The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2019

This was a team plagued by poor lead time for feature development and unrealistic expectations, set in part by the inability of the team to provide realistic delivery estimates for features. Without scope discussions, user stories could often run across multiple days making it hard to determine expected delivery. THE EXPERIMENTS.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 12, 2021

From premature optimization to over-engineering solutions for your product, it’s easy to get caught up in making technology decisions that slow you down instead of speeding you up. So when it comes to building your technical strategy, you need to assess each component in relation to what success will look like for your business.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Customer support is more business-critical than ever. But in today’s fast-paced world, your customer support can only be as effective as the technology that underpins it. Study after study shows that the vast majority of support teams are unhappy with their current customer support tech stacks. Let’s dive in.

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Lenny Rachitsky

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

At the company level, the mission and vision is typically articulated by the founders/CEO and tends to be durable over time. 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.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Let’s review everything your customer success team has to do in the absence of any customer success tools. Collect customer data to calculate complex formulas for tracking metrics, monitor customer health scores, and resolve support tickets while continuously trying to improve retention and expansion.

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Userpilot

MAY 27, 2025

This article provides an in-depth and honest review of the platform. We covered everything from features to pricing, along with insights from real users. It helps app owners guide new users, promote feature adoption , and deliver employee training, all within the mobile app experience. Curious about WalkMe Mobile?

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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. Treat the team as a valued partner and recognise the effort the group made.

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Product Talk

APRIL 9, 2025

To adequately cover this topic, we are going to get into the nitty-gritty of the technical underpinnings of APIs. If you need help getting up to speed on these technical details, be sure to read last weeks article. Customer-facing APIs are products. You want customers to get value from your product as quickly as possible.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 22, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has upended entire industries, forcing rapid change in the ways companies do business and dramatically accelerating the adoption of new technologies. Modern customers expect a fluid, digital-first sales experience that feels like a good conversation with someone who understands their needs ”.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JANUARY 7, 2025

He also wrote my 9th most popular post of all time ( Become a more technical product manager ). For much more hands-on learning, sign up for Colin’s live four-week cohort-based course on AI prototyping , where you’ll master AI prototyping tools, debug common issues, and build a fundamental understanding of how coding works.

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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). Some of the challenges from my personal experience has been. Simple task, right? First Attempt.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

She shared insights from her experience leading product teams at various organizational scales and helping companies transform their product vision into measurable business growth. While this description aimed to emphasize ownership and agency in decision-making, it created some misconceptions about the role.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 8, 2020

This is a time of great uncertainty, with everyone suddenly having to adjust to social distancing restrictions and widespread industry upheaval. Our customers are relying on Intercom more than ever, and often in a host of new and unforeseen ways. A time for the tried and tested. New situation, new processes?

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 7, 2025

2] Market Research AI-based tools can discover user and customer trends using predictive analytics. This is unlikely to be the case for disruptive innovations, as I discuss below, as well as specialised products with a comparatively small user base, like tailored IT solutions.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 11, 2020

As she tells it, “When I was fresh out of college, I was working at my first job in the tech industry. Think about the impact that racism has already had in tech. Many people believe tech to be apolitical and unbiased, but that’s simply not true. The language we use shapes our world. Paving a way forward. Share the work.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 10, 2022

With lockdowns preventing in-store experiences, shoppers have gravitated towards brands that can provide the best online experience possible. And, as society reopens, it is vital to maintain ease of movement between in-store and online channels – not just for your customers, but for your teams. Sense their frustration?

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Product Talk

MAY 14, 2025

The difficulties you face from going to 0 to 1understanding your customer, identifying what will differentiate your product, building early versions of that product, and actually finding customers to use it? And just because APIs are slightly more technical products, that doesnt mean that you cant apply discovery to them.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 12, 2025

If your product is stagnating, if youve ever felt stuck despite following best practices, it’s time to face an uncomfortable truth: the rules you’ve been following may be holding you back. If you’re ready to stop playing by outdated rules and start driving real impact, it’s time to rethink your approach.

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

You might already have a Voice of the Customer (VoC) program in place that you’re looking to improve, or perhaps you’re just trying to get started. You also might be reading this post thinking: “Who’s adding new tools to their tech stack right now?” But in truth, there’s never been a better time. This is a valid question.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Each Session of the program runs for 6 months with paired individuals… Conducting regular 1-on-1 mentor-mentee chats Sharing experiences with the larger Product community Participating in live-streamed product management lessons and Q&A. Jordan lives in Manhattan and in his spare time likes to play soccer. Better Products.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

It achieves this by using sprints to create product increments, collecting feedback from users and stakeholders, and adapting the product with the insights gained. [1] How can you capture the right user stories , for instance, if you are unsure who the users are and why they want to use the product? But don’t stop there.

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 6, 2020

This increases the chances of creating a product that users actually want and need and achieving product success. Carrying out product discovery involves answering the following questions: What is the specific value the product should create for the users and customers? Who are the users and who are the customers?

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Without effective UX analytics that goes beyond collecting data, you’re losing valuable customers. Unfortunately, the research backs this up, with a staggering 90% of users reporting that they stopped using an app due to poor performance. Basically, anything that ruins the user experience.

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Whether you’re new to the product management field or a seasoned professional, it’s always valuable to learn from your peers’ lived experiences. We recently sat down with four product experts and asked them about their experiences in this field. What have been your favorite ways to connect and get feedback from your customers?

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Product Talk

APRIL 16, 2025

To deliver high-quality online courses we were patching together several different tools to create a good student experience. 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. Error codes were incomprehensible.

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Product Talk

MAY 4, 2022

Similarly, the opportunity solution tree can be an incredibly powerful tool for keeping track of your desired outcome , the opportunities you learn about during discovery, the solutions you’re considering for each opportunity, and the experiments you’ll run to assess your ideas. It’s about finding the tech stack that works for your team.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 31, 2024

You get something that truly works for you, and we get to connect with people who value what we offer and have the potential to become power users (and sources of sustainable revenue!). Trying to bring in as many users as possible, only to see most of them lose interest before their free trial is even over. The alternative?

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Lenny Rachitsky

MAY 15, 2025

Dmitry Zlokazov is the head of product at Revolut, the $45 billion fintech giant operating in over 50 countries, serving more than 50 million customers, and producing some of the world’s top product leaders.

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

How Rumi Cosmetiques Boosted User Experience and Conversion Rates in eCommerce: A Case Study for Marketers andManagers Discover how Rumi Cosmetiques achieved a 75% increase in cart adds and doubled conversion rates by enhancing user experience and conversion rate in eCommerce. Ready to uncover their secrets? Keepreading!

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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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Roman Pichler

APRIL 13, 2021

Effective KPIs help you understand if your product is creating the desired value for the users, the customers, and the business. To select the right KPIs, I recommend taking the following three steps: First, use the user and business goals in the product strategy to select an initial set of indicators.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 12, 2022

They kept their model away from traditional sales-led growth through product innovation, customer experience and still managed to be best-in-class. Away from these sales pitches, freemium or trial version makes the user hooked to product, onboard themselves that push them to upgrade the subscription.

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Melissa Perri

JULY 23, 2024

Some of these are Fortune 10 software-enabled companies going through digital transformations. 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.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2021

That question has been on Will Larson ‘s mind for a long time. For those who don’t know him, Will has over 10 years of experience in the likes of Yahoo, Digg, Uber, and Stripe, and he’s currently the CTO of Calm , the mindfulness app that helps millions of people to lower their stress levels and sleep better. Brian: Great.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 25, 2022

We’re serious about delivering the best customer experience with our Engagement OS. We have truly global ambitions to bring our mission of making internet business personal to the biggest enterprise customers across the world. We’re growing alongside our customers. We’re growing alongside our customers.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 20, 2022

But when we make technical decisions, we like to be conservative. In practice, being technically conservative looks like reusing existing technologies and frameworks in our stack, or promoting tried and tested patterns and solutions. Here, Waheed discusses our engineering principle “Be technically conservative”.

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Userpilot

APRIL 30, 2025

Your app experience makes or breaks user loyalty: the slightest improvement can boost retention and revenue. Friction points, like confusing onboarding or sluggish navigation, can turn new users into churn statistics. How can Userpilot help you improve the mobile app experience? Segment users in Userpilot.

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