Lenny Rachitsky

MAY 20, 2025

He most recently ran Product Management, Marketing, and Partnerships across Square while reporting to the CEO. It happened with PMs, engineers, designers, and marketers at all levels of seniority and tenure. Instead of placing all the burden on the manager, we need to shift our analytic lens upward, onto the skip. Subscribe now.

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Product Talk

MARCH 1, 2023

I realize that many product people have never worked in a product trio , don’t have access to customers, aren’t given time to test their ideas, and are working in what Marty Cagan calls “features teams” or “delivery teams.” If you missed the first one on product success and team satisfaction , be sure to start there.

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The Product Guy

JUNE 18, 2020

Ruthless prioritization translates to product teams spending time building the right thing at the right time. This discipline is the bread & butter for a winning product team, but building an effective product process takes a lot of trial and error. Get Insights. Our objective is to understand customer needs and adjusting.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JANUARY 14, 2025

From the creators of DORA, SPACE, and DevEx, and in collaboration with Laura Tacho and the team at DX , I’m excited to introduce you to Core 4. Laura and her team spend every working hour researching, designing, and experimenting with ways to measure and improve team velocity (while avoiding burnout).

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The Product Coalition

JULY 13, 2022

If you’re shopping around for a mobile app analytics platform before biting the bullet with Fullstory, you’ve landed in the right place. FullStory is a robust web and analytics tool but there are platforms out there that may specialize in one of the features you want. Best for AI-powered future outcomes predictions.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Quantitative data alone doesn’t reveal intent, only outcomes. By combining contextual insights from session replays , heatmaps, and behavior analytics, user session analysis helps you interpret metrics through the lens of real user journeys. Tools can track every click and interaction.

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The Product Guy

MAY 7, 2020

Hence it is critical that one is aware of the best practises of the role and develops his own philosophy which results into maximum positive leverage for the organization. As I strive towards becoming a product leader, I wanted to understand the best practises in product management and in the process develop my own product philosophy. .

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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.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 18, 2021

In previous episodes, we’ve talked about how customer feedback and cross-team collaboration play a crucial role in the features and updates we build here at Intercom. Or rather, two – conversation topics and custom reports. I focus on the reporting area where we report on all things that happen at Intercom for you.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Engineers are often reluctant to participate in discovery. 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. But there are many reasons why engineers are one of the essential members of the product trio. And this is a good thing.

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Product Talk

AUGUST 14, 2024

It’s no secret that engineers can be hesitant to participate in product trios. We’ll hear from several members of the product team at Ramsey Solutions about their not-so-smooth transition to working in product trios, especially when it came to getting engineers to participate. The overarching goal of Ramsey Solutions products?

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 29, 2024

He was part of the team that created the PCjr, a product that flopped badly. Ulwick realized that if we could predict how customers would measure a product’s value, we could design products to meet those criteria. Even better, if these criteria stayed the same over time, we could use them to guide long-term product development.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 13, 2019

Automated customer service isn’t a new concept. As the head of our Support Ops team, I work daily with my teammates to develop automated solutions that don’t frustrate customers, but empower them. What is automated customer service? Why automate your customer service?

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UserVoice

JULY 28, 2017

We live and work today in a world that is increasingly data-driven, but we cannot successfully adopt a data-driven approach to decision making without first identifying the metrics that matter most. Plus, there’s no shortage of tools to help us quantify seemingly everything. The real issue is lack of focus. In This Article.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 10, 2020

Also known as Product Intuition or Product Instinct or Product Taste, it is the idea that you can use your own judgment to (1) accurately predict what your customers need, want and value, and (2) design and ship the right solution for them. I hope this post allows people and teams to safely talk about Product Judgment.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 25, 2022

No product tool or template can save you if you’re not killing it in these three areas. That’s why we’ve listed 12 tools that the best product managers use to do their jobs better? That’s why we’ve listed 12 tools that the best product managers use to do their jobs better?—?and and not the best product management tools.

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Be prepared for the intersection of data science and product management. Organizations are developing robust data science capabilities, adding the role of “data scientist” to their ranks. Product managers are being asked to work with data scientists. Sometimes the business leads us into data science.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 13, 2020

A lot of them worked in other positions before moving to product management, like engineers, analysts, marketers and project managers, and learned by taking on extra responsibilities. How to learn by doing it and lead a new team at the same time? How to plan for future growth for oneself, the product team and the products overall?

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 12, 2018

The “shiny penny” approach (focus all your attention on the hottest tools in the market) or “head in the sand” approach (fall victim to analysis paralysis and avoid choosing any tools) are no longer viable. But here’s the thing: a tool is not a strategy. The anatomy of a marketing tech stack [with recommended tools].

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Lenny Rachitsky

MAY 27, 2025

Today, with insights from over 8,200 of you (thank you to everyone who participated!), A widespread gap in career clarity: Many tech workers don’t know what they should be doing to continue developing in their careers. 60% of extremely pessimistic respondents reported high burnout. Subscribe now. fintech, healthtech).

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The Product Guy

MARCH 14, 2017

The developers sitting nearby just watched the show for the first time, but after a while they stood up to join the party one by one. Soon the whole team was standing behind the designer’s screen shouting new ideas and tips about the layout, the colors, the icons, the fonts and everything else. What to expect from a design team?

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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. But then, one day, I found myself reading Ask Your Developer by Jeff Lawson and I realized I was the one making the mistake. Its written to help non-engineers understand the value of software engineering.

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Folding Burritos

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

You want the stakeholders’ input, but you need it to be (and need them to think) in terms of problems for you and your team to solve. People in the organization start to realize there should be reasons behind product decisions, avoiding an ad-hoc development culture. We’ll keep working on this on our next development cycle.”.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Late last year, I spoke at the Predict Conference on how we built Resolution Bot, our intelligent support chatbot that can instantly resolve common questions. New software engineers quickly learn that a lot of complexity arises from error handling. It’s hard to balance investment optimally across ML, product, engineering, and design.

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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. Adopting the “best tools”. Don’t use the best tools for the job. You should optimize globally, and that means using the tools you’re already using.

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Indicative

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Every company, of every size — even organizations of just one person — are navigating a data avalanche problem. Every team — from product to marketing, and IT to engineering — is generating data. A strong analytics stack is foundational to being able to make sense of it all. Data Tracking and Collection.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 11, 2021

And also is a way of preventing errors and defect bugs in the software development process. Overview of the quality assurance Quality assurance service is a systematic process to ensure the frontend and backend development satisfies specific requirements and quality standards. Extensibility?—?the

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Indicative

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Recently, Indicative CEO Jeremy Levy got together with Toucan Toco product lead Romain Duboc to talk about how organizations can use the analytics tools available today to build more data-driven products. Where to start with Customer and Embedded Analytics. How to build a sustainable culture of data-driven innovation.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 15, 2018

As a startup scales, the importance of infrastructure engineers simply can’t be overstated. They’re the ones making sure your app is secure, that uptime looks good, and that the rest of your engineering org has the right tools to build features your users need and want. The tenets of foundation engineering at Stripe.

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Product Talk

APRIL 9, 2025

Last week, I shared that we often get asked, Do API teams need to do discovery ? Today, Ill be covering the most common usability issues that arise when developers start working with a new API. When engineers encounter friction when learning a new API, it reduces their likelihood of having success with your product.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 23, 2021

“If you think good design is expensive, you should look at the cost of bad design,” Ralf Speth, a former Jaguar Land Rover CEO. The study by the Design Management Institute analyzed the performance of design-led organizations that place influential design decisions at the top as compared to the Standard & Poor’s index over 10 years.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 2, 2021

For the very first time, we’re releasing Engineer Chats , an internal podcast here at Intercom about all things engineering. Previously hosted by Jamie Osler , a Senior Product Engineer at Intercom for over seven years, it’s now up to Principal Systems Engineer Brian Scanlan to pick up the baton and keep the chats going.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 5, 2020

It’s even harder when product managers and engineers are bogged down with work that distracts them from their highest leverage activities of identifying problems and building products people want to use to solve those problems. At its core, product operations enables product teams to achieve better outcomes. What Is Product Operations?

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The Product Guy

APRIL 9, 2019

The challenge to the product managers is to translate these into a more functional plan for our engineering team. We perceive strategy from the management as the gospel – Usually the opposite, a good leadership team usually expects the individual contributors to provide iterative feedback. Simple task, right? First Attempt.

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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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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 12, 2021

As a support leader, you already know how important it is to take care of your customers – but it’s just as important to take care of your support team. Here’s why human support is so crucial for any customer-centric organization, and how it can have a significant impact on your team, your business, and your customers. Here’s why.

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Product Talk

JUNE 5, 2024

Product trios are cross-functional product teams who are responsible for both deciding what to build and then building it. How can you get your engineer to participate in your product trio? What about the other people on the team who aren’t part of the product trio? Do product teams really work this way?

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