Lenny Rachitsky

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

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. Then iron out any adjustments as a result of these reviews. Let’s dive into detailed guidance for each step.

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Product Talk

APRIL 9, 2025

Remember, an API defines a pre-defined language for how code can interact with another service. Sometimes its due to documentation simply not being a priority. But more often than not, its due to the curse of knowledge. The best teams write and test their documentation before they write any code. Why does this happen?

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Let’s review everything your customer success team has to do in the absence of any customer success tools. Best customer success software for startups and small companies. Best customer success software shortlist ClientSuccess – starting from $15,000/year. Defining a customer success tool and other FAQs.

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Product Talk

MAY 14, 2025

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.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 27, 2024

Software development with sustainability in mind is a rising trend in digital spaces. While software is intangible and doesn’t directly consume energy or produce emissions, its environmental implications lie in its development and usage. As software builders, we are uniquely positioned to influence this environmental trajectory.

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Melissa Perri

JULY 23, 2024

Some of these are Fortune 10 software-enabled companies going through digital transformations. I review strategies and roadmaps. At the end of this review, I do a Product Leadership workshop with C-Suite and Product leaders, where I show them what good looks like, and they have a chance to reflect on where they are.

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UX Planet

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

This article reviews 3 popular contribution models: 1. It uses the hybrid model of contribution where the central design system team is responsible for the overall direction. This hybrid model helps the design team keep the system accurate and useful. This hybrid model helps the design team keep the system accurate and useful.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 6, 2023

Now that the COVID pandemic is over, travel management systems are valuable because business travel is back on the table. Consequently, travel software development companies come up with a solution called travel management system. What is a travel management system?

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Reporting Tools Travel Systems Review Data Visualization 144

Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 11, 2020

It was first proposed after Benjamin Whorf, a fire safety inspector at the time, observed how oil workers treated empty oil barrels as less hazardous than full oil barrels, despite them being equally flammable due to the traces of oil remaining in them. We had terminology replacements drafted and people with an appetite to make changes.

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UX Planet

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

The effectiveness of a design system cannot be assumed; it must be actively measured and optimized over time. A robust design system should not only streamline design and development processes but also ensure scalability as the organization grows, adapts to new platforms, and handles diverse product requirements. Image by Steve Dennis.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

We introduced regular alert review sessions for teams dealing with frequent alerts. Each alert review session starts with an ordered list of alerts that fired in the previous period, ordered by frequency of their firing. fire most frequently) are reviewed first. . 8 questions to ask when assessing your team’s alerts.

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Alchemer Mobile

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Whether a customer completes a purchase, leaves a review, or mentions your company socially, there is always an emotional state connected to their action. Customer reviews are a great way to track sentiment, and in-app ratings prompts can help inspire customers to leave their thoughts on your mobile experience. In-app ratings prompts.

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UX Planet

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Image by Cody Cai Design system governance models help organizations manage and maintain design systems across teams and products. There are three popular models —  Solitary , Centralized , and Federated  — each offer different approaches to how design systems are governed within an organization. Image by Nathan Curtis.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 12, 2025

Companies like Canva grew by defying industry conventions around complex, professional-focused design software making powerful design tools accessible to everyday users and businesses. Every meeting becomes a performance review rather than a space for creative problem-solving. and pursue the answers.

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The Product Guy

DECEMBER 6, 2018

On one hand, everybody expected me to focus on the problems that will help them to succeed in their workflows or function, and on the other hand, I had limited time to give all the problems their due attention it. Therefore, it was important for me to be aware of the following three things: 1) Where should I start? 2) What should I solve?

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 11, 2021

Production is the only place where your code, infrastructure, and customers come together to represent objective reality. It’s only in production that you can truly validate the performance and correctness of your code, and learn how your customers use your product. We all deal with business-critical legacy systems from time to time.

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Alchemer Mobile

AUGUST 2, 2024

The Classics: time-tested customer experience metrics Net Promotor Score (NPS) Introduced in the Harvard Business Review in 2003, Net Promoter Score (NPS) is a leading growth indicator across industries. This makes them vulnerable to switching to a competitor due to pricing, missing features, or poor customer experience.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

This sort of hand-waving has been most prevalent in software companies, where the supposed price of strategy missteps is seen as low. However, this is a naïve analysis that overlooks lost market share due to poor strategic thinking, or the demoralizing effect on engineers having to repeatedly rewrite code because of poor product-market fit.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JANUARY 14, 2025

Her background is in developer tools and distributed systems. I’ve yet to come across a software leader who isn’t. In the past, most measurements focused on activity—like lines of code, number of commits, story points shipped—which don’t tell a complete story about performance.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Jordan has enterprise Software-as-a-Service experience within the facilities management, legal and pharmaceutical verticals, having most recently worked at ServiceChannel, Epiq Systems and Medidata Solutions. Vikas started his career as software developer with Siemens. Krishna Madhuvarsu Director of Product Strategy, Oracle Inc.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 17, 2020

And while machine translation is often suited to live conversations due to the importance of responding in real-time, anything less than human translation for knowledge base articles and onboarding flows won’t make for a good customer experience – and will inevitably result in low engagement and adoption rates.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 13, 2021

A large part of making this belief a reality is the idea of running less software. It underpins a whole host of core Intercom features – Inbox Views , API , Articles , the user list, Reporting , Resolution Bot , and our internal logging systems. In Intercom, we believe that shipping is our company’s heartbeat. Three areas of focus.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 9, 2019

In my company, we review a living document with our management chain on a quarterly basis to align business direction for the short-term (immediate one to two quarters) to the long-term (two to five years). No formal stakeholder review as this is meant to be the first version that will undergo many iterations and refinements.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 30, 2017

The team had been working for almost a year and had a huge amount of code under their belts. But just because it was a lot of code doesn’t mean it worked. As we were getting closer to the end of the year, my senior vice president called me in, to review our progress against our goals. We’d made great code. Similar, right?

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Arkenea

APRIL 10, 2025

In a fastmoving digital economy, many organizations leverage outsourced software product development to accelerate innovation, control costs, and tap into global expertise. Table of Contents What Is Outsourced Software Product Development? What Is Outsourced Software Product Development?

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Jordan has enterprise Software-as-a-Service experience within the facilities management, legal and pharmaceutical verticals, having most recently worked at ServiceChannel, Epiq Systems and Medidata Solutions. Vikas started his career as software developer with Siemens. Krishna Madhuvarsu Director of Product Strategy, Oracle Inc.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 25, 2022

Today, our systems dynamically scale to serve about 50,000 web requests per second at peak, 26,000 background jobs per second, and 11,000 public API requests per second – demonstrating our ability to continuously scale to meet the requirements of modern enterprises. At Intercom, we aim to run less software. Can Intercom do that?

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

It provides the speed and efficiency mobile apps require for constantly changing products while maintaining the security and integrity of existing systems. Zendesk is a service-first CRM company that builds support, sales, and customer engagement software designed to foster better customer relationships.

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Product Talk

MAY 15, 2024

This meant that they could attach information like the user ID to the Typeform page and review it as part of the responses users provided. Tweet This While this system wasn’t perfect, it worked pretty well for Ellen’s needs. With the user ID, they could look the person up in Amplitude and see how active a user they were.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 27, 2022

At the beginning of any software development project, managers think of which methodology is between waterfall and agile. It’s essential to follow clearly defined processes or software development life cycle (SDLC) to ensure software development quality. Waterfall and agile: A smart method or bad solution?

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 28, 2023

The Software Development Life Cycle provides a practical framework you can apply to your product and improve your processes. You should be able to define the project scope and goals clearly by outlining the objectives, functionalities, and features of the software. The Analysis Phase has brought clarity to our software’s purpose.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 23, 2021

When it comes to building financial software, the importance of great design skyrockets. And it’s great that more open-minded companies understand how important it is to think about all social groups when it comes to using the software. How to make sure that such software products are truly universal?

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 22, 2021

Below, we take a closer look at the top three trends in the sales tech landscape to consider when choosing the right software for your sales organization. When reviewing your sales tech stack, it’s important to remember that a tool is not a strategy. Create consistent, customer-centric experiences. billion by 2022.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 18, 2022

Continuous improvement is a continual process to improve components of enterprise software?—?processes, Regardless of today’s software development aspect, increasing demand for new features in the products makes competitive advantage higher than ever. Changes can be large or small, which depends on the software projects.

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Product Innovation Educators

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

There’s a huge wealth of other qualitative data that often gets ignored by product teams because it is so hard to use—for example, customer support tickets, sales call transcripts, social media mentions, interview transcripts, and product reviews. You pipe your feedback into one system that is your record for customer feedback.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 13, 2023

Justin Norris After reviewing his post, I feel that Justin highlights the following key activities in order to produce valuable report designs: Help stakeholders communicate their ideas. Make a dictionary of the business and systems entities and terminology. Review the mockup with team and stakeholders. Make sure it flows.

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

You can connect Alchemer to just about any other system without hassle. We truly believe our support team is unmatched, and we’ll let our G2 Reviews speak for themselves. Different companies use different tools, and even teams within those companies rely on varied solutions.

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