Lenny Rachitsky

MAY 27, 2025

Our analysis examines several dimensions of tech worker sentiment, including career outlook, role satisfaction, burnout, quitting intentions, career path clarity, leadership effectiveness, work setup preferences, and more. Leadership impacts virtually all worker sentiment dimension s. Workers with extremely effective leadership are 8.2

Technical Review

BrainMates

OCTOBER 20, 2024

It’s about ensuring that customer experiences align with promises made during product development and marketing. This gap can arise when decisions are based on assumptions rather than solid customer data, leading to misaligned priorities in product development.

Data Visualization

Tyner Blain

MARCH 2, 2025

Leadership tells us the big projects they’ve decided to do, it’s up to us to elaborate and execute.” Here’s an example – A company is growing by acquisition, and is now faced with the integration / consolidation of two different products. “I don’t get to set the direction.

Customer Experience

The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

It’s too bad I didn’t have first principles to draw on at the time. Identify Base Principles —  What are the fundamental truths of product development? Under Musk’s leadership, Tesla adopted a first-principles approach to rethinking fundamental aspects of the electric car. Members of the team will look to protect themselves.

Roadmap

BrainMates

JUNE 22, 2025

For example, Airbnb started with a value proposition for renting out spare rooms in a host’s house for extra cash but moved quickly to add a value proposition for hosts who wanted to rent out whole properties for the short term and eventually the long term. market share growth). Starbucks).

User Testing

UX Planet

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

For example, the more technical the product, the larger the designers technology gap that must be filled by an engineer. One example is design equifinality the idea that there can be multiple valid ways to solve a design task. This dynamic creates the first blindspot. In addition to knowledge gaps, there are less obvious blind spots.

Technical Advisors

Lenny Rachitsky

MAY 6, 2025

Whether you’re planning six months ahead or sitting in discussions right now, here’s the process I’ve developed through trial and error with clients over 15 years. Start demonstrating how you’ll solve their specific problems for the company/team. And how can I best show up for [name other team member(s)]?

Development Team Review

BrainMates

JULY 2, 2025

They require a symphony of teams — Product, Design, Engineering, Marketing, Sales, and Support — working together from idea to launch. This blog unpacks how product leaders can drive better collaboration by creating shared clarity, building transparent workflows, and being the empathetic glue between teams. The challenge?

Product Research

Tyner Blain

MAY 26, 2025

Value escapes the team because of how they treat the request. Here’s an example – think about enabling on-the-go order-status checking for your customer. ” Others on the team would likely describe the mobile app as “the thing.” Let’s look at a concrete example for this abstract concept.

Customer Experience

People-First Product Leadership

MAY 14, 2025

As I waited to speak with the exec team, my mind buzzed with voices: You got this. You're an internal team, each part with its own perspective and purpose. This is your natural leadership state, which is often obscured by other parts. Don't show any signs of weakness!" All key aspects of effective leadership.

Development Team Review

Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

How product managers use Jobs-To-Be-Done to create products customers love Watch on YouTube TLDR In this episode, I explain the Jobs-To-Be-Done (JTBD) framework, a powerful approach to understanding customer needs and developing successful products. I got a few blank looks and one person said, “Yeah, the milkshake story.”

User Testing

Centercode

JUNE 27, 2025

Learn about delta testing Resources By Type  Blog  Ebooks & Guides  Events & Webinars  Case Studies  Podcast  Community Featured Content The Definitive Guide to Delta Testing What is delta testing and how are tech leaders using it to deliver customer insights throughout agile development? Testers stop contributing.

User Testing

UX Planet

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Anyone in Product Ownership related discipline or those affiliated with Development, need to be aware of the time it takes to go through Research, Ideation, Iteration, before the subsequent steps of the Design Thinking process can occur (this impacts sales strategies, go to market strategies, communication outreach, just to name but a few tasks).

Research Software

Lenny Rachitsky

JANUARY 21, 2025

We’re seeing AI already transforming people’s jobs, watching the methodical disruption of incumbents by beautifully crafted alternatives, and witnessing a few seismic shifts in how teams collaborate. Cursor and other AI-native integrated development environment (IDE) tools are rapidly emerging. 5% use Bolt.

Data Visualization

Userpilot

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

This guide breaks down a simple, step-by-step RCA process designed for SaaS teams. For example, if we continue with the high churn problem: Users churn after the core feature was overhauled. software development) to identify causal factors of a specific problem. They no longer experience value from it.

Feedback Software

The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

Here is what I found: Unlike other quotes (for example, the one about Ford’s Model-T that could come in any color as long as it’s black, which appears in his co-authored biography), there is no evidence that Ford actually said anything about faster horses. It’s just easier than clearly articulating the problem I want the team to solve.

User Testing

Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

What is Bad Performance? Before I discuss how you can help an underachieving team, let’s briefly explore what good performance looks like, assuming that an agile, Scrum-based process is used. Second, the team participates in continuous discovery and strategizing , and its members regularly help refine the product backlog.

Weak Development Team

Roman Pichler

JULY 20, 2016

To help you develop your agile product roadmap, I have created a goal-oriented roadmap template called the GO Product Roadmap. I like to use my Product Vision Board to develop a valid product strategy. The best roadmap is worthless if the people required to develop, market, and sell the product don’t buy into it.

Roadmap

Roman Pichler

JANUARY 12, 2021

You know, though, that it is impossible to add the feature to the development effort. The dev team is struggling with the current workload, and moving the date is not an option. Don’t Feel Bad about Saying No. If that’s the case, explore how you can strengthen your product leadership. Declining a request can be hard.

Weak Development Team

Roman Pichler

JANUARY 11, 2022

For the first two quarters, the area is strategy; for the last two, it is leadership. For example, the guidelines I have developed for the GO product roadmap template directly apply to the roadmap in figure 1. This can help you tie individual learning goals to team and department goals. Creating the Learning Roadmap.

Roadmap

Roman Pichler

AUGUST 11, 2020

The overall example I use to illustrate the mistakes is a healthy eating app that helps its users improve their eating habits and live more healthily. Examples : “Offer a weight loss mobile app”, “Become the number one weight loss app provider”. Examples : “Everyone who owns a smartphone”, “Business users and consumers”.

Vision

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2021

After writing An Elegant Puzzle about the challenges of engineering management in high-growth organizations, his focus shifted to a career path that’s much less understood – the technical leadership track. If you’re a senior engineer and want to further your career, what skills should you develop? A tale of two career paths.

Technical Review

Roman Pichler

JULY 11, 2016

Manage the Product, not the Team. Focus on your job as the product manager or product owner, and manage the product, not the team. Treat the Team as an Equal Partner. The team members are not your resources but the people who create your product. Assume that the team members want to do their best.

Weak Development Team

Roman Pichler

JANUARY 22, 2024

Figure 1: The Product Portfolio and Product Strategy Using Microsoft Office as an Example In Figure 1, the strategies of the individual products—Word, PowerPoint, and Excel—implement the Office strategy. Another example is YouTube, which is available in three variants—standard, premium, and kids.

Weak Development Team

Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 4, 2023

How product managers can navigate leadership challenges Today we are talking about four leadership motions that enable increased organizational effectiveness and productivity and alleviate organizational friction, waste, and indecision. Sharing the four leadership motions with us is Janice Fraser.

Leadership

Roman Pichler

AUGUST 12, 2024

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] The Core Product Team Product teams come in different shapes and sizes. But all product teams I have seen consisted of the person in charge of the product—the product manager or Scrum product owner —and development team members.

Weak Development Team

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. The Product Backlog is Too Big.

Weak Development Team

Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

Consequently, your focus shifts from managing a product to looking after the product people on your team and empowering them to do a great job. Another key aspect to support the people on your team succeed is to create the right environment for people to succeed. Grow Your Leadership Skills.

User Testing

Roman Pichler

APRIL 19, 2017

It’s all too tempting to fall back onto less skilful habits and become impatient, tense and stressed, say something we regret afterwards, or pass on the pressure to the development team. Challenging situations are great opportunities to grow as a human being and by doing so, you increase your leadership power. Trust me.”.

Leadership

Roman Pichler

JUNE 1, 2020

The first one carries the risk of being a feature broker and offering a product that has a weak value proposition, gives rise to a poor user experience, and consists of a loose collection of features. But do not accept inappropriate behaviour and do not allow people to treat you like a project manager, team lead, or personal assistant.

Weak Development Team

Roman Pichler

JUNE 7, 2022

While common sense suggests that managing a product without the right measurements is not a sensible approach, I’ve seen product teams who did not use any KPIs. Consequently, these teams relied on: Anecdotal feedback : “Customers love our product, they told me so.” If this data is actioned, bad product decisions will be made.

KPI

The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

And too often I’ve seen poor leaders resort to micro-management, HIPPO, and dictatorship in order to fulfil their strategies. As a result, I’ve come to value 5 different aspects of product leadership. Shift #1: A leader of leaders The two top things I’ve head people reply to the question “how do I move into Product Leadership?”

Leadership

Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

For example, I’ve seen organisations where the Scrum Masters work with HR and the development teams to recruit new team members. Process and collaboration : Teach agile values, principles, and practises to the product owners, development teams, stakeholders, and management.

Reporting Tools

Product Innovation Educators

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Before founding Viable, he held senior leadership roles in engineering, technology, and product. Often somebody on the team is responsible for reading through all that stuff, synthesizing it into insights, and disseminating those insights across the team. This is a very manual process, so few teams decide to do the work. [4:22]

Data Visualization

Mind the Product

MARCH 10, 2020

As a product leader, what qualities do you need to cultivate to be able to ensure your team performs to the best of its abilities? Recently I’ve been thinking a lot about teams – what is a team, team formation and development, cross-functional teams , and leading teams.

Weak Development Team

Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

It’s also essential to creating a team where great people want to work. In a perfect product development world, communications are seamless, specifications are clear, and product and engineering teams work together without friction. Share Leadership and Credit. These are team goals that get shared across the company.

Engineering

Roman Pichler

APRIL 3, 2018

At the same time, it offers you, the person in charge of the product, the necessary context to make the right strategic product decisions, for example, the market your product should serve and the business goals it should meet. The leadership team of any company must lead the effort to create, review, and adjust the business strategy.

Strategy