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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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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Agilemania

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The term “ agile product management ” means precisely what it sounds like. The goal is to develop product strategies and roadmaps in an elegant setting. It promotes an adaptable approach to product development and deployment, allowing firms to adjust swiftly to input and create products that consumers enjoy.

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Productside

APRIL 4, 2025

For the next spotlight in our Women in Product Management series , Nicole Tieche sat down with Orly Stern recently promoted General Manager of Business Applications at Payoneer and former VP of Product Management. How Orly Got Her Start in Product Nicole: Welcome, Orly. I told him I wanted to learn from him.

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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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Agilemania

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Keep reading if you’re uncertain if your firm would benefit from employing a product manager. If you’re a product manager who isn’t sure where you belong in your firm, you’ve come to the correct spot. Don’t panic; we’ll explain what a SAFe® product manager is. Portfolios.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

(Please refer to my article “ Scaling the Product Owner Role ” for more information on how to jointly manage a product.). Many years ago, I was discussing a lengthy requirements document with the product manager in charge of a healthcare product. Prioritise.

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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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Productside

APRIL 16, 2025

Productside | Product Management Courses & Training Breaking the Silos: How Product and Engineering Build Better Together In Season 3 of Productside Stories , we sat down with Guy Gershoni , Head of Engineering at genesIT, for a candid conversation on what it really takes to build great products in todays complex tech environments.

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Productside

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Productside Stories Season 2 Episode 10: Michelle Felice-Steele Join us for Episode 10 of Trailblazing Women in Product Management, where host Nicole Tieche sits down with Michelle Felice-Steele , Vice President of Product Management at Experian Consumer Services.

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InfoQ Articles

JULY 15, 2021

What a Product Manager does and how they do it seems like a perennial question, an ongoing discussion, often ending in debate. This changes depending on factors such as the size and culture of the company, the industry or sector, the business model, where the product is in its lifecycle, and the type of product.

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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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Roman Pichler

JULY 4, 2023

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Option 1: The Vision Captures Strategic Decisions Your first option is to view the product vision as a statement that captures strategic decisions like the product’s users and customers, its value proposition, and its standout features.

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Agilemania

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

‘Product Owner vs Product Manager’ is a topic that has been debated infinite times in many communities. . These roles are pretty contextual depending on what processes or framework you opt for to build and sustain your product. What does a Product Owner do? Create / Own the Product Vision.

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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

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

JANUARY 17, 2025

In a world where Product managers or Product owners have their hands full, organizations are discovering that a Business Analyst (BA) is the perfectpartner. BAs and POs are not arch-enemies, like Deadpool and Wolverine, but they dont work together often. The BA may be present, whether facilitating or taking notes, orboth.

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Analysts Corner

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

A reading list for BAs in product teams Many business analysis professionals work in a product setting. Whether you’re collaborating with, or acting as, a product owner, there are product management approaches that are useful for conducting business analysis. But these books are not only about techniques.

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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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Smart Data Collective

AUGUST 8, 2022

Every organization and team aspires to work faster and smarter toward a shared vision together. A growing number of project management tools are able to achieve these goals through the use of AI technology. This is one of the many ways that AI is helping organizations use time more efficiently.

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Analysts Corner

JULY 13, 2022

As a result, the team’s product vision is to provide fast and personalized lending process for users, based on automated decision making. Quality points The product vision is deduced from and aligned with some business goal. The customer will use our product only if s/he finds it useful for their needs.

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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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Roman Pichler

APRIL 11, 2016

1 Establish a Clear Vision. Establish a clear vision for introducing a product management group and explore why your company would benefit from it. But the core value proposition of product management is enabling growth : A product manager is responsible for making and keeping a product successful.

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Clarasys

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Discover how to apply Agile product management in regulated public sector environments, emphasising vision, adaptability, risk management, and collaboration. The post Implementing Agile product management in regulated environments appeared first on Clarasys International Business Consultancy.

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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

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

JANUARY 22, 2024

Figure 1: The Product Portfolio and Product Strategy Using Microsoft Office as an Example In Figure 1, the strategies of the individual products—Word, PowerPoint, and Excel—implement the Office strategy. Their visions, target groups, needs, standout features , and business goals must comply with the overall portfolio strategy.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 9, 2021

As a consequence, different people have suggested different ways to apply the product goal. Some view it as the product vision , others equate it to the product’s value proposition. Figure 1: The Product Goal in Context. In other words, the goals are connected and form a cascading set of product-related goals.

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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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Roman Pichler

APRIL 3, 2018

What is the company’s vision? Think, for instance, of Google’s vision “to organise the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful” Where will you play? Note that there is no perfect business strategy—just like there is no perfect product strategy. What is your winning aspiration?

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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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Roman Pichler

MAY 5, 2020

A platform owner who manages a platform as a collection of shared software assets. The SAFe product owner who owns the product details. A portfolio owner who manages a group of (related) products. The strategic product responsibilities are taken on by another role, the SAFe product manager.

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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. Understanding the key differences in product and project management can facilitate a better understanding of your company’s inner workings. What is project management?

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Cprime

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Some are confused by the terms “Product Owner” and “Product Manager” What are they, and why do we need them? If you have been working within or with a Scrum team , you are likely very familiar with the role of the Product Owner, who is the person ultimately responsible for the value delivered to the customer.

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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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Business Analysis Knowledge Share

MARCH 9, 2023

Product management, product ownership, and business analysis are all crucial roles within an organization that work towards a common goal: delivering valuable products and services to customers. While there are similarities between these roles, they each have distinct responsibilities and skill sets.

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