Product Talk

OCTOBER 18, 2023

A regular cadence of assumption testing helps product teams quickly determine which ideas will work and which ones won’t. And sadly, most product teams don’t do any assumption testing at all. In this article, I’ll cover assumption testing from beginning to end, including: Why should product teams test their assumptions?

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Lenny Rachitsky

JANUARY 7, 2025

You’ll find a collection of battle-tested prompts, real-world examples, and a step-by-step guide you can put into practice immediately. Use code “LENNYSLIST” to get $100 off. Claude , ChatGPT ): The AI tools you probably know, which can also write and explain basic code Cloud development environments (e.g.

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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. A time for the tried and tested.

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Arkenea

APRIL 10, 2025

In a fastmoving digital economy, many organizations leverage outsourced software product development to accelerate innovation, control costs, and tap into global expertise. Rather than building and maintaining a large inhouse team, businesses partner with specialized vendors to handle design, development, testing, and deployment.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

This is only natural: Through years of bad habits, many of us have shown engineers that we only value them for the code they can write. Ellen took the engineers through several activities, including reviewing interview notes and an opportunity subset before brainstorming, grouping, and dot voting on the solutions to explore.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 27, 2024

Software development with sustainability in mind is a rising trend in digital spaces. While software is intangible and doesn’t directly consume energy or produce emissions, its environmental implications lie in its development and usage. As software builders, we are uniquely positioned to influence this environmental trajectory.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

The conflict between launching new features versus improving the code quality is real and never ending. These are tech debts which arise from actual bad coding practice, bad/not scalable architecture design, incomplete requirements, half baked test, etc. Because every PO faces this dilemma on a regular basis. In short?—?these

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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. Ok, that’s great for UX theory nerds.

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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. Usability testing : Observe how real users interact with your product while they perform specific tasks to help you identify usability issues. Basically, anything that ruins the user experience.

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Product Talk

APRIL 16, 2025

Its written to help non-engineers understand the value of software engineering. Its chock-full of stories about how the author solved business problems by writing code. Even though it had been ten years since I had written a line of code, I decided to dive back in and I started automating my business logic. It wasnt easy.

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Lenny Rachitsky

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Step 1: Preparation (3-5 weeks) The preparation step is a foundational effort where a lot of the groundwork and due diligence is done to inform the strategy selection process. Then iron out any adjustments as a result of these reviews. Let’s dive into detailed guidance for each step.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 30, 2017

The team had been working for almost a year and had a huge amount of code under their belts. But just because it was a lot of code doesn’t mean it worked. In fact, our tests regularly failed. As we were getting closer to the end of the year, my senior vice president called me in, to review our progress against our goals.

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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. These are planning, analysis, design, development, testing, implementation, and maintenance. It helps us meet customers’ demands, needs, and expectations. It covers planning, estimating, and scheduling.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Which product feedback software should you choose for your SaaS? In this round-up, I cover 21 of the best product feedback software solutions. In this round-up, I cover 21 of the best product feedback software solutions. Social listening tools : Software for monitoring online conversations, brand mentions, and trends.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 9, 2019

In my company, we review a living document with our management chain on a quarterly basis to align business direction for the short-term (immediate one to two quarters) to the long-term (two to five years). The idea is to treat the strategy as a prototype that will undergo many iterations and testing. Testing the Proto-Strategy.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Source In the expansive universe of software development, few platforms have wielded as much influence and innovation as GitHub. From its inception as a code hosting service to its current status as the epicenter of collaborative coding, GitHub’s evolution has been a testament to the power of community, creativity, and continuous improvement.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 11, 2020

It was first proposed after Benjamin Whorf, a fire safety inspector at the time, observed how oil workers treated empty oil barrels as less hazardous than full oil barrels, despite them being equally flammable due to the traces of oil remaining in them. Think about the impact that racism has already had in tech. Know the scope of the issue.

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Userpilot

MARCH 5, 2025

That’s where customer engagement software comes in. How I chose the best customer engagement software My evaluation process combined thorough feature analysis , a careful review of user feedback, and insights from industry reports. Scalability and security: Can the platform grow with your business and protect your data?

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 15, 2019

They will challenge themselves and the team to work in smarter ways, ask more questions, and think about code improvement. Bugs come up, tests take a long time, code reviews are needed, merge conflicts occur, reviews from multiple shareholders might be required, etc.

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Userpilot

MAY 7, 2024

Using no-code tools for product managers allows you to build, iterate, and deploy software products without any coding knowledge. Let’s review the top five no-code tools tailored for product teams, including their key features and usage in product management. But what is the best tech stack for product management?

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Data from 99firms found that 77% of companies run A/B tests. Many companies choose Mixpanel A/B testing to run their product experiments. To help you make a decision, in this blog, we will go over the specifics of A/B tests in Mixpanel, uncover its pros and cons, and introduce you to a better alternative.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 11, 2021

We believe there’s only so much you can do with automated tests and pre-production environments. Production is the only place where your code, infrastructure, and customers come together to represent objective reality. With over 50 deployments per day, it generally takes less than 12 minutes to ship new code. Use feature flags.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 12, 2025

The most effective teams foster a culture of structured disagreement not consensus where ideas are tested through rigorous debate, but personal attacks and politicking are off-limits. Every meeting becomes a performance review rather than a space for creative problem-solving. and pursue the answers.

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The Product Guy

JULY 30, 2020

Maybe you have already experienced large meetings with a lot of people who are considered stakeholders which results in managing complex communications due to the number attendees (20-25+). People working on the project: People who are working hands-on in the project such as a software developer, product manager, QA testers or technicians.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Increase conversion rates : Interactive demos get customers to test out your product’s features and fast-track the likelihood of product adoption. Tap into existing resources : Review recordings of sales calls, customer support interactions , marketing materials, and product documentation. Userpilot comes in handy here.

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Alchemer Mobile

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Whether a customer completes a purchase, leaves a review, or mentions your company socially, there is always an emotional state connected to their action. Customer reviews are a great way to track sentiment, and in-app ratings prompts can help inspire customers to leave their thoughts on your mobile experience. In-app ratings prompts.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Userpilots key features include: No-code Chrome extension for building in-app flows. A/B and multivariate testing for optimizing user experiences. According to user review platforms, their plans start at $7,000/year. Developer dependency: No-code feature tagging is unavailable, requiring developer involvement for tagging events.

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Userpilot

MAY 22, 2024

You can access this information through the right customer lifecycle management software. To help you, we’ve listed the 10 best customer lifecycle management platforms in the market, including key features, user reviews, and pricing. The best customer lifecycle software in the market includes: Userpilot. Get a demo.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 3, 2023

This usually doesn’t require in-depth technical skills like being able to write code or understand how a specific machine learning framework is used. But you should take an interest in software technology, and you should have a basic understanding of how your product is currently built.

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The Product Guy

JUNE 20, 2019

When I joined Wetu in 2014, I was the 7th employee, we had just over 100 companies using our software, we were exclusively available in Africa, and the product was already 5 years old. Since then we have grown to over 100 employees, we have more than 800 companies using our software, and we have expanded globally. About Terri Boshoff.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 20, 2025

Software bugs are a budget killer for your company and a buzzkill for your users. Even with a rigorous software testing process, one pesky bug always slips through. In 2014, a software error on Amazon caused some items to drop to just one penny. How to use session replay tools to streamline the debugging process.

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Apptimize, An Airship Company, helps brands rapidly iterate to make amazing user experiences across all their digital channels through A/B Testing and Feature Release Management with a mobile-first lens. Quantum Metric. Quantum Metric helps organizations build better digital products faster.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 3, 2023

Usability testing is an important part of the app development process because it helps to ensure that the app is easy and enjoyable to use. By conducting usability testing, you can identify and fix any issues before the app is released, increasing the chances of its success in the market.

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Userpilot

MAY 7, 2024

These include but aren’t limited to: No code builder. No code builders give small teams the capacity to create engagement campaigns without needing coding knowledge. In-app messaging platforms can take advantage of testing tools like A/B and multivariate experimentation with their in-app messages.

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Userpilot

MAY 7, 2024

Product adoption software is the lifeblood of the modern product management process. In this article, we explore what product adoption software does and identify 12 of the best product adoption tools on the market. TL;DR Product adoption software drives users to adopt a product through carefully curated product experiences.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JANUARY 14, 2025

I’ve yet to come across a software leader who isn’t. In the past, most measurements focused on activity—like lines of code, number of commits, story points shipped—which don’t tell a complete story about performance. The time to first review was about 60 minutes.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The skills typically include architecture, programming, testing, and if the product is end-user facing, UX design capabilities. This aligns everyone and ensures that the various deliverables and outputs—for instance, the source code, the end-user documentation, the marketing collateral, and the training materials—fit together.

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