Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

This individual leads the product team, not by being the boss but by exercising emergent leadership. This aligns everyone and ensures that the various deliverables and outputs—for instance, the source code, the end-user documentation, the marketing collateral, and the training materials—fit together.

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ProductPlan

DECEMBER 15, 2020

You’re a product manager, and you need to run a collaborative roadmapping exercise with various teams across your company. What is a Collaborative Roadmapping Exercise? A collaborative roadmapping exercise is an ideation meeting. This environment can help you with every stage of the exercise: before, during, and after.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 20, 2016

If your goal is to acquire customers, for example, then ask yourself how many new customers should be acquired; or if your goal is to reduce technical debt, determine how much of the bad code should be removed or rewritten. Carry out this exercise together with the development team. 10 Regularly Review and Adjust the Roadmap.

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Product Talk

JUNE 12, 2019

Here are three “riffs” on how to illustrate the value product leaders realize when using the opportunity solution tree: Fight organizational amnesia with color-coding. Fight Organizational Amnesia with Color-Coding. Improve stakeholder collaboration. Co-create with customers. Click to see a full-sized image. Tweet This.

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Product Talk

MARCH 13, 2024

They received a lot of pushback from the engineers initially because it created complexities around code reviews, tech debt management, release processes, etc. Sam created a diagram to help demonstrate the benefits of organizing teams by value stream as opposed to code base. Click the image to see a larger version.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 1, 2018

As a product manager, it can be quite daunting to start a new software product from scratch. I encourage you to review Jeff Patton’s process for building the story map. and approach the exercise with a ”Yes, And.” Guest Post by: Tofi Buzali (Mentee, Session 6, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Andy Wadhwa]. Exploration.

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 12, 2024

These include product strategy and roadmapping meetings , which usually take place bi-monthly or quarterly, and tactical product meetings, for example, sprint review meetings. For example, some might believe that due to their seniority, they should have the final say on important decisions.

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 6, 2021

In Hope’s first scenario, she described a team who worked on medical record-keeping software. The team diligently worked at addressing this need and was disappointed to learn that it had little impact on their outcomes. As a way of visualizing our thinking , this is a fantastic exercise. Click the image to see a larger version.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Clockwise from the top left, Codi Funakoshi, Product Designer, Rafa Salazar, Lead Software Engineer, and Lisa Orr, Senior Product Manager. To ensure that engineers got the most out of the meetings, Lisa asked them to participate in a dot voting exercise so they could have a say in what type of information they care about most.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Fallacy #1: ‘Agile’ Equals More Bang for the Buck If you ask founders and managers of startups why they want to become an agile organization, they typically name reasons such as: Becoming more efficient in software delivery, Delivering faster, Improving the predictability of software deliveries. The exercise works for everyone?—?sales,

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Product Talk

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

It’s no wonder we end up with software that doesn’t work for our customers. When a product manager, a designer, and a software engineer work together to decide what to build and they engage directly with customers themselves, we avoid this game of telephone. These visual exercises facilitate the work of discovery.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 5, 2024

Case Study: Leveraging Constraints for Innovation Consider this real-world example of how embracing constraints can lead to significant innovations: A software company faced a major industry shift from text-based to graphical interfaces. Their primary competitor assigned 100 people to develop a next-generation product.

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UX Planet

JANUARY 7, 2024

DESIGN WORKBOOKS How to put design theory into practice in an efficient way My favorite UX design workbooks: develop your skills by solving exercises Learning design theory is a good step towards becoming a better designer, but it is also important to put the things you’ve learned into practice. I couldn’t have summarized it better!

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Well, I’d never worked with testers or rather I’d never taught testers how to code. QA Automation Engineer is a product quality assurance specialist who creates tests with the help of software tools and verifies execution results. The main task of QA Automation specialists is to check someone else’s code with their own.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 17, 2023

It’s a combination of IT software and LEGO blocks. When you do a portfolio review and re-rank all the projects, you find out that a few of them that look shiny and bright at the beginning are not quite so shiny and bright over time. It only takes about a day to do that exercise and then a little longer to improve the process.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 16, 2022

Product design workshops are an opportunity for a team to untangle a problem together by going through a series of group exercises designed to get to a specific outcome. A doc of draft product principles to send to the product team for feedback and review. Warm-up exercise. Exercises (30 min). What date will it be?

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Eric is a senior developer at a medium-sized software company. Eric loves coding and is passionate about new products. A thorough persona workshop, including profile building and persona activating exercise, can take up to two days. Persona Activating Exercises. Our team is building a product for just one person.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 3, 2021

In terms of research and development or generally the product and engineering functions, the people who produce your software, this really is a question of investability. How are you going to turn that cash into code? And how can I then turn that code back into cash? “Building software isn’t a home run type endeavor.

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Agile Velocity

AUGUST 18, 2021

For example, Agile HR departments can adopt the core Agile principle of reflecting regularly, challenging one of the more nerve-racking traditions… the annual performance review. . In this post, we explore an alternative to the typical annual performance review: peer round tables. . How to hold a peer round table review.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Mueller and Oppenheimer speculated, however, that this result was not necessarily due to the medium itself, but due to the fact that students who typed their notes tended to capture verbatim notes. Because I used to code, I use // to start my own thoughts. customer interviews, co-creation exercises. – Tweet This.

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Sachin Rekhi

JUNE 1, 2017

I remember being ecstatic when I learned that programming computers was a profession and I knew what my calling was: I wanted to develop software that improved people's lives. I worked hard to impress them and finally was able to convince them that I actually knew how to code. But that's as specific as my passion was at the time.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 26, 2023

Generative AI has the potential to create economic impact within sales, marketing, software engineering & IT, customer operations, and R&D functions across various verticals. Software Engineering: Generative AI drafts computer code based on natural language prompts, which reduces the time required for coding and debugging.

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Userpilot

MARCH 4, 2021

Are you looking for customer feedback software for your SaaS business? What is Customer Feedback Software? Why is Having Customer Feedback Software Important? Customer feedback software is an essential tool in the arsenal of SaaS businesses for keeping track of user sentiment. What is customer feedback software?

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

On the one side, they address typical Scrum events such as Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, and the Sprint Retrospective. Sprint Planning with dysfunctional teams will only result in a futile and painful exercise. Read more: Retrospective Exercises Repository.) and act appropriately in due course.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 8, 2018

The cross-functional development team makes the design and technology decisions; and the Scrum Master guides process and organisational change, as the following picture shows. That’s the job of the development team.

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bpma ProductHub

MARCH 20, 2017

Let’s review a couple of scenarios: Scenario one – company has an existing product portfolio. In a recent exercise with a product team, I challenged them to list the markets where the company could potentially sell. The top challenge most product companies face is finding the best market for their product. Just remember to focus.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

This enduring appeal is partly due to the nostalgia of Pokémon and the “catch ’em all” mentality (which deserves its own discussion), but also because of some clever mechanisms built into the game. This allowed me to incorporate significant amounts of exercise into my day without disrupting my schedule.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

If I’m about to do business with your company and your software is going to access my customers’ data, it’s my responsibility to ensure you have the proper controls in place to protect it. If you sell software today, there’s a 99.9% Start early. How does that feel? Liam: The whole area is a new space.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

The most illustrative example of this point relates to software testing. As far as there are a lot of repetitive and time-consuming actions during software testing, automation is in high demand. To start writing a script or code, manual testers had to get many coding tasks solved from the very beginning of their training.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

After an idea generation exercise he and the team designed a new look for the Encarta product – which better showcased the quality of their product. Simple design tools are the best to use with prototyping software to give a user an experience we can test assumptions against right away. This was a huge problem for Jake’s team.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 17, 2022

For example, you can try to segment by key behaviors, demographics, industry, geographical region, revenue by customer, software package tier, and the list goes on. Color-coded user conversion rates in our previously defined segmentation matrix. Color-coded user churn rates in our previously defined segmentation matrix.

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ProductPlan

DECEMBER 11, 2019

In our upcoming 2020 Product Management Report, we found that they’re relying on a handful of options depending on the scale and scope of the exercise and which stakeholders are included. The post Product Management 2019: Year In Review appeared first on. Returning the Power Back to the Customer. Setting a Course for 2020.

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Sachin Rekhi

MARCH 1, 2020

Book reviews. With these, I try to bring a personal perspective to the book review as opposed to simply summarizing it. At times I've sat down and done brainstorming exercises to come up with essay ideas for both SachinRekhi.com and LettersToZoe.com. It's been a fun side-project to keep my coding skills sharp over the years.

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 18, 2023

In his book Testing Business Ideas , David Bland shares an exercise called assumption mapping. Sketch and Figma and a wide variety of no-code tools are also good options here. This is the area where I’m hoping to see big gains quickly due to the rise of generative AI. How do you identify the riskiest assumptions?

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 29, 2021

It is an exercise in centralized power used to overcome the natural workings of a system. Continuous Discovery (By Teresa Torres ) “Rather than defining your success by the code that you ship (your output), you define success as the value that code creates for your customers and your business (the outcomes).” “An

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Example 3: The designer autonomously conducted a design review of the App Store, identified a number of quick wins, worked with the team to ship improvements during wiggle week. Now designers in all teams regularly commit code as part of the design process. Output: Changes to the App Store. Are your answers the same?

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 24, 2022

and are then re-assigned elsewhere, leaving orphaned software that is quickly discarded without essential bug fixes or v1.1 ”  A year later, only two clients are using it, and we need to support that custom code for 5 more years Products or expensive features that don’t have clear success criteria.  We

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