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Ask Teresa: Does the Engineer in the Product Trio Need to be the Tech Lead?

Product Talk

Without input from a product manager, a designer, and an engineer, it’s difficult for us to account for the cross-functional perspectives we need to build successful products. However, most companies tend to have more engineers than product managers or designers. Which engineers should participate in trios?

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A guide to AI prototyping for product managers

Lenny Rachitsky

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. Use code “LENNYSLIST” to get $100 off. Enrollment closes January 23rd.

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Product in Practice: Getting Started with Several APIs (And the Challenges I Faced)

Product Talk

This mostly worked, but it required a lot of administrative work to keep our systems in sync. There were dozens more that required that we make changes in all of our systems. Its written to help non-engineers understand the value of software engineering. Some of these challenges were due to me being a beginner.

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Introducing Core 4: The best way to measure and improve your product velocity

Lenny Rachitsky

Laura Tacho is the CTO at DX , has taught over 1,000 tech leaders through her course on developer productivity metrics , and on the side is an executive coach for engineering leaders. Her background is in developer tools and distributed systems. I’ve yet to come across a software leader who isn’t.

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Common Usability Issues with Web APIs: And How Discovery Can Help

Product Talk

When engineers encounter friction when learning a new API, it reduces their likelihood of having success with your product. APIs, once implemented, have incredible lock-inbecause it takes engineering resources to switch products, customers are much more likely to stick around. But more often than not, its due to the curse of knowledge.

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Strategy Blocks: An operator’s guide to product strategy

Lenny Rachitsky

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. These illustrative concepts are not intended to be “shovel-ready” for engineering to build on. This could include the founders, CEO, etc.

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Product in Practice: Evaluating If a New API is Needed

Product Talk

Chi started sitting in on quarterly business reviews with top vendors. These were review sessions Chis companys account management team was already having, and they gave her the chance to ask vendors about their order volume. Vendor integrates with a webhook system to receive status updates. Vendor creates a draft order.