Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Maybe in the future the X400 will have near-field communication to solve that customer’s problem, but what’s the next step for your engineering team towards realizing that vision? And what’s the plan to migrate or manage upset customers who bought the x300? The difficulty comes in the quality of your vision.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 9, 2019

Organise Around Products. In order to grow your product management team, start by reviewing your product portfolio. If that’s the case for one of your products, consider adding more product people who take on specialised roles like feature owner (a.k.a. Develop Shared Standards.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 9, 2019

Organise Around Products. In order to grow your product management team, start by reviewing your product portfolio. If that’s the case for one of your products, consider adding more product people who take on specialised roles like feature owner (a.k.a. Develop Shared Standards.

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Agilemania

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

When it comes to product management, we tend to hear a lot more about things like road mapping, requirements gathering, and wireframing because the mechanics of the job are easier to explain. What are Metrics For Product Management? Great companies start with a compelling product vision and user-centric strategy.

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Agilemania

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The agile release plan helps in aligning the teams by addressing multiple aspects that can contribute to creative and innovative problem-solving. Your agile release plan will ultimately show you what you can expect out of each sprint and ensure your efforts are laser-focused. What is an Agile Release Plan?

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Roman Pichler

MAY 10, 2017

To do a great job as a product manager or product owner, you require two skills sets: product-specific and generic ones. As the name suggests, product-specific capabilities are limited to a single product or product portfolio. These skills are not specific to an individual product, but transferable.

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Analysts Corner

MAY 16, 2023

Know your most productive time and plan your tasks according to it, unless it is a collaborative effort for which I have to plan around other people’s most productive time as well. Plan for no more than 3 top tasks for a day, and make sure I complete those during my most productive hours.

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 22, 2024

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] What Is a Product Portfolio Strategy and Why Does It Matter? A product portfolio strategy is a high-level plan that helps you maximise the value a group of products creates. 1] Product Portfolio, Product Family, and Product Line—What’s the Difference?

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Argon Digital

MAY 30, 2023

Mastering Product Management In today’s fast-paced business environment, product management plays a crucial role in driving the success of products and organizations. Understanding the Role of a Product Manager The role of a product manager extends far beyond overseeing the development of a product.

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Marutitech

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Regardless of whether it is part of a project management prototype or something else, the first step of any process is planning. Detailed planning takes you through numerous obstacles, and project goals are achieved to an early completion date. What are the elements to consider for the product roadmap? Who Does it?

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Planning Horizons and Planning Model. But in product management, there are several horizons that need to be considered—how many depends on the product planning model you use. With the right planning model in place, you can take the next step and consider appropriate timeframes. Timeframes.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 4, 2023

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] The Head of Product Role in a Nutshell A head of product manages a group of product people —individuals who look after one or more products and who may be called product managers or product owners. Second, develop the product management team.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 12, 2024

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Introduction My first product management job wasn’t exactly what you call a success story: I was part of a team that was called in to help with a new product development effort, and I ended up working with the lead product manager.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Before the advent of agile frameworks like Scrum , a product person—the product manager—would typically carry out the market research, compile a market requirements specification, create a business case, put together product roadmap, write a requirements specification, and then hand it off to a project manager.

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 11, 2022

A learning roadmap like the one above offers four benefits: First and foremost, it gives you a goal-directed plan that focuses your learning efforts. Many learning plans I have seen were lists of learning measures. Third, capturing the plan as a roadmap concisely describes the learning path you want to take and nicely visualises it.

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Cprime

JANUARY 28, 2022

There are very few tools on the market that genuinely marry development with the business and product management functions of vision, budget, and strategy. is a leader in product management and roadmapping software. Roadmaps to set up brilliant strategies, prioritize features, and share visual plans.

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ElegantJ BI

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Many business users have a fear of analytics and envision having to become a business analyst or a data scientist in order to fulfill the vision of the business and its Citizen Data Scientist goals. Your business users probably fight you on improving data literacy and on implementing digital transformation.

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ElegantJ BI

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Many business users have a fear of analytics and envision having to become a business analyst or a data scientist in order to fulfill the vision of the business and its Citizen Data Scientist goals. Your business users probably fight you on improving data literacy and on implementing digital transformation.

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Argon Digital

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Big-bangs are exciting concepts to present in boardrooms as they depict a vision where all business users have their needs met in the not-so-distant future. With the program kicking off, our product managers began working with the business leads on the core requirements.

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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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Agilemania

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

It provides structured guidelines on roles and responsibilities, works planning, and values to follow. Now, since we are discussing SAFe® Product Owners, let’s further discuss what is a Product Owner and what are the roles and responsibilities of SAFe® Product Owners. PI Planning. View Schedule.

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Monday

MAY 28, 2022

Many people don’t realize there are differences in project management vs. product management, and they use the terms interchangeably. In this article, we’ll explain the differences in these roles and introduce valuable tools and templates you can use on monday.com to help achieve your product vision or project plan.

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Agilemania

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

A career in Product Management has been booming for people in the tech industry. Be it fintech, EdTech, or crypto, and product manager opportunities are abundant. Product Manager is ranked at No. Who is a Product Manager? Roles and Responsibilities of Product Manager.

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Agilemania

OCTOBER 27, 2022

This means there should be a significant change in the traditional management mindset. Instead of directly supervising work by assigning tasks and activities, managers lead by establishing a mission and vision. Who should participate in planning to help eliminate impediments and speak on behalf of the customer and the business?

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Argon Digital

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

While the specifics of delivery will vary by engagement and partner, it is critical that everyone involved align and operate on a shared vision of value. Depending on the nature of your contract, these firms’ greater numbers can also mean more people available to make your project vision a reality.

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Agilemania

DECEMBER 29, 2022

What is PI Planning? It is crucial to comprehend and plan for these interdependencies in order to make sure that the efforts of each team are directed toward a single, project-specific objective. This objective is far simpler to accomplish if you have PI planning in place. Do: Execute the PI plan. Builds Team Trust.

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Cprime

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Much of this article is derived from our comprehensive guide, The Non-technical Product Manager’s Guide to Technical Product Management. Dive deeper by downloading our comprehensive guide, The Non-technical Product Manager’s Guide to Technical Product Management. Let’s get started.

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Agilemania

OCTOBER 13, 2021

– Planning an Iteration. – Experiencing PI Planning. Product Owner/Product Manager. Improve value delivery by gaining insights in the role of Product Owner in SAFe enterprise. – Product Owner/Manager in SAFe. – Role in PI Planning. Product Owner/Product Manager.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

This requires full-stack ownership : having the authority to make strategic product decisions in addition to tactical ones. Consequently, a Scrum product owner should own a product in its entirety—from the product vision to the product details. But this would be a mistake.

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] You Can’t See Further than the Next Three Months A product roadmap should be a realistic forecast that states the specific value a product is likely to offer in the next 12 months. [1] If you can’t see further than the next three months, then do not use a product roadmap.

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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

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Additionally, the person in charge of the product must have the necessary expertise. 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.

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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. A tool like my product vision board helps you capture and validate your product strategy.

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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. Align the product team members through shared goals.

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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. You can find more advice on collaborative decision-making in my book How to Lead in Product Management.). Enter the Cycle.

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 15, 2023

While it can be beneficial to use a strategy that helps maximise the value a product portfolio creates, I generally recommend keeping it distinct from the individual product strategies and using separate artefacts to capture the plans. Take a productivity tools suite like Microsoft Office or Google Workspace.

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The BAWorld

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Small focused teams engage directly with the business to plan and execute the work to enable issues to be caught and corrected early before they cause downstream work to be impacted. Product Owner. Agile is focused on delivering value and building incremental solutions to capture it.

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