Atlassian

JANUARY 13, 2022

Subscribe to Work Life Get stories about tech and teams in your inbox Subscribe. They wanted to speed up long-distance calls, leading them to release a complex software upgrade. Just one line of poorly written code can drive an enterprise into the ground, meaning that your projects can also come to an end because of them.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Three years later I became a web application engineer at a startup that built software for military and private industries. I became director of communications, leading the development of intranets and web applications. Designers vs Developers The work culture in this large organization was unlike anything I’d ever experienced.

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Mironov Consulting

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

As noted in my last post , Sales and Marketing often wonder whether Engineering is sufficiently motivated and engaged. Motivation and engagement look different on the tech side of the room: the outbound team often can’t tell whether Engineering is emotionally engaged. Some Engineering teams are unmotivated, though.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 26, 2022

Chris’s team worked for a logistics service that tracked the ocean containers coming in and out of the ports. Their team set up the infrastructure and prepared the environment waiting for prospective accounts, which never came. That is how EveryPig evolved to an AI-based solution and became a vet tech software product.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Here’s our story how we’re developing a product using machine learning and neural networks to boost translation and localization Artificial intelligence and its applications are one of the most sensational topics in the IT field. So does that mean there’s already localization software on the market that uses machine translation?

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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). What systems/metrics/processes do we need to measure and track winning?

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 22, 2021

Engineering manager interviews are some of the toughest in the tech industry. Not only do you need to demonstrate your technical prowess and experience with designing complex systems, you also need to showcase your soft skills in people management. Managing Individuals How do you run 1:1s with your team?

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 29, 2021

This year I developed a new reading approach, in which I read several books in parallel, usually from different topics. Strategy is visible as coordinated action imposed on a system. It is an exercise in centralized power used to overcome the natural workings of a system. When I say the strategy is “imposed,” I mean just that.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 8, 2024

As you read on, you will learn: The power of search engines, content marketing, and existing user testimonials and how to leverage them to win new users. Leverage search engine optimization (SEO) in your marketing strategy Identify relevant keywords related to your product or service and optimize your website content accordingly.

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TechEmpower - Product Management

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

When speaking with founders and CEOs, we often hear concerns like this: My project manager is losing confidence in the development team. I think that poor communication and differing team cultures might be part of the problem, but how can I know for sure? This is where a technical review can be useful!)

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Split

MARCH 19, 2024

A few dead flags in your code base are annoying and add unneeded complexity, but the more you have, the more this risk compounds. So, at a previous company, we decided to fix the problem by putting a hard limit on the number of feature flags in the system: we could only have 150 flags in our monolith at any given time.

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Modus Create

AUGUST 24, 2021

Software engineers have been testing ever since they could write code. However, the ability to automate software tests commercially emerged only in the 1980s with the introduction of AutoTester. Unit testing is a type of software testing where individual units or software components are tested.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

Data science has traditionally been an analysis-only endeavor: using historical statistics, user interaction trends, or AI machine learning to predict the impact of deterministically coded software changes. Provide Much Deeper Context than Traditional Software Projects, Especially Use Cases and Business Goals. We versus They.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2021

As it turns out, he’s also quite the writer – since the last time we spoke , he has published not one but two books on engineering. If you’re a senior engineer and want to further your career, what skills should you develop? How do people move into staff engineering roles? They likely don’t have all the answers.

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Modus Create

APRIL 5, 2022

The fundamental issue remains not considering security while developing software. . This post aims to answer the eternal questions: Why do developers omit security? What can be done to increase security awareness while developing code? Silos in Development and Security. That is far from the truth.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

One of the challenges we've long acknowledged in the tech industry is how difficult the transition can be from a software engineer to an engineering manager due to the vast distinction in the skill set to be great at the new role. Doing this right means a lot more than simply supporting your team.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 19, 2018

As up and coming engineers in Silicon Valley, Jean Hsu and Edmond Lau long sought more influence and impact in their respective positions – but they couldn’t shake the feeling of being stuck. Many engineers feel like they must make a jump into management to lead. Jean: Especially with engineering teams.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 17, 2019

For many years CSSSR has been developing IT systems for the biggest online banks, witnessing their success firsthand. This experience has led to several key insights: You Don’t Need a Large IT Department “We operate in small teams. In-house resources were enough to develop and support these services. We execute.

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Userpilot

JUNE 22, 2021

To provide the best onboarding experience, you naturally need the best onboarding software for SaaS. In this post, we will very briefly discuss what to look for in the best onboarding software for SaaS for you, and then move on to analyzing the top 6 choices you may want to consider. Which is the best onboarding software for you?

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

There are enough stories of data breaches and cyber attacks to chill even the savviest security engineer to the core. An aerospace engineer turned entrepreneur, Adam learned early the best way to earn trust was proving you deserve it. Cyber security and compliance, it turns out, is in demand. Less than a year later, Drata was launched.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 14, 2022

If you're interviewing for solutions architect roles, don't miss our Complete System Design Interview Course. As a solutions architect, you're the main technical resource for your company's sales team, and can provide a critical job function in a company's growth.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 4, 2022

It’s a linear, top-down approach, whereas growth loops are closed-loop systems where the process generates new inputs by design. Funnels aren’t enough to drive product growth because they create functional silos within teams, they’re expensive and time-consuming to constantly feed since they only flow in one direction.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

TL;DR Heap is a digital insights platform that allows product teams to track user behavior in mobile and web-based applications. While Userpilot is developing funnel analysis functionality, you can achieve the same results by tagging and tracking Goals. This allows product teams to group users who meet certain criteria.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 12, 2020

It defines, communicates, supports, and improves important operations which can be standardized, such as communication, planning processes, team gatherings, and training. How it’s become a critical function for scaling effective product teams. Developing and maintaining a continuing education program for product managers.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Three years later I became a web application engineer at a startup that built software for military and private industries. I became director of communications, leading the development of intranets and web applications. Designers vs Developers. Tension between designers and developers was palpable.

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Tyner Blain

AUGUST 10, 2023

The Jobs of the Problem Statement This article continues a series on the three critical flaws in most product development processes a problem statement exists to address. To reduce the confusion, delays, and waste teams face as a result of not knowing why something is being asked for and not knowing what good enough looks like.

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eG Innovations

MARCH 7, 2023

Consider the scenario – You are an SRE (Site Reliability Engineer) joining a team to take charge of their Java applications. Getting a replica environment up and running is usually simple on the cloud provided you have the right IaC (Infrastructure as Code) tools set up. 2 am) will be cumbersome. . #3:

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 8, 2018

Apptimize helps teams develop better digital products with easy to deploy SDKs and a centralized dashboard for all channels. The first thing mobile teams need to understand without a shadow of a doubt is the differences between a mobile website, a hybrid app, and a native app. You know that it’s not about just having an app.

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People-First Product Leadership

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

As you can likely guess if you’ve been following this newsletter, I fall on the side of favoring collaboration as being a key area of focus for performance reviews. Performance is considered at a team, scrum or project level. Introversion or extroversion are irrelevant as its the work of the team that does the talking.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 24, 2022

As a Product Manager, at any given time you will be carrying on simultaneous conversations with developers, designers, your product team, data analysts, QA engineers, marketing, sales, possibly your executive team, client success, and of course, your users. You don’t like talking with your users Another biggie.

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UserVoice

JULY 28, 2017

If you’re a fan of the kanban system , this will become your go-to method of organization. What it is: Asana is a versatile task management solution that allows you to manage both personal and team projects. How to Use it: You can create projects and tasks within the projects, assign tasks to teammates and track progress.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

Continuous Discovery Habits by Teresa Torres teaches you how to set up a continuous discovery system within your organization with actionable exercises. Product Mastery by Geoff Watts teaches you how to be a successful product owner within agile software development practices with the use of case studies. Plot summary.

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Business of Software Conference

DECEMBER 14, 2023

As Gail Goodman said in her 2012 BoS talk, ‘ The Long, Slow SaaS Ramp of Death ’, these are all just mirages along the pathway to software company profitability. He connects this story to building a software company. What this means is, if you’re Adobe, you don’t have a choice but to buy a code review tool from us.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JANUARY 12, 2022

The best way to get ready is by reviewing some real TPM interview questions from some of the top tech companies like Facebook, Google, Amazon, and more. The responsibilities of a technical program manager are a little more big picture than that of a software engineer. System Design Interview Questions Design Instagram.

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Split

JULY 30, 2019

Review: Feature Flags For Control of Code Rollouts. The main point in What’s The Difference Between Feature Flags and Other “Flags” in Software Engineering? The main point in What’s The Difference Between Feature Flags and Other “Flags” in Software Engineering?

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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 challenge to the product managers is to translate these into a more functional plan for our engineering team.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

It is important that these friendly connections represent the target persona market you have outlined, as otherwise, the feedback loop is likely to be weak. The cost of CRM systems have fallen sharply and there is now a host of entry-level systems you can use to manage your pipeline. Iterate the product based on feedback.

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