Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Introduction To discuss empowerment in product management, I find it helpful to distinguish three main levels of decision-making authority, product delivery, product discovery, and product strategy, as the model in Figure 1 shows. [1] I certainly don’t intend to make anyone feel bad.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

This includes a sound understanding of the market, the user and customer needs, and the competition as well as solid product management skills such as the ability to develop an effective product strategy and an actionable product roadmap (as I explain in more detail in the article The T-Shaped Product Professional ).

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Alchemer Mobile

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Whether you’re new to the product management field or a seasoned professional, it’s always valuable to learn from your peers’ lived experiences. What strategies do you use to prioritize your product roadmap? Meet our product management experts. Ian Hassard , Senior Manager of Product Management at Auth0.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Mastering the craft of product management is no easy task. I instead define a product manager as driving the vision, strategy, design, and execution of their product. It's equally important for product managers to think about each of these four dimensions as having a concrete set of deliverables. Vision: Vision Narrative.

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Product Management University

MARCH 15, 2023

Don’t sweat it, product manager purists. Building a product management organization in this manner gets you into your dream job, the strategic product management role you’ve always wanted, and your new title reflects your actual responsibilities. that maximizes the effectiveness of all product management roles.

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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. Close the meeting.

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Whether you’re new to the product management field or a seasoned professional, it’s always valuable to learn from your peers’ lived experiences. While you can watch the full hour-long interview here , this post breaks down four of the key lessons we learned from Jessi Alva, Director, Technical Product Management at SAP Concur.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 3, 2023

How to Achieve Success in Your Product Strategy In today’s rapidly evolving market, having a clear product vision and a well-defined strategy is essential for the success of any tech product. A compelling product vision is a guiding light, providing direction and purpose to the development process.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

For example, a product manager might determine the product strategy and one or more development teams might be tasked with executing it. It’s a model of an iterative process that systematically links the product strategy with the product roadmap , the product backlog , the development work, and the key performance indicators (KPIs).

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 22, 2024

Their visions, target groups, needs, standout features , and business goals must comply with the overall portfolio strategy. [1] To get started, create your own Portfolio Vision Board by downloading and adapting the Product Vision Board or by recreating it in your favourite tool.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

This includes interviewing and observing users, using key performance indicators (KPIs) to track the value of the current product version, keeping an eye on the competition, and monitoring market trends. [2] As I mentioned earlier, Scrum is not a product management framework. But like any tool, Scrum has its benefits and limitations.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Before the advent of agile frameworks like Scrum , a product person—the product manager—would typically carry out the market research, compile a market requirements specification, create a business case, put together product roadmap, write a requirements specification, and then hand it off to a project manager.

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Melissa Perri

JULY 14, 2016

To create a backend system that will allow the sales team to manage their leads.” “To To create a front of the funnel website that markets to our target users and converts them.” In smaller companies, this will be your company and product’s overall vision. We cannot start on Day 1 and exactly plan to reach our vision.

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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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The Product Coalition

JUNE 19, 2023

Are product roadmaps sales tools? Think of a product roadmap as a sales pitch for your product. Thinking of your roadmap this way is helpful when you want to get support from stakeholders and gauge interest from customers — important people who care about your product’s future. Absolutely! Build excitement.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

These include interviewing users, working on the product roadmap, updating the product backlog, engaging with the stakeholders, and working with the development team, to name just a few. That’s the responsibility of the Scrum Master, development team, and marketing stakeholder respectively, not yours.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

When you become a head of product, you move into a line management position. 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. Time management: You have learnt to effectively manage your time, and you are able to practice sustainable pace.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

I’ll never forget the day when I suggested to the product manager of a brand-new healthcare product to prioritise its features. A tool like my product vision board helps you capture and validate your product strategy. If you have a product roadmap, then ensure that it implements the overall product strategy.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 9, 2019

In order to grow your product management team, start by reviewing your product portfolio. Once you’ve identified the products, determine the skills required to manage each asset. Once you have identified your products together with the skills required to manage them, find out how many product people you need.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 9, 2019

In order to grow your product management team, start by reviewing your product portfolio. Once you’ve identified the products, determine the skills required to manage each asset. Once you have identified your products together with the skills required to manage them, find out how many product people you need.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 5, 2020

A feature owner who manages a major capability with which end users interact like search and navigation on an online retailer’s website. A platform owner who manages a platform as a collection of shared software assets. A portfolio owner who manages a group of (related) products. None is per se better or worse.

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Welcome to the third installation of our digital transformation interview series, where successful product and marketing leaders share what’s top-of-mind, how to overcome obstacles, where the marketplace is going, and tips for success. I love the quote, ‘Be stubborn on vision, but flexible on details.’ Q: How do you measure success?

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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

While internal stakeholders such as marketing, sales, and support play an important role in successfully offering a product, it would be wrong to try to please them and to say yes to all their ideas and requests. Myth #2: The product owner is a tactical role focused on managing the product backlog.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 4, 2018

Big clients end up dictating the roadmap, there’s no product vision, and your product quickly turns into incoherent bloatware. This led to an era of marketing-driven companies. Dan Kaplan framed marketing’s tarnished legacy this way: “Many of history’s most brilliant marketing strategies were crafted to persuade consumers to?

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Product Management University

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Before we bring the portfolio roadmap into the picture, let’s set the stage with product roadmaps. For most people, the term roadmap conjures up a visual presentation of product features and delivery dates published by product management. product management publishes a feature release schedule for every product.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 11, 2020

Unlike a line manager, you usually don’t manage the development team and stakeholders as the person in charge of the product, and the individuals don’t report to you. You rely on them to design, implement, market, sell, and support the product. No Transactional Power. In other words, you are not their boss.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 11, 2020

Unlike a line manager, you usually don’t manage the development team and stakeholders as the person in charge of the product, and the individuals don’t report to you. You rely on them to design, implement, market, sell, and support the product. No Transactional Power. In other words, you are not their boss.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 4, 2019

To put it differently, if you don’t know the business and portfolio strategy, or if these plans don’t exist, then it will be hard for you to get the product strategy right and choose, for example, the right market and target group. Balanced Product Scorecard for the KPIs (possibly using Dave McClure’s pirate metrics ).

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Roman Pichler

MAY 4, 2022

But from a product management perspective, effectively engaging the stakeholders is crucial to achieve product success. You might not know, for example, which marketing strategy is most appropriate or which sales channels are most effective. Consequently, you’ll benefit from the input of a marketer and a sales rep.

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Product Management Unpacked

AUGUST 21, 2020

Companies of all sizes across industries are looking to hire product managers. With this in mind, company culture, resources and the specific demands of different roles probably play a big part in your decision to take a product management position at a company. Product Management at a Startup .

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Alchemer Mobile

JULY 13, 2021

But product experience requires a company-wide effort that includes customer-facing teams like customer success, marketing, and account management. Retention analysis to validate your product roadmap, gauge how long it takes customers to find value, and set benchmarks for long-term retention goals.

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Product Management University

MARCH 16, 2023

When it comes to innovation and product management, a great idea can only get you so far. It is a list of tasks to be completed, items to be added, and features to be implemented as part of the product roadmap. The product backlog further distills the roadmap into smaller chunks of work in order of development priority.

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 6, 2023

They keep the team aligned as they manage the messy cycles of continuous discovery. How do you manage the messiness of the opportunity space over time? Managing Scope & Iterations When should you start a new opportunity solution tree? How does an opportunity solution tree connect to a product roadmap?

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Which market and market segment should the product address? In order to answer the questions above, you may want to use techniques such as direct observation, user interviews, prototyping, creating a strategy canvas or E-R-R-C grid , and you may capture some of them using a tool like my product vision board.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 5, 2023

It forced me to question a belief, as a product leader, I treated as an absolute — that products always require roadmaps. Do you think every company and product needs a roadmap?” Then I thought further; maybe scenarios exist where roadmaps are optional. Roadmaps are not always needed. Roadmaps early on tend to box you in.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

roadmaps?” Unfortunately, when it comes to product lifecycle management, it puts many off. Executing a product roadmap requires more. What the heck is a Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) anyway? When it comes to product lifecycle management, there is no shortage of frameworks. Queue the time travel music….

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