Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Their diverse background offers valuable lessons for product managers looking to improve their innovative thinking techniques. Throughout our conversation, we explore insights from their creative process that can be applied to product innovation and management.

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The Product Guy

MAY 7, 2020

Hence it is critical that one is aware of the best practises of the role and develops his own philosophy which results into maximum positive leverage for the organization. As I strive towards becoming a product leader, I wanted to understand the best practises in product management and in the process develop my own product philosophy. .

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 13, 2020

Guest Post by: Candice Zhang (Mentee, Session 11, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Tauheed Ahmed]. When I first researched about product management, I asked seasoned product managers how they started and they gave me very different kinds of answers. Some of them are good, and some of them are bad.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2019

Guest Post by: Merziyah Poonawala (Mentee, Session 9, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Joni Hoadley]. What do you do when your team is working their socks off and yet they are getting little credit for the work being done, mainly because the team isn’t able to set concrete expectations with the stakeholder? THE CAUSE.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

How product managers use Jobs-To-Be-Done to create products customers love Watch on YouTube TLDR In this episode, I explain the Jobs-To-Be-Done (JTBD) framework, a powerful approach to understanding customer needs and developing successful products.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 9, 2019

Guest Post by: Eric Wang (Mentee, Session 8, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Chris Butler]. The notion of a strategy in product management seems like something that only high-level stakeholders at the executive level should care about. Journey Into the World of Strategy. Simple task, right? First Attempt.

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Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 8, 2021

How product managers can get their teams on the same page. This podcast is getting a new name—Product Masters Now. You don’t need to do anything to keep listening, but it will show in your podcast player not as The Everyday Innovator but as Product Masters Now. 2:30] Why do some teams underperform?

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Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 3, 2025

How AI captures customer needs that human product managers miss Watch on YouTube TLDR In my recent conversation with Carmel Dibner from Applied Marketing Science, we explored how artificial intelligence is transforming Voice of the Customer (VOC) research for product teams.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 5, 2022

For product strategy and roadmap meetings, I recommend involving the key stakeholders , for example, someone from sales, marketing, support, and finance, as well as development team representatives—ideally members who know about the user experience (UX), architecture, and technologies. State objective and agenda. Stay present.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Guest Post by: Syed Abdullah (Mentee, Session 11, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Bryan Postelnek]. I have worked on several products that were built with passion and vigor. At JCDecaux, I led the development of an information kiosk for airport passengers. The kiosks are deployed to many airports in the U.S.

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 31, 2021

How to align your organization and product management team with the voice of your customer. In this discussion we address what it means to properly incorporate UX (user experience) into your product work. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [1:37] 10:15] What tools are helpful in UX?

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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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The Product Guy

APRIL 9, 2020

What about stepping up to lead a team while a coworker is out on leave or joining a new team and having to earn their trust in less than a month? . Using existing behavioral and habit formation research, I developed and employed a simple and effective framework. Or work with a difficult person, period? Existing model.

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Product Talk

MARCH 13, 2024

When an organization shifts from delivery or feature teams to product teams , the first step is often a change to team structure. Delivery and feature teams are often structured by function—front-end teams, back-end teams, mobile teams, etc. These teams can rarely deliver value on their own.

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 11, 2022

Second, a learning roadmap allows you to leverage your product roadmapping skills and use them to create an actionable learning plan. For example, the guidelines I have developed for the GO product roadmap template directly apply to the roadmap in figure 1. If that’s the case, then don’t feel bad.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

Instead, you should engage the stakeholders, leverage their expertise, and generate as much buy-in as possible , as I explain in more detail in my article “ Stakeholder Management Tips for Product People.” ” But do not allow people to dominate and tell you what to do, and don’t agree to a weak compromise.

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The Product Backlog is Too Big. 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.

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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]

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 11, 2020

It can also result in a large product backlog and high development cost: The greater the number of people who should benefit from your product is, the more diverse their needs are likely to be, and the more features are usually required to address them. Many Needs but No Compelling Reason for Using the Product.

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Product Innovation Educators

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

How product managers can use AI to get more actionable insights from qualitative data Today we are talking about using qualitative data to drive our work in product and consequently improve sales. Before founding Viable, he held senior leadership roles in engineering, technology, and product.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 7, 2025

Whether youre grappling with a delayed product launch or a strained relationship, the path forward begins by uncovering the deeper truths beneath the surface. Product managers live and breathe this approach, diving beyond symptoms to address root causes. Initially, their prototype underperformed in user testing.

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The Product Guy

JULY 18, 2019

Guest Post by: Sean Raftery (Mentee, Session 9, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Jordan Bergtraum]. Product development roles and “product” as a discipline are rapidly evolving within technology companies. Product Management at scale has also evolved but at a slower pace.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 29, 2024

Outcome-Driven Innovation – for Product Managers Watch on YouTube [link] TLDR Tony Ulwick, creator of Jobs-to-Be-Done, introduces Outcome-Driven Innovation (ODI), a revolutionary approach to product management. He was part of the team that created the PCjr, a product that flopped badly.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Your job is not to please the stakeholders, but to achieve product success. If you say yes to every request, you are in danger of creating a Frankenstein product—a product that is a collection of unrelated features, offers a weak value proposition, and gives rise to a poor user experience.

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 22, 2024

2] Figure 2: A Sample Product Portfolio Strategy If you are familiar with my work on product strategy , you’ll recognise the structure I’ve used in Figure 2: It is based on the Product Vision Board —the tool I’ve developed to capture a product vision and a product strategy.

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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. But not all outcomes are created equal.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 10, 2020

Five factors of successful product managers. Do you and your product teams have the characteristics required for success? The Product Team Performance study has been identifying the characteristics of high-performing teams since 2012. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [2:50]

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

This helps align the stakeholders and development teams, as I discuss below, and acquire a budget if required. These benefits make goal-oriented, outcome-based product roadmaps preferable to traditional, feature-focused plans, especially for digital products that exhibit uncertainty and change virtually across their entire life cycles.

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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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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

I first heard of Bob when he was the president of Sequent Learning, the product management training company. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers [2:09] What is product strategy? Product strategy is doing that at a product level. The P&L owner varies from business to business.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 8, 2019

We became a so-lala product: So-Lala [zo la la] – German word for so-so or meh. The So-Lala Product epidemic. Similar stories have inspired new product and business development frameworks , thousands of articles, and numerous books. Companies simply ship too many poor products and features.

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 27, 2022

Lessons learned from a product manager’s experiences at Google and YouTube. Most of us have become product managers and then moved on (or will move on) to product leadership based on our experiences and knowledge. I want to explore experiences that help you be a better product professional.

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 12, 2023

Tools for planning and executing product projects Today we are talking about the skills product managers need to grow their careers. Before joining Google, Neha worked as a Management Consultant at Essex Product Consulting, where she helped organizations build products. To help us, Neha Bansal is with us.

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Innovation accounting for teams, managers, and strategy – for product managers. the development of new business models. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [1:59] In the first level, tactical innovation, what metrics should teams use to measure innovation?

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Roman Pichler

MAY 5, 2020

A platform owner who manages a platform as a collection of shared software assets. The SAFe product owner who owns the product details. A portfolio owner who manages a group of (related) products. None is per se better or worse.

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