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. ” But do not allow people to dominate and tell you what to do, and don’t agree to a weak compromise.

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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. Sprint planning meeting : product goal , prioritised product backlog with enough ready items , development team capacity for the next sprint, and any action items from the last sprint retrospective.

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 5, 2021

A few years ago, I was asked to help a healthcare company with their agile transition and its impact on product management. 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 Product Backlog is Too Big.

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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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Product Management University

JUNE 3, 2024

It’s refreshing to see so many discussions and articles themed around product management outcomes. After all, it’s the reason we product managers do what we do, right? Here’s a look at the good, the bad and the ugly when it comes to product management outcomes. THE UGLY This is the worst part if you’re a product manager!

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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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Product Management University

OCTOBER 19, 2023

enabled product or feature set and everyone’s totally energized over the upcoming announcement and marketing launch activities. In other words, it’s entirely possible your marketing launch isn’t telling your target customers why they should care about something that in all liklihood, has value to them. Huge ripple effect?

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 10, 2020

I hope this post allows people and teams to safely talk about Product Judgment. If you ever had to face a Manager, Director or Exec as they make bad product decisions and you’re struggling to persuade them otherwise, this post will help you. It takes years to build, and therefore ranges from very weak to very strong.

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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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The Product Coalition

MARCH 11, 2021

And also is a way of preventing errors and defect bugs in the software development process. Overview of the quality assurance Quality assurance service is a systematic process to ensure the frontend and backend development satisfies specific requirements and quality standards.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 19, 2019

And as the Group Product Marketing Manager for Platform here at Intercom, I’ve loved seeing all the creative apps our partners have built. So we’re delighted to host Slack’s Director of Platform Marketing, Ceci Stallsmith, on the show. If there’s customer adoption , developers generally will come. Short on time?

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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. But it’s not enough on its own.

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Mironov Consulting

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Product management doesn’t run Engineering; Engineering runs Engineering. But there are some engineering team configurations that I see as problematic.  So Some of my concerns: This arrangement creates an incentive for 'core' Engineering teams to ignore issues or kick the can down the road.  Knowing

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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. For some people, that’s straightforward. Grow Your Leadership Skills.

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Alchemer Mobile

JULY 13, 2021

Bad product experiences increase customer frustration, potentially creating resentment around having difficulty completing tasks within an application and increasing customer churn. Beforehand, make sure your team is aligned on: Their definition of product experience. The goals you hope to achieve by investing in product experience.

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 12, 2024

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] The Core Product Team Product teams come in different shapes and sizes. But all product teams I have seen consisted of the person in charge of the product—the product manager or Scrum product owner —and development team members.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 9, 2021

The Scrum Guide released in November 2020 states that “the product goal describes a future state of the product … [It] is the long-term objective for the Scrum team.” The product owner is accountable for “developing and explicitly communicating the product goal.” The entire Scrum team is “focused on one … product goal” at a time.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 1, 2020

Here is why: We routinely interact with individuals who have different perspectives, interest, and needs, such as users, customers, stakeholders , development team members. Users don’t always have the same wants and needs as customers, and the ideas of the stakeholders and dev team may diverge.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 1, 2020

Here is why: We routinely interact with individuals who have different perspectives, interest, and needs, such as users, customers, stakeholders , development team members. Users don’t always have the same wants and needs as customers, and the ideas of the stakeholders and dev team may diverge.

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Product management is a challenging role, no matter what industry you work in. But with great challenges come great opportunities, and most product managers thrive on taking on new tasks and solving difficult problems. Product managers must live and breathe their product. My team is too small. Limited team bandwidth.

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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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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.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 3, 2018

At the same time, it offers you, the person in charge of the product, the necessary context to make the right strategic product decisions, for example, the market your product should serve and the business goals it should meet. Do you intend, for instance, to address existing markets? Which management systems are required?

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Roman Pichler

JULY 8, 2024

1] They might include senior management, marketing, sales, service, operations, finance, and HR. 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. I refer to this group as key stakeholders.

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Alchemer Mobile

JULY 11, 2019

So, as a product manager for a mobile application, how on earth can you build an application that stands a chance of becoming a well-used, frequently purchased application, let alone rise to the level of “top 10?”. “The As a mobile product manager, you have three days to delight your user before they turn to one of your competitors.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

Product managers most often reach out to me for advice when they are in the midst of contemplating their next role. As an industry, we frequently talk about the reality that there is no single definition for the responsibilities of a product manager and that product management roles differ meaningfully across companies.

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Product Management University

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

After countless conversations, articles, webinars and conference sessions, I started to feel like the profession of product management had been reduced to…. Getting product teams to “consistently” operate with this mentality…still a challenge! Here’s the reason I love the vertical market approach.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 4, 2019

More recently, however, I’ve realized that the technology industry at large struggles with such clarity and consistency – in marketing terms, there is often a difficulty developing a clear value proposition that aligns with product and brand identity. And whatever you stand for must resonate with your identified target market.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

One of my goals at Product Talk is to showcase what good product management looks like. Today, I’m excited to introduce a new series, Product in Practice, where I’ll profile product managers doing great work. I met Rachel when she was a product manager at Arity (an Allstate company). You are a product manager.”

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 25, 2023

Many of my discussions with product leaders (CPOs, VPs and others who manage teams of product folks) are about the substance of product management: portfolios, competing stakeholders, pricing & packaging, tarot cards as a revenue forecasting model.  Last

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Restaurants don’t put an Apprentice Chef in charge of the kitchen overnight, so why do we do this with Product Managers? Photo by Sebastian Herrmann on Unsplash Whilst it has been around for decades, product management has grown rapidly over the last few years. In 2021, Product Managers are in high demand and the talent war is rife.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 19, 2021

The first product manager in a startup is a critical role with immense impact on the startup’s success?—?both Along with the founders (the CEO and CTO), most of the employees in the company at the time were developers. Shortly after I started, the CEO surprised me by saying I should hire a product manager. and during?—?the

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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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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 7, 2023

The safer team members feel with one another, the more likely they are to admit mistakes, partner, and take on new roles. And it affects pretty much every important dimension we look at for employees.” — Eric Schmidt, Former CEO of Google There I sat in a room as the CFO berated the team. Was the team productive?

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 15, 2022

Product teams often fall into the trap of spending most of their time on the core functionality of the products they’re building. Without an accessible onboarding process , customers may never reach the stage where they can use the game-changing features your team has worked so hard to build, making outcomes difficult to achieve.

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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 4, 2023

My intention with this article is to show how product teams can use a product strategy to guide their discovery work and maximise the chances of creating successful products. Encourage teams to start with outcomes—business and user/customer benefits—rather than outputs—features and deliverables. What are the business goals?

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 13, 2022

If only books on product management had labels that say “pre-PMF” or “post-PMF”. Here are 10 great product books on pre-product market fit (pre-PMF)! ?? Poor questions yield little value. ?? Work with engineers: “Agile Product Management with Scrum” (Roman Pichler) There are zillions ways to apply scrum.

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