Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] What is Product Discovery? Product discovery is the process of “figuring out a solution to a problem we’ve been asked to solve,” writes Marty Cagan. [1] The solutions, finally, are the products or product capabilities that help solve the customer needs.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 19, 2024

Think of Net Promoter Score (NPS) software as a tool to measure your customers’ feelings about your product, and categorize them based on their level of loyalty (promoters, neutrals, and detractors). The great advantage of these tools is that they streamline the creation, distribution, and analysis of NPS surveys.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 15, 2025

At this months TPG Live , we explored two of the most persistent challenges in product leadership: How do you build trust and alignment between enterprise users and buyers? How do hybrid product teams stay aligned and effective across time zones and work styles?

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

In addition to delivering a keynote at the Product at Heart conference (in case you missed it, you can find the video and transcript of that presentation here ), conference co-organizer Petra Wille also invited me to participate in a fireside chat at the Leadership Forum event. Introduction: What Is Product Discovery?

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Product Talk

MAY 15, 2024

Committing to continuous discovery means changing the way your product team operates. Continuous discovery means not making decisions purely based on your intuitions or stakeholder requests, but finding ways to integrate touch points with customers into your work every week. Tweet This This can sound overwhelming.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Ian Moulton, lead a conversation around “Conducting User Research”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Better Products. Better Product People. View the live stream….

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Product Talk

APRIL 21, 2021

Welcome to JEDI Training for Continuous Discovery Teams. I work as a product discovery coach. I’ve had the luxury of working with teams all over the world, and I teach them a structured and sustainable approach to continuous discovery. Here’s how I’m redefining JEDI training in a product context.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

This week’s Sunday Rewind is a 2022 ProductTank Barcelona talk from Andrew Moll, then Head of Product at Abacum, on what it means to be the first product manager in a startup.

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Usersnap

MARCH 24, 2025

Imagine launching a product feature that no one uses. Because product discovery was skipped … or done poorly. Product discovery process is the foundation of building successful products. Yet, many teams rush into development without properly testing ideas, leading to wasted effort and failed launches.

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 18, 2023

A regular cadence of assumption testing helps product teams quickly determine which ideas will work and which ones won’t. And sadly, most product teams don’t do any assumption testing at all. In this article, I’ll cover assumption testing from beginning to end, including: Why should product teams test their assumptions?

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Are you inviting your engineers to participate in discovery with you? While I don’t believe in forcing engineers to participate in discovery, I do think product teams should do everything in their power to encourage their engineers to do so. Good discovery is fueled by valuable insights gleaned during customer interviews.

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 21, 2024

How product managers can foster a culture of innovation Watch on YouTube [link] TLDR In this episode of Product Mastery Now, I’m interviewing Chris Elmore, a tech entrepreneur and college professor who helped found Avid Exchange, a unicorn startup that went public in 2021.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

How Do You Stay True to Your Product Vision While Adapting to Market Realities? The Challenge of Balancing Vision vs. Market Demands Why Product Vision Often Gets Lost Product leaders start with a bold vision, but execution becomes difficult when: Market conditions change , requiring fast adjustments.

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Productside

APRIL 2, 2025

Yet most product managers still rely on long documents, jargon-filled briefs, and clunky slide decks that dont land with the people who matter. Its a technique borrowed from the world of film and designbut it might just be the most underrated tool in a product managers toolbox. Lets talk about whats getting in the way.

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Product Talk

JANUARY 17, 2024

Here’s Teresa’s take : When we start with an idea, the scope of our discovery work becomes, “Is my idea good or not?” This means that even when startup founders are motivated to test their ideas, they are more likely to notice the evidence that suggests their idea is fantastic and miss the evidence that suggests their idea is flawed.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The opportunity solution tree helps visualize all the work that goes into continuous discovery. And while opportunity solution trees have become increasingly common among product teams, there’s still plenty of room for customization, both in the way you set up your trees and the tools you use to build them.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 26, 2020

Guest Post by: Andraž Zvonar (Mentee, Session 11, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Dimitris Sotiriou ]. While startups need to move fast, getting everyone on board with the decisions that are being made is crucial to actually execute fast. I’ve stumbled into product areas I thought needed help to make the product successful.

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Productside

MARCH 18, 2025

The biggest showdown in product management is BACK and this time, its all about the most promising startups. Welcome to Product PickEm 2025 , where the best emerging product tool startups go head-to-head in a bracket-style competition, and YOU decide which ones rise to the top via our LinkedIn polls on the Productside page.

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The Product Guy

DECEMBER 6, 2024

In this episode of “ Product Excellence: Insights from Award-Winning Leaders | Strategies for Success ,” Drew Falkman shares the toughest lesson hes learned in product management: the importance of failing fast. What You’ll Learn: Fail Fast, Learn Fast: The value of testing quickly.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

In this post, startup CEO Ferdinand Goetzen relates how product discovery led him and his team to adjust their thinking, pivot and change their product Overview We started Reveall in 2021 as a platform to empower UX teams to do more with their customer research insights.

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Lenny Rachitsky

OCTOBER 10, 2024

” NotebookLM started as a 20% project and has grown into a product that’s spreading across social media and has a Discord server with over 60,000 users. ” NotebookLM started as a 20% project and has grown into a product that’s spreading across social media and has a Discord server with over 60,000 users.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Using an Innovation Stage-Gate – for product managers. Today we are talking about how Lean Startup can be used at large organizations. He has helped many large companies implement innovation practices including Lean Startup and has written the book on the topic, titled Lean Startup in Large Organizations.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] 1 Complement Scrum with a Product Discovery and Strategy Process Scrum is a simple framework that helps teams develop successful products. Otherwise, you might ask the wrong people for feedback on the increments and hence draw the wrong conclusions. But don’t stop there.

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 12, 2020

How product managers can discover customer needs and build the right product. I’m often asked by product managers on their journey to product master what books they should read. It covers a broad perspective helpful to less experienced product managers all the way to those who are leading other product managers.

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Product Talk

MAY 3, 2023

In the book, the authors recommend that for any new product idea, we need to consider the monetization potential from the very beginning. Assessing a customer’s willingness to pay is a critical discovery activity that directly ties to our viability assumptions. This I agree with. This I 100% disagree with. Let’s dive in.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 17, 2020

Others have tried, but we’ve yet to find anyone else with her depth of experience (spanning stints as a developer, designer, researcher and product manager), her empathy for both users and stakeholders, her experience as a teacher, and her sense of humour. Building better products. Quote of the Episode.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 2, 2016

Guest Post by: Sean Echevarria (Mentee, Session 3, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Dustin Levy]. I joined a growing user experience agency called Motivate Design, without having any real knowledge about UX and its function within product strategy. And I caught what some might say was the product bug!

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The Product Guy

APRIL 23, 2019

Guest Post by: Surbhi Gupta (Mentee, Session 8, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Tim Nunn]. For a Product Manager, building the right product is more important than building the product right.”. Next, you have solved all the incredible technical challenges involved in building this product.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Our industry is in the midst of a big philosophical debate about the fundamental way of thinking about how we build our products, with the focus shifting from the outputs of what we build to the business outcomes generated by those outputs. The Product Impact Framework felt like a natural progression from features to outcome.

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The Product Guy

JULY 4, 2019

Guest Post by: Magdaline Derosena (Mentee, Session 9, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Andrew Hsu]. I discovered that I must research and understand the entire system and process, problem solve with my team, and share lessons learned. After researching the problem with my team, we came up with a solution.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Best customer success software for startups and small companies. Some customers review ClientSuccess as having missing features, like a lack of customization options, especially in NPS surveys. Zapscale Best for : Early-stage startups. Surveys, including NPS functions. Defining a customer success tool and other FAQs.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Before the advent of agile frameworks like Scrum , a product person—the product manager—would typically carry out the market research, compile a market requirements specification, create a business case, put together product roadmap, write a requirements specification, and then hand it off to a project manager.

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Product Talk

MARCH 16, 2022

Visualizing discovery work with an opportunity solution tree has been a game-changer for both me and the teams that I work with. This sets the scope for our discovery. From there, an effective team is doing two key research activities week over week. Assumption testing is evaluative. Assumption testing is evaluative.

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UX Planet

OCTOBER 24, 2024

The canvases listed below can streamline the product design process and will help you consider the bigger picture when doing individual design activities. Value propositions : The products or services that create value for each customer segment. Tips for making the most of Value Proposition Canvas Invest in user/customer research.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 8, 2019

Guest Post by: Sherzod Abdujabborov (Mentee, Session 7, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Dan Mason]. We had no clue about what “Lean” or “Agile” or even “Startup” essentially meant, but we spent most of our time out in the streets talking to our customers. The So-Lala Product epidemic. A story of one failure.

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Piyanka Jain

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Brikker (anonymized), a children’s toy manufacturing startup, was like a hamster on a wheel. Their primary product, these adorable little building blocks, had gained some traction but had yet to achieve the explosive growth they’d anticipated. In discussions about their marketing strategy, product quality, etc.,

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2019

Guest Post by: Merziyah Poonawala (Mentee, Session 9, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Joni Hoadley]. A startup development team consisting of a product manager and two offshore engineers was facing major challenges in meeting client deliverable deadlines – repeatedly. THE CHALLENGE.

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