Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Note that including stakeholders on the product team replaces a traditional stakeholder management approach with a much more collaborative one. The specific tasks the coach should carry out include helping the team members collaborate, for example, by using a Kanban board, facilitating meetings, and removing blockers and impediments. [2]

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

It therefore offers only limited support for product people. 4 Take Advantage of Product Goals I like to think of a product goal as the specific outcome that a product should achieve in the next two to three months, for example, to increase conversion, to decrease churn, or to future-proof the product by removing technical debt. [4]

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

I view the roadmap as a product plan that describes how you intend to implement the strategy and which specific benefits or outcomes the product should provide over the next, say, 12 months, based on the needs and business goals stated in the product strategy. I call these outcomes product goals.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Its goals describe the user and customer benefits the entire portfolio should create and the positive business impact it should achieve. Any feature shown on the roadmap must help meet the corresponding outcome. Consequently, you should determine the goals before you consider any features. [5] Add metrics.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2024

However, product managers often face even greater challenges when navigating high-stakes situations with senior leadership or dealing with conflicting priorities across departments. These moments can be politically challenging, as they require balancing the immediate demands of stakeholders with long-term product goals.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The roadmap in figure 1 describes how the product strategy will be implemented in the next six to twelve months; it communicates the specific benefits the product will achieve; and it aligns and guides the stakeholders and development teams. You can simply copy the next product goal into the backlog together with its features.

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Product Talk

JANUARY 8, 2025

Please note that this post is for educational purposes and is not intended to be an official Product Talk endorsement of any of the tools mentioned. Meet the Continuous Discovery Champion, Edwin Yuen Meet Edwin Yuen, a product designer at The Times London. Edwin Yuen is a product designer at The Times London.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 15, 2024

The objective is the goal, which describes what you want to achieve. The key results state the specific criteria that have to be fulfilled to meet the objective. To make this more concrete, let’s look at an example: Objective : Grow the product management team. Key result 1 : Three product managers are hired.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 4, 2022

You need the stakeholders’ active contribution to progress the product and reach the product goals. As the Scrum product owner, you should therefore establish close and trustful connections with the key stakeholders, collaborate with them, and involve them in important product decisions on a regular basis.

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Third and most importantly, focus the backlog on a specific product goal. Then decline and remove items that do not serve this goal, as I discuss below. The Product Backlog is Too Detailed. The former means that there is no product goal that guides the decision if an item should be added to the product backlog or not.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 13, 2021

To select the right KPIs, I recommend taking the following three steps: First, use the user and business goals in the product strategy to select an initial set of indicators. Then take into account the product goals on the product roadmap to discover additional KPIs. Step 3: Add Health Indicators. Less is More.

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 12, 2021

What’s more, you suspect that John’s request may be motivated by the desire to meet his sales targets. Additionally, consider if the feature is aligned with the product goal of the current development effort, the outcome you want to achieve, for example, to enter a new market or to increase engagement.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 10, 2024

Step 2: Use the Outcome to Determine the Features With a specific, measurable, and outcome-based goal in place, determine the features that have to be delivered to meet the goal. A practical way to achieve this is to focus the product backlog on the outcome. Then determine how the product has to change to meet the goal.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

” (Note that I have chosen a dual goal that captures the desired business and user benefits.). I like to take this idea further, derive several product goals from the product strategy for the next 12 months, and capture them on a product roadmap.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

Myth #3: The product owner is responsible for the team performance. An agile development team does a good job if the memebers can reliably meet the agreed goals and create software that offers a great user experience and exhibit the desired quality. This has created more confusion and increased the misconceptions of the role.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Setting smart product goals is a vital skill for any sensible SaaS owner or product manager to get right. In this article, we’re going to explore what makes an effective product goal, the difference between goals and product initiatives, how to set them and make them work with your product backlog, and more.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 19, 2018

This second post on the methods we use at Onfido to help us think commercially and strategically looks at State of Product meetings. This meeting is an exercise in strategy, an opportunity to take stock of where your product is, where it fits within the wider market, and where it should go. Discussion and Follow up.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Organisational change and empowerment : Work with senior management, HR, and other business groups to implement the necessary organisational changes required to fully empower product people and leverage agile practises. Meetings : Prepare and facilitate meetings. The same is true for setting product goals.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Too often, the team no longer considers the product owner as a team member—even though the product owner needs to be an integrated team member. If you were on a team and someone jumped into your planning meeting and said, “We're doing x, y, z, end of discussion,” how might you react?

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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 6, 2022

For instance, the marketing strategy, the user experience (UX) design and technology choices have to align to successfully acquire new users, increase conversion, or meet another product goal. Deepen your expertise.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Consequently, a product manager and a Scrum product owner are leaders, too. They guide the stakeholders , development teams, and in the case of large products, other product people, to meet the agreed product goals , create the desired outcomes, and achieve product success, as Figure 1 shows.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 30, 2018

We discuss their experience with the system, questions, and feedback on how well the the product meets their business needs. The matrix scores these ideas against your company and product goals. Once you have the key company/product goals, every idea you have should be scored against these goals.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 1, 2020

Collaboratively set goals , for example, user and business goals on the product strategy and product goals on the product roadmap. In other words, involve the key stakeholders in product discovery and product development work. Ask the Scrum Master to help you build a stakeholder community.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

I therefore recommend applying a different product roadmapping approach and using goal-oriented roadmaps , which are also called outcome-based. As their name suggests, these roadmaps focus on product goals or outcomes such as acquiring customers , increasing engagement , and future-proofing the product by removing technical debt.

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 17, 2021

You can think of it as the approach chosen to realise the vision and achieve product success, as the following picture shows. How do I Create an Inspiring Product Vision?

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

We were so inspired by Tali’s enthusiasm that we just had to share her story here on the Product Talk blog. Do you have your own Product in Practice you’d like to share? Then, based on a defined product goal, they were asked to prioritize a specific opportunity and explain their choice. You can submit your story here.

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 19, 2023

How product managers can build trust and alignment on virtual teams Today we are talking about making virtual product teams more effective. Our guest is Anna Marie Clifton, Head of Product at Vowel. She is leading the effort to make virtual meetings more effective by turning them into searchable, sharable knowledge.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 19, 2017

The Daily Scrum meeting, sometimes also referred to as stand-up meeting, wants to help the development team manage its work. In Scrum, the team collectively agrees to a sprint goal and is responsible for meeting it. The Daily Scrum is meant to be a quick meeting that lasts no more than 15 minutes.

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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 4, 2018

As the person in charge of the product, you may not be terribly concerned about how clean and well-structured the code is. The messier the code and the less modular the architecture is, the longer it takes and the more expensive it is to change your product.

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 13, 2019

To do so, choose a clear, specific, and measurable goal for the next three to six months, for example, acquire x number of new users or increase engagement by y%. Then use the goal to focus your product backlog: Remove all backlog items that do not help meet the goal.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 13, 2021

To select the right KPIs, I recommend taking the following three steps: First, use the user and business goals in the product strategy to select an initial set of indicators. Then take into account the product goals on the product roadmap to discover additional KPIs. Step 3: Add Health Indicators. Less is More.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 23, 2019

However, it is highly unlikely that a product can solve the needs for all humans. What percentage of the user base will meet their needs by the product? All humans have emotional and varied needs to be solved at a subconscious level. What is the growth rate of this user base? What price is each segment willing to pay?

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 6, 2023

Cindy who helps you manage the product started to come late to meetings. It can be tempting to ignore people issues and focus on product-related tasks like reviewing the product strategy , updating the product roadmap , and refining the product backlog. Finally, consider if it is feasible to meet onsite.

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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. Additionally, include the development team members in product backlog decisions , and always choose sprint goals together.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 7, 2021

Step #1 Line up Your Product Goals To find Product-Market Fit ( PMF )— you need to define what the PMF condition looks like. Step #3 Prioritising the Product Hypotheses At this point, there will be a few assumptions and unknowns. Set up a prioritisation meeting with the core members of your product team?—?

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 1, 2020

While I really appreciate this entrepreneurial aspect of our work, it can bring up tension, stress, and frustration when we are trying to progress our products towards agreed goals but are in danger of missing them, be it a sprint goal , product goal on the roadmap , or a strategic user or business goal.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 1, 2020

While I really appreciate this entrepreneurial aspect of our work, it can bring up tension, stress, and frustration when we are trying to progress our products towards agreed goals but are in danger of missing them, be it a sprint goal , product goal on the roadmap , or a strategic user or business goal.

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