Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Instead of sending status reports to stakeholders or having steering committee meetings, the individuals are now actively involved in progressing the product and they actively contribute to its success. The vision describes the ultimate purpose for creating the product and the positive change it should bring about.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Freemium’s a great way to acquire lots of customers relatively quickly and easily, but the job of converting them to using a paid product is where the rubber meets the road. The beauty of the freemium model in an enterprise setting is that the supplier due diligence process is already much further along. Crowning the customer.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

I have also witnessed a brand-new platform being retired, as it was overly complicated to use and did not meet the needs of the development teams that should have used it. Ensure that the Platform is User-Led, Not Technology-Driven. Treat the Platform as a Product.

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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Hold Regular Product Strategy Reviews. But as the strategy will change, I recommend that you review and adjust it at least once per quarter—as a rule of thumb. Make sure that you block the necessary time for product strategy reviews in your calendar. Use Collaborative Workshops to Review and Adapt the Strategy.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

You wouldn’t expect to find a Brand Studio at every tech startup, but then again, we’ve always enjoyed doing things a little bit differently. Previously on the show, we’ve taken you on a tour to meet everyone from our product management and marketing teams to our Sydney office down under. A world-class creative hub.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Sample product goals are acquiring new users, increasing engagement, removing technical debt to future-proof the product, and generating revenue. To do so, choose the next product goal stated on the product roadmap, determine the features and functionality required to meet it, and capture them in the backlog.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

A handy tool to formulate the strategy is my Product Vision Board, shown in Figure 2. Apply the checklist I have created for the Product Vision Board to ensure that your strategy is detailed enough. Should you stick with your strategy, significantly modify it, or no longer pursue your overarching vision?

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Mind the Product

APRIL 15, 2019

For the last 18 months our team has been working to rebuild an existing system using entirely new technologies, methodologies, and a new development team. My company, Hindawi, developed a platform in the mid 2000s to allow academics to peer review academic papers online. It allowed us to put off migration and integration questions.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 18, 2022

Sarah Dayan is a staff engineer at Algolia , a “Search-as-a-Service” platform that helps developers build index and search capabilities into their own platforms through an API, and the host of two tech podcasts: Developer Experience and Entre Devs. How would she provide the right technical direction for the company? Brian: Super.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

In the product planning model above, the vision describes the ultimate purpose for creating the product; the product strategy states how the vision will be realised; and the product roadmap states how the strategy will be implemented. You should therefore regularly review your plans and revise them.

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bpma ProductHub

AUGUST 1, 2016

To own a product requires a strong vision for what it can become and achieve. Rest assured that whether you are a few years on the job or a few decades, your value as a technical and strategic leader is measured not simply by the length of your career but the quality and achievements to which you can speak to and deliver.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 13, 2024

It achieves this by stating the product’s target users and customers, the value proposition, the business goals it should meet, and its standout features. New technologies alone introduce change and uncertainty—think of the Internet of Things, Blockchain, machine learning, and generative AI, for example.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Meet the Continuous Discovery Champion, Sandrine Veillet Meet Sandrine Veillet, Vice President of Global Product at WebMD. As the head of Medscape Professional Network Product Management, she defines and leads the vision and strategy for their healthcare professionals’ suite of products and manages global teams.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 10, 2024

These might include acquiring new users, reducing churn, increasing engagement, improving conversion, and reducing development time and cost by removing technical debt. Then determine how the product has to change to meet the goal. Do you have to meet new or enhanced non-functional requirements including compliance standards?

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 9, 2018

Having said that, it’s ok to address key UX and technology risks and evaluate important user interaction and architecture options as part of the discovery work. But the bulk of the UX design, user story writing, and technology work should be done after you have successfully validated the problem. I know that’s not always easy to do.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

The development team and stakeholders then use these goals to determine the work they have to do—be it creating a marketing strategy, investigating a new technology, or preparing the distribution channels. As this example shows, the vision is an inspirational, visionary goal that cannot be measured. Getting to Shared Goals.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Much of the literature that defines the role as the intersection of business, technology, and user experience isn't particularly helpful for practitioners who are left wondering what skills they need to learn versus the fine people they work closely with in actual business, technology, and user experience roles.

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 2, 2018

If you are not sure which time box is right for you, then start with one month and hold weekly review meetings where you assess the progress and decide if and how to continue. The world doesn’t stand still; markets and technologies change; new competitors emerge. Continuous Strategizing. Look for new market trends.

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The Product Guy

MAY 7, 2020

Relative to other standard roles defined in an organization such as Ops, Marketing, Tech etc., Often, this is due to resource constraints rather than a lack of understanding of a PM role. This includes Tech estimates (at least T-shirt sizing) and resources identified for the projects. Data vs Intuition.

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 15, 2023

A handy tool to capture your answers and describe the product strategy is my Product Vision Board shown in the picture below. You can download the template by clicking on the image and you can find more advice on how to use it in the article The Product Vision Board.

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Centercode

JANUARY 8, 2021

We’ve often described modern technology as highly sophisticated, highly connected, and continuously iterative. It highlighted both the reliability of technology and its shortcomings. 2021 will be shaped by companies that have the best understanding of these nuances and the vision to act on them.

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UX Studio: Product Management

MARCH 28, 2022

If you want to know what the culture is like in a product team, you should visit one of their product meetings. The way they do the meeting will tell you everything. Who speaks at the meeting? Is it technical details, customer insights or revenue and money? Run great product meetings and your culture will thrive.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 11, 2016

Respect their UX/UI and technology decisions and their right to determine how much work can be done. Developing a successful digital product requires more than technical knowledge. This will not only lead to better technical decisions and a better product. Assume that the team members want to do their best. Be honest and open.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 9, 2022

In a recent episode, our Director of Machine Learning, Fergal Reid , shed some light on the latest breakthroughs in neural network technology. Our technology interfaces are gradually becoming more conversational, and we’re just starting to see the quality of natural language understanding get good enough to unlock them.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 8, 2018

The cross-functional development team makes the design and technology decisions; and the Scrum Master guides process and organisational change, as the following picture shows. Lead the Product. That’s the job of the development team.

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Alchemer Mobile

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

We’ve categorized these 30 steps as pre-launch, launch, and post-launch, but the list is designed to be modified to meet your needs. To make your job a little easier, we’ve curated a list of resources to the submission processes of the three most popular app stores: Apple App Store Review Guidelines. What will make your app successful?

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 13, 2021

It’s like driving a car with your vision blurred: You can’t see if you are heading in the right direction or getting closer to your destination. Measuring how well your product is doing at meeting its user, business, and product goals is great. Without KPIs, you end up guessing how well your product is performing. But it is not enough.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

DECEMBER 14, 2020

A common question for product managers, project managers, technical program managers, and software developers alike is what methodology to use given a project. Design After the requirements are established, the developers are responsible for designing technical solutions to the product requirements.

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Drawing from his 20+ years of technology experience and extensive research, Nishant shared insights about how these activities vary across different organizational contexts – from startups to enterprises, B2B to B2C, and Agile to Waterfall environments.

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Alchemer Mobile

JUNE 15, 2024

It’s driven by tools like ChatGPT and Gemini, and nothing has captured attention quite so effectively since social media hit the scene promising free technology to get closer to their customers. Right now, enterprise companies are thinking about how they can scale proven use cases with less technical knowledge to drive business goals.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 6, 2019

New interviewers should start off with sessions that involve less ambiguity like pairing or reviewing take home tests in order to become familiar with process. Who reviews my code?” “How Onboarding is often treated as a one or two day interlude before we get to our “real” work. It’s fast, cheap and short. Knowledge sharing.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 8, 2024

They involve integrating digital technologies and processes into every aspect of your business, from operations to customer interactions. It’s not just about adopting the latest gadgets, but about using technology to drive meaningful change and achieve specific business goals. What is the importance of digital transformation?

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The Product Guy

APRIL 9, 2019

In my company, we review a living document with our management chain on a quarterly basis to align business direction for the short-term (immediate one to two quarters) to the long-term (two to five years). No formal stakeholder review as this is meant to be the first version that will undergo many iterations and refinements.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

On the one side, they address typical Scrum events such as Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, and the Sprint Retrospective. A good Scrum Team pays attention to preserving an application’s technical health to ensure the Scrum Team is ready to pursue an opportunity in the market.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 18, 2021

They have a solid business but realized that the growth potential there is limited so they pulled me in to help them redefine their vision and strategy. It is very rare to simply sit in the room until everything is sorted out and have a clear vision and strategy as an immediate outcome. And evolution, as you know, can’t be rushed.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

I recently led a workshop for an organic tech farm startup that wanted to set its foot online for selling organic food to B2B customers. In the first meeting, I was assured that clarity on goal, strategy, the partnership was missing. These 8 dimensions will be pillars of driving the vision and business outcomes right after the launch.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 20, 2018

Most product managers have adopted an existing product that’s closer to the maturity end of the chart; one that has a pile of existing customers and constraints, a good chunk of tech debt, and invariably a messy backlog of features and bugs that they’ll never be able to fully work through. Step 1: Set your product vision.

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