Roman Pichler

AUGUST 17, 2021

What is the Product Vision? The product vision describes the ultimate purpose of a product, the positive change it will bring about. You can think of it as a big, hairy, audacious goal (BHAG) —or a moon shot—that inspires people and offers continued guidance for the next five to ten years.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

This includes a sound understanding of the market, the user and customer needs, and the competition as well as solid product management skills such as the ability to develop an effective product strategy and an actionable product roadmap (as I explain in more detail in the article The T-Shaped Product Professional ).

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Based on this insight, I have come up with the product strategy cycle shown in the picture below. It’s a model of an iterative process that systematically links the product strategy with the product roadmap , the product backlog , the development work, and the key performance indicators (KPIs).

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

To successfully manage your product and maximise value delivery, you should use additional artefacts including the following five: An inspiring vision that describes the ultimate reason for offering the product; A validated product strategy that captures your approach to realise the vision and make the product successful.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

In other words, you should have addressed the key assumptions and risks in the product strategy, and you should have carried out the necessary validation work. A tool like my product vision board helps you capture and validate your product strategy.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 13, 2021

Effective KPIs help you understand if your product is creating the desired value for the users, the customers, and the business. Without KPIs, you end up guessing how well your product is performing. Then take into account the product goals on the product roadmap to discover additional KPIs.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 7, 2022

The value the product should create is not clearly understood : A validated product strategy and an actionable product roadmap are missing. A powerful stakeholder or line manager determines the KPIs —not the person in charge of the product. Then ask yourself how you can tell that these goals have been met.

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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

MAY 11, 2021

This requires full-stack ownership : having the authority to make strategic product decisions in addition to tactical ones. Consequently, a Scrum product owner should own a product in its entirety—from the product vision to the product details.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

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. For instance, you might show the individuals how they can make effective strategic product decisions, create an actionable product roadmap, and effectively use the right KPIs.

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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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Roman Pichler

APRIL 5, 2022

For product strategy and roadmap meetings, I recommend involving the key stakeholders , for example, someone from sales, marketing, support, and finance, as well as development team representatives—ideally members who know about the user experience (UX), architecture, and technologies. Assess product strategy and adjust if necessary.

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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Figure 2 contains a set of cascading goals: vision, user and business goals, product goals, and sprint goals. The vision guides the user and business goals, which are contained in the product strategy. A product goal, finally, helps determine the right sprint goals.

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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.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

Aatir Abdul Rauf Read a copy of Aatir Abdul Rauf’s LinkedIn post below to find out more: Product strategy is one of the most misunderstood product manager (PM) topics. It’s not a set of goals. It’s not a roadmap. It’s not a vision. Seven questions that product strategy aims to answer: What problem are we solving?

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 4, 2022

Product roadmapping frameworks work in a very similar way. There are a few routes you can take to achieve your product goals. Recap: What are Product Roadmaps? A product roadmap is a holistic visual document that outlines your product’s growth path. Let’s map this out.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The importance of measuring the small outcomes associated with their product goals or visions is the key to churn expected benefits throughout the product life cycle. Vision: It should be inspirational and the guiding post. What and Why and the inspirational differences that product brings.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Consider These Product “Owner” Teams Effective product owners need to collaborate with several kinds of teams: They work with “their” feature/product team, to write stories and create good backlogs for the near-term work. See the roadmap series. So the product owner works alone.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 13, 2021

Effective KPIs help you understand if your product is creating the desired value for the users, the customers, and the business. Without KPIs, you end up guessing how well your product is performing. Then take into account the product goals on the product roadmap to discover additional KPIs.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 11, 2020

NAVIGATING THE NATURAL TENSION AMONG STAKEHOLDERS This is the first in a series on product roadmaps. The first post describes why roadmaps matter and who relies upon them. The roadmap is much more than a directive document that tells teams what to do by when. Battleground The product roadmap.

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Pragmatic Marketing

JANUARY 17, 2017

We’ve all heard about “strategic” product roadmaps. A roadmap is a plan for your strategy that maps out the direction of your product. Ideally, it’s a high-level visual summary that helps product managers get everyone on the same page. A product roadmap isn’t simply a list of features or the backlog.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Roadmaps vs backlogs: What’s the real difference and why does everyone keeps using these terms interchangeably when they mean different things? TLDR Understanding the difference between a product roadmap and a backlog is crucial for product managers. Product managers, what is a product backlog?

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People-First Product Leadership

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Part 1, we covered the “why” behind creating a strategy stack, with a focus on establishing the organization’s Mission, North Star, and Vision. Part 2, we continued the organizational journey by defining the Strategy and Goals. Part 3 brings together the Product specific Vision, Roadmap and Goals.

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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. You intentionally slow down, so to speak, to go faster afterwards.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 6, 2020

Product (and company) strategy is the backbone that guides product goal-setting and roadmap definition, although it’s sometimes overlooked or confused with having a vision. Without it, product teams become feature teams focused on outputs and not outcomes. It is the guiding principle for OKRs and roadmaps.

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Ask Benny

JANUARY 25, 2020

Your product as the VP Product is the team of product managers, and in turn, they are responsible for the product(s). Just like any product you need to have a vision, strategy, values, roadmap, goals, and metrics for your team. You want every product manager in the team thinking big.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 31, 2021

Or is there a big gap between product visions that needs a coherent narrative? Defining Product Strategy Jackie Bavaro and Gayle Laakmann in Cracking the PM Career did a fantastic job defining strategy. The product vision is the high level, inspiring description for where the product can go.

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Userpilot

JULY 24, 2024

So, how do you outline a product strategy framework that is the foundation of product-led growth ? TL;DR A product strategy is an overarching plan that defines product goals and how you’ll achieve them. Product strategies help you design and grow your products. Let’s get right to it.

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Alchemer Mobile

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Typically, a product manager’s responsibilities include: Owning long-term product strategy. When it comes to market fit and long-term roadmapping, product managers lead the charge. In many cases, product managers are the liaison between technical and non-technical worlds. You’re only as good as your team.

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Hutwork

SEPTEMBER 30, 2017

A product roadmap lets you plan, collaborate, and communicate with others about how a product will evolve over its lifecycle. Your product roadmap may look different from someone else’s, but they have the same elements. Here are the 4 key elements for any product roadmap. #1.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 8, 2024

A well-defined product strategy contains four key elements – the product vision , target customers , goals , and product initiatives. To create an effective product strategy, you must first study the market to understand your target users and make sense of market trends.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

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. For instance, you might show the individuals how they can make effective strategic product decisions, create an actionable product roadmap, and effectively use the right KPIs.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 11, 2022

Chapter 1: Why Product Management in the Enterprise is different First, Ben and Blair explain what a Product Manager (PM) is. “…the To execute well a Product Manager “ harnesses incentives built into all of the other teams and aligns them toward a single destination ”, Ben and Blair describe. Establish clear metrics of success.

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Product Management University

MARCH 9, 2017

This might seem like common sense or something you’re already doing, but at the execution level, it changes everything because your starting point is customer goals, not company or product goals. The individual products and services that comprise the solutions are great proof points to your superior market knowledge.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

This requires full-stack ownership : having the authority to make strategic product decisions in addition to tactical ones. Consequently, a Scrum product owner should own a product in its entirety—from the product vision to the product details.

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Product Management University

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Customer-Facing Vision & Strategy. Many product management teams struggle with this one because number one, they have a lot of products, and number two, it’s more difficult when your thought process starts with the product. If you have 20 products, that equates to 20 product visions and 20 product strategies.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 5, 2021

In terms of day-to-day work, associate product managers do everything a product manager does, but on a smaller scale. In other words, you may not set the product strategy or own the product roadmap , but you will set priorities for your projects. Do you always start as an Associate Product Manager?

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