Lenny Rachitsky

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Below, you’ll find what I believe is the most actionable, specific, and straightforward framework for crafting a strategy, for both your product and your company. As Chandra shares below, his framework sits on top of the best strategy wisdom out there (e.g. product marketing, user research, content design, etc.).

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UX Planet

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Transforming user experience in cars-as-a-service industry through Strategic AI/ML Integrationa UX casestudy. Overview This case study focuses on integrating AI/ML to improve user experience in the car-as-a-service automobile marketplace. Car Preferences: Customers range from highly specific to completely flexible.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 19, 2021

Here’s a simple framework for managing it. ” So when this five-month-long project reached completion – at four times the amount of time we had initially estimated – we were left asking ourselves the question: what went wrong? User experience debt. Moving fast makes you slow.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2019

This was a team plagued by poor lead time for feature development and unrealistic expectations, set in part by the inability of the team to provide realistic delivery estimates for features. Without scope discussions, user stories could often run across multiple days making it hard to determine expected delivery. THE EXPERIMENTS.

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 20, 2025

1] Figure 1: A Product Strategy System You can use the model in Figure 1 to review and improve your current product strategy approach. 5] Note that the product person in Figure 2 has to be empowered to lead the strategizing effort and have the final say if no agreement can be reached. Figure 3 illustrates how this can be done.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 16, 2024

“If you’re not adding things back in at least 10% of the time, you’re clearly not deleting enough.” — Elon Musk There are moments when you hear something so simple yet profound. I’ve always worked double time to save space on the roadmap and simplify things. of users accidentally used this feature once per year. I was pissed.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The below image is a simple framework but it is a growth platform that helps in setting up startups, mid-size or even big enterprises. In due course, the startups need to invest a good amount of time in organizing the strategy and roadmap to track the product performance to get an early product-market fit and scalability.

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UX Planet

MARCH 15, 2025

What began as an overwhelming experience, trying to grasp concepts and frameworks, has now turned into a passion project that Im eager to share with you. Why My AI Learning Approach is Different When I first began exploring AI, I quickly realized that most learning resources available online are heavily technical.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] 1 Complement Scrum with a Product Discovery and Strategy Process Scrum is a simple framework that helps teams develop successful products. How can you capture the right user stories , for instance, if you are unsure who the users are and why they want to use the product?

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

You might already have a Voice of the Customer (VoC) program in place that you’re looking to improve, or perhaps you’re just trying to get started. You also might be reading this post thinking: “Who’s adding new tools to their tech stack right now?” But in truth, there’s never been a better time. This is a valid question.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

I view it as an entity that creates tangible value for users and possibly customers as well as the business. Once you’ve identified and selected a specific product, you can take the next step and determine the people who are required to create or progress it and generate the desired user and business benefits.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

And further along the line, customer support started being treated as a cost center – a necessary, but non-profitable part of a business. Today, more and more businesses are realizing the true bottom-line impact of creating great customer experiences. In fact, he says the customer experience has never mattered more.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

While technical skills are still essential, the ability to influence, negotiate, tell compelling stories, and lead with empathy is now a critical differentiator. A growing library of frameworks, case studies, and actionable tools. 1-on-1 Support spanning personalized mentorship and resume reviews (available at higher tiers).

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The kiosks help thousands of customers by providing valuable information and generate a significant portion of the revenue for the company. The wondrous product was used by less than five percent of our entire user base. In addition, choosing the wrong product management framework added to the failure of the launch.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 13, 2024

It achieves this by stating the product’s target users and customers, the value proposition, the business goals it should meet, and its standout features. But this only works if the product and market are stable and experience little change. For digital products, this is hardly ever the case in my experience.

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Userpilot

MARCH 9, 2025

What happens when you build a product or service around what you think potential customers want, only for them to buy something else? For starters, it shows you dont know your customers well enough. But worse than that, it leads to lower revenue, failed products, and plummeting customer loyalty. The short answer: yes.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 20, 2022

But when we make technical decisions, we like to be conservative. In practice, being technically conservative looks like reusing existing technologies and frameworks in our stack, or promoting tried and tested patterns and solutions. Here, Waheed discusses our engineering principle “Be technically conservative”.

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UX Planet

MARCH 9, 2025

No matter how good your original product is, you will likely decide to redesign it at some point in time. It recommended to focus on two important points: Purpose: Clearly state the purpose of the redesignwhy the business should invest time and money in it and what it will help the business achieve. UX audit checklist prepared by Maze.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 14, 2020

Customer success – every business wants to invest in it but only a few know what it actually entails or how to do it well. There are a lot of words that get thrown around with customer success: problems to be solved, implementation, product experts, expansion, strategic partners, technical advisors, proactive versus reactive.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JANUARY 14, 2025

So I’ve been on the hunt for a framework that actually helps you measure and increase your velocity. Laura and her team spend every working hour researching, designing, and experimenting with ways to measure and improve team velocity (while avoiding burnout). I’ve finally found it.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 24, 2020

But Fabrice des Mazery, CPO at Thiga, suggests the skills we’ve honed during this time can actually be useful in building relationships with our customers. In this episode, sponsored by Amplitude, he draws on his experience at Deezer, [.]. Octalysis Framework explained at Yu-Kai Chou. What drives our motivation? *

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Having worked on a number of large technology programmes involving the selection and management of strategic suppliers, I wanted to share my perspectives from the ‘buy side’ on how to build effective partnerships. Partners are typically willing to help each other out in challenging times because of the longer term relationship.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Customers expect seamless, interconnected experiences powered by AI, automation, and strategic partnerships. A case study on how ecosystem strategy led to a 30% increase in user adoption. How to align partnerships, integrations, and customer experiences. So, how can you stay ahead of this shift?

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Melissa Perri

JULY 23, 2024

I wanted to share with you the framework I use when doing this. I review strategies and roadmaps. At the end of this review, I do a Product Leadership workshop with C-Suite and Product leaders, where I show them what good looks like, and they have a chance to reflect on where they are. Lots of data goes into pinpointing.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Hybrid work, AI integration, and rising customer demands are reshaping product management. A real-world case study of how strategic influence drove a 20% increase in engagement and reduced technical debt. A growing library of frameworks, case studies, and actionable tools. Whats Inside the Article?

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Guest post by Rebecca Monfries, Head of Delivery at Terem Technologies, and Nathan Bruce, Lead Business Analyst at Terem Technologies. Hopefully you’ve already discovered the features that are going to give you a higher return on investment, so now is the time to break them down and understand them in more detail?—?to

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

In 2025, customers wont just buy productstheyll choose the ones they trust. With privacy concerns, AI-driven decisions, and increasing competition, trust is becoming the ultimate differentiator for PMs who want to build lasting customer relationships. The biggest threats to customer trust in 2025and how to avoid them.

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Product Management University

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Market Analysis Before and With AI Customers are clamoring for a number of improvements to your product and youre on a mission to get them funded and on the roadmap. However, just because customers want them doesnt mean theyre delivering the level of differentiating value your organization needs to meet its own goals.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 20, 2021

But once a customer signs up, it’s left to a handful of badly written FAQs to help people get the most from the product. It’s no wonder up to 60% of users who sign up for a free trial use a product once and never come back. So instead of giving customers a series of boring how-tos, we create best practice content.

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UX Planet

JANUARY 10, 2025

In an article published by Barclays customers are looking for ways to spend more wisely to offset growing living costs. In this article, well explore how two renowned frameworks, Robert Cialdinis Principles of Influence and BJ Foggs BehaviorModel. Most saving apps are user-friendly, engaging, and gamified to make saving enjoyable.

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Product Management University

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Learn Targeted Skills in Small Chunks On the Go Today, Product Management University announced the availability of 15 new micro learning courses for high technology product managers in B2B. As workloads grow heavier and product management teams are asked to do more, there’s less time to learn new skills or keep current skills sharp.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 5, 2025

A case study on how realigning priorities increased user engagement by 25%. A growing library of frameworks, case studies, and actionable tools. 1-on-1 Support spanning personalized mentorship and resume reviews (available at higher tiers). How to use the 5 Whys technique to uncover the real root cause.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 1, 2021

Over the course of the past year, the customer support landscape has changed for good. As brick-and-mortar businesses closed worldwide, companies and customers alike had to pivot to digital-first ways of doing business. According to recent research, however, many teams aren’t sufficiently equipped to meet these new challenges.

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BrainMates

OCTOBER 20, 2024

The Customer Service Gap Model By ADRIENNE TAN In competitive markets, delivering superior customer value is a top priority. It’s not just about creating a great product—it’s about ensuring the entire customer journey, from initial interaction to post-purchase support, exceeds expectations.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 22, 2019

If you wanted to know your customers’ gripes and praises in the past, you had to assemble a series of questions anticipating their possible answer. It’s all part of a customer-centric philosophy that emphasizes empathy and self-awareness over a staid corporate vision. Short on time? But there’s a better way now.

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Alchemer Mobile

APRIL 14, 2020

How deep does your understanding of the technology go as a PM? And how much do you try to be, like, a subject matter expert from a technological standpoint compared to your engineering team? How do you manage executive expectations, customer expectations, and technical resources? Christy: All right. I am Christy Culp.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 14, 2023

Who are the users and, if appropriate, who are the customers? To create a strategy, I might choose middle aged men with busy jobs and an unhealthy lifestyle as the target users. The benefit the product should create for this user group might be to reduce the risk of developing type-2 diabetes.

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