Product Talk

MAY 15, 2024

Committing to continuous discovery means changing the way your product team operates. Continuous discovery means not making decisions purely based on your intuitions or stakeholder requests, but finding ways to integrate touch points with customers into your work every week. Tweet This This can sound overwhelming.

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Product Talk

APRIL 9, 2025

Last week, I shared that we often get asked, Do API teams need to do discovery ? To adequately cover this topic, we are going to get into the nitty-gritty of the technical underpinnings of APIs. If you need help getting up to speed on these technical details, be sure to read last weeks article. Alright, lets dive in.

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The Product Guy

MAY 7, 2020

Guest Post by: Vivek Karna (Mentee, Session 11, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, John Masterson]. As I strive towards becoming a product leader, I wanted to understand the best practises in product management and in the process develop my own product philosophy. . Introduction. Understanding the Role Definition.

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Lenny Rachitsky

MAY 27, 2025

Each week I tackle reader questions about building product, driving growth, and accelerating your career. It’s hard to imagine a more intense time to be working in technology, so Noam and I wanted to capture a rich picture of tech workers’ sentiment—at this moment, and going forward.

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Product Talk

APRIL 16, 2025

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. At the heart of all of my administrative troubles was the need to move data in between disparate systems and to make sure that all of these systems were in sync.

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Product Talk

JUNE 19, 2024

I’m disappointed to see the rise of generative AI tools that are designed to replace discovery with real humans. But when we use generative AI to replace customer interviews , to generate opportunity solution trees , or to do our thinking for us, we fundamentally misunderstand the purpose of discovery. Don’t get me wrong.

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Product Talk

MAY 14, 2025

Its one thing to iterate on an existing product. Its a whole other challenge to identify brand-new products to offer. The same is true for API products. They still exist, even when your product is an API. And just because APIs are slightly more technical products, that doesnt mean that you cant apply discovery to them.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JANUARY 14, 2025

Each week I tackle reader questions about building product, driving growth, and accelerating your career. Laura and her team spend every working hour researching, designing, and experimenting with ways to measure and improve team velocity (while avoiding burnout). Her background is in developer tools and distributed systems.

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Lenny Rachitsky

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Each week I tackle reader questions about building product, driving growth, and accelerating your career. Below, you’ll find what I believe is the most actionable, specific, and straightforward framework for crafting a strategy, for both your product and your company. Subscribe now. So we teamed up to make that happen.

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The Product Guy

JULY 4, 2019

Guest Post by: Magdaline Derosena (Mentee, Session 9, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Andrew Hsu]. I discovered that I must research and understand the entire system and process, problem solve with my team, and share lessons learned. After researching the problem with my team, we came up with a solution.

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Alchemer Mobile

APRIL 21, 2021

Quick transitions to remote learning, usage and integration hurdles, lack of funding for new tech, and massive fluctuations in MAU all played a role in delivering a challenging year for educators and education technology across the country. Ratings, Reviews, and Interactions. Surveys and Messages. Retention.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 9, 2019

Guest Post by: Eric Wang (Mentee, Session 8, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Chris Butler]. The notion of a strategy in product management seems like something that only high-level stakeholders at the executive level should care about. Make a list of the scope and the challenges to your product. Second Attempt.

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Melissa Perri

JULY 23, 2024

For the past eight years, I’ve been working with C-Suite leaders at companies big and small to set up their Product Management organizations. At all of them, I start understanding the current state of Product Management. I gather data through surveys about observations. I review strategies and roadmaps.

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Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 4, 2025

How AI captures customer needs that human product managers miss Watch on YouTube TLDR In my recent conversation with Carmel Dibner from Applied Marketing Science, we explored how artificial intelligence is transforming Voice of the Customer (VOC) research for product teams.

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Userpilot

MAY 27, 2025

In this Whatfix Mobile review, youll find answers to three questions: What does Whatfix Mobile offer? Product teams can use a no-code editor to design step-by-step guidance and interactive elements that live directly inside their mobile apps. A/B testing and segmentation: The feature lets you split audiences into simple experiments.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Ian Moulton, lead a conversation around “Multiscreen Web Design”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Better Products. Better Product People. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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Alchemer Mobile

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

According to an InMobi survey , the number one challenge facing app developers today isn’t design or development. Without marketing, even the best apps struggle when it comes to customer acquisition and discovery. Now it’s time to put your app and positioning to the test. It’s marketing. The bad news? The good news?

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UX Planet

DECEMBER 6, 2024

If there is one thing thats altering the way we create user experience (UX) designs and conduct research in 2024, it is definitely artificial intelligence (AI). From new UX-related technologies and automation to personalization. This fast-paced testing accelerates design cycles and helps refine products in lesstime.

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Lenny Rachitsky

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Each week I tackle reader questions about building product, driving growth, and accelerating your career. For more: Hire your next product leader | Favorite Maven courses | Lennybot | Podcast | Swag Subscribe now I believe the future of product management looks like Tal Raviv. Product management is unfair.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JANUARY 7, 2025

Each week I tackle reader questions about building product, driving growth, and accelerating your career. For more: Lennybot | Podcast | Hire your next product leader | My favorite Maven courses | Swag Subscribe now This post will transform how you build products, come up with new ideas, and operate as a PM.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

How first principles can help you design product roadmaps from the ground up. Product roadmaps are no exception. Creating or even updating a product roadmap can feel like being handed a blank sheet of paper and told you have 60 minutes to write a ten-page college essay on a topic you didn’t study for…. Trust, outcomes, value?

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Mind the Product

MARCH 17, 2020

Others have tried, but we’ve yet to find anyone else with her depth of experience (spanning stints as a developer, designer, researcher and product manager), her empathy for both users and stakeholders, her experience as a teacher, and her sense of humour. Building better products. How to work with designers.

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Product Management Unpacked

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

CMU Master of Science in Product Management program student Erick Valencia landed a PM experience of a lifetime as part of a student team developing a driverless race car system to race in the Indy Autonomous Challenge. Product Managers often face a race to the finish, so to speak.

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

You also might be reading this post thinking: “Who’s adding new tools to their tech stack right now?” To help you with this, we compiled a list of the top mobile in-app feedback tools of 2022. Mobile in-app feedback tools & solutions. This is a valid question. This saves companies valuable time and resources.

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Userpilot

MARCH 9, 2025

What happens when you build a product or service around what you think potential customers want, only for them to buy something else? But worse than that, it leads to lower revenue, failed products, and plummeting customer loyalty. The solution seems obvious: improve your customer research process. The short answer: yes.

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UX Planet

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Photo by UX Indonesia This ‘complete’ guide to usability testing follows an overview in my UX research methods playbook articles. Introduction If you’re responsible in some way for a digital product or system, you should be doing usability testing — whatever your sector, industry or role. But what is usability?

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 25, 2022

New research from Harvard Business Review Analytic Services reveals that businesses of all sizes – from small businesses to enterprises – are realizing the business value of personal, efficient customer engagement. Creating quality customer experiences has always been important for retaining customers. But they’re facing big barriers.

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UX Planet

MARCH 9, 2025

Image by TamannaRumee Product redesign is an inevitable thing. No matter how good your original product is, you will likely decide to redesign it at some point in time. No matter what is your utlimatite goal is, you need to treat product redesign strategically. What parts of the system design will be addressed?

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The Product Guy

MARCH 12, 2025

You’re Stuckand It’s Because You’re Playing by the Rules In product management, youve been told to follow the rules: stick to the roadmap, build consensus, and hit your OKRs. But what if I told you they’re actually sabotaging your product’s potential? Successful products are born from friction.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 30, 2017

Guest Post by: Liel Aharon (Mentee, Session 4, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Felix Sargent]. At the end of 2015 I was in the worst nightmare of any Product Manager. I had a strong roadmap, clear goals and a vision for the product. In fact, our tests regularly failed. A production release was a distant vision.

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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. Or does this whole tech career thing support the writing? And Digg is an iconic brand, really amazing products in its time.

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 14, 2024

How product managers can use AI to work more efficiently Watch on YouTube [link] TLDR AI is changing how we manage products and come up with new ideas, giving us new tools to work faster and be more creative. AI can help in many parts of making a product, from research to writing product plans and documents.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The Product Interview?—?A A Technical Exercise In this post, I’ll offer my idea of the sort of technical abilities expected from a product manager. There’s been so much written, including by myself, about product management interviews. Can it meet the requirements? Is it a “good” structure?

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Alchemer Mobile

MAY 19, 2021

To help you with this, we compiled a list of the top mobile in-app feedback tools of 2021. Incorporating these tools into your customer experience tech stack will drive more engagement, gather high-quality customer feedback, and help inform your product roadmap. Mobile in-app feedback tools & solutions.

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Product Talk

JANUARY 24, 2024

The foundation of continuous discovery is weekly touchpoints with customers. It sounds simple, but what happens if your product is so new that you don’t have any customers yet? Or what if you’re just getting started with an idea and your product doesn’t even exist yet?

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Userpilot

MAY 30, 2025

Most product teams get mobile app analytics wrong. For a productivity app, tracking distraction-free usage patterns, instead of just the total time spent, helps confirm that your users are achieving the end goal that your app was designed for. Test for interconnection. Heres what goal-based analysis would look like. Confidence?

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 11, 2020

And while seeing this work come to fruition, Sam, a Product Engineer at Intercom, was inspired to find more ways to get involved. As she tells it, “When I was fresh out of college, I was working at my first job in the tech industry. Think about the impact that racism has already had in tech. The language we use shapes our world.

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