Product Talk

DECEMBER 18, 2024

We covered how to manage messy opportunity solution trees , the most common challenges teams face when getting started with the discovery habits, what Im working on next, and so much more. Discovery is a team sport. I did classic web development before there were frameworks back in the ’90s. I think that was in 2004.

Product Research

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.

Analytic Tools

Userpilot

APRIL 24, 2025

Want to advance your career in product management or find top talent for your team? Millions of companies, from the worlds largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups, use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Who would be a bad fit for this job?

Research Software

Usersnap

MARCH 24, 2025

The team spent months building it, yet users dont see its value. It helps teams uncover real user needs, validate assumptions, and reduce development risks before committing time and resources. It is an actual team effort involving all stakeholders to foster diverse expertise and unique perspectives.

Product Research

Lenny Rachitsky

MAY 27, 2025

Startup founders are the happiest people in tech: They’re the only group growing more optimistic while consistently outranking everyone else in workplace well-being. A widespread gap in career clarity: Many tech workers don’t know what they should be doing to continue developing in their careers. vs. 16.9%).

Technical Review

UX Planet

MARCH 29, 2025

There may be times when you question yourself, or someone on your team wonders, Why are we doing it this way? In any case, hang around because well go over why UX design strategy is crucial, how to create one, and what the problems arefor you, your team, and, most importantly, your customers. Heres the thingyoudo.

Feedback Software

Modus Create

JANUARY 15, 2025

Gartner estimates that through 2025, at least 30% of generative AI projects will fail after PoC due to poor data quality, inadequate risk controls, escalating costs, or unclear business value. Greater resource demands: Developing, training, and scaling AI systems can stretch budgets and overwhelm teams.

Analytic Tools

Alchemer Mobile

JUNE 23, 2025

Without consistent tracking, brands risk: Missing shifts in market dynamics Misalignment with evolving customer expectations Inability to defend against competitive threats Weak ROI justification for marketing efforts Who needs brand health tracking? campaign planning, market entry, customer segmentation).

Branding

Userpilot

MARCH 17, 2025

Very limited free plan Startup: $354/month Growth: $1,500/month Enterprise: Custom price Pendo WYSIWYG editor Checklists Product roadmapping Enterprise SaaS 4.4 Cons of Userpilot Considering its price, Userpilot is not suitable for startups with tight budgets. Limited free plan Pricing available on request for all paid plans.

Analytic Tools

Userpilot

MARCH 21, 2025

My team at Userpilot has helped countless product teams enhance their mobile UX without compromising performance. Small inefficiencies, whether a slow startup time, unclear navigation, or poor caching, can lead to user drop-off. Profile startup. A poor experience leads to churn, no matter how great the product is.

Analytic Tools

AB Tasty

JULY 3, 2025

This slow ramp-up helps teams catch critical issues early and protect user experience. Given today’s fast-changing environment, Lukas believes that roadmaps should be treated as flexible guides rather than rigid plans: “I think roadmaps aren’t necessarily bad, but they should acknowledge the fact that there is uncertainty.

User Testing

Tyner Blain

AUGUST 10, 2025

Too many people are latching onto a “show don’t tell” metaphor for making it easier and faster to tell their teams what to build. Where someone is directing the team on what to build. First a business case is developed or an idea forms in someone’s head. The common pattern is a serialized, siloed process.

Research Software

Business of Software Conference

JUNE 17, 2025

Chris learned this the hard way with his own startup. Lack of Trust: Buyers, especially procurement teams, feel that buying software is worse than buying a used car because they don’t trust that they are being treated fairly or uniformly. Make it part of your product development lifecycle.

Data Visualization

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

Usersnap

MAY 14, 2025

“If you have 10 teams decorating the hood of a car with rhinestones, the hood gets so heavy you can’t lift it to fix the engine anymore. Thats what product development feels like in most organizations.” This ensures that the product not only addresses real user problems but also aligns with business goals.

Product Research

Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Start 2025 with the essential knowledge areas that give product managers more influence and success In 2024 I co-authored the 3rd edition of the Product Development and Management Body of Knowledge: A Guidebook for Product Innovation Training and Certification.

User Testing

UX Planet

MARCH 15, 2025

Im proposing a well-rounded model of specialization (beyond T-shaped, etc) that encompasses not just craft but also domain expertise (and more), as traditionally non-technical industrieslike healthcare, education, and governmentgrow their technical teams.

Research Software

Userpilot

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

Many product teams fall into the same trapmistaking engagement for success. However, without qualitative feedback and behavioral insights, teams risk misreading signals, leading to frustration and churn. Example: A startup sees that email builder usage fluctuates (quantitative insight). Here in this example are startup owners.

Data Visualization

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. ” For Tony and the team, this was a gut-wrenching experience.

User Testing

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

MARCH 30, 2025

However, there are good and bad ways to approach this tactic. For instance, a project management app might promote team collaboration features to startups while emphasizing security and compliance to enterprise clients. If your announcement doesnt show any value for using the mobile app, then users will see no reason to do it.

Research Software

UX Planet

MAY 25, 2025

Then came mobile apps, accessibility, strategy, research, design systems Suddenly, there were whole teams doing what one person used to handle. Thats basically every digital product team rightnow. Good at many beats great atone AI isnt just replacing tasksits rewriting how teams work, how products are built, and how value getscreated.

Research Software

Userpilot

MARCH 5, 2025

Best for: SaaS product teams who want a powerful but easy-to-use platform to improve onboarding, increase product adoption, and drive user engagement. Ease of use and implementation Userpilot is known for its intuitive, no-code builder, making it easy to create and customize in-app experiences without needing developers.

Analytic Tools

Userpilot

MAY 27, 2025

Want to advance your career in product management or find top talent for your team? Mozilla: Director of Product, Firefox Growth Firefox is used by hundreds of millions worldwide, and the Director of Product for Growth plays a critical role in the product management team. Who would be a bad fit for this job?

Analytic Tools

Userpilot

JUNE 10, 2025

No PM or app developer can avoid this completely, but you can create onboarding flows that shorten the time to value and convince your ideal users to stay. Beyond crashes and startup times, it’s critical to spot UX friction before it drives users away. Fix poor user experience and reduce app churn with Userpilot analytics.

Analytic Tools

Userpilot

DECEMBER 8, 2024

Well, I reviewed 40 session recording options in the market and handpicked the top 10 for startups, mid-market companies, and enterprises to review. Free plan available for startups and small teams. Collaboration tools : Leave notes, annotate replays, and share them with your team for better alignment.

Data Visualization

Amplitude

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Today, it’s common to hear people talk about testing early-stage products like it’s a bad thing. Having an opinion about your product is important—otherwise, you’re not going to have a product—but you shouldn’t model your product off you, or your team, or even your early customers. You do this through testing.

User Testing

Roadmunk

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

After a few years of feeling meh about copywriting, he got invited to do “product-y stuff” for a new startup. I remember sitting down with the designer at the time saying, please tell me what the difference is between a graphic designer and a software developer. Because the other part is standing up and talking to the team.

Feedback Software

Crafty CTO

AUGUST 1, 2025

Pro for us internally and I think in the perception from the developer ecosystem was the turning point which was super exciting. Developers get fine-grained control over how much TTC gets applied.) Rather, this is about creating complete, isolated development environments that agents do their development entirely inside of.

Research Software

Userpilot

JUNE 12, 2025

Userpilot solves this problem by making it easier for product teams to create in-app guidance themselves, without any coding. That’s why teams over at VideaHealth are now using Userpilot to build in-app resource centers filled with searchable FAQs, articles, how-tos, and walkthroughs. Multiply that by thousands of new users each month.

Data Visualization

Crafty CTO

JUNE 18, 2025

He compares today’s state of AI today to early days in physics where the Standard Model was developed and ended up serving physics almost unchanged through today. Sharma shows us some significant new capabilities arriving in Copilot, and with her team presents a couple different agentic app solutions.

Engineering

Arkenea

AUGUST 4, 2025

Poor data management practices have derailed countless promising treatments, costing pharmaceutical companies billions in lost investments and delaying potentially life-saving therapies from reaching patients. Each phase presents unique challenges and requirements that effective clinical data management systems must address.

Data Visualization

The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2019

What do you do when your team is working their socks off and yet they are getting little credit for the work being done, mainly because the team isn’t able to set concrete expectations with the stakeholder? This obviously reflected as a failure to deliver on part of the engineering team. THE CHALLENGE. THE CAUSE.

Weak Development Team

The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

First, I did not know how to frame, develop and present product strategy in a systematic way, and second, as a startup, my company has not historically had a good track record of strategy being developed outside of senior management (read: founder). Two major obstacles stood in my way.

Weak Development Team

Product Talk

JANUARY 17, 2024

This means that even when startup founders are motivated to test their ideas, they are more likely to notice the evidence that suggests their idea is fantastic and miss the evidence that suggests their idea is flawed. He began reading books like The Lean Startup by Eric Ries and The Four Steps to the Epiphany by Steve Blank.

Customer Experience

Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 12, 2021

While that doesn’t sound very bad, according to Corey Quinn, the world’s most notorious Cloud Economist, it goes against best practices or “sensible defaults” and is “ the worst practice to be avoided by default.” Day one of your startup is probably not the time to be learning Kubernetes.

Technical Review

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