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. New situation, new processes?

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Split

APRIL 29, 2021

Companies that invest constantly in tools to help engineering teams reduce the cycle time show a higher degree of employee satisfaction, leading to less employee frustration and higher retention over time. The next tier down, the highly successful engineering orgs have cycle time at one week or less. Time to First Review.

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Product Talk

MARCH 13, 2024

Instead, they hand off work from team to team—the back-end engineers design the data model and system architecture, the front-end engineers build the interface elements, the mobile engineers work toward feature parity, etc. These teams can rarely deliver value on their own. Click the image to see a larger version.

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Mironov Consulting

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Product management doesn’t run Engineering; Engineering runs Engineering. And at least in public, Engineering and Product leadership need to be shoulder-to-shoulder , actively supporting each other at every turn. But there are some engineering team configurations that I see as problematic.  So

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 21, 2022

Trying to better understand the software engineer career path? Want to know what your next steps are as an engineer as you make your way to CTO? An engineering career can go in many different directions depending on your technical skill set and what you want out of a job. We've got your covered.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 18, 2022

Continuous improvement is a continual process to improve components of enterprise software?—?processes, Regardless of today’s software development aspect, increasing demand for new features in the products makes competitive advantage higher than ever. Changes can be large or small, which depends on the software projects.

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Modus Create

MAY 3, 2023

In engineering-driven organizations, product management can be very feature-focused. Engineering teams likely have a history of delivering features and delivering them very fast. UX practices and people are investments; you must do your due diligence like any investment. False: “We don’t need to user test.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

The conflict between launching new features versus improving the code quality is real and never ending. And sometime during the sprint, the development team realizes that if we want to implement it the correct way - ensuring engineering best practices, it will overspill and is not feasible to complete in the earlier planned timelines.’

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Modus Create

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Automated tests can help to speed up delivery, reduce errors, and save testing engineers time to run comprehensive and complex tests. However, before automating all test cases, it is necessary to make a rigorous assessment of what can be automated, when, how, and what cost and effort is required to achieve the goal.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

As engineers, one of the fundamental things we have to learn is the extent to which we can break things – how do we get the right balance between shipping safely and shipping fast? Almost 3 years in as a product engineer here, I have changed my perspective. Shipping with such a setup changes how you think about building software.

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TechEmpower - Product Management

MARCH 4, 2024

In the sphere of software engineering , AI is pivotal for corporate IT by automating coding, optimizing algorithms, and enhancing security to boost efficiency and minimize downtime. By automating routine and complex tasks alike, AI allows engineers to focus on innovation and strategic tasks.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

In this in-depth review, we’ll explore the features, benefits, and limitations of Mixpanel Analytics and why you might need to find a better alternative for you. A/B testing in Mixpanel helps you track user interactions to determine which version of a feature or product works best. A/B testing experiments.

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Split

AUGUST 3, 2023

Mitigating risks in AI software development requires a combination of best practices, careful considerations, and proactive measures. Robust Testing and Validation Implement rigorous testing methodologies to validate AI models and their performance. Here are some key steps to help navigate the industry trend.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JULY 6, 2020

Whether it be software engineers, data scientists, IT specialists, it now seems standard for companies to have open positions that can't be filled. Source: [link] As such, computer science and coding bootcamps have emerged as a popular choice for those seeking to enter the tech industry and obtain one of these open positions.

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Modus Create

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

The surface area for testing software has never been so broad. Testing apps require a bigger budget for tools and resources compared to programming. Earlier software developers used to write code and testers checked it for quality. This allows you to concentrate on the most important aspect of testing — thinking.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 16, 2022

This article is part of our series on Security Engineering. If you're interviewing for engineering roles, don't miss our Complete Software Engineering Interview Course. This is not only because of the importance of the discipline but because the supply of qualified security engineers is too little.

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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. In this article, we will explain why you should write unit tests. . What is Unit Testing?

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Atlassian

JANUARY 13, 2022

They wanted to speed up long-distance calls, leading them to release a complex software upgrade. Later, they found that the software upgrade contained one line of buggy code, leading to cascading switch failures that ultimately snowballed into a huge problem. That’s why improving your code quality is necessary.

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Mixpanel

JANUARY 3, 2022

Engineers are always looking for ways to differentiate themselves. As data-driven product development continues to balloon in popularity, so does the need for accurate and sophisticated implementation of analytics tracking in software products. One of those niches that’s become more valuable in recent years: product analytics.

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Business of Software Conference

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Software, to the average person, is pretty boring. How to Write Copy for Your Software Company 1. Search Amazon for customer reviews on industry-related products or books. One study tested how bottled water brands can use personality in their branding to improve consumer brand recognition and preference.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Content testing is how you ensure that your content is relatable and well-perceived by your audience. Content testing is a form of user experience research that measures the quality and performance of content. By running regular tests and improving upon the results, you can boost your conversion and retention rates. Everything.

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Split

MAY 1, 2024

It allows engineers to have access to an enormous amount of data about their application performance. The first thing you will need to do is download the sample code from Github and install the required Flask library. Reviewing the Code This application is a very simple web server that prints the string Hello World to the browser.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 26, 2022

Chris was looking for any helpful tools to get the process organized but wondered to find out that there wasn’t any relevant software at that moment: “I couldn’t find any real-time solutions in the market, and I started to think, this is crazy. That is how EveryPig evolved to an AI-based solution and became a vet tech software product.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 9, 2020

Software development is one of the few highly skilled occupations that doesn’t require any professional certification. To fill growing demand for skilled developers, coding bootcamps began popping up in 2012. Course Report has followed the coding bootcamp industry since 2013. Career Karma’s Online Coding Bootcamp Guide for 2020.

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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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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Here’s how working with APIs and SDKs allows PMs (and the engineers they collaborate with) move faster than ever before. Accelerated Feasibility Analysis, Proof of Concept, & Prototyping API solutions function out of the box, tend to offer free trials , and can usually be integrated by pasting and modifying just a few lines of code.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 13, 2021

Our product engineers are empowered to build great features, fast. A large part of making this belief a reality is the idea of running less software. So we decided to do something contrary to our engineering principles – run our search infrastructure ourselves on Elastic Compute Cloud hosts, or EC2 as it’s known.

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Split

MARCH 10, 2023

Believe it or not, this is also true of software architecture. Engineers love to crank out code. Why Care About Software Architecture? The Agile Manifesto starts with, and is fairly well summarized with the following sentence: We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 30, 2021

The pressure is only increasing due to the influence of the pandemic, as more consumers begin to shift their preference to the comforts of home. With that in mind, software quality comes to the fore. Unfortunately, within the eCommerce field, high-priced data breaches occur frequently due to the influx of pandemic-related web traffic.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2019

A startup development team consisting of a product manager and two offshore engineers was facing major challenges in meeting client deliverable deadlines – repeatedly. Each major release deadline created a high pressure environment with engineers working overtime in the weeks prior in order to meet delivery dates. THE CHALLENGE.

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

  They are coming off customer calls, strategy sessions, renewal discussions, marketing automation planning sessions, compliance reviews, and industry analyst briefings that highlight improvements that must be made.  ”)  Building software is a complex intellectual team exercise, not simply reading specs or typing. 

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Usersnap

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

A couple of months ago, we reviewed the new Firefox browser designed for developers. This is a tool that helps teams manage group inboxes like engineering@ and bugs@, right from Gmail. f19N Obtrusive Live Test. This Chrome extension for developers is a sandboxed, extendable Webpage Testing Framework. Link: Hiver.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

Are you looking for the best strategies on how to market software products? Marketing software products can be challenging with the abundance of tools out there saying they do everything for everyone. How is marketing for software products different? What does a software marketing strategy for SaaS looks like?

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Split

APRIL 6, 2021

When you run a simple A/B test, you divide your users into two groups: the control, which receives the existing baseline functionality, and the treatment, which receives the new proposed change. If you choose to run the tests sequentially, the time to reach a final decision will be dependent on the combined length of all experiments.

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Split

JUNE 21, 2023

Feature toggles are a powerful tool that developers can use to deploy code changes quickly and efficiently. They allow developers to test features in production without exposing them to end-users. This means that they can test new features quickly and easily, with minimal risk.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 23, 2021

When it comes to building financial software, the importance of great design skyrockets. And it’s great that more open-minded companies understand how important it is to think about all social groups when it comes to using the software. How to make sure that such software products are truly universal?

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Split

APRIL 8, 2024

Testing Generative AI Models: The Use Case This is all fine and well, but you might want to try out a couple of different models for your particular use case. You want to test a few things to reduce the compute required of the image generation. Starting Code We can start with a basic Stable Diffusion code sample.

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