Lenny Rachitsky

JANUARY 21, 2025

Each week, I tackle reader questions about building product, driving growth, and accelerating your career. If you’re not a subscriber, here’s what you missed this month: A guide to AI prototyping for product managers Introducing Core 4: The best way to measure and improve your product velocity Top angel investors in the U.S.

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UX Planet

JUNE 30, 2025

A deep dive into how artificial intelligence is shaping the next generation of financial user experiences — through metrics, strategy, and real success stories Until recently, most banks and financial organizations treated artificial intelligence (AI) as tomorrow’s experiment. The expected benefits align with productivity and innovation.

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Modus Create

APRIL 25, 2025

How AI can supercharge DevEx And why you should care By Andy Dennis Posted in Digital Transformation , Platform Published on: April 25, 2025 Last update: April 25, 2025 The experience that's slowing down your developersand your business 92% of developers already use AI coding tools, and 70% say AI improves productivity.

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The Product Guy

JUNE 18, 2020

Guest Post by: Marvin Mathew (Mentee, Session 11, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Jordan Bergtraum]. Ruthless prioritization translates to product teams spending time building the right thing at the right time. Product: What are the key metrics that we’re tracking? Each feedback loop has a minimum of four stages.

Product Research

The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2019

Guest Post by: Merziyah Poonawala (Mentee, Session 9, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Joni Hoadley]. A startup development team consisting of a product manager and two offshore engineers was facing major challenges in meeting client deliverable deadlines – repeatedly. THE CAUSE. THE EXPERIMENTS.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Userpilot’s SaaS Product Metrics Benchmark Report has found that compared to other industries, healthcare SaaS companies perform lower across most of the 6 metrics we studied. You will also learn how healthcare companies can improve their product metrics. Onboarding checklist completion rate. Time to Value.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 6, 2020

As a Senior Solutions Consultant at Mixpanel , I speak with a lot of different organizations across sectors?—?and about their product and marketing analytics strategy. Understanding the user journey is vitally important for both product managers and marketeers. and at various levels of maturity?—?about

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Mixpanel

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Let me jump right in: With product analytics, customer retention isn’t just something you measure after the fact; it should be something you can learn to predict (and then improve). How could a product manager possibly dig into the data and pull up something that’s genuinely useful for activation and retention?

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Userpilot

AUGUST 17, 2024

‘How to optimize your product metrics for growth’ by Dan Olsen is one of the talks in this year’s Product Drive hosted by Userpilot. In this article, you will learn who Dan Olsen is, discover the core ideas from his book The Lean Product Playbook, and find out what you can expect from his talk.

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Incorporating these tools into your customer experience tech stack will drive more engagement, gather high-quality customer feedback, and help inform your product roadmap. Developers can remove the pains associated with constantly incorporating new SDKs into an app and focus on delivering products that transform the customer experience.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Users are recruiting your product to reach a specific outcome in their lives — whether that’s catching a flight to reunite with their families or using a productivity app to meet a deadline and impress their boss. But despite how relevant the topic still is, we’re not just here to talk about the ideal onboarding experience.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 17, 2020

If somebody asks what’s the job of a product manager, the only correct answer is?—?pretty In traditional businesses, the product manager’s role is spread evenly across several departments or individuals. This requires product managers to maintain a well-organized, streamlined process of product development.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 3, 2019

On this week’s show, we catch up with email marketing strategist, Val Geisler, as she walks us through some practical emailing tips, her process for onboarding, and why she likens career progression to a spiral staircase. Think about onboarding like you’re hosting a dinner party. That’s what I went to school for.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Many startups with an ordinary product make the way to growth and scalability whereas others with great products fail to survive. Both product and product strategy should fall in place to make the startup sustainable and help them to grow. What and Why and the inspirational differences that product brings.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 23, 2023

Let’s Talk About the F Word — Features Why budgeting for features leads to product failure. For as long as products have existed, product teams have been pushed for features when what matters is outcomes. Unfortunately, most of the time, the expectation is a feature. Value vs. features.

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Product Innovation Educators

APRIL 25, 2022

How product managers can become change leaders. The very nature of our work as product managers and leaders creates change—we change existing products to make them more valuable to customers and our organization, and we create completely new products, which causes change to occur at many levels.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 11, 2018

No serious developer, product manager, or CEO of company operating in the digital market, will consider not using them. As a result, the platforms are packed with features and very easy to use. Product managers and analysts have become accustomed to working through analytics in stages. Is our current product approach working?

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 16, 2020

Miro has made the move from product to platform. Like numerous users, I first became aware of Miro via a consultant and this channel has been really important to their growth story. So we wanted to bring a little bit of art into the day-to-day job of each person who uses our product. The journey from product to platform.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Or, even if they’re leaning towards the latter, they’re often not using the right metrics. Intercom’s Kate O’Hanlon recently caught up with Mark to talk about his approach to scaling, and why it’s a mistake to think that the formula for success is just about getting product-market fit and then adding sales reps. .

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Userpilot

JULY 30, 2022

If you want your SaaS to survive (and thrive), it’s critically important to avoid pitfalls and major user onboarding mistakes. So in this article, we’re going to deep dive into 7 of the most common user onboarding mistakes – and map out tools and tactics to help you avoid them. What is user onboarding?

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

In this blog post, we’re going to break down the pros and cons of using UserGuiding as an onboarding and engagement tool for SaaS and give you the best alternatives that may fit your specific needs and use cases. UserGuiding is a no-code tool for user onboarding. Userguiding features. User onboarding. Feature adoption.

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Userpilot

MARCH 7, 2022

A smooth onboarding process is like the key to a puzzle. It unlocks customer engagement, starts the customer relationship on the right foot, and ensures that customers continue using the product the right way for a long time to come. Customer onboarding helps customers realize the full value of the product.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 18, 2021

But all too often the way the underlying data is collected makes NPS little more than a vanity metric, easily rigged to give the impression of positive customer sentiment, leading to shallow insights and false assurances. Phil Byrne helps you get onboarded, Bobby Stapleton sends you billing notifications, and so on.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 14, 2018

Looking for an example of a happy, high performing product team? Now the Vice President of Product at Business Talent Group , she has honed her expertise into a set of best practices and published them in two books: UX for Lean Startups and Build Better Products. Laura: Metrics one of thing people often ask about.

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Userpilot

APRIL 7, 2021

How important are your user engagement metrics? Nobody is using the core feature. However, the competitor-the one with 800,000-has majority of their users sending out the newsletter (using their core feature). You need to focus on the right metrics. What Are User Engagement Metrics? Seems pretty great right?

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 10, 2020

But as we consider how we take our customer support fully remote, we are rethinking how we would use our workflows, automation tools, and day-to-day rituals to protect our team dynamics and productivity. Along with metrics, our values will help the team keep a positive “business as usual” mindset. Actively used team values.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 15, 2021

Without product analytics, how do you know how to move the needle with your product growth? If you’re only beginning your adventure with product analytics, looking at all the usage data may seem overwhelming at first glance: Source: Heap. Here are the need-to-know takeaways: What is Product Analytics?

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Mixpanel

MAY 3, 2019

Digital Authority Partners helps leading healthcare organizations implement an analytics-driven culture and lends their thoughts on the metrics you should be measuring to better understand engagement on your healthcare app or site. These two user engagement metrics matter greatly to your business. Conversion rate (CVR).

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Are you focusing on the right conversion metrics? There are so many other metrics to consider – including newsletter signups, customers favoriting items, social media shares, product usage – basically, all the small steps that indicate you’re doing the right thing. Engages with your onboarding in-app flows.

Analytic Tools

Mind the Product

APRIL 10, 2018

Have you ever worried about knowing what to do next for your product? Often, the qualitative and quantitative data you have on hand about your product can provide only a fuzzy outline of what is happening and it can be challenging to know if you’re heading in the right direction. Why Product Review? Frequency of Product Reviews.

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

I’m often asked what KPIs B2B/enterprise product folks should use, or what OKRs they should choose. This is (of course) an unreasonable question, as every product/ business has its own uniqueness. Why KPIs from consumer companies don’t fit well with B2B/enterprise. 1] Generic KPIs? But metrics aren’t generic.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

When it comes to successfully implementing a data-informed approach to product analytics, it’s easy to find lists of tips and tactics. Every product is different, of course. Amplitude has taken these best practices from across the industry and collected them in The Product Analytics Playbook.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Once you have completed enough discovery on your product or feature, the next stage is to prepare for the development process?—?to Hopefully you’ve already discovered the features that are going to give you a higher return on investment, so now is the time to break them down and understand them in more detail?

Definition

Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

On today’s show, we’re going to take a deep dive into the five top trends from that report, with a little help from our panel of guests Adrian Swinscoe, CX consultant and author, Ruth O’Brien, Senior Manager of Customer Support here at Intercom, and Shawn Carter, Customer Care Team Lead at Aircall. So, talk to your reps.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Over the last three decades, across 10 full-time jobs and 150 consulting clients, I’ve headed up product teams 18 times (mostly as interim VP ) and helped another dozen companies choose their Head of Product. Here are some patterns I’ve seen in picking successful Heads of Product. Let’s unpack. What’s In a Name?

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Which product trends emerged in 2020 and are here to stay? What are the biggest trends in Product for 2021 you must implement into your Product Growth strategy? Who’s who in Product these days? And what new product growth terms made it to our dictionary? Trends to Watch In Product – Table of Contents.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 26, 2018

They need customer success managers who can focus on the organization’s most valuable customers and ensure they’re using their product in the most effective way. Our customer success managers, or CSMs, typically step in after a large deal has closed and provide tailored onboarding based on the customer’s specific goals.

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