Lenny Rachitsky
MAY 20, 2025
Prior to Square, Saumil was a startup founder for LocBox, a marketing automation company that was acquired by Square in 2015. Through conversation, talent reviews, and direct experience leading large organizations, I’ve developed a few key principles to help new skip leads better understand and perform their role.
UX Planet
FEBRUARY 5, 2025
Last but not least, in customer-oriented and agile teams, decision-making criteria are often narrowed down for efficiency to a single question: What business value does this bring to the customer? This approach is also effective in hierarchical teams, where members often expect the lead to take action in case of ambiguity.
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The Product Guy
OCTOBER 9, 2018
First, I did not know how to frame, develop and present product strategy in a systematic way, and second, as a startup, my company has not historically had a good track record of strategy being developed outside of senior management (read: founder). Two major obstacles stood in my way.
Product Innovation Educators
AUGUST 10, 2020
Do you and your product teams have the characteristics required for success? The Product Team Performance study has been identifying the characteristics of high-performing teams since 2012. It’s a performance study comparing factors of product teams that excel versus those that struggle.
Mind the Product
FEBRUARY 25, 2020
It’s not rocket science that awesome products come from awesome teams, so what’s the key to creating and managing a team that’s designed for maximum impact? Here, taking advice from a number of product pros, we look at a selection of ways to build product teams and empower them to achieve success.
UserVoice
JULY 28, 2017
What it is: Asana is a versatile task management solution that allows you to manage both personal and team projects. What it does well: With a slogan like “Teamwork without email,” Asana is just that, a good collaboration tool for your team that is intended to reduce the number of back and forth emails about what needs to be done and when.
Good Product Manager
APRIL 21, 2015
Don’t Prioritize Features Based on Development Cost. I’ve seen dozens, if not hundreds, of different ones, and nearly all of them have one thing in common – there’s some input for development cost. SiriusDecisions Summit 2015. There’s plenty of more information on our SiriusDecisions 2015 Summit website.
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