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Leveraging Software Platforms

Roman Pichler

Be Clear on What a Software Platform Is. Different people have suggested different definitions for the term software platform. Let me briefly share mine: I view such a platform as a collection of software assets that are used by several products, as the following picture illustrates. But platforms come with potential drawbacks.

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TDD + data driven with Jest

StubHub

During my years as developer, I have faced several troubles in production due to bugs. For me, this is a huge problem because I love to sleep, and I cannot sleep well if I have doubts about the quality of my code. Because of this, I started some years ago to study how to sleep well, which came down to learning about testing my code.

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Releasing Software and Stress

Split

The best developers pride themselves on delivering quality code without cutting corners. Feature flags enable their trunk-based development practices, where smaller iterations of code can be written and reviewed independently. This cuts down on review times, making it quicker and easier for them to ship code.

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Five star advice: Insider tips for dealing with software review sites

Intercom, Inc.

Some 84% of people trust online reviews as much as a personal recommendations, reason enough why every business should be concerned with who reviews their product and what they have to say about it. What do we mean by the term “review sites”? Not all review sites are made equal. Peer review sites.

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If You Build It, They Will Come: A Guide to Customer Onboarding

Speaker: Jamie Bernard, Sr. Product Director and Product Management Practice Lead at Nexient, an NTT Data Company

Creating new software and releasing it into the marketplace to achieve wild success is the dream! In this webinar we will review: The elements of good customer onboarding. Examples of successful product onboarding strategies. "If you build it, they will come” is an idea that runs rampant in organizations.

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A Deep Dive into the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

The Product Coalition

The Software Development Life Cycle provides a practical framework you can apply to your product and improve your processes. You should be able to define the project scope and goals clearly by outlining the objectives, functionalities, and features of the software. It helps us meet customers’ demands, needs, and expectations.

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Run Less Software

Intercom, Inc.

The same is true in software. In this battle, I’ve found a secret weapon hidden within one of our core engineering strategies, an idea called Run Less Software. As well as being a critical philosophy behind how we build software, it also represents how I feel about the software industry and technology in general.