Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 21, 2016

When I am happy and content, everything seems OK—even an nagging problem with my website isn’t that bad and can wait. But when I am discontent, tense, or tired, small things can seem big and bad. Secondly, a major success factor for every product person is to develop empathy for the users and customers. Tip #5: Be Positive.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

As a result, the team at Uniregistry decided to take a new approach to product validation in an attempt to avoid the same fate. Core team: Product Manager, Product Designer, and a Full-stack Developer (click to enlarge). Each of these ideas was at a different stage of development. The Approach. Advanced Website Builder.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Join us on March 9, 2021 , for a live virtual workshop to create actionable recommendations on how to deal with the outcome of a forensic Product Backlog analysis. In my experience, the challenges of becoming a learning organization can only be handled effectively by self-organizing teams. Participation is free.)

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Product Management University

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Competitive demos are stressful, especially when you’re operating on very little knowledge or hearsay information about your competitor’s weaknesses. Here’s the thing about focusing on your competitor’s weaknesses. Sometimes, they just don’t like your competitor’s sales team. There’s no answer for that!

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 3, 2023

Most common friction comes from the regular team meetings that can be all over the place for historical “that was the only slot that worked for everyone back in 2018” reason. For example, with one product team, we started doing standups right before lunch, at 11:45 am. However, not all meetings are bad.

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Product Talk

JANUARY 31, 2024

Because discovery involves changing the way you work on an individual, team, and even company level, it’s all too easy to make mistakes and missteps. If you’ve already begun to develop continuous discovery habits, maybe one of these stories will remind you of something you’ve experienced somewhere in your journey.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

. – Tweet This The product team at Botify knows this all too well. While Chief Product Officer Christophe Frenet initially guided this transition, many members of the team stepped in to facilitate this process. However, Claire adds it wasn’t all bad. Along the way, they’ve given a lot of thought to this process.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 21, 2020

Joe coaches and mentors product teams, supporting them to make good decisions and good user-centred design choices. I’ll be told ‘we’re not shipping stuff when we should, UX is poor, we’re struggling to keep staff’. At the moment he coaches the teams doing the work, but he’s starting to coach business leaders about product strategy.

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Agile Velocity

AUGUST 19, 2020

STATIK (Systems Thinking Approach To Implementing Kanban 1 2 ) can be a great technique to help teams get up and running quickly, even teams that are using Scrum. . Applying this approach designed for Kanban can dramatically accelerate the forming and improvements of a Scrum team. How does work flow through the team/system? .

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Mind the Product

MARCH 31, 2020

In this blog post, we revisit an episode of Mindset in which Singapore-based Tamara Moona, Associate Director of Product at Pivotal Labs , and Priscilla Nu, Head of Digital Experience and Design at SP Group , share their advice on developing organisational alignment and tackling issues with stakeholders. Vet your Company.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Position your customer as the hero of the story and your product or business as the guide. If you make your product the hero, and the customer is also positioning themselves as the hero, you’re in competing stories. If I’m a team manager, my team is the hero. Do you want that microphone?”

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Product Management University

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Getting product teams to “consistently” operate with this mentality…still a challenge! This approach positions his company to succeed in specific markets and beat the pants off competitors that have generic platforms. Your development process is only as successful as your market-facing feeder systems.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 23, 2018

And leaders have an outsized impact on team performance. She shared some insights on human behavior, and how we as leaders can use our influence to build a culture of psychological safety, enhancing collaboration and problem solving in our teams. Catch Julia’s stakeholder management workshop in London in October!).

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Product managers can make better decisions if they’ve built transparency and trust with their team. Strategic decisions provide direction and focus for your product, guide product development action, and ensure alignment within your product ecosystem. You may also reduce trust in your team. A culture of trust develops.

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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. Grow Your Leadership Skills. Ensure that Your Core Product Management Skills are Strong.

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Product Management University

AUGUST 2, 2021

Poor execution due to a mishmash of processes, cultures, tools and personalities. Contention for development and marketing resources. Product teams wasting a lot of cycles lobbying for conflicting priorities. 3. Restructure product teams for customer outcomes and solutions. Hear the cash register ringing?

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UX Planet

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Anyone in Product Ownership related discipline or those affiliated with Development, need to be aware of the time it takes to go through Research, Ideation, Iteration, before the subsequent steps of the Design Thinking process can occur (this impacts sales strategies, go to market strategies, communication outreach, just to name but a few tasks).

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 19, 2018

As up and coming engineers in Silicon Valley, Jean Hsu and Edmond Lau long sought more influence and impact in their respective positions – but they couldn’t shake the feeling of being stuck. The foundation of a positive, two-way working relationship is having a sense for what motivates your teammate. Their story isn’t uncommon.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 26, 2018

I hosted Nir on our podcast to learn how to create healthy habits, how to avoid bad ones, what questions thoughtful product designers should be asking themselves, and much more. Here are five quick takeaways: We have good habits and bad habits , which are very different from addictions. For me, that was a bad habit.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 30, 2023

It was another bad start to what seemed like Groundhog Day. “I An outcome-oriented approach helps teams remain focused on the bigger picture, ensures efforts go toward delivering meaningful value to customers, and gives them the freedom to figure out the best way instead of having ‘the way’ committed well before discovery.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 8, 2020

I work in the tech industry & manage a team of around 12 people with a range of product, delivery & engineering skills. As a leader in tech, I have a variety of responsibilities, but I see my main role as building, enabling & motivating teams to deliver great digital products. Personal opportunity.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

A market gap can be caused by missing functionality or poor user experience. Tracking user behavior in-app enables product teams to find ways to improve product experience. Competitor analysis enables PMs to find areas where rivals fail customers and develop sound positioning and differentiation strategies.

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Userzoom

APRIL 30, 2019

In the various design teams that I have been part of, I’ve often experienced contrasting practices of validating products. These are a set of methods which involve internal experts (colleagues from the design or other teams, stakeholders or even clients). Image by Crew. Various validation methods. Internal evaluations ?—?These

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Userpilot

AUGUST 30, 2024

Book a demo now to discuss with our team! For example, Slack’s advertising frequently highlights the tool’s ability to improve communication and collaboration within teams, contrasting the traditional, often disorganized nature of email communication. Promote new features with in-app ads to upsell users. Ready to get started?

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

TL; DR: Forensic Product Backlog Analysis Garbage in, garbage out: No matter whether your team chose Scrum for the right purpose?—?solving No matter whether your Scrum Team’s product quality is top-notch or whether your teammates embrace self-management to the fullest. Just count the team’s throughput and do the math.

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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 5, 2016

The drawback of this approach is that it can take a comparatively long time to reach consensus within a group, as it requires developing a mutual understanding and evaluating competing ideas. As the person in charge of the product, you would typically expect that the development team takes care of all technical decisions.

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UX Studio

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

In this post we created a guide on the steps to take in developing your brand strategy. We’ve tested most as workshop methods on our clients in the last couple of years, and have included some research techniques as well. How to develop your brand strategy? They establish what you stand for as a team. Get specific!

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

But his current venture is more personal to him, and is he says born out of a motivation to create something that would make a positive impact on the world, rather than just make money. We were fairly poor. So I started to develop a hankering for making money at an early age. I always loved software and developing software.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Each person on your team has different needs, responds to feedback in different ways and evolves in different trajectories – and management should always reflect that. Even when you reach the perfect team dynamic – a new hire or budget cut can easily throw things off balance. It’s called Resilient Management.

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Product Management University

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Let’s look at the practical side of developing a full blown strategy for each product. This is the biggest part of product strategy that never gets talked about, and it just might be the biggest hurdle every product management team and every organization faces. The best sales teams on the planet can’t absorb that much.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 12, 2020

And perhaps more importantly, how can you develop it? There’s only really one way to develop product judgment and that’s through direct interaction with your customers. Create a safe environment for sound product judgment to develop by ensuring feedback is immediate, clear and concrete. ” What is it?

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Userpilot

JULY 29, 2024

To create a successful product marketing strategy, you need to set tangible goals, create user personas to understand your target audience better, and develop messaging that showcases your unique value proposition. Userpilot is a product growth platform that allows product teams to: Create different UI patterns for in-app marketing campaigns.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Most of us have been through the results of poor management of bugs: hair-on-fire, last-minute late nights to madly scrambling to critical fix bugs blocking a release, or stopping a customer from using a product. Does your organisation provide you and your team with direct access to customers, or are there gatekeepers?

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Unfortunately, user journey mapping can be a long and arduous process that requires support from all of your stakeholders – meaning multiple meetings and perhaps a workshop ( long sigh ). The Bottleneck -Your software developer who is too busy to take on every experiment you want to run. Drive alignment across your team.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 19, 2021

The Product Backlog and Refinement If you are looking to fill a position for a Product Owner in your organization, you may find the following 71 interview questions useful to identify the right candidate. PO Interview Questions?—?The The Product Backlog and Refinement TL; DR: Product Owner Interview Questions?—?The

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

3) Most companies use weak heuristics, opinions and archaic decision processes to place bets on a handful of unproven ideas. The alternative is of course evidence-driven product development. In product management circles the term “Product Discovery” has become most synonymous with evidence-driven product development.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JUNE 14, 2024

It can also come from experts in your professional environment and developers after a round of handovers. Criticism: Opinion-driven, honest, highlighting the good and bad without hyperfocusing on the negatives. Keep bringing up this definition in critique meetings and workshops with the risk of sounding like a broken record.

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