Product Talk

DECEMBER 18, 2024

We covered how to manage messy opportunity solution trees , the most common challenges teams face when getting started with the discovery habits, what Im working on next, and so much more. Discovery is a team sport. I did classic web development before there were frameworks back in the ’90s. I hate definition wars.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2019

What do you do when your team is working their socks off and yet they are getting little credit for the work being done, mainly because the team isn’t able to set concrete expectations with the stakeholder? This obviously reflected as a failure to deliver on part of the engineering team. THE CHALLENGE. THE CAUSE.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

In our discussions, we talk about all the usual things: their ultimate career aspirations; their understanding of their own strengths and weaknesses and the skill gaps they hope to fill; as well as the specifics of each role they are considering, including scope, responsibilities, title & compensation, and manager.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

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. Engineers will hear different insights during your customer interviews. To get engineers involved in continuous discovery , Ellen began by inviting them to participate in customer interviews.

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 5, 2021

One of the challenges the agile transition team was concerned about was the choice of the right product backlog tool, which at first seemed odd to me. Another time, I was asked to help a team of a major charity in the UK whose task was to create a new website for their fund-raising campaigns. Third, they can be tested.

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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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Lenny Rachitsky

MAY 20, 2025

Most of us have had the experience of hearing a friend or colleague vent about their manager’s lack of support, micromanagement, missing product sense, unfair feedback, or some other reltionship problem that is as common as the day is long. If you are a new skip lead or hope to be one soon, this is for you.

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Folding Burritos

DECEMBER 7, 2017

As Product Managers, we perfectly understand the need to generate and use customer feedback. This led me to reach out to 14 leading Product Managers and talk with them about how they use customer feedback in their own companies and teams. Feedback is only relevant vs. a goal and user context.

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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 4, 2018

But the quality of your product matters: It directly impacts your ability to achieve strategic product goals and make your products successful: Technical debt makes it hard to experiment with new ideas, release new features, and quickly respond to user feedback. [1].

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UX Planet

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Photo by UX Indonesia This ‘complete’ guide to usability testing follows an overview in my UX research methods playbook articles. Introduction If you’re responsible in some way for a digital product or system, you should be doing usability testing — whatever your sector, industry or role. But what is usability?

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Userpilot

APRIL 16, 2025

Your customer information lives in Salesforce, while your support tickets are in Zendesk, your product usage data in Mixpanel, and your marketing campaigns in HubSpot. Data fragmentation prevents you from delivering the cohesive, personalized experiences your customers expect. But that view only reflects web users.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Which is why customer feedback is a big deal to all of our teams – it’s really integral to what we do and how we build. So If you’ve ever asked yourself – how does my feedback add up to the features and updates that we build? Jen Murphy – Senior Product Researcher.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 13, 2020

We are at the start of a revolution in customer communication, powered by machine learning and artificial intelligence. Our Custom Bots and Resolution Bot already work for thousands of businesses every day. Resolution Bot is a product that automatically answers the repetitive questions faced by customer support teams.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 13, 2020

When I first researched about product management, I asked seasoned product managers how they started and they gave me very different kinds of answers. 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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The Product Coalition

JULY 28, 2020

The bounce rate is the percentage of users who visit a page on your product (for example, your home page) and then leave it before taking any primary action, such as registration or starting a free demo. Interestingly, the bounce rate tells a lot whether you are close to your product/market fit or not.

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The Product Guy

JULY 18, 2019

Product development roles and “product” as a discipline are rapidly evolving within technology companies. Doing so will help you better support your team, but also identify and improve on the skills and areas you personally excel, helping you choose the right career path, strengthen your reputation, and building your brand and narrative.

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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. Who has it?

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 9, 2021

The Scrum Guide released in November 2020 states that “the product goal describes a future state of the product … [It] is the long-term objective for the Scrum team.” The product owner is accountable for “developing and explicitly communicating the product goal.” The entire Scrum team is “focused on one … product goal” at a time.

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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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Product Talk

APRIL 16, 2025

But then, one day, I found myself reading Ask Your Developer by Jeff Lawson and I realized I was the one making the mistake. Dont Ask Humans to Do Tasks That Should Be Automated If you arent familiar with Ask Your Developer, its a great read. API teams need to think about onboarding just like everyone else. This got me curious.

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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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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 13, 2019

Automated customer service isn’t a new concept. But much has changed, both in usability and customer perception. Voice recognition technology has improved, AI solutions can interpret customer feedback, and chatbots have started to answer the questions they receive, not just pass them off to a human.

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Alchemer Mobile

JULY 13, 2021

Product experience refers to the customer journey that takes place within the product itself, from a person’s first login to their last time using the application. It is a broader, more end-to-end view of user experience, which refers to specific interactions a person has within a product. 6 ways to improve your product experience.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Stefan Röse breaks down how Quantilope is pushing forward customer development and the consumer research field. By Jon Matheson for Product Coalition Have you ever wondered how much a consumer is worth? Perhaps that’s why some research experts say, “Data is the new currency.” While flying from the U.K.

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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.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 5, 2022

For example, a product strategy workshop might have the objective to identify the key changes required to achieve product-market fit. Contrast this with a sprint review meeting , which might help you determine if users can easily sign up for the product. Discuss development progress and user feedback on the latest product increments.

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

My team is too small. Speaking up might spur a conversation around how to adjust your role to better fit your needs, or better yet, to bring in another team member to share your workload. Limited team bandwidth. Customer expectations shift dramatically depending on device. I don’t have enough time in my day.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2019

If you have that, it means you’ve managed to offer the market exactly what it needs or, in other words, achieved a product/market fit (PMF). What are the steps you need to take to identify your product/market fit? Let’s begin with the basics, and, first of all, understand the product/market fit definition.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 8, 2024

3] Co-create the Product Strategy and Roadmap The traditional way to engage the stakeholders and secure their support is to present them with a draft strategy and roadmap, collect their feedback, update the plans, and, if necessary, show them the updated version. A great way to do this is to use the feedback framework shown in Figure 4.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 3, 2018

How can we help our users complete their job-to-be-done cheaper, faster or easier? Finding those problems to solve, however, becomes increasingly difficult as you scale – where the volume of feedback, and noise level of the vocal minority, compounds by the day. To this day, Rohini continues to cold-call customers.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 8, 2019

The day we reached 200 daily users was a critical milestone – more a psychological one for me personally than anything else. We had no clue about what “Lean” or “Agile” or even “Startup” essentially meant, but we spent most of our time out in the streets talking to our customers. A story of one failure. So where is the problem?

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UX Planet

DECEMBER 6, 2024

If there is one thing thats altering the way we create user experience (UX) designs and conduct research in 2024, it is definitely artificial intelligence (AI). Its influence is growing across three key areas: innovative technologies, automation of design tasks, and personalized user experiences. No one can denythat.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 13, 2020

That is what our guest did to investigate what people think about marketing and how it fits into the work product managers do. Listen to understand the basic definition of marketing, marketing roles that may have resources useful to product managers, and how product managers can make better use of marketing resources.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 7, 2023

How to prepare for a user interview, all the way to sharing the results with your team. The skill of running effective user interviews is key to defining your target users, finding product-market fit , growing your product, figuring out what to build next — or just simply understanding how users perceive your product.

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Product Talk

JUNE 19, 2024

But when we use generative AI to replace customer interviews , to generate opportunity solution trees , or to do our thinking for us, we fundamentally misunderstand the purpose of discovery. My advice in this article may not stand the test of time. Discovering unmet customer needs, pain points, and desires—AKA opportunities.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JANUARY 12, 2025

They should be directly involved in understanding the customer and the solution. They are skilled at driving efficiency at scale, with everything they do affecting a large number of customers. She’s also the co-founder of the startup bootcamp Transparent Collective and is an active angel investor.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 12, 2021

Many of these approaches are intended as reasonable defaults; they are my opinions, they aren’t rules, and they certainly won’t fit every situation. If you’ve been paying attention to any loud marketing efforts over the last few years, you have definitely heard about multi-cloud. A problem we often see is that people.

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