Roman Pichler

APRIL 5, 2022

The following list shares sample rules, which are based on my book How to Lead in Product Management : Always have cameras turned on in online meetings and mute yourself if you don’t speak. Many product management meetings I have attended were working meetings, or workshops, where product decisions were taken.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 1, 2020

To put it differently, learning to skilfully deal with difficult emotions increases our mental wellbeing, strengthens our connections with stakeholders and development team members, and improves our ability as product people to make effective decisions. Becoming Aware of Difficult Emotions. Are you feeling irritation, worry, or anger?

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 1, 2020

To put it differently, learning to skilfully deal with difficult emotions increases our mental wellbeing, strengthens our connections with stakeholders and development team members, and improves our ability as product people to make effective decisions. Becoming Aware of Difficult Emotions. Are you feeling irritation, worry, or anger?

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Analysts Corner

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

If you are working on products, you have realized product management handles requirements in a different way. When a business analyst or a product owner is eliciting requirements, there is a shift from eliciting stakeholders’ wishes to discovering better and faster ways to solve stakeholders’ problems.

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Vitality Chicago

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

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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Analysts Corner

JANUARY 18, 2023

Reading list If you want to improve your communication skills you can start by digging into the below books. They are some of the best books on communication: “ How to Win Friends and Influence People ” by Dale Carnegie: This classic book offers practical advice on how to build strong relationships and effectively communicate with others.

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Bridging the Gap

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

The product manager role and business analyst role go hand in hand. Many product managers get their start as business analysts, and as a product manager, you can expect to work closely with a business analyst. Product Manager Role. How Product Managers and Business Analysts Work Together.

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Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Destinations are answers to the question you have in mind when you booked the trip. When the postcards pile up, book the trip and the time and the team you need. All they need now is a market, a customer and a product to carry with them. It is, however, more difficult than it may seem. It’s Not the Journey….

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 21, 2016

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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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Goals in Product Management. As I explain in my book How to Lead in Product Management , setting the right goals is crucial to align stakeholders and development teams and to achieve product success. Does this mean that there is a natural fit between goals in product management and OKRs?

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Roman Pichler

JULY 3, 2018

But with effort, resilience, and patience, as well as the guidance from others, I have managed to become a reasonably skilled writer. This leads to a fixed mindset , where people see themselves as good or bad at something—be it writing, singing, drawing, or product management—and they believe that there is not much they can do about it.

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Productside

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

We see this all the time in our product management classes, where one student is able to help another based on their knowledge and expertise. In this article, well discuss ways to leverage your strongest product management skills and share your knowledge through mentorship, writing and speaking engagements.

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Vitality Chicago

JUNE 28, 2022

In 2021, I first published my list of the best agile books, organized by role. I am a big fan of book learning and I am happy that my recommendations are serving a need. This includes some newly published books as well as some I finally read. It isn’t easy to limit the list to just 5 best agile books! That is OK.

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Analysts Corner

DECEMBER 26, 2022

In the 4-Quadrants of Product Ownership , Business Analysis stands together with Product Management , Project Management , and Leadership. Mainly, product management or ownership should use business analysis within the following points: 1. Business analysis should be used for allowing: 1.

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EBG Consulting

MAY 6, 2020

In my recent Modern Agile Show interview with Joshua Kerievsky, we discussed product management in an agile context, product discovery and delivery, collaboration, and more. The book Requirements by Collaboration (2002) first introduced the “6Ps”: Purpose, Participants, Principles, Products, Place, Process.

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Productside

DECEMBER 3, 2024

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. From Journalism to Product Management: Michelles Career Journey Nicole: Michelle, welcome! Lets dive right in.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 10, 2016

Minimum Viable Product #1. Writing a book is a complex and at times challenging endeavour: it took me over two years to write and publish my latest book. At the same time, I wanted to test that the product would create enough value for its readers before writing the actual book. Minimum Viable Product #2.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Leading as the Person in Charge of the Product When you hear the term leadership , you might first and foremost think of a senior manager like the head of product, Director of Product Management, VP of Product, or Chief Product Officer.[

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Analysts Corner

MARCH 10, 2025

I came across the book “Radical Product Thinking” from Rhadika Dutt and I couldn’t help thinking how the elements that are part of the… Continue reading on Analysts corner

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Roman Pichler

MAY 4, 2022

But what Scrum lacks in my mind, is a way to involve the key stakeholders in strategic product decisions and the product discovery work. That’s understandable, as the framework is focused on the development of complex products. I believe that the first definition is more helpful, especially in an agile context.

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Analysts Corner

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Under each sub-team, we have a product manager, business analyst and scrum master. Now, the whole sub-team sits together and discusses the product features, communicates them to the designers and works on them with the developers. Our product manager focuses on the timelines and sets aside the priorities, which is his strength.

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 11, 2022

Note that you may want to make the measures as specific as you can and state, for instance, the title of the books you intend to read. First, reflect on your current product management skills and determine any gaps and shortcomings in your current skill set. Many learning plans I have seen were lists of learning measures.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

For example, a product manager might determine the product strategy and one or more development teams might be tasked with executing it. Identifying and addressing the key risks in the product strategy is best done iteratively, as I explain in more detail in my book Strategize. Enter the Cycle.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 19, 2017

In the book Agile Project Management with Scrum , the meeting is changed to allow product owners to contribute (see pp. Over the years, the definition of the meeting has changed. Initially, it was an open meeting, but only development team members and ScrumMaster were allowed to talk (see Agile Software Development with Scrum ).

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Passionate BA

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

A couple of months ago, I had a conversation with a bunch of seasoned business analysts about education, books, resources to learn from, etc. Author of numerous books, a software development consultant, speaker, trainer, songwriter, and just a great person! Renowned book author. Learning from Karl is always a pleasure.

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Insight Software

MAY 14, 2021

Book Credits : 2. Kimberling is an expert in organizational change management, project management, implementation, and evaluations of ERP systems. Book Credits : –. Book Credits : 3. Book Credits : 3. Book Credits : –. Book Credits : 7. Twitter followers : 133,900. LinkedIn Followers : 20,309.

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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 5, 2016

asks Julie, the product manager. Is it the product manager, the people present, or the management sponsor? The following picture shows five common decision rules, which I’ve adapted from the book “ The Facilitator’s Guide to Participatory Decision-Making ” by Sam Kaner et. Decision Rules.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 8, 2024

2] The Power-Interest Grid was originally developed by Ackerman and Eden and published in their book Making Strategy. I cover the tool and its application in product management in my book How to Lead in Product Management. [3] 4] As its name suggests, the coach supports and coaches the product team.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

Ensure that Your Core Product Management Skills are Strong. To be able to guide, mentor, and coach other product people, you should ensure that your own product management “hard” skills are strong and that you don’t have any major gaps in your product management knowledge.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

2 Use Scrum for Products that Experience Uncertainty and Change Scrum is often seen as the standard way to create digital products, and I have met more than one company where the product managers were told to be agile and do Scrum. As I mentioned earlier, Scrum is not a product management framework.

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Analysts Corner

OCTOBER 26, 2023

For those interested in AI and data, there is a list of 5 recommended books to get you started with AI, as well as an opinion on how generative AI is going to change requirements development. > Keep reading… Future and AI 1) How Generative AI Changes Requirements Management. But, how do you get started? What should you learn?

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Analysts Corner

MAY 28, 2023

It’s for product managers, user researchers, design thinkers, and everyone who facilitates as a part of their job. This is a very famous name you’ll hear in the BA market, a book with more than 500 pages to cover each and every BA concept. But after 1 week, looking at the length of the book, my consistency failed. >

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

You can also use Kanban for product discovery and strategy validation activities, as I recommend in my book Strategize. These activities may overlap with the Scrum-based development, for instance, when you intend to extend the life cycle of your product. Learn More.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 15, 2024

To make this more concrete, let’s look at an example: Objective : Grow the product management team. Key result 1 : Three product managers are hired. Key result 3 : The product management processes are adapted to preserve the productivity level of the team.

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Passionate BA

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

by Yulia Kosarenko All images by the author This article delves into the fundamental difference between a system and a solution in the context of business analysis and product management. Internal Product Management is Hard. The Rock Crusher: Mastering Agile Backlog Management. How to Mitigate This?

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 1, 2020

Involve people in product decisions but don’t make the mistake of trying to please them. Increase your product management expertise. You can find more collaborative decision-making tips in my book How to Lead in Product Management. Form a Stakeholder Communi ty. Establish clear roles and responsibilities.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Step 1: Ensure that you know who the product is for and why people will want to use it. I’ll never forget the day when I suggested to the product manager of a brand-new healthcare product to prioritise its features. Step 4: Prioritise the remaining product backlog items. They are all high-priority.”

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