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The GitLab way: Kindness, transparency, and short toes | David DeSanto (CPO)

Lenny Rachitsky

The company shares internal meetings on YouTube, maintains a public issue tracker for projects, and provides a 2,000-page handbook detailing their operational procedures. This dedication to transparency has enhanced user trust and encouraged community engagement, retention, and growth.

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Product Managers are Not Required to Design, But Learning Design is Part of The Job

The Product Coalition

Product management and UX design both strive to understand user needs, create valuable experiences, and continuously innovate products. Many product managers have backgrounds in UX design, as learning UX techniques and adopting a UX mindset can greatly benefit their work and influence the adoption of UX within their organization.

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Bending the universe in your favor | Claire Vo (LaunchDarkly, Color, Optimizely, ChatPRD)

Lenny Rachitsky

Document improvement: Approximately 30% of users utilize ChatPRD to enhance existing specs, PRDs, strategy docs, or roadmaps, indicating its effectiveness in refining and iterating on initial project documentation.

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UX Strategy: What is it and How to Create One

UX Planet

UX professionals often focus on mastering practical skills such as UI design, user research, and usability testing. While these skills are essential, for UX to influence at a higher level, UX professionals must also grow their strategic skills. That’s why UX strategy is a crucial skill any seasoned UX professional should master.

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12 Knowledge Base Benefits You Can’t Miss Out On

Userpilot

Put user-friendliness first: Don’t get too creative and complicate the UX design. The information included in this knowledge base varies, depending on the company, audience, and customer communication strategy. GitLab’s Handbook combines multiple internal departments. Don’t get too creative and complicate the UX design.

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The 13 Proven Customer Retention Strategies For SaaS Companies [A Guide]

Userpilot

A successful customer retention strategy requires constant iteration and innovation to keep up with an ever-changing SaaS market environment. There has to be cross-departmental and cross-functional cooperation between product, sales & marketing, customer success, and customer support to implement a successful customer retention strategy.

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2018 on Inside Intercom

Intercom, Inc.

Eoghan McCabe, CEO , and Matt Hodges, VP of Commercial Product Strategy. Des Traynor, Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer. “It’s high time we UX people stop moaning. ” Strategy over speed: How video games prepared me for life as a product manager. The best of the blog. The Next Chapter of Intercom.