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. What have been your favorite ways to connect and get feedback from your customers? “You really need to be technical.

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UX Planet

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Photo by UX Indonesia This ‘complete’ guide to usability testing follows an overview in my UX research methods playbook articles. Introduction If you’re responsible in some way for a digital product or system, you should be doing usability testing — whatever your sector, industry or role. But what is usability?

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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. Write a draft, talk through it with your peers, your manager and other staff engineers – and don’t forget to ask for feedback.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 18, 2019

Tech billionaire Marc Andreessen has been credited with bringing the term “product/market fit” into the mainstream lexicon in 2007. During my dealings with investors and product veterans, I’ve often heard that you can always feel when product/market fit is happening. Usual Benchmarks to Measure Product/Market Fit.

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Speaking up might spur a conversation around how to adjust your role to better fit your needs, or better yet, to bring in another team member to share your workload. It means that the product focus has shifted to prioritize mobile as the main consumer channel, with others coming secondary. Not enough time in the day. We hear ya.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Engineers will hear different insights during your customer interviews. This is because they have a depth of knowledge of what’s possible technically. But this only works when it’s coupled with a depth of knowledge of the customer’s context. We so easily fall back to asking them to just deliver what we asked for.”. Tweet This.

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UX Planet

MARCH 9, 2025

This can include user research and discovery, heuristic evaluation, and results of usability testing. Pain points : If youre going to redo the functional logic of your product, you should definitely add customer pain points. Pain points introduce friction in user experience and reduce the comfort of interaction.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

A development team does a good job if the following three conditions are fulfilled: First, the group reliably meets the agreed sprint goals and delivers product increments that offer a great user experience and exhibit the desired software quality. Say that you are working on a new brand-new product. But this would be wrong.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 21, 2019

Some 84% of people trust online reviews as much as a personal recommendations, reason enough why every business should be concerned with who reviews their product and what they have to say about it. What do we mean by the term “review sites”? Not all review sites are made equal. Peer review sites.

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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). From new UX-related technologies and automation to personalization. UX experts have already integrated AI into their daily lives in one way or another.

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UX Planet

JANUARY 22, 2025

Problem Brief Over a span of 4 weeks, we tested Civians platform and created design solutions to improve the overall user experience of the dashboard. Our Process To make our interviews more fruitful, we established specific research objectives. We proposed 4 high-impact solutions through prototypes on Figma.

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Product Talk

APRIL 8, 2020

For this post, we spoke with a product team from Simply Business about some of the major lessons they’ve learned since adopting continuous discovery habits like interviewing their customers, questioning their assumptions , and using the opportunity solution tree to guide their work. What does the company do and who are your main customers?

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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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Melissa Perri

JULY 23, 2024

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. Other Times, it's due to a lack of skill set in product leaders. Lots of data goes into pinpointing.

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Alchemer Mobile

MARCH 18, 2021

The report is meant to serve as a yardstick for companies seeking to understand how their customer feedback and engagement metrics stack up against the market, and includes mobile benchmarks across 10 main categories and 20 subcategories. 63% of consumers who were proactively engaged in Q1 were still seen later in the year (Q3-Q4).

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Different people have suggested different definitions for the term software platform. If the teams developing the different apps all created their own user-interface layers, there would be considerable code duplication, added development costs, and increased development time. Be Clear on What a Software Platform Is.

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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

They allow you to close the gap between your analytics data and the feedback you get from users. Well, I reviewed 40 session recording options in the market and handpicked the top 10 for startups, mid-market companies, and enterprises to review. No free trial, but custom demos are available. G2 rating : 4.6/5

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The Product Guy

JUNE 25, 2018

This article highlights a few ways to increase clarity and provide better role definition between a manager and a direct report as it pertains to daily situations involving escalations, blockers, and air cover. Definitions : First let’s go through some quick definitions to make sure we’re speaking the same language.

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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

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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Lenny Rachitsky

JANUARY 14, 2025

Laura and her team spend every working hour researching, designing, and experimenting with ways to measure and improve team velocity (while avoiding burnout). 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.

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Alchemer Mobile

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

When brands listen to and act on the voice of the customer (often referred to as simply “VoC”), it can completely revolutionize the way their business operates. Definition of the Voice of the Customer (VoC). The voice of the customer includes answers to questions like: What do your customers like? Prevent Churn.

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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. Prospects kept asking for a customer-journey-builder feature that Airship didn’t have. They wanted to sell what their customers were asking for. There are multiple layers of customers and consumers.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 5, 2022

For example, a product strategy workshop might have the objective to identify the key changes required to achieve product-market fit. Contrast this with a sprint review meeting , which might help you determine if users can easily sign up for the product. The same tends to be true for the review meeting of a fortnightly sprint.

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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. But there’s a better way now. Short on time?

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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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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The potential of quantum computing and artificial intelligence to enhance user research User research is crucial for the human-centered design of digital products and services. By deeply understanding users’ needs, desires, and contexts, companies can create meaningful solutions that address real human problems.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 17, 2022

It’s easy to answer whether you have a product/market fit: can the revenue your customers pay for your product sustain (or even grow) your business? But how can you know whether your market-fit is strong enough, or if you’re focusing on the right audience? Product Can you tell if your product is on the right track?

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Much of the literature that defines the role as the intersection of business, technology, and user experience isn't particularly helpful for practitioners who are left wondering what skills they need to learn versus the fine people they work closely with in actual business, technology, and user experience roles.

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Product Talk

JUNE 19, 2024

But when we use generative AI to replace customer interviews , to generate opportunity solution trees , or to do our thinking for us, we fundamentally misunderstand the purpose of discovery. Tweet This So I want to take some time to review why we do discovery. . Tweet This So I want to take some time to review why we do discovery.

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Product Management Lessons from the Trenches

DECEMBER 17, 2018

your users want to just tell your app what they want and have your app deliver on the request. And since switching costs are near-zero, if your app doesn’t make it easy for them to get what they want, your users will leave you for another one.

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Userpilot

MAY 27, 2024

Product thinking is all about putting yourself in the other person’s (user) shoes. Only by adopting a product-thinking mindset and following it as a process can you get to know your users better. TL;DR Product thinking is the process of identifying problems and coming up with solutions by placing the user in the center.

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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 Coalition

JANUARY 28, 2021

Part 1 Product Bugs are one of the most common and accepted parts of building tech products. Yet bugs are often overlooked or an afterthought, especially when it comes to thinking about how to improve productivity and, ultimately, get better outcomes for customers. Most tech products are heavily software or technology-based.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

A value proposition helps us to focus on users and to check that our product solves a real problem. It helps us to avoid falling in love with our product, requires research and promotes honesty. Using the rigour of a value proposition canvas to describe your organisation can help you to be honest with yourself: As a Tech Startup.

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