Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Leading as the Person in Charge of the Product When you hear the term leadership , you might first and foremost think of a senior manager like the head of product, Director of Product Management, VP of Product, or Chief Product Officer.[ It is therefore called assigned leadership.[

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Lenny Rachitsky

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Below, you’ll find what I believe is the most actionable, specific, and straightforward framework for crafting a strategy, for both your product and your company. As Chandra shares below, his framework sits on top of the best strategy wisdom out there (e.g. What exactly is product strategy?

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

A four-layer framework to create a winning product strategy Today we are talking about creating product strategy. Bob is the author of the book Creative Strategy Generation. He has since founded and leads the Strategy Generation company. Product strategy is doing that at a product level.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 12, 2024

But this taught me an important lesson: There is no point in worrying about the product details if a sound product strategy is missing. As helpful as a product strategy is, it’s not enough. To ensure that the right technologies are applied, you’ll benefit from using a technology strategy.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

While the role still requires strong leadership skills, the most successful product managers approach their work differently than what the “CEO of the product” phrase might suggest. As we’ll explore in this article, effective product management requires a unique blend of skills that goes beyond traditional leadership models.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

First, I did not know how to frame, develop and present product strategy in a systematic way, and second, as a startup, my company has not historically had a good track record of strategy being developed outside of senior management (read: founder). I admit that in the past, I have been soured on “strategy” as a discipline.

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Productside

MARCH 3, 2025

Days 3160: Align Strategy and Team 3. One participant worried: Leadership is anti-product. Recommended Templates Product Strategy & Roadmap Review : Uncover your biggest alignment gaps. Theyll see your team as a strategy engine, not overhead. Executives want faster ROI, not more overhead. The principle stays the same.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 11, 2020

Use them to establish a shared purpose, to direct and align people, and to give the individuals the autonomy they need to do their piece of work—be it creating a marketing strategy or designing and building a product increment. Leadership at Multiple Levels. Consequently, do not neglect the product discovery and strategy work.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 11, 2020

Use them to establish a shared purpose, to direct and align people, and to give the individuals the autonomy they need to do their piece of work—be it creating a marketing strategy or designing and building a product increment. Leadership at Multiple Levels. Consequently, do not neglect the product discovery and strategy work.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Our guest, Anya Cheng, founded Taelor, combining her leadership experience at B2Cs and her knowledge of tech product management, to make it easy for men to wear stylish clothes for any occasion. A Fresh Perspective on Product Development Anya challenged common assumptions about product development strategy.

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The Product Guy

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Here are three actionable strategies to tackle some of the biggest hurdles product managers face today. Use frameworks like RICE (Reach, Impact, Confidence, Effort) to create a shared language around decisions. Templates and frameworks can save hours of reinventing the wheel. Bring stakeholders into the process.

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The Product Manager Coach Blog

JANUARY 14, 2025

With the right strategies, you can hit the ground running, build trust, and leverage your expertise to thrive in your new role. Tailor Your Communication: Adapt your messaging for different audiences, whether its engineering teams or senior leadership. The first 90 days arent just about onboardingtheyre your proving ground.

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Stepping into your first product leadership role is a major change. You may find yourself less involved in the day-to-day work of discovery and delivery and more focused on higher-level strategy. Trevor explains, “The leadership team felt like discovery was ‘taking too long.’

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Roman Pichler

MAY 8, 2018

Three Types of Leadership. Scrum is a simple framework with three roles: product owner, development team, and Scrum Master. Each role provides a distinct type of leadership. In the worst case, the strategy is no longer valid, but you do everything you can to steam ahead, asking the team to push out more and more features.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 8, 2024

The individuals whose buy-in to strategy and roadmap decisions is crucial are the players: They are interested in your product, as they, for example, will have to market and sell it. Decisions related to a new or significantly changed strategy have a very high impact. I refer to this group as key stakeholders.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

This individual leads the product team, not by being the boss but by exercising emergent leadership. For example, the marketer must be able to create the right marketing strategy for the product. To help you with this, I’ve created the framework shown in Figure 2. 3] Figure 3 illustrates the team’s ownership of the goals.

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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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Productside

MARCH 18, 2025

Scaling a product isnt just about selling moreits about refining product-market fit, unlocking the right growth levers, and making sure your go-to-market strategy actually aligns with what your customers need. Learn how to avoid common pitfalls, build strong GTM alignment, and refine your product strategy for sustainable success.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

A case study on how ecosystem strategy led to a 30% increase in user adoption. The biggest pitfalls to avoid when designing an ecosystem strategy. As a Patron, youll gain access to: Weekly updates with strategies designed to help PMs thrive. A growing library of frameworks, case studies, and actionable tools.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 3, 2023

” [10:51] Tell us about your framework for digital transformation. They looked for strategies that made their physical stores assets rather than liabilities. ” [10:51] Tell us about your framework for digital transformation.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 7, 2022

Break down standardised processes for all and everything Well, there’s nothing wrong about a framework, if you know how to handle and adapt it. There’s one left that’s even harder to reach: You have to know your target, your strategy and your business. There are a lot of factors, that have a high influence on your success.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

For the full story and actionable strategies, youll need to unlock the article. As a Patron, youll gain access to: Weekly updates with strategies designed to help PMs thrive. A growing library of frameworks, case studies, and actionable tools. How are you preparing for the future of product leadership?

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Melissa Perri

OCTOBER 31, 2019

You need to have a framework to know if they are the right choices for your business. You need this person to not just prioritize, but make a product strategy. A senior Product person’s job is to help you create and deploy that strategy in a way where every team member can easily make a prioritization decision on a day to day basis.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 16, 2024

A roadmap with a dedicated budget, resources, and clear goals aligned to your strategy. This was one such situation — the product leadership team agreed and memorialized the decision that our product was bloated, and we needed to streamline it. Value targets so enticing that executive leadership wouldn’t dare vote them down.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 19, 2024

A guide to successful product launches – for product managers Watch on YouTube TLDR The LAUNCH framework, created by James Whitman, offers a complete approach to successful product launches. This framework helps solve common problems in product launches by encouraging teamwork, constant improvement, and strategic planning.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 22, 2021

Read more » The post The PM Competency Framework: Making Product Management growth a team effort appeared first on Mind the Product. I had joined the Infrastructure and Operations ‘tribe’ as an Agile Coach and some of my fondest memories (both personally and professionally) were from working in my Agile Coach ‘chapter’.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 6, 2023

Pete, the marketer, agreed to rework the marketing strategy to support the next major release. It can be tempting to ignore people issues and focus on product-related tasks like reviewing the product strategy , updating the product roadmap , and refining the product backlog. But the team still over-commits and under-delivers.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Setting an awesome strategy without building the enablers to executing on it is just a pipe-dream. And too often I’ve seen poor leaders resort to micro-management, HIPPO, and dictatorship in order to fulfil their strategies. As a result, I’ve come to value 5 different aspects of product leadership.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 4, 2019

We create distinct docs for each functional teams and even one for leadership teams. For example, “Make a new PM ladder and get feedback from directors” or “Deliver an inspiring, clear message on our strategy and the evolution of our teams at All Hands” might fit the bill. This ensures we build great habits around weekly results.

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Melissa Perri

JULY 23, 2024

I wanted to share with you the framework I use when doing this. I review strategies and roadmaps. At the end of this review, I do a Product Leadership workshop with C-Suite and Product leaders, where I show them what good looks like, and they have a chance to reflect on where they are. Lots of data goes into pinpointing.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 5, 2024

The challenge lies in fostering effective collaboration without a clear social framework to guide these interactions. The Three Pillars of Leadership: Know, Do, Be Effective product managers are more than just idea generators or task managers. Be: Embody the leadership qualities that align with your values and organizational culture.

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Userpilot

JULY 24, 2024

Launching a product without a well-defined product strategy framework is similar—you risk wasting resources without a clear path to success. So, how do you outline a product strategy framework that is the foundation of product-led growth ? Product strategies help you design and grow your products. Book a demo now.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 6, 2020

Our goal was to define how we would set and communicate the company strategy, and how that strategy would lead OKRs and backlog definition. Product (and company) strategy is the backbone that guides product goal-setting and roadmap definition, although it’s sometimes overlooked or confused with having a vision.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 21, 2019

A strong product strategy is often neglected because of the absence of any strategic thinking in product teams. What can product managers do to make sure they give their product strategy the attention it warrants? Tanya shares her ideas for nurturing a strong product strategy from this year’s #mtpcon London Product Leadership Forum.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 4, 2022

Scrum is a popular agile framework. That’s understandable, as the framework is focused on the development of complex products. You might not know, for example, which marketing strategy is most appropriate or which sales channels are most effective. Invite the individuals to product strategy review meetings and sprint reviews.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Actionable strategies to integrate trust into your product strategy. As a Patron, youll gain access to: Weekly updates with strategies designed to help PMs thrive. A growing library of frameworks, case studies, and actionable tools. Whats Inside the Full Article? Exclusive deep dives like this one on strategic influence.

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Product Management University

APRIL 8, 2024

But products are the nucleus, and that means market leadership starts with product management. Before we dive into those, let’s look at a few opportunities where product management teams can take a much stronger leadership role in the organization. Here’s why this structure is so critical to a stronger leadership position.

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