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How to Leverage Conflict in Product Management

Roman Pichler

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Why Conflict Matters Conflict is often seen as something bad that should not occur. Think of the salespeople, marketers, and customer support team members, as well as the UX designers, architects, programmers, and testers you might interact with. But in fact, it’s perfectly normal.

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A Learning Roadmap for Product People

Roman Pichler

The second line names the skills areas the learning goals belong to, which I’ll cover in more detail in the next section. For example, the guidelines I have developed for the GO product roadmap template directly apply to the roadmap in figure 1. This can help you tie individual learning goals to team and department goals.

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Everything You Need to Know about Product Portfolio Strategy

Roman Pichler

2] Figure 2: A Sample Product Portfolio Strategy If you are familiar with my work on product strategy , you’ll recognise the structure I’ve used in Figure 2: It is based on the Product Vision Board —the tool I’ve developed to capture a product vision and a product strategy. What’s more, it might cause poor alignment and weak buy-in.

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Be a Balanced Product Leader, Not a Feature Broker or Product Dictator

Roman Pichler

How do you best lead the stakeholders and development team as the person in charge of the product? A feature broker is a product person who relies on others—the stakeholders, development team, management, users, or a customer—to come up with ideas and make product decisions.

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Three Qualities of Great Product Roadmaps

Roman Pichler

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. This helps align the stakeholders and development teams, as I discuss below, and acquire a budget if required. Actionable.

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Five Product Owner Myths Busted

Roman Pichler

” But do not allow people to dominate and tell you what to do, and don’t agree to a weak compromise. The SAFe product owner is tactical in nature and focuses on working on the product backlog and guiding the development teams. Myth #3: The product owner is responsible for the team performance.

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Common Product Vision Board Mistakes

Roman Pichler

It can also result in a large product backlog and high development cost: The greater the number of people who should benefit from your product is, the more diverse their needs are likely to be, and the more features are usually required to address them. Instead, they require tough strategic decision and clear focus. Needs are Features.

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