Lenny Rachitsky

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Brought to you by: • Explo —Embed customer-facing analytics in your product • Dovetail —The customer insights hub for product teams — Archie Abrams is the VP of Product and Head of Growth at Shopify, where he leads a 600+ person growth org across product, design, engineering, data, ops, and growth marketing.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Use data to support your position and explain the trade-offs. Engineering may want to focus on technical debt, while marketing wants to accelerate a product launch. Suggested Solution : The key is to respectfully push back when necessary. As a PM, you’re often stuck in the middle, tasked with balancing both needs.

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Lenny Rachitsky

MAY 11, 2025

Previously, he spent nearly eight years at Palantir, working as a forward-deployed engineer. Removing hierarchical titles (making everyone “forward-deployed engineers”) reduced internal competition and politics, forcing recognition based on merit and impact rather than position. Where to find Nabeel S.

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The Product Manager Coach Blog

JANUARY 14, 2025

Tailor Your Communication: Adapt your messaging for different audiences, whether its engineering teams or senior leadership. Inspire Confidence with a Clear Vision A compelling product vision unites teams and stakeholders, positioning you as a leader with purpose and direction.

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Product Management University

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Your job as a product manager is to make sure designers and engineers have crystal clear targets for customer value they can easily hit. Staples of the Product Manager Job Description Most product management job descriptions still list responsibilities for vision, strategy, customer discovery, growth mindset, thought leadership, etc.,

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 22, 2024

Their visions, target groups, needs, standout features , and business goals must comply with the overall portfolio strategy. [1] To get started, create your own Portfolio Vision Board by downloading and adapting the Product Vision Board or by recreating it in your favourite tool.

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Lenny Rachitsky

AUGUST 20, 2024

how AI is getting closer to replacing PMs , which parts of the job are most likely to be impacted ), so I wanted to take this week to share an important message: I believe that product managers are the best -positioned role in tech to thrive in a world of AI. In fact, many jobs will start to look more like product management. People stuff!

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 30, 2017

I had a strong roadmap, clear goals and a vision for the product. The relationship between QA and Engineering was bordering on food fights, and we’d only achieved half of our requirements. A production release was a distant vision. At the end of 2015 I was in the worst nightmare of any Product Manager. Similar, right?

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The Product Guy

JUNE 20, 2019

As the first and most senior PM, I recognized the need to clarify vision, formalize processes, and set a proactive agenda moving forward. They need to shift their focus to leveraging teams to execute their vision and it is up to you to help with this transition. Start at the Top. In most companies, this process is ongoing.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 6, 2019

Product engineers are experts at identifying, understanding and solving problems. Here are the five areas that we encourage product engineers to contribute to as they seek to maximize their impact. But we’re even prouder of engineers who build great products and then share that knowledge with the world. Being a brand ambassador.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

I would never have thought that my role as a product engineer would include being a bit of an amateur historian. We make a living selling leaders and teams on what the future can look like, and then do our best to meet and exceed that vision. Technologists are, by our very nature, forward-looking optimists. The more I read about Web 3.0

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Product Management University

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Here’s why a portfolio vision is so critical to the success of your products and how it elevates Product Management, Product Marketing, Sales and Customer Success teams to plan and execute more strategically. Think of your portfolio vision as the ultimate “strategic goal/outcome” your target customers want from your portfolio of products.

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The Product Guy

MAY 3, 2018

To create value for customers requires a series of conversations with customers, sales, marketing and their marketing goals, clients, engineers, and designers. The value that your product brings to your users comes from taking the vision of the user your team has assembled. The cycle of creating a great product begins with listening.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 14, 2023

 He is also the co-author of Build What Matters: Delivering Key Outcomes with Vision-Led Product Management. A lot of companies have a mission statement that they think is a strategy or vision. The vision is where you intend to be in several years. A lot of work that goes into a vision. It provided a lot of clarity.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

However, this is a naïve analysis that overlooks lost market share due to poor strategic thinking, or the demoralizing effect on engineers having to repeatedly rewrite code because of poor product-market fit. consulting engineer, helping customers implement Chef’s products. operations engineer across a wide variety of industries.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 13, 2020

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. What was the cost of a false positive going to be? You might easily be over-engineering your solution or solving slightly the wrong problem.

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The Product Guy

JULY 18, 2019

By performing an honest personal inventory of your skills, experience and interests, you will be in a better position to choose the career path that best suits you. was responsible for defining timelines with UX, design, and engineering and holding the team to those timelines. My career began atypically.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

He translates complex business problems into solutions that are easily consumed by engineering, marketing and sales. In this position, Dustin’s primary responsibilities include product portfolio management, new product introduction and product line strategy deployment. Ari Tiktin Mobile & Emerging Media Product Director, CNBC.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 29, 2020

On the other hand, reassuring them that the decision reflects your company policy or product vision can quell their frustration while still making them feel heard. Our support reps will routinely run through the logic behind product decisions with our engineers and product managers. Don’t change your tone of voice.

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Product Talk

APRIL 17, 2024

You have this grand vision. We have some engineering teams that are so high-performing that they put a lot of pressure on PMs saying, ‘What’s next? What’s the vision? Then I come in and say, ‘We can’t waste engineering time now for six weeks on tech debt. We have plenty of ideas. We’re drowning in ideas.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 20, 2023

8 best augmented reality apps that revolutionize the world’s vision Shopify AR — Create the future of experiential retail Shopify AR is an augmented reality app that online store owners may use to provide an immersive shopping experience for their customers. Augmented Reality Apps: What Lies Ahead of Future Vision?

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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. The PRD is a PM’s primary communication tool with engineers. Scaling the team: As you scale the engineering team, it takes effort to onboard the new team members.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 19, 2020

After all, excellent design and engineering can only come from product teams that are empowered to solve hard problems and build great software. In our model, product teams effectively own a piece of the product, and consist of a Product Manager, Designer, and a few Product Engineers. Alignment on great product teams.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

He translates complex business problems into solutions that are easily consumed by engineering, marketing and sales. In this position, Dustin’s primary responsibilities include product portfolio management, new product introduction and product line strategy deployment. Ari Tiktin Mobile & Emerging Media Product Director, CNBC.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 11, 2022

What are some good product vision examples? How is the product vision different from the company vision? What makes a great product vision? How should product managers develop effective product vision statements? Product vision and company vision overlap in single-product organizations.

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Alchemer Mobile

MARCH 13, 2024

Vandegriff recognized for exceptional leadership of technology and teams, positively impacting Alchemer customers LOUISVILLE, COLORADO, March 13, 2024 – Alchemer, a global leader in experience management and enterprise feedback technology, today announced that Brandi Vandegriff has won the Colorado Technology Association’s CIO of the Year Award.

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Product Takeoff

MARCH 19, 2019

To achieve that level of confidence and to build products in that space we as product managers have to focus on a few key principals before we plan on getting the next thing in the marketplace.The four major principals we generally go by are Vision, Strategy, Team and Rapid learning.

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Product Management University

MARCH 15, 2023

Keeping engineering teams in-the-know on user jobs, outcomes and obstacles. Then you need to be the product expert with the skills to translate user needs into functional specifications that allow UX designers and engineers to distill them down into build tasks. You own the day-to-day care and feeding of your products.

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 12, 2021

We have seen many organizations in the last few years move the product group and product roles to more prominent positions, putting clearer focus on creating great products for customers. The best teams have collaboration between product management, development, and engineering. Today we are talking about the product-led organization.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 20, 2019

In my experience, many product designers who aim to achieve one of these positions tend to ask a seemingly simple question: “What do I need to do to get promoted?” It involves driving change for the better through inspiring, role-modelling, vision setting, articulating, consulting, teaching and executing. Don’t get tunnel vision.

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Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 15, 2021

The role of product manager is shifting, and you can position yourself for future success if you know how it is shifting. Product managers now have more influence because they’re in the middle of the organization, connecting the dots between engineering, design, and marketing. They create the roadmaps and vision.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

I instead define a product manager as driving the vision, strategy, design, and execution of their product. Vision: Vision Narrative. Most product managers realize that defining a compelling vision for their product is a core responsibility of their role. Vision: Product Walkthrough.

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Product Management Unpacked

JULY 9, 2020

The success of a product is reliant on strong, integrated teams that work together to bring the product’s vision to life. You’re trying to show them how to think critically, and how to make trade-offs, and how to challenge engineers or challenge design in the right way.”. The burden of bias. That’s the job I want.”.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

He has served in executive positions, responsible for innovation, at several large organizations and is the co-founder of the MIT Innovation Laboratory. . You have free rein to build prototypes until you get to incubation, but during incubation you’ll take care of all the issues engineering raised.

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Collaborating on digital product design with engineers or managers follows the same principles as the prisoners dilemmaboth of you can either cooperate or defect. For example, the more technical the product, the larger the designers technology gap that must be filled by an engineer. Prisoners dilemma in digital productdesign.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

I joined Intercom a few months ago as an engineering manager and onboarding for the first time in a while made me realize some things I hadn’t before. It’s focused on meeting a bunch of people, setting up our computer, walking through benefits and occasionally meeting an executive who talks about the vision and mission of the company.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 2017

He translates complex business problems into solutions that are easily consumed by engineering, marketing and sales. In this position, Dustin’s primary responsibilities include product portfolio management, new product introduction and product line strategy deployment. Jonathan Berg Director of Product Management, Schoology.

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