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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Analysts Corner

JUNE 28, 2022

It’s hard enough to come up with the right requirements through discussions, workshops, and prototypes. Continue reading on Analyst’s corner ».

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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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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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Cprime

JANUARY 19, 2021

Now, let’s take a look at what happens in a SAFe Inspect & Adapt (I&A) Workshop and how it influences the next PI planning session. What is the SAFe Inspect & Adapt Workshop? The Inspect & Adapt Workshop is essentially the release train equivalent of the team’s Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective.

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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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EBG Consulting

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

The heart of successful product management and product development is a collaborating community of team members operating with shared goals, mutual trust, and learning mechanisms for evolving products and processes. I have found one of the best ways to create a healthy product community is with facilitated workshops.

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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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Roman Pichler

APRIL 11, 2016

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. 2 Secure Management Buy-in.

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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.

Product Management 62

Product Management Product Management Agile Backlog Management 62

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. If you work on a larger product and in a scaled environment, include the product people who work with you, for example, the feature owners. Enter the Cycle. Final Thoughts.

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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. If you hear that the team members have questions about acceptance criteria, for example, then answer them after the meeting.

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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 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.

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Passionate BA

MARCH 2, 2024

Through workshops, keynote speeches, and breakout sessions, attendees get access to cutting-edge information and case studies. It focuses on enabling change in organizations by bridging analysis with strategy, architecture, agile, product management, and innovation.

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Argon Digital

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

With the program kicking off, our product managers began working with the business leads on the core requirements. As the business kept growing, the overhead and rework for several teams became unbearable. All of these factors led client leadership to demand a solution, and they wanted it delivered as quickly as possible.

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Analysts Corner

APRIL 10, 2024

Throughout the workshops, you first define the idea, design and build it, and finally validate it closely with users. First of all, a BA professional may use their facilitation skills to facilitate the entire workshop. A well-known way to explore ideas in an early phase of design is by conducting Design Sprints.

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Agilemania

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The SAFe® Product Owner is also a team member who communicates on the behalf of customers he takes care of product details, explaining the requirements to the team including product managers and other PO, and stakeholders. A SAFe® Product Owner’s Roles and Responsibilities. PI Planning. View Schedule.

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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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Juice Analytics

JANUARY 27, 2020

At Juice, we’ve worked with dozens of companies to create data products (download free our Checklist for Product Managers of Data Products ). Data storytelling isn’t always easy ( What’s Easy and What’s Hard ), but our 30 Days to Storytelling is a good start (or ask about our workshop ).

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Roman Pichler

JULY 3, 2017

I really wish that for once, you gave us clear priorities,” Jane said accusingly at the end of the workshop and walked out of the room. [1] I certainly find that as product managers and product owners, we sometimes have to deal with pushy, stressed, or unhelpful stakeholders and team members —with people who are just being difficult.

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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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Product Management Product Management Vision Planning 137

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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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Lastly, goal-oriented roadmaps are compatible with objectives and key results (OKRs) : You can think of the goals as objectives and the other roadmap elements as the key results, as I explain in my article OKRs in Product Management.

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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] As described in step one, invite the individuals to a collaborative workshop and co-create the product roadmap. This will help you make the right roadmapping decisions and generate strong buy-in.

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Planning Product Management Product Management Vision 95

Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 5, 2016

asks Julie, the product manager. Is it the product manager, the people present, or the management sponsor? Note that in the picture, I use the term product manager to refer to the person in charge of the product. This does include product owners, of course.

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Tableau

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

“We constantly hear about the value of the Tableau Community for our DataDevs, and when the opportunity to join with developers across Salesforce platforms came up, we were in,” said Nick Brisoux, senior director of product management and lead for Tableau’s Developer Platform evangelism. . Hands-on demos with Tableau product experts.

Innovation 98

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Tableau

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

“We constantly hear about the value of the Tableau Community for our DataDevs, and when the opportunity to join with developers across Salesforce platforms came up, we were in,” said Nick Brisoux, senior director of product management and lead for Tableau’s Developer Platform evangelism. Hands-on demos with Tableau product experts.

Innovation 98

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Agilemania

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Ensure that key art stakeholders including Product Management understand and are aligned with Business objectives. Finally, at the end of the PI, during the Inspection & Adapt event, the Business Owners assess the actual value delivered by each team and participate in the Problem Solving workshop.

Portfolio Management 98

Portfolio Management Vision Planning Agile 98

Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The Product Backlog is Too Big. A few years ago, I was asked to help a healthcare company with their agile transition and its impact on product management. One of the challenges the agile transition team was concerned about was the choice of the right product backlog tool, which at first seemed odd to me.

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Agilemania

OCTOBER 31, 2022

As software expands its wings in all industries, the demand for skilled product managers continues to grow. The role and responsibilities of the product owner includes identifying the business needs & market opportunities, establishing project objectives, and managing the product development process from ideation to final release.

Agile 98

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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. Since they were already familiar with our internal evaluation approach, we decided to use it for this project as well.

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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.

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Argon Digital

JULY 11, 2023

Whether it’s developing new renewable energy projects, optimizing energy distribution systems, or implementing cutting-edge technologies, businesses in this sector rely heavily on the expertise of their business analysts and product managers.

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Agilemania

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Prioritizing workshops is the preferred approach when prioritizing the Program backlog. The Product Management, Business Owners, Product Owners, and other Key Stakeholders collaborate to adjudge the relative cost of delay for the upcoming features. So, those jobs are selected first for implementation. Advantages of WSJF.

Agile 98

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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. 9 The Roadmap is Mistaken for a Release Plan.

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