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Run Less Software

Intercom, Inc.

by Rich Archbold, Senior Director of Engineering at Intercom. 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. When I say “execute”, I don’t simply mean the engineering challenges of building something.

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Top 10 Countries to Outsource Software Development in 2020

The Product Coalition

As an entrepreneur, CEO, or project manager, you might be interested in outsourcing software development to another country and getting still high-quality work done for fewer costs. Likely, we understand everything that may become your subject of concern when making a decision to hire an offshore software development company.

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How Merging Purpose With Profit Redefines Product Roadmaps And Product Success

The Product Coalition

So we got to talking about a software product we had collaborated on in the past. Founded in 2006 with a unique social mission: for every pair of shoes sold, they would donate a pair to a child in need, an initiative they called “One for One.” Let’s look first at Expensify, a business software company. And I swear it’s not.

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Invisible Engines

Product Bookshelf

Invisible Engines: How Software Platforms Drive Innovation and Transform Industries by David S. “Invisible engines” are software platforms, software which makes services available to other software through Application Programming Interfaces. Evans, Andrei Hagiu, and Richard Schmalensee.

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Building What Customers Need: The Ultimate Recipe

The Product Coalition

A few days back, I was chatting with a product manager at one of the biggest software companies of our time. But as and when the engineering team started working on the solution, they came across multiple corner cases. Much to their surprise, they pulled it off the market in just three years due to a lack of consumer interest.

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From PM to CEO: How Sundar Pichai’s Background in Product Paved the Way for Becoming CEO at Google

ProductPlan

But before we dissect this pivotal moment in Google’s history and how Pichai used it to propel Google into completely new markets—and himself up the corporate ladder—let’s step back and review how he even got to that position. Life before Google.

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Top 75+ Resources for Product Managers

Sachin Rekhi

Below is a collection of my favorite vision statements from a variety of successful technology companies over the years. This collection of essays provides an overview of each of these execution activities.