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How to fix Your Product Goals for Better Human Outcomes

Mind the Product

Hello product designers, this is for you. I want to talk to you about product goals, metrics, and how they get muddled in the product design process, leading to some less than humane outcomes. So, product goals and metrics – the tools that allow you to build design foundations and shape a strategy.

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How to Choose the Right KPIs for Your Product

Roman Pichler

To select the right KPIs, I recommend taking the following three steps: First, use the user and business goals in the product strategy to select an initial set of indicators. Then take into account the product goals on the product roadmap to discover additional KPIs. Step 3: Add Health Indicators.

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Succeeding with Product Delivery and Scrum: 10 Tips for Product People

Roman Pichler

It therefore offers only limited support for product people. 4 Take Advantage of Product Goals I like to think of a product goal as the specific outcome that a product should achieve in the next two to three months, for example, to increase conversion, to decrease churn, or to future-proof the product by removing technical debt. [4]

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10 Product Roadmapping Mistakes to Avoid

Roman Pichler

You can avoid these drawbacks by using a different roadmap type: a goal-oriented or outcome-based product roadmap. As its name suggests, this roadmap focuses on product goals and outcomes, such as acquiring customers, increasing engagement, and future-proofing the product by removing technical debt.

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Building High-Performing Product Teams

Roman Pichler

Once you’ve identified and selected a specific product, you can take the next step and determine the people who are required to create or progress it and generate the desired user and business benefits. The vision describes the ultimate purpose for creating the product and the positive change it should bring about.

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Five Product Owner Myths Busted

Roman Pichler

Myth #3: The product owner is responsible for the team performance. An agile development team does a good job if the memebers can reliably meet the agreed goals and create software that offers a great user experience and exhibit the desired quality. Myth #4: The product owner is responsible for writing user stories.

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Why Product Owners Need Effective Scrum Masters?

Roman Pichler

Productive work environment : Help set up an environment that is conducive to creative teamwork and encourage people to practice sustainable pace —to do a great job without getting overworked, losing motivation, and falling ill. The individual is not a product backlog manager or a user story writer.