Lenny Rachitsky

APRIL 9, 2024

Subscribe now P.S. Check out my PM recruiting service (helping you hire Sr. Taking gigabytes of data, analyzing it, and giving succinct and (increasingly) insightful answers. That sounds a lot like a tool that would be incredibly good at identifying a clever strategy. Think about it—what is AI best at?

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Userpilot

JUNE 22, 2023

While customer churn is a grave concern, retention is what can help you tackle it and make your product successful. Customer retention brings you more customers who tend to spend more, refer others, and provide valuable feedback that drives product improvement. A good customer churn rate is 3% or less for SaaS companies.

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Userpilot

MARCH 15, 2024

Want to conduct customer journey visualization but not sure what’s the best way to do it? This article shows you a step-by-step process for collecting customer data and creating easy-to-understand visual maps. TL;DR A customer journey map represents the steps users take when interacting with your brand.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2023

TL;DR Usability focuses on the ease of use, efficiency, and effectiveness of a product, while user experience encompasses the overall satisfaction, joy, and value that users derive from their interactions with a brand. Start improving user experience and usability with user research.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 1, 2021

To do this effectively, it’s important to remember that every customer interaction matters when closing a deal. Study any sales coaching blog, podcast, or book and you’ll find plenty of advice on the best ways to coach your sales reps: join their calls, listen to recordings, apply a framework … the list goes on.

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Product Talk

APRIL 8, 2020

For this post, we spoke with a product team from Simply Business about some of the major lessons they’ve learned since adopting continuous discovery habits like interviewing their customers, questioning their assumptions , and using the opportunity solution tree to guide their work. How do we know when a pain point is worth pursuing?

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Userpilot

JULY 20, 2022

It also outlines its stages, looks at the House of Quality, and how to make sure the Voice of your Customers is heard. Quality Function Deployment (QDF) is a framework that helps teams translate customer requirements into technical requirements, and design the product and processes needed for its development. Are you ready?

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

The outcome-based roadmap focuses on delivering value to customers instead of obsessing about building specific features. As companies scale, they often cannot satisfy customer needs equally well. Build a product that users love by delivering value and a good product experience. It should also give you tools to measure progress.

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Userpilot

JUNE 29, 2023

There’s an important distinction between documentation intended for your end users, and the more technical docs leveraged by developers and software architects. Great user documentation brings many benefits : it can help boost product adoption , improve customer retention and satisfaction , and reduce the burden on your support team.

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Split

MAY 15, 2024

Understanding their nuances is essential for streamlining operations and delivering high-quality software to end-users. In a DevOps environment, deployment refers to the technical process of moving software from a development environment to a test, staging, or production environment, ensuring it is operational and ready for use.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 7, 2023

Being good at user interviews is not equal to simply listening to your users. If all you do is listen to your users without a plan or a decision making framework, you might walk away with no insights or the wrong insights. I sometimes like to frame it as a hypothesis that I’m testing.

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Product Talk

AUGUST 18, 2021

Good product discovery includes the customer throughout the decision-making process. Good product discovery includes the customer throughout the decision-making process. Good product discovery includes the customer throughout that process. If we are lucky, we might do some customer research at the beginning of the project.

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Userpilot

MARCH 21, 2023

For any SaaS owner or product manager, understanding your customers’ daily lives and the user tasks they need to complete to achieve their goals is vital. In this article, we’re going to unpack a repeatable framework for you to analyze user tasks to create successful user experiences. User goals.

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Userpilot

MAY 16, 2022

In this article, we’re going to break down what product-led onboarding is and how product teams can implement it effectively to drive customer success. Ready to transform new users into lifelong customers? Don’t let your quest to turn users into lifelong customers fall at the first hurdle!

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

More and more products are using more complex forms of technology to provide value to their customers. There are established frameworks, approaches, best practices, and schools of thought that anyone seeking a career in this field needs to be familiar with. Recruiters value candidates who have some form of experience in the field.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Growth is fundamental to every SaaS business: growth experimentation is a way to turbocharge your growth prospects and drive customer success. Firstly, it boosts the velocity of data and research-driven decision-making. Let's get right into it! Why is growth experimentation valuable? What is growth experimentation?

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Userpilot

JUNE 8, 2022

In this short guide, we’ll shed light on what a critical user journey is and how you can map one that improves your experience. A user journey is a path a user takes to reach their goal when using a particular product. A critical user journey is a UX tool that maps out the key interactions between users and a product.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

This framework was developed by Dave Mcclure and here is what it stands for: AARRR: Acquisition, Activation, Retention, Revenue, Referral Each of these 5 stages warrants different sort of metrics to be focused upon. Monthly active users (active users are the ones who interact with your product in some way) Retention: 1.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

TL;DR The new product development process is the method of building new products or services and bringing them to market: everything from generating ideas for a product concept to prototyping to identifying a target market, to launch, and beyond. Product development is the method of bringing a new product or service to market.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

The right data and experimentation tools. The right data and experimentation tools. It is otherwise very easy to fall into a trap of coming up with ideas that are based on personal preferences and likely not relevant to our customers. so our customers probably will not react either. Test everything!

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

TL;DR Feedback loops consist of actions that involve collecting feedback and acting on it to solve customer pain points and add value to the product. Positive feedback loops confirm you’re doing the right thing while negative feedback loops are a chance to solve issues and improve the user experience. Want to see how?

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Product teams use the model to evaluate ideas, prioritize features , select tools , assess risks, or allocate resources, to name just a few. However, the scoring and weighting are still subject to bias, and the process doesn’t always reflect customer needs. What is the difference between the unweighted and weighted scoring framework?

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

What is a data product roadmap? TL;DR A data product roadmap is a product development strategy where the product manager and their team use insights from various data sources to inform decisions. The difference between a data product roadmap and the traditional approach is the former relies heavily on data.

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Gainsight

AUGUST 10, 2023

When customers buy from you, a pact is created. It says: You’re not only committed to delivering your products or services, but also the positive outcomes the customer is seeking in their own business by leveraging that investment.

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Userpilot

JULY 26, 2021

Product growth is a go-to-market strategy that uses the product to drive user acquisition, activation , conversion, and retention. Being product-led means using product-led marketing like pain point SEO, product-focused sales enablement documents, and case studies showing customer success with your product.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Before the release, the product launch manager is involved in market and customer research. Its objective is to uncover unsolved user problems and solutions that would be worth exploring. The insights from the market research feed into the go-to-market strategy. Market and customer research.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 25, 2022

In the article, we’re looking at the responsibilities of strategic product managers and how they can use data effectively to shape product strategy and deliver delightful experiences to users! Strategic product management must be based on data. To track their progression towards adoption , you need to segment your users.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 25, 2021

You can get an accurate picture of your ideal user just by asking three questions: Who are they? What is their main pain point in achieving this goal? These questions have a lot to do with Tony Ulwick’s Jobs-To-Be-Done-Framework. In a nutshell: You are building a product that your users need to do a specific job.

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Userpilot

MAY 7, 2024

Collecting the voice of the customer (VoC) in product management can lead to sustained growth. You can have the best digital marketing and pricing strategies, but you won’t be able to retain your customers if you don’t listen to their feedback. To collect VoC insights, you can: Use in-app surveys. Feature usage.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 20, 2022

This makes it crucial for them to map their marketing efforts based on the customer journey and grow the business efficiently. So let’s find out how you can leverage data to streamline your product marketing decisions and secure a steady route to success. The model encompasses multiple layers of user engagement with your company.

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People-First Product Leadership

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Product Vision puts a company’s Vision and Mission into action The Product Vision ensures the Roadmap reflects the priorities which matter the most to the company’s customers and to the company. If you take a step back, it’s likely you already have this insight already. Then divide and conquer the preparation.

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Bain Public

JANUARY 11, 2022

As a product manager, it’s normal to get all kinds of new feature requests from stakeholders (these requests are usually related to pain points). Do you validate the pain point and place it in a parking lot for triage? The analysis captures the market, its sentiment, the industry as well as user data.

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Mixpanel

JUNE 10, 2020

No matter the industry, product experimentation should always be done with your customers top of mind. But in the consumer finance space, sensitivity towards personal financial data makes considerations around product experimentation all the more delicate. Make friends with frameworks.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JULY 1, 2020

Learn a framework for quickly pitching a new product idea, and enhance your career! At this point inexperienced product managers are ready to walk out, but I give them a framework in order to structure the discussion. The framework I suggest to candidates is this: 1. Pain points 2. Market sizing 4.

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Userpilot

MAY 9, 2024

The customer onboarding process is essential for product success. From initial sign-up to renewals and upgrades, it guides customers to ensure they have a seamless experience and can easily achieve their goals. TL;DR Customer onboarding helps new users understand and engage with a SaaS product effectively.

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Userpilot

APRIL 11, 2023

Building an effective customer insights strategy is a vital part of any good product manager’s skillset. In this article, we’re going to unpack why a customer insight strategy is important, how to build one, and how you can use these insights to drive customer satisfaction (and a better product experience).

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Moreover, for alignment, we need a roadmap that services the entire crowd of stakeholders, regardless of rank, role, or perspective. Pick ones directly tied to customer satisfaction and business success and leave the rest on the cutting room floor. There are a plethora of prioritization methods and frameworks at your disposal.

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