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Calm’s Will Larson on how to build a technical leadership career

Intercom, Inc.

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. If you’re a senior engineer and want to further your career, what skills should you develop? A tale of two career paths.

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Challenges of Product Management and How to Overcome Them

Alchemer Mobile

My team is too small. 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. Limited team bandwidth. The three most common challenges include: I have too many responsibilities. I don’t have enough time in my day.

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Build Team Resilience: Shorten Feedback Loops (Part 2)

Johanna Rothman

This series is about helping a team create a less brittle environment—more resilience. Neither did the team. In this case, the project team had no automated tests. The team called the product people “product owners.” Neither did the developers. These developers had no built-in feedback mechanisms.

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Top 7 Reasons For Customer Churn in SaaS and Tips to Address Them

Userpilot

And how can customer success teams address them to ensure product growth? The key difference is that customer churn measures the number of customers a business lost, whereas revenue churn measures the revenue lost due to customer churn. 3: Poor customer service or experience with the sales teams can make customers churn.

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6 Customer Fit Types and How to Use Them To Drive Customer Success

Userpilot

Without it, you’d find yourself implementing features for the wrong customers, distorting your value proposition, and leading your customer support (CS) team to burnout from dealing with bad-fit users. 75% of companies will break up with poor-fit customers, according to Gartner. Let’s go over the concepts.

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The Cost of a Bad Product Strategy

ProductPlan

But for every success story, there’s a graveyard of failed products laid low by bad product strategies. A bad strategy is hard to overcome. You’re burning cash and daylight, building up a legacy of technical debt and features that aren’t moving you in the right direction. What Does a Bad Product Strategy Look Like?

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ChatGPT for Product Managers: 13 Best Prompts

Userpilot

From analyzing market trends to churning user needs and technical feasibility into golden product ideas, there are many benefits of ChatGPT for product managers. TL;DR The machine learning-powered ChatGPT can help product managers generate ideas, conduct market and user research , analyze data (app store reviews, user feedback, etc.),

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