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3 Empowerment Levels in Product Management

Roman Pichler

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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Unlearning and Learning: My Transition from Business Analysis to Product Management

Analysts Corner

Photo by airfocus on Unsplash It has been quite some time since my last post as I’ve been transitioning into a new role within Product Management. In Product management, however, there’s still so much to do post-release. Analyze relevant data to support the research.

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Engaging meetings and workshops: A guide to becoming an expert facilitator

Analysts Corner

As a business analyst, I’m generally responsible for leading requirements workshops to understand processes and problems, and to analyze… Continue reading on Analyst’s corner »

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Empathy in Product Management

Roman Pichler

Imagine that John is a sales rep and a key stakeholder who hardly ever attends the product strategy workshops you’ve invited him to. Instead, he requests product roadmap changes by talking directly to you. Why is Empathy Important in Product Management? At the same time, be frank. What did I learn?

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10 Tips for Effective Product Management Meetings

Roman Pichler

For example, a product strategy workshop might have the objective to identify the key changes required to achieve product-market fit. Contrast this with a sprint review meeting , which might help you determine if users can easily sign up for the product. Listen to this article: [link]. 1 Set an Objective. Stay present.

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Workshop by Design Canvas: Making Collaboration Work

EBG Consulting

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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How Agile Has Changed Product Management

Roman Pichler

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.