Roman Pichler : Strategy and Product Ownership

Roman Pichler, one of the leading voices in Agile Product Ownership has released a new book, Strategize: Product Strategy and Product Roadmap Practices for the Digital Age. Roman's new book presents a number of tools and techniques Product Owners and Product Managers can use to gain a deeper understanding the product(s) they are developing in order to stock and maintain a better product backlog.

This was a special treat for me. I've been saving up questions for this interview for long time and Roman was kind enough to tolerate all of them.



Show Notes

• Why the wrote Strategize 00:26
• Adding Product Strategy to Agile Planning 2:46
• Vision to Strategy to Roadmap 5:37
• How to use the Go Product Roadmap to feed Release Planning 6:00
• Who you need to create the Roadmap? 8:40
• How Strategize should help Product Owners and Product Managers 10:30
• Is the focus on Product Ownership increasing and maturing? 11:50
• Explaining the difference between and Product Owner and a Product Manager? 15:20
• The key elements of Product Strategy  19:20
• Aligning products across the portfolio 21:24
• Product Owner at the Portfolio level 23:00
• How often should you update your Vision Board and Roadmap? 24:05
• How important is it that Team Members know the Product Vision? 25:50
• If there was one misunderstanding about Product Ownership that you could fix, what would it be? 27:54
• How to get in touch with Roman 30:00

If you'd like to get in touch with Roman, you can reach him at http://www.romanpichler.com
If you'd like to pick up a copy of Strategize, you can find it here.