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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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523: #1 change to make OKRs work for you – with Ben Lamorte

Product Innovation Educators

Understanding OKRs: From Intel to Modern Product Teams The evolution of Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) began at Intel during the 1970s and 1980s, where Andy Grove transformed the traditional Management by Objectives (MBO) system into something more dynamic and outcome-focused.

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Retailers. Don’t just collect feedback. Act on it!

Alchemer Mobile

In the retail industry, customer feedback is your early warning system, your innovation engine, and your most honest performance review. But this system only works if you take action on the feedback collected. Turn survey responses, review data, and post-purchase feedback into clear dashboards your teams can actually use.

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UX Moments: Sell me this pen

UX Planet

Internal System Optimization: Designers can improve the internal systems used by employees (e.g., The role of UX solutions in SEO optimization is enormous because Google and other search engines increasingly value the user experience. for order management, inventory, customer service).

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A guide to AI prototyping for product managers

Lenny Rachitsky

IDEs) that help you write code with the help of AI Let’s review the most popular tools in each category to see what they can do and what we can build. Claude goes one step beyond ChatGPT’s abilities with their Artifact system. GitHub Copliot , Cursor , Windsurf , Zed ): Development environments (i.e. Unbelievable.

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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. For more, check out her LinkedIn and her blog. That’s what product velocity enables.