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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The BAWorld

MARCH 8, 2024

Stakeholder Management is well-known as one of the most important parts of Project Management. The success or failure of a Project is highly dependent on its Stakeholders. As a result, properly managing Stakeholders and keeping them happy is a challenge for most Project Managers.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

At the same token, ignoring the stakeholders or excluding them from important product decisions is not helpful either. Instead, you should engage the stakeholders, leverage their expertise, and generate as much buy-in as possible , as I explain in more detail in my article “ Stakeholder Management Tips for Product People.”

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Analysts Corner

JUNE 11, 2022

In this article we’ll explore why this is and how to unblock this limitation with a 5-step method you can use right now. But you can’t be inaccurate when conducting elicitations. Business Analysts have a lot of skill, but if they don’t use the right process, the results can go sideways. What Is Elicitation And What Does It Do? every time.

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Analysts Corner

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

link] In this article, I demonstrate how it is possible to use Chat GPT as an assistant (or helper) in executing business analysis tasks based on a case study that deals with developing an application by a startup. You will see artifacts produced by an AI from instructions and questions that a business analyst would ask his stakeholders.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 5, 2022

Listen to this article: [link]. Sprint planning meeting : product goal , prioritised product backlog with enough ready items , development team capacity for the next sprint, and any action items from the last sprint retrospective. For a more detailed discussion, see my article Use Decision Rules to Make Better Product Decisions.).

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Analysts Corner

AUGUST 15, 2022

It was years since we’d met, and we had plans to connect and explore Florida. I really needed the break after a long arduous project, and a lot of difficult stakeholders. In this article we’ll explore 3 ways to get out the trap of being solution oriented up front to shift more into the problem and needs to get better requirements.

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Monday

JUNE 24, 2021

Thankfully, the kind people over at the Project Management Institute (PMI) decided to help out a little by defining the distinct project management knowledge areas you have to wrap your head around. This article will focus on the 5 key project management knowledge areas for project success and give highlights of the other 5.

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Monday

APRIL 1, 2021

Every project has a list of stakeholders, and you need to figure out the best engagement strategy to deal with each of them. A stakeholders engagement assessment matrix helps you do just that. Or it could be sharing the training and development plans that will help people feel ready for change. Get started with monday.com.

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Monday

AUGUST 19, 2022

If you don’t deliver in all three areas, you may not be able to satisfy key stakeholders, leading to tense meetings and expensive change orders. The Project Management Institute developed the PMBOK guide to provide detailed information about project management best practices. How can PMBOK help with project management?

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Monday

APRIL 14, 2021

Or perhaps you want to know how to identify project stakeholders in the first place? Especially when there are so many potential project stakeholders, and they all need to be managed differently. You’ll always need to conduct your own project stakeholder analysis to find the project stakeholders for your project.

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The BAWorld

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

This could involve things like having a deeper grasp of how external influences are affecting the company’s growth strategy or creating an action plan, and so on. Take Time to Learn About Stakeholders Close collaboration is at the heart of all good projects.

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Agilemania

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

It is evident that the Product Manager role is more aligned with strategy and market-facing, wherein the Project Manager is more aligned with the execution. “Product managers are strategically responsible for driving the products and plans, whereas project managers are responsible for the execution of those development plans.”

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Monday

APRIL 6, 2021

In this article, we’ll explain all you need to know about stakeholder theory, including what it is and what it means for working with your project stakeholders. So, what is stakeholder theory? It suggests that corporate governance has a social responsibility to consider stakeholders’ interests in whatever they do.

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Monday

JUNE 22, 2022

Project management for public involvement comes with a unique set of challenges that other project managers don’t have to face. In this article, we’ll provide useful success tips and helpful templates you can use to succeed in managing projects with public engagement. Project communication plan template.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

Listen to this article: [link]. Myth #1: The product owner must ensure that the stakeholders are satisfied. Stakeholders can be powerful and influential individuals. At the same token, ignoring the stakeholders or excluding them from important product decisions is not helpful either.

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Monday

JUNE 24, 2021

There’s a difference between planning for a project and really planning for a project. If there’s one area where obsessive attention to detail is welcome, it’s project management. The project management process groups exist to give you a solid foundation for planning, managing, and executing your projects.

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Argon Digital

MAY 30, 2023

In this section, we delve into the core responsibilities and key skills required for effective product management. From conducting market research and defining product strategy to roadmap development and stakeholder management, we explore the multifaceted nature of the product manager’s role.

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Monday

MAY 20, 2021

We can’t possibly control all the variables that affect our business environment, so we need to create strategies and plans to manage potential risks. In this article, we’ll look at what risk is and how to classify it. Internal stakeholders like to feel reassured that projects are going to be successful.

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Monday

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

In this article, we’ll explore practices and processes of impact analysis, including a look at common analysis models and some example templates. In short, a manager’s ability to provide adequate responses to new events, whether they’re planned or random, is governed by the quality of their impact analysis template.

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Agile Velocity

JUNE 6, 2018

Becoming an empowered team is a bold step, and the power to create and execute your own plan comes with an equal dose of accountability. Amongst the activities they anticipated they would stop doing, the ScrumMasters focused on managing to a plan and being the person in control. Manage teams at a micro-level. Powerpoint.

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Monday

APRIL 21, 2021

That’s what we intend to do with this article. Ultimately, burndown charts help you stick to your plan, or at the very least get close to it. Burndown and burnup charts are both essential to managing your Scrum workflow effectively, but they’re ultimately 2 different things: Burndown charts manage the work remaining.

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Monday

OCTOBER 20, 2021

How do you stay competitive against the influx of keen new project managers looking for roles? In this article, we’ll cover all that and more. Why is project management training so important? Project managers, like so many other professions, are going to need new skills to stay competitive. Get started.

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The BAWorld

DECEMBER 21, 2021

We will learn about types of product owners in this article. Again, in a few recently turned Agile firms, Product Owners are rather designated as product managers (perhaps to latch on to the word ‘manager’ since the owner might seem a demotion) although product manager is another function beyond and above product owner.

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Monday

MARCH 31, 2021

In this article, we’ll break down what supply chain management is, why it matters, and how to modernize it in your organization. What is supply chain management, and why is it important? How will you manage the shipping? Creating a strategy is the first step of supply chain planning. Get in control.

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The BAWorld

JULY 22, 2021

They interact with stakeholders across different functions and collaborate to reach a consensus on the requirements to achieve desired business goals. In this article, we are going to discuss the top 5 challenges faced by Business Analysts. Lack of Domain Knowledge.

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