Roman Pichler

MARCH 3, 2025

A common leadership response is to offer coachingtrying to help the team perform betterand, in some cases, start managing the team. To achieve this, youll benefit from strengthening your emergent/lateral leadership skills, as I explain in the article Decoding Product Leadership. But thats not correct.

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Productside

MARCH 3, 2025

One participant worried: Leadership is anti-product. Leadership Wants Massive Layoffs Symptom : Boss says, Fire half your product team. Solution : Contractors can fill immediate gaps, but for core product leadership, stable employees who carry domain expertise and relationships may be better. Solution : Use your 30-day intel.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 7, 2020

She has worked on a diverse range of products – leading the product teams through discovery, prototyping, testing and delivery. The post Conversations, Conflict and Leadership – Roman Pichler on The Product Experience appeared first on Mind the Product.

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The Product Guy

DECEMBER 2, 2024

What’s the smallest thing we can deliver to test this idea? Whether you’re new to product management or stepping into leadership, the key is to keep learning and adapting. When faced with a long list of potential features or bug fixes, ask: What’s the problem we’re solving? How does this align with our overall goals?

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 3, 2023

They’ve tested and learned which of their solutions or growth ideas are working and have not been afraid to shut down ones that aren’t and scale up ones that are. Walmart has tried a lot of things and been willing to test them and learn in the market what works. They’ve brought in robotics in some aspects of stocking.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The sales team and leadership promised the clients to deliver the product without having any discussion with the engineering team. The Aviation Authority and leadership were appalled by our product. Additionally, working on the MVP would have allowed us to build, test and improve the product iteratively within the deadline.

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The Product Guy

DECEMBER 6, 2024

What You’ll Learn: Fail Fast, Learn Fast: The value of testing quickly. He reflects on how getting feedback early can prevent costly mistakes and save precious time and resources, especially for startups with limited runway. If youve ever wondered how to avoid wasted effort, this episode will provide the answers.

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 11, 2022

For the first two quarters, the area is strategy; for the last two, it is leadership. To analyse your current product management skills, I recommend using the following three subsets: Tactical skills, strategic skills, and leadership skills, as the following picture shows. The third row contains the most important information.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

Grow Your Leadership Skills. Validating solution ideas : Using, for example, product demos , usability tests, and A/B tests. For example, you might decide that as an intermediate step, you aim to manage a larger product and use this opportunity to develop your leadership skills and understanding of product roles.

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Product Innovation Educators

APRIL 15, 2024

His expertise is on leadership for innovation and business transformation. His most recent book is Big Bet Leadership: Your Transformation Playbook for Winning in the Hyper-Digital Era. That’s the problem we are trying to address in Beg Bet Leadership. [11:44] A lot of that experience is now in Big Bet Leadership.

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Mind the Product

MAY 24, 2022

Even in companies with profound product knowledge, they’re consistently asked to test those ideas in their daily routine. Read more » The post Why it’s never a good idea to test your idea appeared first on Mind the Product. Product Managers are bombarded with feature requests and ideas every day.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 16, 2024

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. Instead, they decided to play subversive spy games and convince executive leadership that we needed so many new capabilities that we had to scrap our plans for deletion.

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Product Talk

MARCH 20, 2024

April 3rd: Identifying Hidden Assumptions: The Key to Faster Discovery Cycles Every week, I talk to people who can’t believe that product teams can really test multiple product ideas in the same week. It’s because most product people are stuck in a project-based idea-testing world.

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Lenny Rachitsky

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

Tobi remains deeply technical, frequently coding alongside his team, and is known for his unique approach to leadership, product development, and company building. Too many focus only on tactics—getting the immediate conversion or winning the next A/B test. Is it a rivalry, or a desire to build something better?

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Her continuous discovery journey hasn’t just been about interviewing customers or prototyping to test assumptions. Lisa and her team were able to convince their leadership to allow them to run a one-month beta launch with a limited set of customers to test out their new feature. The next layer is the company’s leadership.

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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. The skills typically include architecture, programming, testing, and if the product is end-user facing, UX design capabilities. Additionally, it is based on my leadership work, especially my book How to Lead in Product Management. [2]

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The Product Guy

MAY 30, 2019

Hypotheses are only useful if we test them (with customers), to validate or discard them. If the wider strategy is unclear, high-level outcomes should be discussed with leadership first. What may help is to think about how we can test our assumptions. And we want to test these hypotheses with customers.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

With our expert guests, Garrett Lang (PlateRate, Founder and President) and Amil Shah (RBC Capital Markets, Senior Product Manager) , we discussed strategies for balancing leadership pressures, navigating feature requests, and crafting a personal brand that opens doors to new opportunities.

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 14, 2021

How product managers can succeed in innovation leadership. 19:24] What actions do successful innovation leaders take, and how do you see innovation leadership changing in the future? Today, they might be hiring new talent, testing new technology, or finding new solutions for customer research in a remote world.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 1, 2022

You can see from his intersection of product and business leadership experiences that he is the perfect person to help us better understand creating product strategy. After our successful tests, we had to scale globally. We enabled machine learning to test everything—the cancellation experience, copy, call to action, colors, etc.

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Userpilot

JULY 8, 2024

A/B testing analytics is a powerful tool for optimizing the performance of your product or website. But approaching experiments in your company can be quite risky and thus hard to justify for your leadership team—especially if you’re new to product analytics. They include: Controlled A/B testing. Head-to-head A/B testing.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 9, 2019

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. The idea is to treat the strategy as a prototype that will undergo many iterations and testing. Testing the Proto-Strategy. Simple task, right?

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Mind the Product

MAY 20, 2020

Now an executive and leadership coach, she’s devoted a lot of time over the last few years to working with teams on [.]. She has worked on a diverse range of products – leading the product teams through discovery, prototyping, testing and delivery. The Thick of It and W1A shows.

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Mind the Product

JULY 28, 2020

That’s another level of difficulty and in her new book, The Team That Managed Itself: A Story Of Leadership, Christina Wodtke does just that. That’s another level of difficulty and in her new book, The Team That Managed Itself: A Story Of Leadership, Christina Wodtke does just that. Drawing [.]. Timothy Gallwey. *

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Lenny Rachitsky

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Leadership interviews: This is a critical input to the process and is often forgotten or skipped for various reasons. Key leaders like founders/CEO have really important nuggets of wisdom tucked away in their back pockets, which structured leadership interviews can unearth. Alignment is critical to mobilize any strategy.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 4, 2022

Forming such a team connects the person in charge of the product—the product owner—with the people who design, architect, program, test, and document the solution—the developers. More Articles by Roman Product Leadership in Scrum Why Product Owners Need Effective Scrum Masters Product Manager vs. Product Owner.

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Historically, we’ve asked product teams to deliver a fixed roadmap typically defined by leadership. It’s easy to focus on the new skills we need— interviewing , prototyping , testing assumptions , and so forth—but today I want to talk about the mindsets we need to become a successful outcome-driven product team.

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

This includes conducting surveys with customers to gather feedback on the company’s digital and in-store experiences and providing feedback on any tests for new technology, programs, or products. Additionally, Nicole serves on her Women in Leadership board at Gap Inc.

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 11, 2020

59; Boost Your Product Leadership Power and How to Lead in Product Management , pp. 68; Boost Your Product Leadership Power and How to Lead in Product Management , pp. Consequently, it will be difficult to test the board and mitigate the risk that the product strategy is wrong. No Clear Business Goals.

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 18, 2020

Product leadership. We need to test it better across many platforms. [22:27] 22:27] Email: We tested our email system, but didn’t monitor it thoroughly. Product leadership. * 8:16] High quality speakers: Our speakers are experts in: Business innovation. Customer research. Communication. And more. [9:30] And more. [9:30]

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The Product Guy

JULY 4, 2019

As Product Manager for a scrappy startup, I led agile sprints, collaborated with leadership and engineers, created user stories, and managed Jira. After re-prioritizing the backlog, I created a new process where at the end of each sprint, the team would present a demo, and we would test and close the JIRA tickets together.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 9, 2020

As we settle into the New Year we’re already looking ahead to the product leadership forums on our 2020 MTP calendar. As our leadership forums are conducted under the Chatham House rule, you’ll not see any direct quotes from our forums. Apply to join our Leaders Program and be part of our exclusive leadership forums.

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People-First Product Leadership

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

But how do you hone this crucial skill when faced with conflicting data, unsupportive leadership, or an over-reliance on gut feelings? Maintaining product sense without leadership support If you're not subscribed to Marketcartonist , add it to your list. Share People-First Leadership 9. Is longer term your company’s thing?

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

This involves: Screening ideas against predefined criteria Combining multiple ideas to create stronger concepts Selecting the most viable ideas for prototyping and testing By carefully evaluating ideas, you ensure that only the most promising concepts move forward in the product development process.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Through a combination of leadership buy-in, reading, and coaching, they committed to mapping opportunities and testing assumptions before jumping to solutions and found new ways to truly put their users first. The bias toward solutions was also due to a data-driven product approach and a strong A/B testing capability.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 14, 2020

She has worked on a diverse range of products – leading the product teams through discovery, prototyping, testing and delivery. She has worked on a diverse range of products – leading the product teams through discovery, prototyping, testing and delivery.

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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.” In an ideal world, outcomes should be set by both the product team and executive leadership. Both are true.

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