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Stop monitoring systems; start monitoring outcomes

Intercom, Inc.

This question has led us to develop what we call “heartbeat metrics” – vital signs that instantly tell us if our systems are truly serving their purpose. Modern systems are complex. It might be a database failover, a misconfigured fleet, or a bad code change – it doesn’t matter. What’s a heartbeat metric?

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516: Strategic decision making in product management- with Atif Rafiq

Product Innovation Educators

How product managers can move from ideas to action Watch on YouTube TLDR In this episode, I speak with Atif Rafiq about how senior product leaders approach strategy development and execution. He has developed a systematic approach to problem-solving that forms the basis of his book, Decision Sprint: The New Way to Innovate into the Unknown.

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529: Is this the best AI-powered market research approach? – with Carmel Dibner

Product Innovation Educators

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. However, these early efforts faced significant limitations.

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Product in Practice: Getting Started with Several APIs (And the Challenges I Faced)

Product Talk

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. But then, one day, I found myself reading Ask Your Developer by Jeff Lawson and I realized I was the one making the mistake. I was new to OAuth.

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Introducing Core 4: The best way to measure and improve your product velocity

Lenny Rachitsky

From the creators of DORA, SPACE, and DevEx, and in collaboration with Laura Tacho and the team at DX , I’m excited to introduce you to Core 4. Laura and her team spend every working hour researching, designing, and experimenting with ways to measure and improve team velocity (while avoiding burnout).

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The Risks of Data Fragmentation + How to Fix Fragmented Data

Userpilot

This fragmentation occurs when critical business information becomes scattered across disconnected systems, creating dangerous blind spots for product managers trying to make informed decisions. It compounds quietly across every team, workflow, and decision. Multiply that across a team, and operational drag becomes a real cost.

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How to build your product team from scratch, attract top product talent, go multi-product, and more | Rohini Pandhi (Mercury, Square)

Lenny Rachitsky

She’s also the co-founder of the startup bootcamp Transparent Collective and is an active angel investor. Be upfront about the challenges they’ll face and the potential for growth—don’t oversell, but definitely sell the dream of working on problems that will test and grow them as a PM.