Episodes

  • The Product Strategy and the Product Life Cycle

    The Product Strategy and the Product Life Cycle
    Nov 11 2024
    Developing a winning product strategy is hard. Keeping the strategy relevant and achieving product success on a continued basis is even harder. In this episode, I discuss how you can use the product lifecycle model to address this challenge. I explain how the model can help you make the right strategic choices, focus and evolve the product strategy, and proactively progress and grow the product.
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    13 mins
  • When You Should NOT Use a Product Roadmap

    When You Should NOT Use a Product Roadmap
    Oct 7 2024
    The product roadmap is a popular product management tool that communicates how a product is likely to evolve. But despite its popularity, it’s not always applicable. In this podcast episode, I share three scenarios in which using a roadmap is not advisable. I explain why not using a roadmap is the right course of action, what you can do instead to plan ahead, and which steps you can take to get closer to developing a realistic, actionable roadmap.
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    8 mins
  • Product Strategy Discovery

    Product Strategy Discovery
    Sep 2 2024

    The product strategy is probably the most important artefact in product management. But how do you come up with an effective strategy in the first place? How can you minimise the risk of offering an unsuccessful product and instead maximise the chances of achieving success? In this episode, I introduce product strategy discovery as a systematic, disciplined approach to help you develop a winning strategy for your product.

    Attend my Product Strategy and Roadmap training course: https://www.romanpichler.com/training-courses/product-strategy-roadmap/

    Read or listen to my book Strategize: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0993499244

    Episodes referred to in the podcast:

    Product Strategy and Product Discovery: https://www.romanpichler.com/podcast/product-strategy-and-product-discovery/
    Building High-Performing Product Teams: https://www.romanpichler.com/podcast/building-high-performing-product-teams/
    The Strategy Stack: https://www.romanpichler.com/podcast/the-strategy-stack/
    Everything You Need to Know About Product Portfolio Strategy: https://www.romanpichler.com/podcast/product-portfolio-strategy/
    Continuous Strategizing: https://www.romanpichler.com/podcast/continuous-strategizing/
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    11 mins
  • Should Stakeholders Be on the Product Team?

    Should Stakeholders Be on the Product Team?
    Aug 12 2024
    A product team is a cross-functional group whose members work together to achieve product success. Most people would agree that the person in charge of the product, a UX designer, and one or more developers should be on the team. But if stakeholders should be included, is more contentious. In this podcast episode, I discuss two types of product teams, core and extended ones. I explore the benefits and challenges of using a larger team that includes the key stakeholders, and I share practical tips to make this approach work.
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    10 mins
  • Maximising Stakeholder Buy-in to Product Strategy and Product Roadmap

    Maximising Stakeholder Buy-in to Product Strategy and Product Roadmap
    Jul 8 2024
    The most amazing product strategy and product roadmap are ineffective if the stakeholders don’t support them. Without their buy-in, you’ll struggle to execute the strategy and find it hard to deliver the roadmap. But it doesn’t have to be this way. This podcast episode shares my tips to help you secure strong stakeholder buy-in to strategic product decisions, align people, and achieve product success together.
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    9 mins
  • How to Get Started with Outcome-Based Product Roadmaps

    How to Get Started with Outcome-Based Product Roadmaps
    Jun 10 2024
    Outcome-based product roadmaps offer many benefits over traditional, feature-based ones including a strong focus on the value a product should create. But how can you introduce this new approach when an organisation is used to feature-based plans and stakeholders find it difficult to trust an outcome-based roadmap? To address this challenge, I introduce a four-step process in this podcast episode.
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    9 mins
  • Continuous Strategizing

    Continuous Strategizing
    May 13 2024
    Markets, products, and technologies change at an ever-faster pace, and product strategies are in danger of becoming quickly outdated if they are not being adapted. To help you address this challenge, I discuss continuous strategizing in this podcast episode—an approach that looks at strategy as an ongoing process rather than periodical work. What's more, I offer practical advice on how you can implement continuous strategizing and ensure that your product strategy is truly adaptive.
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    7 mins
  • OKRs and Product Roadmaps

    OKRs and Product Roadmaps
    Apr 15 2024

    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.

    To learn more, attend my training courses and read my book Strategize:

    https://www.romanpichler.com/training-courses/

    https://www.amazon.com/dp/0993499244

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    11 mins