Lenny Rachitsky

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Basic definitions Strategy has benefited from several excellent foundational frameworks over the years, from Michael Porter’s work to Good Strategy Bad Strategy , Playing to Win , and The Art of War , to name a few. Let’s establish some basic definitions before diving into the details of Strategy Blocks: 1.

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

While you can watch the full hour-long interview here , this post breaks down four of the key lessons we learned from Jessi Alva, Director, Technical Product Management at SAP Concur. About Jessi: Jessi is a director, technical product manager, SAP Concur. We cannot be successful without somebody coding or building a product.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2021

After writing An Elegant Puzzle about the challenges of engineering management in high-growth organizations, his focus shifted to a career path that’s much less understood – the technical leadership track. Or does this whole tech career thing support the writing? Architect, Tech Lead, Solver, and Right Hand. I don’t know.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 27, 2018

When I started my current product role last September, I had a textbook definition of what makes a great product manager. But on day one of the program kickoff, I already began to re-assess my initial definition! The quality of the code suffered while features were delayed. The results were not always positive.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Early in her career, Francesca encountered this phrase alongside the common description of product management as sitting at the intersection of business, user experience, and technology. Leadership doesn’t always mean management Many professionals enter product management from technical backgrounds, such as engineering or development.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 8, 2020

We’d like to share some insights from what we’ve learned so far about software delivery and operations over the past few weeks of working from home during COVID-19 , and how we as an engineering team have adjusted to this unprecedented, unpredictable situation. We decided that now is not the time to experiment with slower ways of shipping.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Food tech is transforming the food industry by using cutting-edge technology to manage production, distribution, and consumption. When discussing food, technology is not the first thing that comes to our minds. Nevertheless, technology has altered every aspect of our life. Explore the article below for more.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

One of my reviewers for the Modern Management Made Easy books asked a fascinating question: I've never seen this many women in management or in senior leadership positions. Up until the mid-1980s, women comprised about 1/3 of the technical people I worked with. The idea of a code review or a design review?

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Melissa Perri

JULY 23, 2024

Some of these are Fortune 10 software-enabled companies going through digital transformations. 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.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Therefore, coding activities may become a distraction from what is really important in your new position. Maintaining respect: When your reports see you’re willing and able to do coding work, it can help cultivate and maintain their respect in you as a manager. When should you write code? Code reviewing pull requests.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

A Technical Exercise In this post, I’ll offer my idea of the sort of technical abilities expected from a product manager. But is a surprisingly small amount of materials about the technical aspect of PM work. The Product Interview?—?A This can be highly useful for hiring managers, as well as for PMs planning their roadmap.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 8, 2024

Well, I reviewed 40 session recording options in the market and handpicked the top 10 for startups, mid-market companies, and enterprises to review. 5 Fullstory session reviews. Now, scaling your team and inviting team members with Heap is challenging due to its steep learning curve and the lack of detailed features.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 28, 2021

Part 1 Product Bugs are one of the most common and accepted parts of building tech products. They’re so common that the US Department of Commerce concluded that “software bugs, or errors, are so prevalent and so detrimental that they cost the US economy an estimated $59 billion annually or about 0.6% of the gross domestic product.”

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Unfortunately, the research backs this up, with a staggering 90% of users reporting that they stopped using an app due to poor performance. Throughout this traditional definition, you’ll notice an emphasis on data, typically taken to mean quantitative metrics. Basically, anything that ruins the user experience.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 6, 2019

Yes, the code that you write and the systems that you build are major contributing factors to the success and growth of a business. New interviewers should start off with sessions that involve less ambiguity like pairing or reviewing take home tests in order to become familiar with process. Who reviews my code?” “How

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Lenny Rachitsky

JANUARY 14, 2025

Laura Tacho is the CTO at DX , has taught over 1,000 tech leaders through her course on developer productivity metrics , and on the side is an executive coach for engineering leaders. I’ve yet to come across a software leader who isn’t. Her background is in developer tools and distributed systems.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 10, 2022

This is where having the right tech stack comes into play. From a support perspective, creating FAQs and knowledge hubs should definitely be your first port of call – but what if you could reach your customer before frustration gets the better of them? Maintain momentum by bridging your tech stacks. Pain points made powerful.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 18, 2022

You’re autonomous, your code is immaculate, and you have a deep understanding of building and shipping software. Then, four years ago, in 2018, she got a job at Algolia as a software engineer. She diligently rose through the ranks, finally growing into the individual contributor role of a staff engineer. Brian: Super.

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Agile Velocity

AUGUST 15, 2022

In a previous post in our Scrum Assessment Series , we shared some ideas to help catalyze engaging sprint reviews. Here, we take a deeper dive into the topic of awesome Sprint Reviews. The Sprint Review, just like the Retrospective , is an important feedback loop in a Scrum team’s toolbox. Why is the Review so important?

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

So, I’ll start with this: a little while ago, I was having a difficult video call with my tech lead. I didn’t speak lightly; I knew our engineers were struggling with the changes and that what they needed most of all was definite information, and fast. To be honest, I think we’re still just figuring things out over here,” I told him.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 9, 2022

In a recent episode, our Director of Machine Learning, Fergal Reid , shed some light on the latest breakthroughs in neural network technology. Our technology interfaces are gradually becoming more conversational, and we’re just starting to see the quality of natural language understanding get good enough to unlock them.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

It’s important that they have the right skills to spot and evaluate design and technology opportunities and to develop a rough understanding of the likely effort required to implement product decisions. 2] Use the Right Goals A team is, by definition, a group of individuals who work together on the same goal.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 18, 2022

Continuous improvement is a continual process to improve components of enterprise software?—?processes, Regardless of today’s software development aspect, increasing demand for new features in the products makes competitive advantage higher than ever. Changes can be large or small, which depends on the software projects.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 24, 2019

Preparing for interview questions in software engineering is almost a full-time job. If you are a graduate software engineer and getting ready for your first job interviews, here are the different areas you should focus on. This involves both understanding the product space and being somewhat familiar with the technology stack.

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Product Management Lessons from the Trenches

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Fortunately, technology has been rapidly advancing and there are tools available that make this a solvable problem. Sentiment analysis is often used to review survey results from customer-service interactions, product reviews, etc. based on both its definition and its context. from social media posts or survey responses)?

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 3, 2021

There have been two seminal memos that have, in a sense, rocked the tech industry. In terms of research and development or generally the product and engineering functions, the people who produce your software, this really is a question of investability. How are you going to turn that cash into code? Hello Paul.

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Folding Burritos

JULY 5, 2015

On the other hand, this sort of multi-dimensional thinking is definitely the right way to imagine a backlog. If they clearly aren’t important enough to be done, then they definitely don’t belong on the backlog. It’s also a particularly well made piece of software. A Real-World Workflow to Keep an Organized Backlog.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 13, 2023

Whether it was Justin’s intent or not — his post also serves as a helpful guide towards bridging the gap between the technical and business contexts in digital product development. Ensure the dictionary definitions are agreed upon by stakeholders. Review the mockup with team and stakeholders. And that definitely isn’t z.”

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 28, 2023

The Software Development Life Cycle provides a practical framework you can apply to your product and improve your processes. You should be able to define the project scope and goals clearly by outlining the objectives, functionalities, and features of the software. It helps us meet customers’ demands, needs, and expectations.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Software-as-a-service (SaaS) models, which operate on a subscription basis and are centralized and situated on a remote cloud network, are increasingly popular with businesses for a variety of factors, including flexibility and affordability. Saas startups that provide software as a service have a good delivery model. What Is Saas? — Brief

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

If I’m about to do business with your company and your software is going to access my customers’ data, it’s my responsibility to ensure you have the proper controls in place to protect it. Our prior company was founded here in San Diego almost 10 years ago, and it was a very different tech ecosystem back then.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Throughout the year, we’ve talked with and learned from industry leaders, experts, and innovators about a multitude of topics: from facing the tech slowdown to the dawn of machine learning, from the trends transforming customer support to using human insight to create memorable experiences. Paul Adams: Yeah, it definitely did.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

At its most basic level, sound management of product bugs will help avoid fire-fighting and restore sanity to your team-a baseline for developing and delivering tech products. Additionally, if you haven’t met your original definition of done and the feature must make the release, then you just need to get it done. Code Reviews VI.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

It just involved coordinating with the designer and tech lead, getting access to customers and prospects to start interviewing , and putting time on everyone’s calendars to do the actual work of opportunity mapping , creating interview snapshots, and deciding which solutions to pursue. Last (but definitely not least) is leadership.

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bpma ProductHub

AUGUST 1, 2016

In the pragmatic marketing framework and others like it, market understanding, strategy and definition drive all other activities for product development and delivery. And, if a new feature request comes in for review, the product owner needs to decide on its prioritization and inform the engineering team. Know your audiences.

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Imaginary Cloud - Design

APRIL 29, 2021

Do web designers code? However, the everyday use of the term "web development" typically refers to coding or writing markups and does not often include design aspects. Technically yes, because web development includes everything that needs to be worked on to build a website or application. Do web designers code?

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UX Planet

JANUARY 22, 2025

Krathish Prakash and I conducting a Moderated RemoteTest We used a variety of recruitment platforms to find our perfect users which included- Analyzing findings We created FigJam boards to review our notes and jot down key insights from our interviews. It definitely wasnt there earlier! Wait, when did this compare table button come in?

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