Roman Pichler Books

Create a winning game plan for your digital products with this insightful guide on product strategy and roadmap practices. Author Roman Pichler shares a variety of proven techniques and tools to help you develop effective strategies and actionable roadmaps, maximizing your chances of product success. Written in an engaging and straightforward style, the book offers practical advice and valuable examples for immediate application. Its comprehensive insights empower you to make informed strategic decisions in today's fast-paced digital landscape. Praise highlights the book's comprehensive approach, emphasizing its focus on the latest practices tailored for digital products. It is filled with real-world examples that facilitate the application of principles to your own company and products. This guide is deemed essential for product executives, managers, and owners alike. Readers, whether new to product management or seasoned professionals, will find it invaluable for generating fresh ideas to enhance their product strategies and execution. Additionally, it is highly recommended for all product owners and those involved in strategy or roadmapping, making it a must-have addition to any product manager's reading list.

"This book will help you become a better product leader. Benefitting from Roman Pichler's extensive experience, you'll learn how to align stakeholders and guide development teams even in challenging circumstances, avoid common leadership mistakes, and grow as a leader. Written in an engaging and easily accessible style, How to Lead in Product Management offers a wealth of practical tips and strategies. Through helpful examples, the book illustrates how you can directly apply the techniques to your work. Coverage includes: Choosing the right leadership style Cultivating empathy, building trust, and influencing others Increasing your authority and empowering others Directing stakeholders and development teams through common goals Making decisions that people will support and follow through Successfully resolving disputes and conflicts even with senior stakeholders Listening deeply to discover and address hidden needs and interests Practicing mindfulness and embracing a growth mindset to develop as a leader" --Amazon.com

The First Guide to Scrum-Based Agile Product Management In Agile Product Management with Scrum, leading Scrum consultant Roman Pichler uses real-world examples to demonstrate how product owners can create successful products with Scrum. He describes a broad range of agile product management practices, including making agile product discovery work, taking advantage of emergent requirements, creating the minimal marketable product, leveraging early customer feedback, and working closely with the development team. Benefitting from Pichler's extensive experience, you'll learn how Scrum product ownership differs from traditional product management and how to avoid and overcome the common challenges that Scrum product owners face. Coverage includes Understanding the product owner's role: what product owners do, how they do it, and the surprising implications Envisioning the product: creating a compelling product vision to galvanize and guide the team and stakeholders Grooming the product backlog: managing the product backlog effectively even for the most complex products Planning the release: bringing clarity to scheduling, budgeting, and functionality decisions Collaborating in sprint meetings: understanding the product owner's role in sprint meetings, including the dos and don'ts Transitioning into product ownership: succeeding as a product owner and establishing the role in the enterprise This book is an indispensable resource for anyone who works as a product owner, or expects to do so, as well as executives and coaches interested in establishing agile product management.

Dieses Buch hilft Ihnen, erfolgreich innovative Produkte mit Scrum zu entwickeln. Anhand zahlreicher Praxisbeispiele erklärt der international renommierte Scrum-Experte Roman Pichler anschaulich und leicht verständlich die Rolle des Product Owner und den Einsatz agiler Produktmanagementkonzepte und -techniken. Dabei stehen softwarebasierte Produkte, die von Webapplikationen bis zu Mobiltelefonen reichen, im Fokus. Behandelt werden im Einzelnen: - Die Aufgaben und Eigenschaften des Product Owner - Die Zusammenarbeit mit dem Team und dem ScrumMaster sowie mit den Kunden, Anwendern und Interessenvertretern - Der effektive Einsatz einer agilen Produktvision und einer agilen Produkt-Roadmap - Der richtige Umgang mit dem Product Backlog inklusive Priorisierung, User Stories und nicht funktionaler Anforderungen - Das Erstellen eines realistischen Releaseplans - Das richtige Verhalten des Product Owner in den Sprint-Besprechungen - Die Etablierung der Product-Owner-Rolle im Unternehmen Jedes Kapitel endet mit einer Erörterung häufig gemachter Fehler und einer Zusammenfassung der vorgestellten Konzepte. Agiles Produktmanagement mit Scrum richtet sich an alle, die als Product Owner arbeiten oder diese Position anstreben, sowie an Führungskräfte und ScrumMaster, die sich für die Anwendung der Product-Owner-Rolle und den Einsatz agiler Praktiken interessieren.

Scrum ist ein agiles Projektmanagementframework, das auf alle Arten der Softwareentwicklung anwendbar ist und die Kundenzufriedenheit sowie die Wertschöpfung nachhaltig steigern kann. Dieses Buch vermittelt das notwendige Wissen für eine erfolgreiche Anwendung von Scrum und behandelt die Themen umfassend, systematisch und verständlich. Dazu gehören die Scrum-Rollen wie ScrumMaster, Product Owner und Team sowie der Scrum-Prozess. Es wird auf Anforderungsbeschreibung und -management in Scrum eingegangen, einschließlich Produkt Backlog und User Stories. Zudem werden Releasemanagement, Schätzungen, Planung und Verfolgung behandelt. Das Buch erläutert das Arbeiten mit Sprints, einschließlich ihrer Eigenschaften, der Vorbereitung und Durchführung von Sprint-Planungssitzungen, des Sprint Backlogs, Daily Scrums, Sprint-Reviews und -Retrospektiven sowie der Optimierung des Sprint-Fortschritts. Außerdem wird die Anwendung von Scrum für große und verteilte Projekte sowie die unternehmensweite Einführung von Scrum thematisiert. Es richtet sich an Einsteiger und Fortgeschrittene, die sich auf Scrum-Zertifizierungen wie Certified ScrumMaster und Certified Scrum Product Owner vorbereiten. "I've known and worked with Roman for years with Scrum, so the book is full of practical advice." (aus dem Geleitwort von Ken Schwaber)