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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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

MARCH 9, 2022

A great way to ensure that your vision is shared is to create it together with the stakeholders and dev team members in a collaborative workshop, be it online or onsite. Encourage the participants to describe the purpose that they associate with the product. Then look for a product vision that everyone can support.

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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. This starts by inviting them to a kick-of workshop for a brand-new product or a major product update and asking them to contribute to the product discovery and strategy validation work.

Stakeholder Management 134

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Analysts Corner

APRIL 10, 2024

Frameworks like Dual Track Agile from Marty Cagan’s book “Inspired” influenced organizations to split their efforts into product discovery and delivery. The Discovery track is all about quickly generating validated product backlog items, and the Delivery track is all about generating releasable software.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 19, 2017

Therefore, don’t turn it into a product backlog or roadmapping workshop. Similarly, if you require the help of the team to work on the product roadmap, then hold a separate workshop. In the book Agile Project Management with Scrum , the meeting is changed to allow product owners to contribute (see pp.

Product Management 72

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Roman Pichler

JULY 8, 2024

A great way to co-develop the product strategy and roadmap—as well as to review and update the plans—is to bring people together through collaborative workshops. This is especially helpful when the group is new to collaborative decision-making and when the workshops take place online.

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Analysts Corner

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

> Keep reading… 3) Conducting Effective Requirements Workshops: Using Joint Application Development (JAD) by Nelson N. Mondoa Collaboration is at the heart of successful project management, especially when it comes to eliciting well-defined requirements. > Keep reading… 4) Why requirements elicitation is important by Nelson N.

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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] A handy template to capture the strategy is my Product Vision Board. Once a valid product strategy is available, use it to determine the right roadmap outcomes.

Planning 95

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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.

Product Management 137

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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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Analysts Corner

MAY 28, 2023

. — yours, Igor [link] BA Skills & Processes 1) A guide to becoming an expert facilitator by Obi Nwokedi As a business analyst, I’m generally responsible for leading requirements workshops to understand processes and problems, and to analyze the requirements needed to develop new systems, products, or processes within an organization.

Logistics 130

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Vitality Chicago

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

In addition to coaching leaders, teams and Product Owners, Anjali conducts workshops on a number of topics including leadership and design thinking. And I kind of took on the mantle of product, project management. I saw myself in that book. And a most strategic class of product management called vision to value.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

While the role is discussed in many books and articles, I find that it is still not always correctly understood. What’s more, it’s not uncommon in my experience that product owners have to do their job without the support of a Scrum Master or agile coach. You are more prone to make mistakes and choose wrong product decisions.

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Userzoom

APRIL 30, 2019

We kickstarted the project with a workshop involving all the stakeholders. We used the workshop to refresh their memory of how these methods work. After the initial workshop we began the actual work. We’re constantly surrounded by articles, books and courses about the ‘perfect process’. Conclusion.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Additionally, the person in charge of the product must have the necessary expertise. It’s therefore important that you align the product team members by setting the right goals. Additionally, the team should have ownership of the plans that contain the goals: the product strategy and the product roadmap , as shown in Figure 2 above. [4]

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Analysts Corner

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Rupa has written many research articles on quality management, Six Sigma, information management, software engineering, environmental management, compliance, simulation, and modelling. The business analyst is a change agent.

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EBG Consulting

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Perhaps you realize you’re not organized for optimal product development and need to redesign your organization so its structure follows product. Or maybe you need to improve your product management practices. For all these scenarios, defining your product is your starting point. The Product Canvas has two parts.

Visualization 75

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 15, 2023

Instead of introducing feature-based strategies, consider unbundling one or more capabilities and creating product variants. This will result in more focused products with clearer value propositions, as I discuss in more detail in my book Strategize. This does not only increase the chances that people will support the strategy.

Vision 102

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Roman Pichler

JULY 11, 2016

Manage the Product, not the Team. Focus on your job as the product manager or product owner, and manage the product, not the team. Provide guidance on the product, including its market, value proposition, business goals, and key features. Let the ScrumMaster take on this role. Learn More.

Product Management 67

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Userzoom

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Whether working in Agile or not, you could also run a research road mapping workshop , which brings all the stakeholders together and you try to understand all their business problems and you create a roadmap to solve them. This will help you figure out how best to integrate research into the development process.

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EBG Consulting

JULY 3, 2019

They consider the product’s underlying technologies, components, and tools and call a logical grouping of them a “product.” This approach defines the product from an engineering perspective and not from a customer perspective. To obtain a shared definition of your product, employ team collaboration.

Product Management 61

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Argon Digital

AUGUST 11, 2023

In this article, we’ll explore why defining software requirements is crucial for businesses engaged in the software selection process and delve into the pivotal roles of business analysts and product managers in this endeavor. But, the two key players in this process are most often business analysts and product managers.

Product Management 52

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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.

Product Management 62

Product Management Product Management Vision Planning 62

EBG Consulting

JANUARY 15, 2019

Not having agreement on what your product has broad implications for product strategy, internal organizational design, and ongoing operations. Whether you are faced with this challenge or want to take a step back to improve your product management practices, the first step is to define your product.

Vision 75

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Word of Digits

APRIL 1, 2021

Sharda | “We are a UX researchers, designers, product managers, project leaders and product owners tribe. Sharda | “We encourage our coworkers to take part into our internal projects such as: – Internal trainings: workshops, share & learn, talks on different subjects (product ownership, design, change, e-commerce…).

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Business Bullet

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

Grant Wright facilitated a half day workshop at the European Business Analysis conference 2020 on Unleashing the power of visual thinking. Since then I have broadened both mine and my company’s skill set to include disciplines such as Agile Product Management, Business Change Management, User/Customer Experience (UX/CX) and Service Design.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 23, 2022

And so, I built a relationship with this dev director that I was working with and he and I would collaborate and I was reading books and you know, reading all the Kent Beck stuff, [unsure 03:48]. I mean, that was like early stage stuff, I mean, David Anderson’s been writing about this and Kanban and has Agile Management books.

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Agile Velocity

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Our organization had gotten to the size of about a 100+ folks in the technical organization across engineering, product, design, IT, and devops. . We had recently rolled out product management, which was new for the organization, and we didn’t really change things with that new team so we were experiencing a lot of struggles.

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Bridging the Gap

MAY 4, 2022

The projects that I did, this past project that I’ve been in my software development book that I apply it to the training program. I tried to put everything in the workshop, but then I was correct to say, no. It actually helps me switch my mind because I was doing like three different roles.

Business Analysis 52

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Leading Agile

OCTOBER 3, 2023

That’s typically what I’m talking about with the idea of services team Dean talks about in his first safe book, gosh, 10, 12 years ago or something like that, maybe it was a second safe book. But product management is often its whole thing strategy. So that’s just the delivery side of things.

Agile 62

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

You should therefore adopt a collaborative approach where you involve the key stakeholders and development team members in creating, reviewing, and updating the product roadmap, preferably in the form of collaborative workshops. 10 The Right Product Roadmap Tool is What Matters Most. 7 The Roadmap is Speculative.

Planning 141

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Leading Agile

JUNE 12, 2024

And so approaches like going and train everybody running through leadership workshops, while all valuable I find insufficient as far as change goes, because again, it doesn’t deal with all the aspects of the system and it doesn’t address all of the cultural desires in the organization. Our leadership has to be brought along.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 17, 2021

And this was like way before the days Dean Leffingwell hadn’t even written his first book on scaling. They’re just messy workshops where people are figuring stuff out. None of the stuff on scaling was out there. So we’re inventing scaling models and really trying to bring this. And so that gets to the third piece.

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Userzoom

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Interview your stakeholders, not just your product manager. Outline that the team will create prototypes that will be tested and iterated upon, which will then lead to the final product. Manage their expectations: Summarize. In addition, a bi-weekly workshop around UX basics and how to incorporate it into every day tasks.

User Experience 122

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

As a consequence, a product roadmap is no longer exclusively directed by the corresponding product strategy. A question I often get asked in my workshops is, How detailed should a portfolio roadmap be? Generally speaking, thats the job of a product portfolio manager. It is also guided by the portfolio roadmap.

Portfolio Management 76

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Watermark Learning

APRIL 14, 2025

When Teams Arent on the Same Page (Or Even the Same Book) Teams often assume they share the same goal, yet competing priorities tell a different story. Marketing pushes for visibility, Sales prioritizes conversions, and IT manages system constraints. Alignment Workshops: Facilitating discussions to synchronize goals.

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