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3 Empowerment Levels in Product Management

Roman Pichler

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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Digital Transformation and Product Management

Roman Pichler

Recognise the Importance of Product Management. That’s often the case in my experience for businesses in finance, media, travel, insurance, and other verticals that traditionally don’t have product management groups, and where product management is not represented at the executive level.

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The 5 Best Agile Books for 2021

Vitality Chicago

I am frequently asked about the best books for learning about agile and Scrum. I have nearly 100 books on agile-related topics and there are so many new agile books published every year that it is difficult to keep up! As we head into 2021, I thought I would share my lists of best agile books. Product Owners.

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How to Leverage Conflict in Product Management

Roman Pichler

1] This is especially true in product management. As product people, we work with individuals from various business units or departments with different views and ideas. What’s more, innovation relies on conflict. But that’s hardly a recipe for achieving product success. Avoid criticism, judgment, or blame.

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Trailblazing Women in Product Management: Insights from Michelle Felice-Steele, VP at Experian 

Productside

In this edition of our Women in Product Management Series , I had the pleasure of speaking with Michelle Felice-Steele , Vice President of Product Management at Experian Consumer Services. Embrace innovation: Focus on solving problems in new and impactful ways. How did you get into product management?

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Mindfulness Tips for Product Managers and Product Owners

Roman Pichler

Mindfulness provides a number of well-known benefits, such as, improved creativity, productivity, and wellbeing, and it has become popular at companies like Apple, Google, and Nike. I find that mindfulness is particularly helpful for product managers and product owners. But in reality, it reduces our productivity.

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The Product Strategy Cycle

Roman Pichler

For example, a product manager might determine the product strategy and one or more development teams might be tasked with executing it. But as long as innovation, change, and risk are present, this approach is ineffective. I have therefore placed a small cycle next to “Product Strategy” in the picture above.