Roman's Product Management Podcast

Roman's Product Management Podcast episodes:

• 04.15.2024

  OKRs and Product Roadmaps

  OKRs—objectives and key results—are a popular goal-setting technique. But can and should you use OKRs on product roadmaps? What benefits does this approach offer and are there any drawbacks? These are the questions I’ll answer in this podcast episode.

  
• 03.12.2024

  The Strategy Stack: Connecting Business, Product, and Technology Strategy

  For any business to succeed, it is crucial to make the right strategic decisions. To achieve this, you’ll benefit from using four different types of strategies: business, portfolio, product, and technology strategy. But that’s not enough. You’ll also have to...

  
• 02.19.2024

  3 Empowerment Levels in Product Management

  Being empowered can make all the difference in doing a great job. Sadly, not all product people have the authority they need. This observation is hardly new, though, and just wishing for more empowerment isn't enough. In this podcast episode,...

  
• 01.22.2024

  Everything You Need to Know about Product Portfolio Strategy

  Products often don’t exist in isolation. Instead, they are part of a product portfolio. Think of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, which belong to Microsoft Office. Such a portfolio benefits from having a dedicated strategy—a product portfolio strategy. But what information...

  
• 12.04.2023

  Product Strategy and Product Discovery

  Product discovery has become increasingly popular in recent years as a way to determine the right solution. In this podcast episode, I explain why you need a product strategy to succeed with product discovery, how the strategy helps you determine...

  
• 11.06.2023

  Decoding Product Leadership

  Strong product leadership is crucial to offering successful products and enabling product-led growth. Unfortunately, there is disagreement and confusion about what exactly product leadership is and who should exercise it. Is product leadership limited to someone working as a head...

  
• 10.10.2023

  GO Product Roadmap Checklist

  The GO Product Roadmap is a simple yet effective tool to help teams create goal-oriented, outcome-based roadmaps. Despite its simplicity, I find that it’s not always correctly applied. To address this challenge, I’ve created a checklist, which I share in...

  
• 09.11.2023

  Building High-Performing Product Teams

  “Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team,” Steve Jobs once said. This insight also applies to product management: As product people, we can’t achieve product success on our own—we rely on the...

  
• 08.15.2023

  10 Product Strategy Mistakes to Avoid

  The product strategy is an important product management artefact. But despite its significance, it is not always effectively used. In this episode, I discuss ten common strategy mistakes I see people make so you can avoid them and successfully leverage...

  
• 07.04.2023

  Double Vision: Choosing the Right Approach to Capture the Product Vision

  The product vision plays a crucial part in achieving product success: It sets a shared direction and helps create strong alignment. Despite its importance, there are two competing views of what a product vision is and how it should be...

  
• 06.06.2023

  How to Offer Constructive Feedback: A Framework for Product People

  To create value, product people, stakeholders, and development teams have to work together. But when people collaborate, things don’t always go smoothly, and problems emerge. As the person in charge of the product, you should address these issues and offer...

  
• 05.03.2023

  Leveraging New Technologies: 3 Tips for Product People

  Change seems to be the only constant when it comes to software technology. Over the last ten years, microservices, cloud-based computing, augmented reality, blockchain, the Internet of Things, machine learning, and artificial intelligence have emerged—to name just a few new...

  
• 04.04.2023

  Should a Head of Product Make Strategic Product Decisions?

  The head of product role and the product strategy are often linked. But should a head of product make strategic decisions for individual products? Or would it be better to empower the product people to own the product strategy? These...

  
• 03.14.2023

  What Exactly is a Product Strategy?

  The product strategy is possibly the most important product management plan. But what exactly is it? Which information should it contain? Do you need a strategy for your product? How can you ensure that it is likely to result in...

  
• 02.14.2023

  Succeeding with Scrum: 10 Tips for Product People

  Scrum is not a product management framework. But it can be tremendously valuable for product people: It can help you make the right product decisions and deliver great products if it’s correctly applied. In this podcast episode, I share ten...

  
• 01.17.2023

  A Product Owner Career Path

  If you want to advance your career or if you want help others develop professionally, then you need a career path. But I find that not all companies have such a path in place for their product people; and if...

  
• 12.06.2022

  Leading without Being the Boss: Tips for Product People

  As the person in charge of the product, you have a rewarding but challenging job. A key challenge is leading the stakeholders and development teams without being their boss, without being able to tell people what to do. In this...

  
• 11.01.2022

  10 Product Roadmapping Mistakes to Avoid

  The product roadmap is a great product management tool. But it can cause significant issues when it is not used appropriately. In this podcast episode, I discuss ten product roadmapping mistakes you should avoid to fully leverage your roadmap.

  
• 10.05.2022

  5 Tips for Stocking the Product Backlog

  The product backlog is a simple yet powerful tool to capture tactical product decisions and direct the work of the development team. To take full advantage of it, it’s important to set up the initial backlog in the right way....

  
• 09.13.2022

  My Product Strategy Model

  Making the right strategic decisions is crucial to achieve product success. If it’s not clear, for example, what a product’s value proposition is and what its stand-out features are, then it will be difficult to create the desired business value....

  
• 08.16.2022

  Empathy in Product Management

  I was recently asked at a product management conference what superpower product people should have. I didn’t have to think twice and replied, “empathy.” This podcast episode explains why empathy is particularly important in product management and how you can...

  
• 07.05.2022

  What Should a Head of Product Do?

  Becoming a head of product is a career aspiration for many product managers and product owners. But what exactly should a head of product do? Which are the responsibilities the individual should fulfil? Listen to this podcast episode to hear...

  
• 06.07.2022

  Six Common KPI Mistakes to Avoid

  Key performance indicators (KPIs) are metrics that measure how well your product is doing. As useful as they are to proactively manage a product, they are not always effectively applied. In this podcast episode, I discuss six common KPI mistakes....

  
• 05.04.2022

  Product Teams in Scrum

  Scrum is a powerful framework that connects the person in charge of the product with the individuals designing and building it. But it offers limited advice on how to collaborate with the stakeholders and involve them in strategic product decisions....

  
• 04.06.2022

  10 Tips for Effective Product Management Meetings

  Meetings are essential to align the stakeholders and development team members and make the right product decisions. But we’ve all been stuck in bad meetings that lacked a clear objective, didn’t have an agenda, were dominated by a few vocal...

  
• 03.09.2022

  Six Qualities of a Great Product Vision

  The product vision can be a powerful tool to align stakeholders and development teams. When used effectively, it acts as the product’s true north, and it inspires and guides people. This episode helps you create such a vision. It describes...

  
• 02.09.2022

  Why Product Owners Need Effective Scrum Masters

  When you consider who is an important partner for you as the person in charge of the product, your thoughts might turn to the stakeholders and development team members. But having an effective Scrum Master is crucial for product owners,...

  
• 01.11.2022

  A Learning Roadmap for Product People

  Working in product management can be very rewarding. But it can also be very challenging. One of the reasons is the diverse skills that are needed to succeed as the person in charge of the product. To acquire and deepen...

  
• 12.07.2021

  Four Product Success Factors

  Our ultimate goal as product people is to achieve sustained product success: to ensure that our products do a great job for their users and customers and that they generate value for our businesses on a continued basis. While achieving...

  
• 11.02.2021

  Dealing with an Underperforming Development Team

  As the person in charge of the product, you rely on the development team to do a good job. But some teams are held back by performance issues and fail to reliably deliver working software. This episode shares my advice...

  
• 10.05.2021

  Seven Product Backlog Mistakes to Avoid

  The product backlog is a simple yet powerful tool to capture and revise detailed product decisions and direct the work of the development team. Unfortunately, effectively using the backlog can be challenging. This episode discusses seven common product backlog mistakes...

  
• 09.07.2021

  Three Qualities of Great Product Roadmaps

  The product roadmap can be an incredibly useful planning tool that aligns the stakeholders and development teams and communicates how a product is likely to evolve. Sadly, that’s not the case for all roadmaps. To ensure that your product roadmap...

  
• 08.17.2021

  Product Vision FAQs

  The product vision can be a powerful instrument to inspire and align stakeholders and development teams. But in practice, it is not always effectively applied. This episode shares questions about the product vision I am frequently asked together with my...

  
• 07.06.2021

  Tips for Becoming a Head of Product

  Becoming a head of product and managing a group of product people is a significant career step. In this article, I share my recommendations to help you get ready for the new job and be off to a great start.

  
• 07.06.2021

  Tips for Becoming a Head of Product

  Becoming a head of product and managing a group of product people is a significant career step. In this podcast episode, I share my recommendations to help you get ready for the new job and be off to a great...

  
• 06.07.2021

  Making Effective Product Decisions: Tips for Deciding with Stakeholders and Dev Teams

  I am a big fan of making decisions collaboratively, as it leverages the expertise of the stakeholders and dev teams; it creates a shared understanding; and it generates stronger buy-in. But deciding together can be challenging: The most senior stakeholder...

  
• 06.07.2021

  Making Effective Product Decisions: Tips for Deciding with Stakeholders and Dev Teams

  I am a big fan of involving the stakeholders and dev teams in important product decisions. But deciding together can be challenging: The most senior stakeholder might try to dictate the decision, the group might shy away from difficult conversations,...

  
• 05.11.2021

  Five Product Owner Myths Busted

  The product owner is a role which is often misunderstood and frequently misapplied. In this podcast episode, I address five common product owner misconceptions. I explain why they are wrong and how the role can be effectively implemented.

  
• 04.13.2021

  How to Choose the Right KPIs for Your Product

  A key challenge of working with KPIs is to select the right indicators: There are so many different metrics to choose from including daily active users, net promoter score, and profit, to name just a few. What’s more, senior managers...

  
• 04.13.2021

  How to Choose the Right KPIs for Your Product

  A key challenge of working with KPIs is to select the right indicators: There are so many different metrics to choose from including daily active users, net promoter score, and profit, to name just a few. What’s more, senior managers...

  
• 03.09.2021

  Product Goals in Scrum

  The 2020 edition of the Scrum Guide introduced a new type of goal, the product goal. This episode shares my recommendations to help you as the person in charge of the product set effective product goals.

  
• 03.09.2021

  Product Goals in Scrum

  The 2020 edition of the Scrum Guide introduced a new type of goal, the product goal. This article shares my recommendations for setting effective product goals.

  
• 02.02.2021

  How Agile Has Changed Product Management

  As the Manifesto for Agile Software Development celebrates its 20th anniversary, I take a look at how agile practices have influenced and changed product management. I discuss the benefits that have been achieved and the challenges that still remain.

  
• 01.12.2021

  5 Tips for Saying No to Stakeholders

  Saying no is a firm part of our job as product people: Trying to please everyone and taking on board every idea is hardly a recipe for achieving product success. But saying no can be tough, especially when we are...

  
• 01.12.2021

  5 Tips for Saying No to Stakeholders

  Saying no is a firm part of our job as product people: Trying to please everyone and taking on board every idea is hardly a recipe for achieving product success. But saying no can be tough, especially when we are...

  
• 01.12.2021

  5 Tips for Saying No to Stakeholders

  Saying no is a firm part of our job as product people: Trying to please everyone and taking on board every idea is hardly a recipe for achieving product success. But saying no can be tough, especially when we are...

  
• 12.01.2020

  OKRs in Product Management

  OKRs—objectives and key results—have experienced a renewed popularity in recent years. Consequently, I am regularly asked if and how OKRs can be applied in product management. This episode shares my thoughts.

  
• 12.01.2020

  OKRs in Product Management

  OKRs—objectives and key results—have experienced a renewed popularity in recent years. Consequently, I am regularly asked if and how OKRs can be applied in product management. This episode shares my thoughts.

  
• 12.01.2020

  OKRs in Product Management

  OKRs—objectives and key results—have experienced a renewed popularity in recent years. Consequently, I am regularly asked if and how OKRs can be applied in product management. This article shares my thoughts.

  
• 11.03.2020

  The Product Strategy Cycle

  Despite its importance, product strategy is not always effectively practiced. One of the key issues I encounter in my work is that strategy and execution are not aligned but rather disjointed. To address this issue, I have developed an iterative...