Roman's Product Management Podcast

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03.14.2023

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 ...

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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 Product Delivery and 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 ...
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 ...
10.06.2020 A Brief Guide to Product Discovery This episodes offers an overview of product discovery. It explains what product discovery is and why it matters; which questions it should address; when, how and by whom it should be carried out; and what types of discovery there are.
09.29.2020 10 Tips for Creating an Agile Product Roadmap A product roadmap is a powerful tool to describe how a product is likely to grow, to align the stakeholders, and to acquire a budget for developing the product. But creating an effective roadmap is not easy, particularly in an ...
09.02.2020 Prioritising a Product Backlog When Everything is Important The product backlog is an essential product management tool: It captures detailed product decisions and directs the work of the development team. The latter requires it to be prioritised or ordered. But how can you prioritise a product backlog when ...
08.11.2020 Common Product Vision Board Mistakes The product vision board is a simple yet powerful tool to capture the product vision and the product strategy. Despite its simplicity, effectively using it can be challenging. I have seen many boards over the years that suffered from a ...
07.07.2020 Are Feature Teams or Component Teams Right for Your Product? Whenever you require more than a single development team to progress your product, you have choice: You can organise the teams around features or components. This article explains why this decision matters for product people, and it shares my advice ...
07.07.2020 Are Feature Teams or Component Teams Right for Your Product? Whenever you require more than a single development team to progress your product, you have choice: You can organise the teams around features or components. This article explains why this decision matters for product people, and it shares my advice ...
06.01.2020 Stakeholder Management Tips for Product People As product people, we rely on the stakeholders to successfully progress our product. But effective stakeholder management can be challenging. It can feel like herding cats with every stakeholder going off in a different direction pursuing her or his individual ...
06.01.2020 Stakeholder Management Tips for Product People As product people, we rely on the stakeholders to successfully progress our product. But effective stakeholder management can be challenging. It can feel like herding cats with every stakeholder going off in a different direction pursuing her or his individual ...
05.05.2020 Six Types of “Product” Owners Nearly 20 years after the publication of the first Scrum book, the product owner role is still riddled with misunderstandings. It’s not uncommon for me to meet someone who refers to her- or himself as a product owner, only to ...
05.05.2020 Six Types of “Product” Owners Nearly 20 years after the publication of the first Scrum book, the product owner role is still riddled with misunderstandings. It’s not uncommon for me to meet someone who refers to her- or himself as a product owner, only to ...
04.01.2020 Dealing with Difficult Emotions in Product Management As product people, we make tough decisions and occasionally, we have to work with challenging people. It is therefore no surprise that we experience difficult emotions at work. While feelings like irritation, tension, and anger are unpleasant, learning to constructively ...
04.01.2020 Dealing with Difficult Emotions in Product Management As product people, we make tough decisions and occasionally, we have to work with challenging people. It is therefore no surprise that we experience difficult emotions at work. While feelings like irritation, tension, and anger are unpleasant, learning to constructively ...

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Roman's Product Management Podcast episodes:

What Exactly is a Product Strategy?

Succeeding with Product Delivery and Scrum: 10 Tips for Product People

A Product Owner Career Path

Leading without Being the Boss: Tips for Product People

10 Product Roadmapping Mistakes to Avoid

5 Tips for Stocking the Product Backlog

My Product Strategy Model

Empathy in Product Management

What Should a Head of Product Do?

Six Common KPI Mistakes to Avoid

Product Teams in Scrum

10 Tips for Effective Product Management Meetings

Six Qualities of a Great Product Vision

Why Product Owners Need Effective Scrum Masters

A Learning Roadmap for Product People

Four Product Success Factors

Dealing with an Underperforming Development Team

Seven Product Backlog Mistakes to Avoid

Three Qualities of Great Product Roadmaps

Product Vision FAQs

Tips for Becoming a Head of Product

Tips for Becoming a Head of Product

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

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

Five Product Owner Myths Busted

How to Choose the Right KPIs for Your Product

How to Choose the Right KPIs for Your Product

Product Goals in Scrum

Product Goals in Scrum

How Agile Has Changed Product Management

5 Tips for Saying No to Stakeholders

5 Tips for Saying No to Stakeholders

5 Tips for Saying No to Stakeholders

OKRs in Product Management

OKRs in Product Management

OKRs in Product Management

The Product Strategy Cycle

The Product Strategy Cycle

A Brief Guide to Product Discovery

10 Tips for Creating an Agile Product Roadmap

Prioritising a Product Backlog When Everything is Important

Common Product Vision Board Mistakes

Are Feature Teams or Component Teams Right for Your Product?

Are Feature Teams or Component Teams Right for Your Product?

Stakeholder Management Tips for Product People

Stakeholder Management Tips for Product People

Six Types of “Product” Owners

Six Types of “Product” Owners

Dealing with Difficult Emotions in Product Management

Dealing with Difficult Emotions in Product Management