Roman Pichler

JUNE 7, 2021

In practical terms, involve stakeholders and dev teams in decisions that affect the product strategy and the product roadmap —be it that you create the plans or that you make bigger changes to them. Then invite the right people to a collaborative workshop, no matter if it takes place online or onsite. Lead by Example.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 9, 2022

If that’s not the case, then it will be difficult to encourage the individuals to agree to more specific goals and to follow a product strategy and a product roadmap that are based on the vision. Encourage the participants to describe the purpose that they associate with the product. Visioning Workshop Attendees.

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Product Management University

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

If you thought there were a million ways to define product management, product strategy might have it beat by a longshot. Just think about how many ways product strategy is defined within your own organization. It’s the number one thing that makes product strategy both challenging and frustrating at the same time.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 4, 2023

For example, ensure that the individual product people are sufficiently empowered to succeed in their roles and establish a product-led way of working. What Happens When the Head of Product Determines the Product Strategy? As you might have noticed, the list above does not mention determining the product strategy.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 5, 2022

For example, a product strategy workshop might have the objective to identify the key changes required to achieve product-market fit. Contrast this with a sprint review meeting , which might help you determine if users can easily sign up for the product. Assess product strategy and adjust if necessary.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 1, 2020

To build such a stakeholder community, try the following techniques, which I discuss in more detail in my book How to Lead in Product Management : Bring people together and have joint workshops instead of holding separate conversations with the individual stakeholders, see also the section below.

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 17, 2021

Not tied to a solution : Despite its name, I recommend keeping the product vision free from assumptions about the actual product or solution. This allows you to pivot, to change the product strategy and the product while staying grounded in your vision. Who Owns the Product Vision?

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Product Management University

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Here’s the easiest way to marry company strategy and product strategy. The Downside of Multiple Product Strategies Here’s the first thing you SHOULD NOT DO. Don’t dispatch each product team to come up with a strategy that supports your company’s goals. Forget about your products for a quick minute.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

If you say yes to every request, you are in danger of creating a Frankenstein product—a product that is a collection of unrelated features, offers a weak value proposition, and gives rise to a poor user experience. Decline stakeholder requests if they aren’t aligned with the product strategy.

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Product Management University

OCTOBER 10, 2023

That brings us to the topic of a single market strategy versus strategies for each product and which approach has more strategic benefit to your organization. None of your products on their own deliver the broad impact your customers are looking for. A market strategy does just that. Here’s the $1 million question.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Introduction To discuss empowerment in product management, I find it helpful to distinguish three main levels of decision-making authority, product delivery, product discovery, and product strategy, as the model in Figure 1 shows. [1]

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Mind the Product

APRIL 6, 2020

Our goal was to define how we would set and communicate the company strategy, and how that strategy would lead OKRs and backlog definition. 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.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

No matter how well thought-out your product roadmap is, it is worthless if the key stakeholders and the development team members don’t understand and support it. A great way to achieve a shared roadmap is to involve the individuals in the product roadmapping decisions, preferably in the form of a collaborative workshop—be it online or onsite.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 20, 2016

You can download the template for free from romanpichler.com/tools, and you can find more information on how to use it in my post The GO Product Roadmap. I like to use my Product Vision Board to develop a valid product strategy. This would turn your product roadmap into a feature soup, a random collection of features.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 13, 2021

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. Then consider how you can tell if they have been met.

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BrainMates

JUNE 20, 2022

With the rapid rise of technology, resilience is also key in the planning of technology and digital strategies by CTOs and tech leaders. However, the topic of product strategy resilience rarely if ever surfaces when talking to product leaders about their product strategies. The post Scenario Gaming.

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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

JUNE 10, 2024

A great way to engage the individuals is to invite them to a collaborative workshop, which may take place onsite or online. [4] You can learn more about using the GO Product Roadmap by watching this YouTube video. But before you build your outcome-based roadmap, ensure that a valid product strategy exists.

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Melissa Perri

JULY 23, 2024

At all of them, I start understanding the current state of Product Management. I then do various interviews with executives all the way to Product Management team members and surrounding functions. I review strategies and roadmaps. This is one of the biggest issues I see when helping Product Management organizations.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 3, 2023

This will not only benefit your product. It will also have a positive impact on team morale and productivity. Adapt the Product Strategy to Respond to New Technologies Finally, you should systematically assess the impact of a new technology on the product strategy and determine if it has to be changed.

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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. Carrying out the relevant product discovery work and taking into account product ethics. Creating and validating a product strategy including market and user research.

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Product Talk

APRIL 17, 2024

A Workshop Kicks Off a New Commitment to Discovery Teresa: It sounds like recently, you had a workshop that had a big impact. I initiated a workshop as a kickoff for 2024 saying, team, I see we’ve done a great job in the define and measure phase and build phase, but I feel like we’re still lacking the discovery phase.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 2, 2022

Last month I had the privilege of participating in SVPG’s ‘Coach the Coaches’ workshop in Europe. I soon found out that I was going to be the only one from Israel attending the workshop. After 3 full days of meaningful discussions, I took the time to reflect and share with you my thoughts and insights.

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UX Studio

AUGUST 14, 2017

A UX workshop can help you gather the team and brainstorm to make better decisions. Ensure everybody is on the same page by making them more involved in the product development process with these tools. In a UX workshop, we share research results with the participants and let them come up with their own conclusions. Preparation.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

I recently led a workshop for an organic tech farm startup that wanted to set its foot online for selling organic food to B2B customers. I have some takeaways and learnings to share that I covered as a coach for their onboarding strategy. Let me walk through the entire workshop in the phases with its results.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 4, 2019

I view a roadmap as a high-level plan that states specific benefits a product should provide over a certain timeframe, which may range from six to 12 months. I find it helpful to use the product roadmap so that it connects the overall product strategy with the product backlog, as shown in the picture below.

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 16, 2022

Imagine that John is a sales rep and a key stakeholder who hardly ever attends the product strategy workshops you’ve invited him to. Instead, he requests product roadmap changes by talking directly to you. At the same time, be frank. Third, make regular reflection part of your work.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 10, 2016

My first MVP had little resemblance with the finished product: I used my product strategy and roadmap workshop as the initial minimum viable product. This helped me better understand which strategy and roadmap-related challenges product managers commonly experience and which advice is helpful for them.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 13, 2018

We’re thrilled to announce the first of our amazing line-up of speakers and announce all our deep-dive workshops, connecting international and regional thought leaders with the vibrant product and UX community across AsiaPac. Sherif thinks building simple products is hard and so is writing a simple, short bio.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Organisational change and empowerment : Work with senior management, HR, and other business groups to implement the necessary organisational changes required to fully empower product people and leverage agile practises. Having an effective Scrum Master allows you to focus on your job—to maximise the value the product create.

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Amplitude

MARCH 11, 2020

Roadmapping is at the core of product strategy and product management. As a product person, and the VP of Product at Yesware , I’ve never come to fully embrace the discussion of what each team would deliver, in what sequence and within a long timeframe.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Companies had to shift their product strategy. They had to shift their product strategy. I’m going to have to take on that more focused leadership role, put a strategy in place to steer us out of this conundrum.”. In March 2020, many organizations found themselves suddenly plunged into crisis.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

This mitigates the risk of discovering late that the product cannot be shipped on time or that some features were implemented incorrectly. Improved alignment : Stakeholders and development teams are now better aligned through the use of regular collaborative workshops like sprint reviews.

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Before you order the roadmap items, double-check that you have a validated product strategy in place. You should be able to confidently say why users would want to use your product and why it is worthwhile for your company to invest in it. Before You Start Prioritising …. What is the best way to achieve them?

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 1, 2022

Feature launches, product strategy presentations, workshops, and more Continue reading on Product Coalition ».

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Product Management University

JULY 15, 2024

STEP 3 Assuming product management uses its collective market knowledge to craft portfolio/product strategies, roadmaps, plans, priorities, backlogs, etc., The skids are greased for stakeholder alignment and it will happen more naturally than it would otherwise.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 26, 2021

from ‘ Drive’ All top product leaders know the importance that vision plays in the success of a product. As Marty Cagan states in Inspired : “When done well , the product vision is one of our most effective recruiting tools, and it serves to motivate the people on your teams to come to work every day.” Dan Pink’s Motivation 3.0

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