Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

This individual leads the product team, not by being the boss but by exercising emergent leadership. The vision describes the ultimate purpose for creating the product and the positive change it should bring about. Additionally, it is based on my leadership work, especially my book How to Lead in Product Management. [2]

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People-First Product Leadership

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Part 1, we covered the “why” behind creating a strategy stack, with a focus on establishing the organization’s Mission, North Star, and Vision. Part 3 brings together the Product specific Vision, Roadmap and Goals. The Vision is brought to life in the Now / Next / Later roadmap, which is supported by Product Goals.

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People-First Product Leadership

JUNE 11, 2023

Does your team (or organization) have a shared Mission, Vision, Strategy, and Goals? Be Curious Not Judgmental: In my course People-First Product Leadership , I do just that - I share how to put people on your team first. A good vision should be clear, punchy, and inspiring. A good vision should be clear, punchy, and inspiring.

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 4, 2023

This can create tension between product teams and your company leadership or stakeholders —some argue that they can’t coordinate work with the rest of the company without these dates. – Tweet This I’ve written before that date-based “ roadmaps are exercises in futility.” This doesn’t mean we can’t commit to outcomes.

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UX Planet

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

And that’s the ability to create extraordinary product visions that are forward thinking, innovative, and can solve your users’ biggest problems. And because of this it will be almost impossible to move up into leadership roles that require demonstrated experience developing powerful visions. You just failed to be self-aware.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 11, 2019

I’ve had multiple occasions recently to reflect on my own leadership philosophy. Not only have I been asked about it explicitly, but in several conversations with friends and others, the topic of leadership has come up with both positive and negative examples. So What is a Leadership Philosophy?

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ProductPlan

JULY 30, 2021

Before hiring a product leader, you need to ensure that you understand the most essential product leadership interview questions that can help better inform your hiring decision. . 6 Product Leadership Interview Questions to Ask. Product leadership is about more than bossing around your direct reports.

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People-First Product Leadership

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Read People-First Product Leadership How to create the future together through backcasting When I worked in emerging media at Razorfish , developing a strategy brief was always a collaborative effort. Instead it’s an exercise to envision what the future might be like. I remember going on and on about Twitter.

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Folding Burritos

DECEMBER 4, 2019

These numbers will come as the result of all the micro-decisions we make every day, consciously or not–it’s an implicit strategy (which through this exercise has been made explicit). . Is this thing you’re asking with our mission, vision, value proposition? Does it contribute to our current goals at all? Does it require a large effort?

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Radical Product

APRIL 30, 2020

We’ve learned that it’s OK to start with a rough idea of the direction and discover your vision through iteration. Instead of using iteration to discover our vision, RPT means thinking about the change we want to bring to the world and then engineering our product as a mechanism to create that change. A good vision is not about you.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 14, 2023

Let’s begin with a definition — Transcendent leadership extends beyond conventional notions of success and influence. It is rooted in the understanding that authentic leadership emerges when we transcend our ambitions and dedicate ourselves to uplifting others and positively impacting the world.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 20, 2016

Describe and validate the product strategy —the path to realise your vision—before you create your roadmap and decide how the strategy is best implemented, as the following picture illustrates. I like to use my Product Vision Board to develop a valid product strategy. Use your vision and product strategy to make the right decisions.

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Sequent Learning

JULY 25, 2019

Start With A Vision. Successful products begin life with a spark of inspiration and a vision. Vision is, considered a non-negotiable for a CEO, and is often non-negotiable for a product manager. One reason is that not all product managers have the innate sense of a vision for the product.

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Business of Software Conference

MAY 18, 2020

In Times of Scarcity, Clear Vision Beats Rapid Iteration – Guest blog post from Radhika Dutt. In Times of Scarcity, Clear Vision Beats Rapid Iteration. Without a clear vision that was centered on the problem at hand, the optics became the primary concern. Radhika is co-Founder of Radical Product Thinking.

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Product Talk

APRIL 17, 2024

You have this grand vision. That was a good exercise and that was learning number one: Breaking it down into its smallest pieces and aligning on something and learning together as a team, I think unblocked a lot. What’s the vision? The vision is flight level one for me. It is hard to do true research for a product vision.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Difficult though it may be, a founder needs to step away from the product and relinquish more control to the product function; there were three approaches to easing this process that resonated most strongly with product leaders: Make it a communication and focus exercise.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

I instead define a product manager as driving the vision, strategy, design, and execution of their product. Vision: Vision Narrative. Most product managers realize that defining a compelling vision for their product is a core responsibility of their role. Vision: Product Walkthrough.

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People-First Product Leadership

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Share People-First Leadership 2. Regularly exercise your product judgment by making informed decisions and reflecting on outcomes. Your teams will see leadership backing the change, learn to speak the same language, and work better together. Stay tuned for insights that can shape your approach to product leadership.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

When Teresa started working with the team at Airship, she led them through the “How to Make Toast” exercise to help clarify orchestration. Principal Engineer Todd Johnson walks the team through orchestration based on the results of the exercise. It can also get leadership buy-in to where a team is heading overall.”–

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 5, 2021

Product leadership is about finding the right business opportunities to accomplish with the right product. Here is a quick exercise to see if the market is ready for you: start with the problems you see today, and ask yourself: when this problem is solved, what will become the next problem? You should.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 14, 2020

The Steps and Exercises of the Product Mindset Workshop The product mindset workshop comprises of seven steps, starting with the product vision to the business model to personas to ideation: 1. Product Vision We start the workshop with a recap of the product vision?—?why our product vision?—?is Show Me the Money?—?the

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 2, 2024

In his role on the leadership team, he is responsible for shaping and executing their product strategy. This aspect made reaching out and scheduling calls over the Customer Success (CS) team a low-return exercise for the customers who have already installed and configured our software,” explains Yury.

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Sequent Learning

DECEMBER 20, 2023

A Holistic Skill Set with Product Management Certification Skill Amplification : Aspiring Product Managers undergo comprehensive training, gaining expertise in strategic thinking, data analysis, and leadership, further enriched by a Product Management Certification. It doesn’t just shape careers; it defines success stories.

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People-First Product Leadership

JANUARY 22, 2024

Such an exercise is called “ Elephants, Dead Fish, and Vomit ” and originates from Airbnb. an exercise I like to do is from Coda and is called “Is your team laying bricks or building a cathedral”? You could fill out a vision board or draft a PRFAQ. List the elephants in the room. To go from 1% to 3.5%

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Product Bookshelf

APRIL 15, 2024

Martin Good Strategy, Bad Strategy by Richard Rumels Product strategy is a set of choices informed by product vision and company objectives. Product strategy tends to be mysterious because it is typically associated with executive leadership, large-scale bets, and major inititiaves. Playing to Win by A.G. Lafley and Roger L.

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Sachin Rekhi

JUNE 16, 2019

I've long found myself unsatisfied with the conventional discourse of what leadership is supposed to look like in Silicon Valley technology companies. These best practices are typically oversimplified into two high-level philosophies on leadership. These two leadership approaches couldn't be more different from each other.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 15, 2019

You are constantly using your roadmap to influence other departments and align their efforts to your product vision. Here is what you should do: Set up time with your leadership teams to prioritise the goals for the next few months Share the goals and initiatives that are required to be prioritised before the meeting.

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Mind the Product

MAY 27, 2019

Neville started with a “nine dots” exercise (you must link all nine dots using four straight lines or fewer, without lifting the pen). He explained the rules and challenged us to complete the exercise. Start by establishing a clear vision, map out a strategy, and execute a series of tactical moves. A Game of Chess. Opening Game.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 17, 2020

A strategic product manager (PM) is responsible for shaping and sharing a strategic vision for a product, and yet—oddly enough—finding time for strategic activities can be a very real challenge. How can you take responsibility for the vision and shape the future of your product when you don’t control strategy at the corporate level?”.

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Userpilot

MAY 30, 2024

Leadership support , shared ownership of outcomes, cross-functional training, and celebrating collaboration can encourage PM-PMM alignment. They define the product vision , strategy, and roadmap. They articulate the value of the product and make it compelling to prospects through messaging and positioning exercises.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The leadership team finally agreed on the vision. Clarity around the product vision, market opportunity, value to the user, how to win in the market, metrics, objectives, assumptions, dependencies, constraints, and how the product delivers results for the organization. The north star was clear?—?enabling

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Through a combination of leadership buy-in, reading, and coaching, they committed to mapping opportunities and testing assumptions before jumping to solutions and found new ways to truly put their users first. This was the situation Sören Weber and the Search & Flow team at trivago found themselves in.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 5, 2023

These exercises build consensus around strategic imperatives. For this reason, it’s the perfect time to align those with the product vision by conducting an annual planning session. This big-picture exercise may not put everything on the table. Achieving great things takes planning.

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Agile Velocity

MAY 20, 2020

With that in mind, I started to dig into these articles and relate to how we’re addressing organizational leadership with Path to Agility ®. I wholeheartedly agree with the need to “create balance from the top” as a central tenet of leadership engagement. The Agile Leadership Team. HBR article setup. Balance from the Top.

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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 24, 2024

12 months) that choices are meaningful and actionable Lends itself to OKRs or metrics Not just an airy 5-year vision with all things for all people.  I think of this first as an organizational and company culture question, not first as a Porter -meets-slideware-meets-research exercise.  Short-enough time frame (e.g.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 10, 2024

Take Apple’s Vision Pro for example. It’s also a legitimate strategy, and had Apple seen Vision Pro more related to Mac than to iPhone it could have gone down that path too. That’s what this exercise is about. The definition of strategy is a high-level plan toward your goals under conditions of uncertainty. So how do you choose?

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People-First Product Leadership

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Design: Co-create a shared future vision by bringing together individual aspirations to enable the collective team to have real, positive potential. In none of the phases is the leader going through the exercise alone. The more I exchanged my "essential hat", for the question, "can you help me?",

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