Lenny Rachitsky

JANUARY 14, 2025

Her background is in developer tools and distributed systems. The SPACE framework of developer productivity offers a robust definition of developer productivity covering five dimensions: satisfaction and well-being, performance, activity, communication and collaboration, and efficiency and flow.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 28, 2021

Wikipedia defines software bugs as “an error, flaw or fault in a computer program or system that causes it to produce an incorrect or unexpected result, or to behave in unintended ways.” For our purposes, we’re going to use the same definition for product bugs. Testing, but testing too late in the development process.

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Systemic Thinking: The Key to an Impactful UX Strategy Systems Thinking is a holistic approach to problem analysis and solving that emphasizes viewing systems as a whole, rather than focusing only on individual parts. What is Systems Thinking? Interrelationship: all parts affect each other within a system.

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 5, 2023

The definition of a project is a temporary endeavor to create a unique product, service, or result. One project I worked on was the installation of telephone billing systems. A telephone billing system is a product that a telephone company uses to send you those awful monthly telephone bills.

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Usersnap

JULY 26, 2020

Most developers have no clue about how testing is actually done, and how valuable the understanding of software testing basics can be for developers who really want to excel in their careers. I owe a large amount of the success I have had in my career as a software developer to my background in testing. Click To Tweet.

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UX Planet

DECEMBER 6, 2024

If there is one thing thats altering the way we create user experience (UX) designs and conduct research in 2024, it is definitely artificial intelligence (AI). Natural Language Processing (NLP) is another game-changer, making it possible for systems to understand and respond to human language. No one can denythat.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 8, 2020

A time for the tried and tested. On the contrary, we decided that relying on the tried and tested principles and approaches to building and shipping Intercom would be more important than ever. Our software delivery systems and operations are robust and well understood internally. Oncall together, in isolation.

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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 Coalition

MARCH 13, 2023

Justin Norris After reviewing his post, I feel that Justin highlights the following key activities in order to produce valuable report designs: Help stakeholders communicate their ideas. Make a dictionary of the business and systems entities and terminology. Ensure the dictionary definitions are agreed upon by stakeholders.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 9, 2022

OpenAI released their most recent machine learning system, AI system, and they released it very publicly, and it was ChatGPT. Des Traynor: Let’s do some quick definitions to ground everyone. We didn’t give it this supervised learning where you code in a definition of sadness or happiness.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 24, 2023

It can hold feedback from various sources such as customer support tickets, feature requests, surveys, reviews, and social media. Here’s who can be involved: Product teams usually set up the feedback management system and use the resulting feedback data to prioritize features, write feature specifications, create wireframes, and prototyping.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Her continuous discovery journey hasn’t just been about interviewing customers or prototyping to test assumptions. Lisa and her team were able to convince their leadership to allow them to run a one-month beta launch with a limited set of customers to test out their new feature. Tweet This. Lisa Orr understands this all too well.

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ProductPlan

APRIL 16, 2019

That’s why agreeing on what we call the “Definition of Done” is of critical importance to achieving a consensus on when projects, initiatives, and features are actually complete. Defining the definition of done. The Definition of Done is an agreed upon set of items that must be completed before a project can be considered complete.

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Folding Burritos

DECEMBER 7, 2017

With older customers, we’re typically interested in satisfaction, power-user and early-testing feedback and pain points that the product doesn’t solve. Uses and definition of different kinds of segmentation. It’s a two-level processing system: Do we know “Who” is giving us this feedback and why?

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 5, 2020

Brief description of the problem at a recent client: Person A checked in code that broke an “unrelated” part of the system. In this case, the project team had no automated tests. These product people executed manual tests. Worse, they only tested the happy paths. Automated Tests Are About Feedback.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Are systems in place for automation (e.g. If your organisation isn’t where it needs to be, the Harvard Business Review provides a helpful 2×2 grid for grading your organisation’s approach to quality management, and a pathway for improving it. Acceptance Testing and Regular Testing III. Code Reviews VI.

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UX Planet

MARCH 2, 2024

A success story of an enterprise design system establishment, rollout and implementation at a multinational insurance company Managing design at scale, achieving a level of design consistency and quality. Those who are studying or working on a design system can readily recognize the significance of the title.

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Userpilot

JULY 22, 2024

Key elements include definition, target audience, key benefit, category, competitive advantage, and differentiation. Experiments : Implement A/B testing or other experimental methods to observe user interactions and preferences in real time. Choose a positioning strategy based on price, competitors, quality, features, or benefits.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

A lot of startups think they have PMF and try to enter the growth phase prematurely — usually due in part due to VC pressure to grow or simply not having a way to measure and validate how strong your PMF is — which can be disastrous. On top of that, no one seems to have a quantitative definition for how to measure it.

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Productside

AUGUST 26, 2022

For NASA that is the Space Launch Systems (SLS), developed over the past 11 years and set to launch on August 29, 2022. There are definite technical similarities between the powerful rockets, and both have shaped space technology in new, innovative ways. NASA and SpaceX are pioneers in 21st-century deep space exploration.

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Userpilot

APRIL 30, 2024

To measure the value you deliver, create a system of relevant value metrics, like NPS or Customer Lifetime Value (CLV). Develop a value-based metrics system How do you know how much value you deliver to your customers? Creating a solid value metrics system—developing robust KPIs around customer value (e.g.,

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Introduction : Test and refine your product with a small number of users, increasing resilience ahead of growth. You can read the article – Exploit the Product Life Cycle from a 1965 edition of the Harvard Business Review that popularised the product lifecycle idea. List the steps of an experiment to test the hypothesis.

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Product Talk

JUNE 19, 2024

Tweet This So I want to take some time to review why we do discovery. My advice in this article may not stand the test of time. I break the underlying structure of discovery into three parts: Starting with a clear desired outcome —in other words, starting with a clear definition of success.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 25, 2019

I was included in the final review. That final review panel turned to a discussion on aptitude, skills, ability to ramp up. You might know or have hired with some of these biased and subjective tests before. And then someone said: “She’s a little quiet, I’m just not sure that’s the right fit for how we work.”

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 18, 2023

For budding AI creators, this is a crucial moment akin to a high student moment familiarizing themselves with the exam format of a prestigious college entrance test. The Test This new law applies to anyone who places an AI system in the EU. Any EU citizen can file a complaint against an AI System provider.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 19, 2019

An ML system would probably catch more mistakes but would be far more expensive to build. You forget that your dataset also includes December and Christmas holidays that skew your data due to unusual user activity and behaviour. The other side of people understanding how the model works is that they will try to game the system.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 25, 2019

Maybe it’s useful to actually to share some examples instead of talking about this in the abstract, but it’s basically about us having a predictable system. We actually have a bit of a system. Paul: Exactly, so we spend a ton and ton of time on problem definition. .” Is that what you mean? Paul: Basically, yeah.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Moreover, this area has become extremely lucrative due to lockdowns and restrictions of the pandemic. It attracted more people to the online live streaming and now it’s projected that, due to streaming, by the year 2025 users will spend more than $17 billion in social apps annually. The definition of live streaming is quite simple.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

For example, here is a video from 2016 that showcases the vision for SpaceX's Interplanetary Transport System which aims to bring the first manned crew to Mars. Inevitably I still re-create the high-level roadmap in presentations for All Hands meetings, exec reviews, and sometimes even customers. Design: Customer Discovery Insights.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 5, 2019

When I worked at Trustpilot, we had solid evidence that consumers wanted to read reviews about products. Currently, Trustpilot only shows company reviews). As we have tracking and customer data readily available at Forecast , we could quickly run a test: Forecast ran a test by making a page accessible to a sample of users.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Food tech definition and its rise in the food industry Food technology refers to any technology that improves food production, distribution, and supply and impacts how people sell, produce and distribute food. The dramatic reduction in the costs associated with the various tests mentioned is a second step forward.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 14, 2021

And so, in 2014, he founded Productboard , a product management system that incorporates customer feedback and insights to help product teams build better products. “The customers and their needs are completely missing from the systems we use. But the customers and their needs are completely missing from the systems that we use.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 20, 2022

Gaming so much for basically my entire life has definitely had some major impacts on my upbringing, including professionally. The factories are leaving due to lack of educated workforce. MVP and building for scale: Besiege (pc) How do you build something that stands the test of ever increasing scope?

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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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The Accidental Product Manager

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

You believe that you are using your product development definition to provide your customers with a high quality product that can meet their needs better than any other product that is currently on the market. A123 Systems was bought out of bankruptcy by Chinese auto-parts giant Wanxiang Group Corp. What went wrong?

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

Adam: Thank you, it feels a bit surreal still, mainly due to just how quickly the company has gone from seed to series, all in under a 12-month span. It allows companies to prove their real-time security posture just about any day of the year, so it accelerates their sales cycles and security reviews. How does that feel?

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 28, 2023

These are planning, analysis, design, development, testing, implementation, and maintenance. Scope Definition and Scope Creep Prevention Clearly define the boundaries of the project to avoid scope creep, which can lead to project delays and budget overruns. Unit Testing Validate individual components or units of code for correctness.

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