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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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The Product Strategy Cycle

Roman Pichler

I view the roadmap as a product plan that describes how you intend to implement the strategy and which specific benefits or outcomes the product should provide over the next, say, 12 months, based on the needs and business goals stated in the product strategy. I call these outcomes product goals.

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

Roman Pichler

These are typically brand-new and young products as well as products that are experiencing a bigger change, for example, to extend their life cycle by addressing a new market segment or by replacing some of the technologies. It therefore offers only limited support for product people.

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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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Building High-Performing Product Teams

Roman Pichler

It’s important that they have the right skills to spot and evaluate design and technology opportunities and to develop a rough understanding of the likely effort required to implement product decisions. The skills typically include architecture, programming, testing, and if the product is end-user facing, UX design capabilities.

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Achieving and Scaling Product-Market Fit: A Guide for Product Managers in Mid-to-Large Tech Companies

Sequent Learning

Achieving and Scaling Product-Market Fit: A Guide for Product Managers in Mid-to-Large Tech Companies Introduction As product managers in mid-to-large technology companies, you’re no stranger to the challenges of maintaining and scaling product-market fit (PMF).

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How to Get Started with Outcome-Based Product Roadmaps

Roman Pichler

Instead of determining features, you first and foremost consider the specific value the product should create—the outcomes it should achieve. These might include acquiring new users, reducing churn, increasing engagement, improving conversion, and reducing development time and cost by removing technical debt.

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