Roman Pichler

MAY 3, 2023

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Make Time to Keep up with Technology Trends As new technologies come and go, it’s important for you—the person in charge of the product—to stay on top of the developments. The following four measures will help you with this.

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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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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Known as the Martech 5000 — nicknamed after the 5,000 companies that were competing in the global marketing technology space in 2017, it’s said to be the most frequently shared slide of all time. The reasons for this growth – high-velocity economics of software innovation, the migration of money from old media to new media, etc.

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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). The idea is to treat the strategy as a prototype that will undergo many iterations and testing. Pillars to a Proto-Strategy.

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Product Talk

APRIL 9, 2025

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. Remember, an API defines a pre-defined language for how code can interact with another service.

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Product Talk

MAY 14, 2025

And just because APIs are slightly more technical products, that doesnt mean that you cant apply discovery to them. Chi started sitting in on quarterly business reviews with top vendors. To make this happen, Chi needed to connect with her vendors product and technology folks. They still exist, even when your product is an API.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 11, 2020

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. For example, webcams with built-in facial detection sometimes don’t detect people with darker skin , because they were only tested on people with lighter skin.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JANUARY 7, 2025

You’ll find a collection of battle-tested prompts, real-world examples, and a step-by-step guide you can put into practice immediately. He also wrote my 9th most popular post of all time ( Become a more technical product manager ). Use code “LENNYSLIST” to get $100 off. I’m confident you will too.

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 18, 2023

A regular cadence of assumption testing helps product teams quickly determine which ideas will work and which ones won’t. And sadly, most product teams don’t do any assumption testing at all. In this article, I’ll cover assumption testing from beginning to end, including: Why should product teams test their assumptions?

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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. In fact, our tests regularly failed. 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.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Unfortunately, the research backs this up, with a staggering 90% of users reporting that they stopped using an app due to poor performance. Usability testing : Observe how real users interact with your product while they perform specific tasks to help you identify usability issues. Basically, anything that ruins the user experience.

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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?” Incorporating these tools into your customer experience tech stack will drive more engagement, gather high-quality customer feedback, and help inform your product roadmap. Supporting tech. This is a valid question.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

A Technical Exercise In this post, I’ll offer my idea of the sort of technical abilities expected from a product manager. But is a surprisingly small amount of materials about the technical aspect of PM work. The Product Interview?—?A This can be highly useful for hiring managers, as well as for PMs planning their roadmap.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Food tech is transforming the food industry by using cutting-edge technology to manage production, distribution, and consumption. When discussing food, technology is not the first thing that comes to our minds. Nevertheless, technology has altered every aspect of our life. Explore the article below for more.

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Product Talk

APRIL 16, 2025

Its written to help non-engineers understand the value of software engineering. Its chock-full of stories about how the author solved business problems by writing code. Even though it had been ten years since I had written a line of code, I decided to dive back in and I started automating my business logic. It wasnt easy.

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Product Talk

MAY 4, 2022

It’s not about finding the right tech stack; it’s about finding the tech stack that works for your team. When it comes to the tools that support your continuous discovery, it’s not about finding the right tech stack. It’s about finding the tech stack that works for your team. Tweet This.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 8, 2020

We’d like to share some insights from what we’ve learned so far about software delivery and operations over the past few weeks of working from home during COVID-19 , and how we as an engineering team have adjusted to this unprecedented, unpredictable situation. A time for the tried and tested.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 27, 2024

Software development with sustainability in mind is a rising trend in digital spaces. Digital technology has inadvertently become a significant contributor to the growing carbon footprint of the tech industry. As software builders, we are uniquely positioned to influence this environmental trajectory.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 12, 2025

The most effective teams foster a culture of structured disagreement not consensus where ideas are tested through rigorous debate, but personal attacks and politicking are off-limits. Every meeting becomes a performance review rather than a space for creative problem-solving. and pursue the answers.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 20, 2022

But when we make technical decisions, we like to be conservative. In practice, being technically conservative looks like reusing existing technologies and frameworks in our stack, or promoting tried and tested patterns and solutions. Here, Waheed discusses our engineering principle “Be technically conservative”.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

This is only natural: Through years of bad habits, many of us have shown engineers that we only value them for the code they can write. This is because they have a depth of knowledge of what’s possible technically. Ellen says they examined different risks and things they’d have to test out. Tweet This. Tweet This.

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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. Rather than building and maintaining a large inhouse team, businesses partner with specialized vendors to handle design, development, testing, and deployment.

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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. Ok, that’s great for UX theory nerds.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 15, 2019

These came from watching other product managers, reading books, attending meetups, and talking to other people in the tech industry about what product managers did. They will challenge themselves and the team to work in smarter ways, ask more questions, and think about code improvement.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Userpilots key features include: No-code Chrome extension for building in-app flows. A/B and multivariate testing for optimizing user experiences. According to user review platforms, their plans start at $7,000/year. Userpilot is perfect for non-technical teams. Autocapture for recording in-app events without manual tags.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 18, 2021

Technology analysts and experts are busy validating their impact in the consumer market or leveraging the same to create a better user experience and the best test management tools. To narrow down the testing process, every system/application requires focused data.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 12, 2022

Innovation & technology: B est-of-breed is the way to outperform competitors. In other words, technology is the backbone of innovation. This is made possible due to huge working capital and its integrated bundle of products e.g Hence, innovation is an important factor to drive product-led growth.

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The Product Guy

JUNE 20, 2019

When I joined Wetu in 2014, I was the 7th employee, we had just over 100 companies using our software, we were exclusively available in Africa, and the product was already 5 years old. Since then we have grown to over 100 employees, we have more than 800 companies using our software, and we have expanded globally. About Terri Boshoff.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 14, 2023

He is convinced that product is the single most important success driver for tech companies, which is why he founded Prodify to share what he learned from being an advisor to over 50 tech companies to realize their full potential. Ben has led successful technology products for the last 25 years. He

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Alchemer Mobile

MAY 19, 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. Our product, marketing, and customer service software helps companies make predictive decisions based on real-time measurement of their customers’ voices.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 20, 2023

In the next five years, around 48% are interested in employing AR and other metaverse technology to shop. An augmented reality app is a software application that blends digital visual content (and sometimes audio and other sorts) into the user’s physical environment. Check it out. What is augmented reality app?

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 23, 2021

When it comes to building financial software, the importance of great design skyrockets. With the worldwide revenue from the financial technology sector to double by 2024 , fierce competition evolves. Fintech software represents specific challenges due to diverse dynamic content, graphs, tables, and more.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 30, 2024

The product usage analytics feature in WalkMe gives companies complete visibility of employee software usage patterns. This can help in gauging software adoption , detecting shadow IT, and optimizing the tech stack for better ROI. The platform has limited no-code customization options and a steep learning curve.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

An example for the latter might be “Finish the dashboard so it can be released to the test users”. Software development is an exciting but demanding profession. At the same token, hold the development team accountable for meeting an agreed sprint goal at the end of the sprint in the sprint review meeting.

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Mironov Consulting

OCTOBER 19, 2022

 (I mostly see this proposed by technical leaders who come from non-revenue development organizations – those building software for internal use by companies in another business such as banking or airlines). " Code creators own quality.* There’s no rigorous testing.  Unlike

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 11, 2021

We believe there’s only so much you can do with automated tests and pre-production environments. Production is the only place where your code, infrastructure, and customers come together to represent objective reality. With over 50 deployments per day, it generally takes less than 12 minutes to ship new code. Use feature flags.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 26, 2023

Generative AI has the potential to create economic impact within sales, marketing, software engineering & IT, customer operations, and R&D functions across various verticals. Industries such as high tech, banking, pharmaceuticals and medical products, education and telecommunications, healthcare, and insurance stand to gain immensely.

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