The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Strategy and enabling your team to solve problems makes the difference between a boss and an impactful leader. Using the ‘Kernel’ from Richard Rumelt’s ‘Good Strategy/Bad Strategy’, specifically insights and developing a guiding policy allows you to enable your team and avoid micro-managing. Poor strategy is everywhere?—?you

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] A Brief Introduction to the Product Lifecycle Model As its name suggests, the product lifecycle model describes how a product develops over time. A product is born or launched; it then develops, grows, and matures. It assumes that it has a life much like a living being.

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 5, 2021

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. The following three techniques will help you with this: First, group related items into themes. The Product Backlog is Too Big. Second, keep lower-priority items coarse grained.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 7, 2021

Be Clear on When to Involve the Stakeholders and Development Teams. Complex and high-impact decisions, however, are best made together with the stakeholders and development teams. Additionally, include the development team members in product backlog decisions , and always choose sprint goals together.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 23, 2021

“If you think good design is expensive, you should look at the cost of bad design,” Ralf Speth, a former Jaguar Land Rover CEO. The study by the Design Management Institute analyzed the performance of design-led organizations that place influential design decisions at the top as compared to the Standard & Poor’s index over 10 years.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

I once worked with a telco company that was developing a brand-new commercial product. Product management and development were located at separate sites in different countries. The technical complexities were greater than anticipated and the development progress was slower than forecasted. To Collocate or Not.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

I once worked with a telco company that was developing a brand-new commercial product. Product management and development were located at separate sites in different countries. The technical complexities were greater than anticipated and the development progress was slower than forecasted. To Collocate or Not.

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 11, 2020

Target Group is (too) Big and Heterogenous. Problem : A very big and diverse target group makes it hard to formulate a crisp, compelling value proposition and strong standout features. More Information : 8 Tips for Creating A Compelling Product Vision and Strategize , pp. 94, How to Lead in Product Management , pp. Needs are Features.

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Userpilot

MARCH 13, 2024

TL;DR Feature ideation is a process through which product teams brainstorm ideas for new features to introduce to their product. The last stage of the product ideation process involves testing the features with small focus groups and collecting feedback to fine-tune them. It involves understanding their needs and what they expect.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

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. Your job is not to please the stakeholders, but to achieve product success. 7 The Roadmap is Speculative.

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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. No matter how well thought-out your product roadmap is, it is worthless if the key stakeholders and the development team members don’t understand and support it. Actionable.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

” But do not allow people to dominate and tell you what to do, and don’t agree to a weak compromise. The SAFe product owner is tactical in nature and focuses on working on the product backlog and guiding the development teams. Myth #3: The product owner is responsible for the team performance.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 18, 2019

So, it was natural that we should want to develop a talent growth plan for our people. Each month we send out an NPS survey to assess whether the company is being a great place to work, but a few months ago I also sent Google’s manager feedback survey to my team of 10 product managers. Team execution and development.

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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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BrainMates

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Developing and launching a product only to have it fail is the complete antithesis of the “Fail Fast” innovation motto. You have just invested 1000s of work hours and millions of dollars in developing & launching this product. Failure Point #4 – Poor design & execution. To that, I say unequivocally NO !

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ProductPlan

MARCH 12, 2019

Cultural fit is a relatively new concept in hiring and team building. This has given hiring managers the confidence to reject prospects who look perfect on paper, but might not mesh with the existing team and company norms. Culture sets the tone, permeating every aspect of the team and the quality of their work.

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 9, 2020

For this story, we spoke with a product team leading the Digital Hotels vertical at Seera Group , a travel and tourism company based in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). Hope Gurion coached the Seera team using Product Talk’s Continuous Discovery Habits curriculum. Meet the Seera Hotels product team.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 7, 2022

While common sense suggests that managing a product without the right measurements is not a sensible approach, I’ve seen product teams who did not use any KPIs. Consequently, these teams relied on: Anecdotal feedback : “Customers love our product, they told me so.” If this data is actioned, bad product decisions will be made.

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Pragmatic Marketing

JANUARY 12, 2017

In a recent Pragmatic Marketing webinar , Paul Schwada, managing partner of Locomotive Solutions and author of 8 Blocks: The Critical Realities for Growing Any Business , shared where to find the weak leak in your growth funnel (hint: it’s often in the math) and how to strengthen it. So what’s the weak link in your growth funnel?

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 3, 2019

But for every success story, there’s a graveyard of failed products laid low by bad product strategies. A bad strategy is hard to overcome. What Does a Bad Product Strategy Look Like? What Does a Bad Product Strategy Look Like? If there was a simple test for bad product strategy most companies would happily use it.

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Userpilot

APRIL 22, 2024

Extract feature development insights. Involve cross-functional collaboration with the sales team, product team, engineering, and other relevant stakeholders. This type of analysis helps identify which features contribute positively to your product’s value and which might be redundant or underperforming.

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Modus Create

AUGUST 29, 2024

It is not an understatement to say that the success of a new digital product launch is largely determined during the product development process. But for many products in the marketplace today, it is no longer enough to incorporate AI into the product development process. AI can help your employees be more competitive and efficient.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Team issues can have a negative impact on a project and your people long term. There are a bunch of ways they might manifest themselves – and I’ve written them down as I’ve heard them over a decade of building digital products in cross-functional teams. This list is most useful for in-flight project teams, off and sprinting.

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Product Talk

MARCH 1, 2023

I realize that many product people have never worked in a product trio , don’t have access to customers, aren’t given time to test their ideas, and are working in what Marty Cagan calls “features teams” or “delivery teams.” If you missed the first one on product success and team satisfaction , be sure to start there.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JANUARY 11, 2021

At UX Studio , while we develop our products, uxfol.io and copyfol.io , we are mainly focused on agency work, meaning that we cooperate with several clients as external teams. This post was written from the perspective of designers, mainly intended for external teams and entrepreneurs. Five challenges and solutions.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 24, 2022

Whether you’re an individual contributor, manager, or director, you can leverage your own skills – and those around you – to influence growth across your team, org, and company. Every team has a valuable mix of strengths, and varying levels of skill and expertise in different areas across its members.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Highly effective Product Managers develop themselves in 5 key areas. In some jobs, you can get by with just Competence, but in the unkempt, fuzzy, team-oriented domain of Product Management, you need both. At best, if you are properly equipped, being a PM is like being on an epic quest with a group of adventurers.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Minimum Viable Products: Why You Should Test Before Investing In Ideas Let’s analyze the advantages of MVP-based software development. Why should you invest in MVP development? Boston Consulting Group estimates that 70% of digital business transformation projects fail. First, the developers create a wheel. a skateboard.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 1, 2020

The first one carries the risk of being a feature broker and offering a product that has a weak value proposition, gives rise to a poor user experience, and consists of a loose collection of features. But do not accept inappropriate behaviour and do not allow people to treat you like a project manager, team lead, or personal assistant.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 10, 2020

As a product leader, what qualities do you need to cultivate to be able to ensure your team performs to the best of its abilities? Recently I’ve been thinking a lot about teams – what is a team, team formation and development, cross-functional teams , and leading 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. 3 Have the Right Input Available.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Building effective teams with people from different disciplines can be challenging due to various circumstances. Teams with multiple functions are instrumental towards staying competitive and succeed. Conversely, to rely solely on a single-function team for brainstorming is a recipe for failure.

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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 17, 2021

Half of the calls I get from CEOs include requests for Product Management to boost productivity in Engineering (aka Development aka Makers). This reflects confusion about what product managers do (and how we really add value), and often poor role definition where product managers are also project/program managers or engineering leads.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

It’s not rocket science that awesome products come from awesome teams, so what’s the key to creating and managing a team that’s designed for maximum impact? Here, taking advice from a number of product pros, we look at a selection of ways to build product teams and empower them to achieve success.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

Consequently, your focus shifts from managing a product to looking after the product people on your team and empowering them to do a great job. Another key aspect to support the people on your team succeed is to create the right environment for people to succeed. Grow Your Leadership Skills.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Sales has an unavoidable reality: sometimes, your team won’t hit their numbers. If your team isn’t reaching their goals, what are you doing as a leader to help them get up and over the line? This coaching helps them drive their team and their company to greater productivity and higher sales.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] 1 Complement Scrum with a Product Discovery and Strategy Process Scrum is a simple framework that helps teams develop successful products. Continue the discovery and strategy work while the product is being developed. But don’t stop there.

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