article thumbnail

How engineers can make an impact outside the code editor

Intercom, Inc.

Yes, the code that you write and the systems that you build are major contributing factors to the success and growth of a business. Being a brand ambassador. New interviewers should start off with sessions that involve less ambiguity like pairing or reviewing take home tests in order to become familiar with process.

article thumbnail

Calm’s Will Larson on how to build a technical leadership career

Intercom, Inc.

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. And Digg is an iconic brand, really amazing products in its time. Will: When I first moved into management, it was at Digg.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

Conversations, Conflict and Leadership – Roman Pichler on The Product Experience

Mind the Product

Now a trainer, Discovery and Leadership consultant, he’s spoken at Mind the Product Engage (Hamburg and Manchester), the Business of Software, Turing Festival, a number of ProductTanks (London, Zurich, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, Oxford, and Brighton… so far!) Sponsor us.

article thumbnail

Generative AI in Your Business Strategy: From Concept to Reality

The Product Coalition

Generative AI has the potential to create economic impact within sales, marketing, software engineering & IT, customer operations, and R&D functions across various verticals. It can help generate content for brand advertising, social media posts, product descriptions, and other campaigns.

article thumbnail

Dealing with an Underperforming Development Team

Roman Pichler

A development team does a good job if the following three conditions are fulfilled: First, the group reliably meets the agreed sprint goals and delivers product increments that offer a great user experience and exhibit the desired software quality. Say that you are working on a new brand-new product. But this would be wrong.

article thumbnail

2022 in review: Highlights from this year’s best conversations

Intercom, Inc.

Niamh O’Connor , Brand Editor at Intercom. An area we paid a lot of attention to was our own internal rate of productivity and efficiency, and we kicked off a project to evaluate everything, every process, every step, every part of how software goes from idea through to live production. We learned a lot. Paul Adams: Yeah.

article thumbnail

Management coach Lara Hogan on perfecting the leadership craft

Intercom, Inc.

Lara Hogan is an author, public speaker, and coach on management and leadership. And even these very, very experienced leadership rooms are mind blown by the idea that maybe offering their advice or perspective is not the most helpful thing for somebody. And most importantly, as Lara Hogan puts it, you really don’t have to.