Roman Pichler

JANUARY 20, 2025

1] Figure 1: A Product Strategy System You can use the model in Figure 1 to review and improve your current product strategy approach. The business goals, finally, state the positive impact the product should achieve for the business. Are they properly empowered and adequately qualified?

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 16, 2024

We were now reviewing the features to be sunset, and the teams to work on them. I’ve also found it helps to show the positive impact on other teams — customer implementation, for example. What they found valuable two years ago may no longer evoke positive feelings. Product teams would much rather build new stuff. Let’s face it.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 21, 2019

Some 84% of people trust online reviews as much as a personal recommendations, reason enough why every business should be concerned with who reviews their product and what they have to say about it. What do we mean by the term “review sites”? Not all review sites are made equal. Peer review sites.

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Product Innovation Educators

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

His name is Ken Babcock, and he is the Co-founder and CEO of Tango. We thought about how we could shift that to a more positive experience and cut down on pain points. Product Hunt is a great way for early product adopters and end users of technology to find tools. We’ve remained diligent about thinking about the end user.

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 20, 2021

That’s why Teresa named her book Continuous Discovery Habits. Like many aspects of continuous discovery, there’s no single right way to build your tech stack. The benefit of using tools like Pendo and Intercom is that they make it quick and easy to set up intercepts without any technical involvement. Tweet This. Tweet This.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 13, 2021

This might have involved observing target users, interviewing them, carrying out competitor research, and using throw-away prototypes, to name just a few strategy validation techniques. To do so, I might measure market share, for instance, by tracking the product’s position in the appropriate app store. Step 3: Add Health Indicators.

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Product Management Lessons from the Trenches

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Fortunately, technology has been rapidly advancing and there are tools available that make this a solvable problem. evaluating a set of text to identify the writer’s attitude toward a topic as being positive, neutral, or negative. Gone are the days where your technology team is going to need 12 months to build a platform for NLP.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

But it has the following three drawbacks: A feature-based roadmap can give rise to and strengthen a feature-factory mindset where adding features is more important than creating value and making a positive impact on people’s lives and the business. You should therefore review and adapt the roadmap on a regular basis.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

One of my reviewers for the Modern Management Made Easy books asked a fascinating question: I've never seen this many women in management or in senior leadership positions. Up until the mid-1980s, women comprised about 1/3 of the technical people I worked with. The idea of a code review or a design review?

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Lenny Rachitsky

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

In the past few years, we’ve seen the “ great flattening ” of tech: rising expectations of fewer ICs to own larger swaths of the product and manage multiple teams while staying hands-on. Instead of spending valuable time after the meeting reviewing notes and drafting a summary, do the work in the meeting itself.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Let’s review everything your customer success team has to do in the absence of any customer success tools. Review scalability & adaptability : Lastly, pick a tool that can grow with your business and adapt to changing needs, allowing you to expand functionalities as your customer success strategy evolves. G2 rating : 4.4

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Userpilot

JULY 22, 2024

Product positioning is crucial in product management to attract prospects and stand out in your niche. But how can you start crafting an effective positioning strategy that appeals to your target audience? TL;DR Developing a solid product positioning strategy involves several key steps. Understand your competition.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

He doesn’t have a technical background and currently works in a different domain. He’s been applying for positions for months and has found it nearly impossible to get an interview. More than many other roles, PM positions tend to have stringent qualifications for desired applicants. This is not an uncommon situation.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Fallacy #1: ‘Agile’ Equals More Bang for the Buck If you ask founders and managers of startups why they want to become an agile organization, they typically name reasons such as: Becoming more efficient in software delivery, Delivering faster, Improving the predictability of software deliveries.

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Alchemer Mobile

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

The first step of any go-to-market strategy is to lock in a compelling positioning statement: Who is your app intended for? Now it’s time to put your app and positioning to the test. Are there any bloggers or journalists whose names keep coming up? Three Months Before Launch: Lay the Groundwork. App marketing at its most basic.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Organise the Team around a Product As the name suggests, a product team is focused on a product. The vision describes the ultimate purpose for creating the product and the positive change it should bring about. This sounds simple enough. Let’s take a look at them.

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Modus Create

MAY 26, 2021

As part of a recent customer engagement, we were tasked with defining a naming convention for GitHub repositories. Up to this point, each project team had used whatever convention (or none) they liked to define the repository name, leading to a situation where there was a lack of consistency across the GitHub organization. Consistent.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

I enjoyed in-person meetings, especially in-person product review meetings. Early in the pandemic, this led me to resent virtual meetings, especially virtual product review meetings. This particular product review meeting was a breaking point. I struggled to figure out how to run the product review meeting effectively.

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People-First Product Leadership

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Rapid technological changes and shift to hybrid work: The transition to remote / hybrid work, then back to the office, has mixed up communication, collaboration, and work-life balance. They’ve learned to be adaptable, embrace community, and promote positive coping strategies. Today is perfect for a lifequake. Sound familiar?

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Mind the Product

APRIL 16, 2020

The pitch went well and I was assigned a budget plus a single resource in a graduate named Venus (aka ‘the navigator’). After a very promising product design phase, we sadly went from a very agile process to the bank’s traditional default waterfall technical delivery methodology.

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 24, 2022

I’ve written a lot about the organizational and conceptual gap between product/engineering teams and the “go-to-market” or sales/marketing side of tech companies.  (See  At almost all of my clients, I see major product waste: products released on time/on budget that don't deliver positive business outcomes.

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Userpilot

MARCH 7, 2024

I asked DALLE to ‘Give me an image of a tech CEO’. Then I tried regenerating the image to see on which try it would give me a tech CEO of a different gender (or colour). Check out this viral post by Andrew Gazdecki to learn more about what a ‘tech CEO’ is like US Census data from 2022 revealed that only 17% of tech CEOs are female.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Descriptive product name The name should reflect more than the product category and brand. Asos assembles product names from the following parts: product color + category + cut + print + brand The name of the product can go either above or after the image. Use tables for technical specifications of the products.

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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. 1 Poor definition of value proposition and feature focus. 2 First-mover disadvantage.

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Userpilot

MARCH 30, 2025

Ask users to leave reviews on the app store to add social proof to your app. Asking current users to review your app to increase trust and encourage the algorithm to display your app to more users. comparison posts, product lists, reviews, etc.) Including popular names like Hubspot, Atlassian, and Netflix.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 18, 2018

This first post covers Positioning Documents, which I bought to Onfido from Pragmatic Marketing training, and Line of Business Meetings, which Kevin brought with him. The Positioning Document and Line of Business meeting act as communication devices. Positioning Document. These are the main sections: Product Name.

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 14, 2018

Ideally, you should continuously track the product performance and regularly review the product strategy—at least once per quarter as a rule of thumb. Apple has made considerable changes to the products throughout its life: it introduced apps, increased its size, improved the camera, and added face recognition, to name just a few.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 27, 2019

Their names were John Darley and Daniel Batson, and they created the Good Samaritan study to ask a seemingly simple question: why do people do good things for others? Positive Examples of Product Goals. But first a little story. The method was to test two groups. You know that, right? How does design stay true to real product goals?

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 17, 2019

These technical problems, also known as email screeners or, as we call them at Intercom, take-home tests, are a useful way to initially evaluate the technical ability of candidates applying for engineering positions. Through the looking glass – empathy for the reviewer.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Photo by Jackson Simmer on Unsplash I’ve seen this play out in some form or fashion dozens of times, PMs work really hard and diligently only to discover that what they thought was the most important thing to build didn’t actually line up with what the organization or department wanted/needed. You have an alignment problem. —?—?—?—?—

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 13, 2021

This might have involved observing target users, interviewing them, carrying out competitor research, and using throw-away prototypes, to name just a few strategy validation techniques. To do so, I might measure market share, for instance, by tracking the product’s position in the appropriate app store. Step 3: Add Health Indicators.

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Userpilot

JULY 23, 2024

TL;DR A marketing tech stack is any combination of software tools that marketing teams use to improve their campaigns. The typical marketing technology stack is made up of tools from different categories. Search Engine Optimization Tools that help with optimizing content, keyword research , and technical aspects.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 19, 2019

Which would you prefer: one where a barista knows your name and your favourite drink and your favourite music is playing, or one where everything is made for an average customer? You forget that your dataset also includes December and Christmas holidays that skew your data due to unusual user activity and behaviour.

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Usersnap

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

A couple of months ago, we reviewed the new Firefox browser designed for developers. With Hiver, critical emails – regarding support escalations and other technical bug problems – arriving in these inboxes can be auto-assigned to individual developers and kept track of in real-time, till the point of resolution.

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Mixpanel

MAY 5, 2021

Prior to this position, Neil was VP of Engineering, after working as a Software Engineer and leading Infrastructure Engineering. Other names and phrases for unshipping: killing, reverting, deprecating, sunsetting, rolling back, removing, winding down, retiring, and obsolescence. Tech costs. ” which we’ll cover next.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

That approach is already being rewarded and recognized – Rebecca was recently named on Inc Magazine’s influential Female Founders 100 list for 2021. How can you develop the technology while making sure it really gets to the people who need it the most and has an actual impact on their lives? It’s all about the family setting.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 18, 2021

E.g., you need to look for experience in the industry you target and the technology stack. Choose a software architecture pattern for the proposed SaaS app This part is more technical, so if you’re not a tech-experienced person, you can ask your architect about this. As you can see, this subject is about tech.

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