Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

Instead of creating, for example, product strategies and roadmaps and tracking KPIs , you should help the people on your team acquire the right knowledge and develop the right skills so that they can carry out the relevant work on their own. Grow Your Leadership Skills. A great way to do this is to mentor and coach people.

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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. Additionally, the team should have ownership of the plans that contain the goals: the product strategy and the product roadmap , as shown in Figure 2 above. [4] Second, the team members should determine the goals together.

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 29, 2020

Hard skills like market research or roadmapping are important, but they’re not enough. Product leaders can’t succeed if they neglect people skills and leadership skills. A collaborative workshop with key stakeholders is a great way to kick off a new product development effort and create the initial vision.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 7, 2021

In practical terms, involve stakeholders and dev teams in decisions that affect the product strategy and the product roadmap —be it that you create the plans or that you make bigger changes to them. Then invite the right people to a collaborative workshop, no matter if it takes place online or onsite. Lead by Example.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 5, 2022

For example, a product strategy workshop might have the objective to identify the key changes required to achieve product-market fit. As a rule of thumb, avoid meetings with more than ten attendees when you have to make high-impact decisions and/or rework the product strategy , product roadmap , or product backlog. 1 Set an Objective.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 21, 2020

Emily Tulloh – and the overview on Workshop on Service design in a climate emergency – What do digital services in a world of net-zero look like? The post Carbon Neutral Roadmaps – Chris Adams on The Product Experience appeared first on Mind the Product. Emily Cunningham. And some honorary Emilys: Maddie Stone.

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 16, 2022

Imagine that John is a sales rep and a key stakeholder who hardly ever attends the product strategy workshops you’ve invited him to. Instead, he requests product roadmap changes by talking directly to you. First, empathy is the foundation for effective leadership. At the same time, be frank.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 4, 2023

This includes securing the necessary training budget and selecting the right training courses, as well as creating a training-on-the-job program, attending product strategy workshops as a stakeholder , and acting as a sparring partner for strategy-related questions.

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Product Talk

JANUARY 13, 2021

And just like I encourage trios to share their discovery context before they share their roadmaps and backlogs, I’ll do the same here, before I talk about my plans for the year ahead. To address this opportunity, we launched our two-day Continuous Discovery Habits workshop. My personal roadmap looks like this: Now.

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 5, 2021

To prevent your product backlog from becoming a wish list, follow these two tips: First, select a product goal and align your product with a strategic plan like a product roadmap (as I discuss below). See my article Boost Your Product Leadership Power for advice on increasing your authority.). Collaborative Product Backlog Workshop.

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Melissa Perri

JULY 23, 2024

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. Then we put together a roadmap for change, and I check in with them along the way as they transform.

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Mironov Consulting

APRIL 10, 2020

What : “Moving Up Into Product Leadership” remote workshop. This is a restructuring of my in-person workshop as a 3-hour live online session. Prioritizing work (roadmaps) when internal stakeholders are not in agreement. Where : online (link provided to registered attendees). Register here.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 13, 2018

We’re thrilled to announce the first of our amazing line-up of speakers and announce all our deep-dive workshops, connecting international and regional thought leaders with the vibrant product and UX community across AsiaPac. Workshop Presenters. Product Leadership. Workshop tickets Conference tickets.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

You use an outcome-based product roadmap and/or an opportunity solution tree , personas , user journey maps, and the product backlog to capture and validate your decisions and guide the product delivery effort. You should therefore involve them in creating and updating the plans, preferably in the form of collaborative workshops.”

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Previously, Bruce joined us for a three-part series on creating and using product roadmaps. He is the co-author of the book Product Roadmaps Relaunched: How to Set Direction While Embracing Uncertainty. 7:13] How did you move from focusing on roadmaps to focusing on stakeholder management? The goal is alignment of the team.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

On this episode of Intercom on Product myself and Paul Adams, our SVP of Product, take a look at roadmapping. Knowing how and when to define a roadmap, who to include and how long to plan for are key elements to finding the balanced approach that you need. As you grow functions, the audience for your roadmap widens.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

On this episode of Intercom on Product myself and Paul Adams, our SVP of Product, take a look at roadmapping. Knowing how and when to define a roadmap, who to include and how long to plan for are key elements to finding the balanced approach that you need. As you grow functions, the audience for your roadmap widens.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Product people descended upon central London this morning for a series of Mind the Product training workshops , kicking off #mtpcon ahead of tomorrow’s conference. From the 14 workshops there was plenty to take away. From the 14 workshops there was plenty to take away. Managing Stakeholders. It can be very frustrating.”

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 4, 2018

This helps the individuals embrace an agile mindset, take advantage of new techniques and tools—think of hypotheses-driven strategy validation, goal-oriented product roadmaps, and user stories—and effectively collaborate with the agile development teams. Strategy and leadership skills are nice-to-have but not mandatory. What do mean?”

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

This includes sprint planning , Daily Scrum , sprint review , and sprint retrospective , as well as product strategy and product roadmap workshops. In theory, your Scrum Master should focus on providing people and process leadership. Meetings : Prepare and facilitate meetings. What the Scrum Master Should NOT Do.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 3, 2017

I really wish that for once, you gave us clear priorities,” Jane said accusingly at the end of the workshop and walked out of the room. [1] See it as an opportunity to improve your product management practice and leadership skills. It’s a Common Challenge. You just can’t make up your mind. How could she say something so wrong?

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 12, 2018

One way to answer this question is to avoid unhelpful but common leadership styles. As its name suggests, this leadership style mediates between different parties and tries to broker a deal. As its name suggests, this leadership style mediates between different parties and tries to broker a deal. Recognise Your Leadership Bias.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 9, 2020

Mind the Product has launched a new training workshop for product leaders on mapping. For this reason Mind the Product Training has recently produced a workshop called Product Mapping. Any process, document, report or roadmap is built by mapping data points to decisions. What you’ll learn.

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 12, 2024

You might talk to the sales rep, for example, and ask them about the viability of using existing sales channels or get their feedback on a draft product roadmap. You’ll then repeat the process with the other stakeholders until you have acquired enough information or managed to create a roadmap everybody accepts.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 6, 2020

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. We started working with the product teams on how each tool – product strategy, OKRs, and roadmaps – should be used so that we could merge them together.

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Product Management University

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The word roadmap usually conjures up thoughts of a product roadmap for people in a technology product company. For customer success managers though, the intent of a customer account roadmap, while similar, is bit more surgical than a product roadmap when it comes to defining success and leading customers to it.

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 12, 2023

Processes include forums to sync with different members of your team and other teams, forums to get leadership alignment, ensuring high quality of deliverables, and OKR planning. Planning includes the product vision, strategy, and roadmap. How do you set the vision, strategy, and roadmap? At what cadence do you do that?

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 20, 2019

In addition to my formal coaching of product leaders (Directors, VPs and CPOs who directly manage teams of product managers), I talk with lots of senior individual contributors about the risks and challenges of moving “up the ladder” into product leadership roles. So I have a strong sense of what product managers want. Swing a bigger stick.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 30, 2023

So either we work together to understand your objectives, call them goals if you’d like, and the outcome you are looking for from the product, or we will end the discussion, and you won’t get a committed set of work on the roadmap.” We went away from detailed, long-term, feature-committed roadmaps. I explained this many times.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

The Product Leadership Conundrum. I like to capture release goals on the product roadmap together with their metrics, and I have a preference to work with a goal-oriented (or themed) roadmap like my GO Product Roadmap. As the person in charge of a product, you are responsible for achieving product success.

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 24, 2024

However, as Mary Baird’s inspiring story shows, a successful pivot from nonprofit leadership to product management is not only possible but also incredibly rewarding. However, Mary’s experience in nonprofit leadership provided her with a unique set of transferable skills that would prove invaluable in her new role.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 20, 2019

The other path, the one I’ll focus on in this post, continues along the journey of individual contributor : to mastery of the craft of design, to leadership without the need to manage, to above all else shipping great work. Another dimension on which behaviors can be assessed is whether you are demonstrating leadership in your role.

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Product Talk

APRIL 17, 2024

Teresa: One of the things I think I’ve written in the past is if your backlog or your roadmap or your idea log—whatever you’re going to call it—isn’t changing based on what you’re learning in discovery , there’s a disconnect there. My key learnings from the workshop were three things. Stephanie: Exactly.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Pre-Conference Workshops. You can book any of our six workshops to improve specific product management skills with sessions led by international experts in their fields: User Story Mapping (with Jeff Patton). Roadmapping (with C. Visual Thinking (half-day workshop with Britta Ullrich). Todd Lombardo).

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Behaviors are assessed based on your ability to successfully work with others and on your demonstration of leadership in your role. Leadership can be demonstrated through: Project leadership: For instance, conceptualizing and realizing new and innovative product ideas. Performance is measured on two axes: behavior and results.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 5, 2021

I distilled the advice a few months ago in my book The Essentialist Product Manager and have recently been giving talks and workshops on the topic. This article tackles one of the areas that gets the most interest from product managers: how can they use an essentialist approach to create and communicate better product roadmaps ?

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Mind the Product

JUNE 13, 2018

Mind the Product London 2018 on October 18-19 will be better than ever, with more workshops, more networking, and more fun than ever. Ivy has also been a contributing author to numerous books, including The Change Champion’s Field Guide and Best Practices in Leadership Development and Organizational Change. Get your workshop tickets.

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