Roman Pichler

APRIL 13, 2021

It’s like driving a car with your vision blurred: You can’t see if you are heading in the right direction or getting closer to your destination. These indicators suggest that achieving product success will be much harder in the future, due to an increase in technical debt , higher absenteeism or turnover rate.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 30, 2017

I had a strong roadmap, clear goals and a vision for the product. The team had been working for almost a year and had a huge amount of code under their belts. But just because it was a lot of code doesn’t mean it worked. A production release was a distant vision. We’d made great code. We were testing our code.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

This sort of hand-waving has been most prevalent in software companies, where the supposed price of strategy missteps is seen as low. However, this is a naïve analysis that overlooks lost market share due to poor strategic thinking, or the demoralizing effect on engineers having to repeatedly rewrite code because of poor product-market fit.

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Product Talk

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

’ – Tweet This In conversations with hiring managers, Teeba would ask: “What is your product vision, and what product outcomes are you driving?” Actually, even when I got rejections, it was due to mismatch in industry, company stage, etc. and “How many team members are there, and what product outcome is each one driving?”

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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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Melissa Perri

JULY 23, 2024

Some of these are Fortune 10 software-enabled companies going through digital transformations. I review strategies and roadmaps. At the end of this review, I do a Product Leadership workshop with C-Suite and Product leaders, where I show them what good looks like, and they have a chance to reflect on where they are.

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The Product Guy

JUNE 20, 2019

When I joined Wetu in 2014, I was the 7th employee, we had just over 100 companies using our software, we were exclusively available in Africa, and the product was already 5 years old. Since then we have grown to over 100 employees, we have more than 800 companies using our software, and we have expanded globally. Start at the Top.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Figure 2: Roman’s Goal-Setting Framework with Product Management Artefacts The goal-setting framework shown in Figure 2 suggests that a product team needs four different objectives: a product vision, user and business goals, product goals, and sprint goals. Let’s take a look at them.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Right off the bat, Kristen acknowledges that the freemium model isn’t a universal cheat code for winning sales. The beauty of the freemium model in an enterprise setting is that the supplier due diligence process is already much further along. Listen to the full episode above or check out Kristen’s key takeaways below.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 7, 2025

Additionally, you should review AI-generated answers rather than blindly trusting a tool, even if the results sound very convincing. Or do you use extended, fully empowered product teams that own the strategies of their products Second, has your current strategy been captured and made visible using a tool like my Product Vision Board ?

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Roman Pichler

JULY 20, 2016

Describe and validate the product strategy —the path to realise your vision—before you create your roadmap and decide how the strategy is best implemented, as the following picture illustrates. I like to use my Product Vision Board to develop a valid product strategy. Use your vision and product strategy to make the right decisions.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Let’s review everything your customer success team has to do in the absence of any customer success tools. Best customer success software for startups and small companies. Best customer success software shortlist ClientSuccess – starting from $15,000/year. Defining a customer success tool and other FAQs.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 6, 2019

Yes, the code that you write and the systems that you build are major contributing factors to the success and growth of a business. New interviewers should start off with sessions that involve less ambiguity like pairing or reviewing take home tests in order to become familiar with process. Who reviews my code?” “How

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 28, 2022

Let’s talk about how to define a product vision, and why the lack of a product vision is so detrimental to your team. Review design. As I’ll explain below, the “why” and “where” form your product vision, and your product team (especially your engineers), not only want this from you, but need it in order to do their best work.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 1, 2018

As a product manager, it can be quite daunting to start a new software product from scratch. You have to work with different stakeholders to define the product vision and strategy, define the set of features that the product will have and figure out a rollout plan. Define Product Vision and Strategy.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

She shared insights from her experience leading product teams at various organizational scales and helping companies transform their product vision into measurable business growth. She now runs her own consultancy, helping CEOs scale their companies by transforming product vision into measurable business growth.

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The Product Guy

JULY 30, 2020

Product Managers (PM) need to effectively communicate product vision, strategic roadmaps and concepts to a variety of different stakeholders through the different stages of the product life cycle. Guest Post by: Inis Hormann (Mentee, Session 11, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Paul Hurwitz]. These are decision makers.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 28, 2023

The Software Development Life Cycle provides a practical framework you can apply to your product and improve your processes. You should be able to define the project scope and goals clearly by outlining the objectives, functionalities, and features of the software. The Analysis Phase has brought clarity to our software’s purpose.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 18, 2022

You’re autonomous, your code is immaculate, and you have a deep understanding of building and shipping software. Then, four years ago, in 2018, she got a job at Algolia as a software engineer. She diligently rose through the ranks, finally growing into the individual contributor role of a staff engineer. I was all alone.

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Userpilot

MAY 7, 2024

Using no-code tools for product managers allows you to build, iterate, and deploy software products without any coding knowledge. Let’s review the top five no-code tools tailored for product teams, including their key features and usage in product management. But what is the best tech stack for product management?

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The Product Guy

APRIL 9, 2019

In my company, we review a living document with our management chain on a quarterly basis to align business direction for the short-term (immediate one to two quarters) to the long-term (two to five years). No formal stakeholder review as this is meant to be the first version that will undergo many iterations and refinements.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Tap into existing resources : Review recordings of sales calls, customer support interactions , marketing materials, and product documentation. Step 4: Build your interactive product demo This is where your vision takes shape and transforms into a tangible experience for your users. Example of what a storyboard looks like.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 15, 2024

For software and SaaS products, development and lifecycle management often overlap. For example, a software product’s lifecycle might be quite different from a medical device’s lifecycle. In regulated industries like healthcare, the product lifecycle often faces more constraints due to rules and regulations.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 12, 2022

But more often, it’s a client who is not ready to develop software. Either a client doesn’t yet have a clear vision for a product, or they don’t need a product to be built at all. It’s a typical situation where the product team’s task is to find and develop this vision based on understanding the problem and the consumer.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 3, 2023

This usually doesn’t require in-depth technical skills like being able to write code or understand how a specific machine learning framework is used. But you should take an interest in software technology, and you should have a basic understanding of how your product is currently built.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Jordan has enterprise Software-as-a-Service experience within the facilities management, legal and pharmaceutical verticals, having most recently worked at ServiceChannel, Epiq Systems and Medidata Solutions. Vikas started his career as software developer with Siemens. Krishna Madhuvarsu Director of Product Strategy, Oracle Inc.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

Consequently, a Scrum product owner should own a product in its entirety—from the product vision to the product details. 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.

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Her passion is derived from igniting vision, commitment, innovation, and trust in leadership, development, and marketing teams. ?WATCH We cannot be successful without somebody coding or building a product. I’m not saying you need to code, but it’s really important from a product perspective that you understand technology.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Jordan has enterprise Software-as-a-Service experience within the facilities management, legal and pharmaceutical verticals, having most recently worked at ServiceChannel, Epiq Systems and Medidata Solutions. Vikas started his career as software developer with Siemens. Krishna Madhuvarsu Director of Product Strategy, Oracle Inc.

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Alchemer Mobile

DECEMBER 7, 2022

“Should we buy this software or should we build it?” In the case of software, the dilemma becomes increasingly difficult as most enterprise companies have the resources and talent in-house to build the software. One-tap registration with Facebook), you’re already using third-party software.

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Alchemer Mobile

DECEMBER 7, 2022

“Should we buy this software or should we build it?” In the case of software, the dilemma becomes increasingly difficult as most enterprise companies have the resources and talent in-house to build the software. One-tap registration with Facebook), you’re already using third-party software.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 14, 2023

 He is also the co-author of Build What Matters: Delivering Key Outcomes with Vision-Led Product Management. A lot of companies have a mission statement that they think is a strategy or vision. The vision is where you intend to be in several years. A lot of work that goes into a vision. It provided a lot of clarity.

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 14, 2018

A tool like my Product Vision Board can help you with this. Ideally, you should continuously track the product performance and regularly review the product strategy—at least once per quarter as a rule of thumb. The product health including its code quality is reasonable. How high is its refactoring potential and code complexity?

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 6, 2020

In order to answer the questions above, you may want to use techniques such as direct observation, user interviews, prototyping, creating a strategy canvas or E-R-R-C grid , and you may capture some of them using a tool like my product vision board. Reviewing their products will tell you if your product is still sufficiently differentiated.

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 7, 2024

4] A handy tool to capture the strategy is my Product Vision Board, which you can download for free together with a helpful checklist from my website. They see the product roadmap as a feature-based, fixed plan instead of an outcome-based one that is regularly reviewed and adapted.

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bpma ProductHub

AUGUST 1, 2016

To own a product requires a strong vision for what it can become and achieve. And, if a new feature request comes in for review, the product owner needs to decide on its prioritization and inform the engineering team. Having a vision for yourself and your career is just as important as having one for your products and teams.

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 22, 2023

How product mangers can improve collaboration in cross-functional teams Today we are talking with Maziar Adl, the co-founder and CTO of Gocious, an organization that creates product roadmap management software. The CPO put together a product board, which met on a regular basis to review the major items coming in.

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