15, 2022

Product teams often fall into the trap of spending most of their time on the core functionality of the products they’re building. Without an accessible onboarding process , customers may never reach the stage where they can use the game-changing features your team has worked so hard to build, making outcomes difficult to achieve.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 23, 2021

“If you think good design is expensive, you should look at the cost of bad design,” Ralf Speth, a former Jaguar Land Rover CEO. The study by the Design Management Institute analyzed the performance of design-led organizations that place influential design decisions at the top as compared to the Standard & Poor’s index over 10 years.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 3, 2018

A business strategy describes how a company wants to achieve its overall aspiration and create value for its users, employees, and shareholders. Unfortunately, it’s not uncommon in my experience that organisations don’t have a business strategy, or that the strategy is not communicated. Which management systems are required?

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