Roman Pichler

MAY 5, 2020

Referring to people as product owners who do not manage a product and do not exercise the right ownership is wrong in my mind: It creates confusion and it sets wrong expectations: Someone who owns a product part cannot take on the responsibility of maximising the product’s value and achieving product success.

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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

APRIL 9, 2019

The challenge to the product managers is to translate these into a more functional plan for our engineering team. We perceive strategy from the management as the gospel – Usually the opposite, a good leadership team usually expects the individual contributors to provide iterative feedback. Simple task, right? First Attempt.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 14, 2018

Looking for an example of a happy, high performing product team? I hosted Laura on our podcast to learn everything from why assembling a great product team is like pulling off a heist, to tips for improving collaboration and marrying business needs with user goals. If you enjoy the conversation check out more episodes of our podcast.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 20, 2016

To help you develop your agile product roadmap, I have created a goal-oriented roadmap template called the GO Product Roadmap. I like to use my Product Vision Board to develop a valid product strategy. The best roadmap is worthless if the people required to develop, market, and sell the product don’t buy into it.

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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 4, 2018

In the worst case, you have to go through a rewriting exercise where some parts or even the entire product are being redeveloped. To understand if and to what extent your product is affected by technical debt, talk to the development team, for example, in the next sprint retrospective.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 4, 2019

Even if your product is not affected by any deadline, it may be helpful to consider dates or timeframes when developing a product roadmap, as this allows you to understand if the plan is realistic. Dates on a product roadmap are neither good nor bad in my mind. Ensure the Roadmap is Realistic.

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Productside

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Overview Charles River Laboratories aimed to enhance its product management practices and foster better team alignment. To meet these objectives, Productside delivered a tailored Optimal Product Management course featuring custom exercises designed to tackle the company’s unique challenges.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

To help hiring managers and recruiters, like myself, decide whether or not to interview you, it can be a great exercise to treat your resume like a professional product. Ultimately, your resume should itself signal that you have the skills required to be a successful product manager on any team. If you’re. Storytelling.

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UX Studio

MAY 2, 2018

It sounds weird at first but wait… Trick 2: Bad ideas don’t always turn out that bad. For one, we automatically exclude a lot of ideas because we find them bad or useless for some reason. Re-evaluating these bad ideas can open up brand new perspectives. How To Create A Convincing Product Vision To Guide Your Team.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 17, 2023

Some companies will retreat and cut their spending by cutting bolder long-term innovations, and we saw in the recession around 2010 that was a bad strategy. Show the customer something in the first three weeks of development and repeat every four weeks. The Stage-Gate process came from stories of successful entrepreneurs and teams.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

Furthermore, in order to ensure that product teams don’t become too risk averse to learn from their failures and iterate their way to success, a few cautions are warranted in evaluating product teams. The last thing that product teams need is a leader who tells them: “You either succeed or you’re out.” Watch What You Measure.

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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. Empower teams so they come up with solutions. Develop Your Pieces. Identify and focus key weaknesses.

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 18, 2024

We covered how to manage messy opportunity solution trees , the most common challenges teams face when getting started with the discovery habits, what Im working on next, and so much more. Discovery is a team sport. I did classic web development before there were frameworks back in the ’90s. I hate definition wars.

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The Product Bistro

JULY 12, 2016

An interesting role play, Steven lined up 6 victims willing participants, to represent the major functional groups in an organization, Product Management, Operations, Sales, Marketing, Customer Support, and Development, providing each of them a backstory to guide their motivation. The exercise was interesting.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

. – Tweet This The product team at Botify knows this all too well. While Chief Product Officer Christophe Frenet initially guided this transition, many members of the team stepped in to facilitate this process. However, Claire adds it wasn’t all bad. Along the way, they’ve given a lot of thought to this process.

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The 4-Hour Work Week focuses on making the leap from employee to entrepreneur, but my system is for individuals working either for themselves or as part of a team, and for leaders of organizations looking to build Time Rich cultures. The 4-Hour Work Week had a significant impact on my life, but Time Rich is different.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

We know that moving at speed is all about making decisions quickly and acting on them – but quick decisions get a bad rap. . Still, effective, quick decision-making is a skill we crave and can increase agility, energy, and momentum within any team. . What would a better option look like? Stage 6: Review the decision.

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 21, 2016

When I am happy and content, everything seems OK—even an nagging problem with my website isn’t that bad and can wait. But when I am discontent, tense, or tired, small things can seem big and bad. Secondly, a major success factor for every product person is to develop empathy for the users and customers. Creativity needs space.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

This is the recipe for a mediocre sales team. Like a sports franchise, a top team should be both collaborative and competitive. For Steli, soldiering through difficulty is the crucial muscle to exercise when feeling down and out. There is a golden middle, and that’s what Close.com’s CEO, Steli Efti, is aiming for.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 26, 2019

The questions keep coming in and it can feel great to help move your team forward by making the decisions, but they quickly pile up and leave you with no time to consider the bigger picture. A shared understanding of your customers, problems, and vision helps your whole team make the myriad of day-to-day decisions involved in product.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 6, 2023

Sue, the Scrum Master , wanted to help the development team get better at sprint planning. But the team still over-commits and under-delivers. It is therefore important that you exercise leadership and address the people issues you are encountering even if this can be challenging and require courage at times.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 11, 2020

TL; DR: Development Team Anti-Patterns After covering the Scrum Master and the Product Owner, this article addresses Development Team anti-patterns, covering all Scrum Events as well as the Product Backlog artifact. Only members of the Development Team create the Increment. Source : Scrum Guide 2017.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 27, 2021

The Most Common Product Management Interview Questions What do you see as a Product Manager’s main role within product development? How do you see your career developing in the next 5 years? What are your main strengths and weaknesses? What do you see as a Product Manager’s main role within product development?

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 20, 2018

Processes have to serve the development of the product. No separate QA team. In this sort of environment, the processes have to serve the development of the product, rather than the product developing out of predetermined processes. The whole exercise of designing a process is based on solving the problem.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

A Scrum Master should recognize that different stages of a Scrum Team’s development require different approaches: some, teaching; some, coaching; and some, mentoring. A Scrum Master’s principal objective should be to remove themselves from daily operations by enabling the Scrum Team to be self-organizing. A cross-functional?—?be

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Janna had a sales job in college and recounts how intense the training was – with role-playing exercises, secret shoppers, and scripts – and how focused it was on dealing with people. “I’ve spotted a trend: a bad roadmap is a symptom of underlying issues in the company. Rebooting teams. Roadmaps are stories.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

But many product leaders at the roundtable reported that their teams struggle to make decisions when they feel the data is either inconclusive or not available in sufficient quantities. We discussed a number of coaching and development opportunities associated with this difficulty. CEO vs Product Management.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 13, 2019

In a recent talk at UX London , I discussed some lessons learned while growing the design team at Intercom, reflecting on the technology industry’s obsession with tools, and pointed out how our sense of tools as objects or apps blinds us to the reality that the processes we adopt and develop are also, in effect, tools.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 29, 2018

I try to help product and sales teams succeed under the mantra “Easy to Sell, Easy to Renew.” I’ve struggled to find many examples detailing how to bond product and sales teams ( Antonia Bozhkova offers a good perspective ). Your teams will realign and strengthen their partnership as they see the product through each other’s eyes.

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Mind the Product

MAY 16, 2018

But, when asked about the greatest moment of the turnaround, Mulally says it was when his executive team started being comfortable enough with him to tell him the truth. Poor-performing companies’ employees were 79% more likely to have low overall self-awareness than those at firms with robust ROR. What is Self-Awareness Anyway?

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Tyner Blain

MARCH 20, 2025

Just as you change collaboration patterns through changing how you develop roadmaps, you change the conversation with leaders through how you orient towards supporting them. First, the scope of work has already been defined and the team is being asked to deliver it. This is an order-giver / order-taker pattern. This is clearly insane.

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nulab

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Once you’ve gathered as many ideas as you can, the team works together to narrow it down until you have just the best remaining. Ideation will help you with the following things: Overcome analysis paralysis and help you and the team enter a creative mindset faster. Help the team both work and think together. Brainstorming.

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Product Talk

AUGUST 14, 2024

We’ll hear from several members of the product team at Ramsey Solutions about their not-so-smooth transition to working in product trios, especially when it came to getting engineers to participate. Meet the Continuous Discovery Champions at Ramsey Solutions The product team at Ramsey Solutions is 40+ squads strong.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

Prototyping helps you to focus your energy on the right thing at the right time in product development – and therein lies one of the secrets to building great products. The team, working with engineering and product design, started to weigh the factors that would determine how the product would ultimately look and feel.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 26, 2020

You go beyond developing a solution and like to be involved in the definition of the solution itself, giving your perspective and suggesting appropriate changes. It’s not just about developing a feature, you also make sure that is robust enough, so it doesn’t cause a bad impression. You care about quality.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 31, 2019

The process of defining your positioning strategy is not a one-and-done deal – in a crowded marketplace, it needs to be an ongoing exercise. And as the organization grows, the work involved to get teams aligned on who you’re selling to and how you’re selling is not something to be taken for granted either. They include: Close.io

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