Roman Pichler's Product Management Blog
Roman Pichler's blog focuses on product strategy and roadmaps, offering insights and practical advice on navigating the evolving product landscape. His articles address key challenges faced by product professionals, such as securing stakeholder buy-in, transitioning to outcome-based roadmaps, and adapting strategies to rapid change. Pichler advocates for continuous strategizing, emphasizing the need for ongoing adaptation to market dynamics, opportunities, and threats. He also explores the integration of OKRs into product roadmaps, analyzing the benefits and potential drawbacks of this approach.
Pichler further introduces the "Strategy Stack" framework, a comprehensive approach to aligning business, portfolio, product, and technology strategies. This framework emphasizes the importance of connecting different strategic levels to ensure successful execution and achieve desired outcomes. His blog provides valuable resources for product professionals seeking to enhance their strategic thinking, improve stakeholder engagement, and drive product success in a rapidly changing world.
[
Maximising Stakeholder Buy-in to Product Strategy and Product Roadmap
](https://www.romanpichler.com/blog/stakeholder-buy-in-product-strategy-roadmap/)
Published: 8 Jul 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 article shares my tips to help you secure strong stakeholder buy-in to strategic product decisions, align people, and achieve product success together.
[
How to Get Started with Outcome-Based Product Roadmaps
](https://www.romanpichler.com/blog/how-to-get-started-with-outcome-based-product-roadmaps/)
Published: 10 Jun 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 article.
[
Continuous Strategizing
](https://www.romanpichler.com/blog/continuous-strategizing/)
Published: 13 May 2024
As markets, products, and technologies change at an ever-faster pace, strategies that used to last for years are in danger of becoming quickly outdated if they are not being adapted. To help you with this challenge, proactively respond to change, and spot opportunities and threats early on, I discuss continuous strategizing in this article—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 the approach and ensure that your product strategy is truly adaptive.
[
OKRs and Product Roadmaps
](https://www.romanpichler.com/blog/okrs-and-product-roadmaps/)
Published: 15 Apr 2024 Last Updated on: 4 Jul 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 article.
[
The Strategy Stack: Connecting Business, Product, and Technology Strategy
](https://www.romanpichler.com/blog/the-strategy-stack/)
Published: 12 Mar 2024 Last Updated on: 4 Jul 2024
For any business to succeed, it is crucial to make the right strategic choices. 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 successfully align the plans. To help you address these challenges, I have developed a new framework, the Strategy Stack, which I introduce in this article.