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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.

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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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Product Discovery Anti-Patterns Leading to Failure

The Product Coalition

TL; DR: Product Discovery Anti-Patterns Scrum has proven to be an effective product delivery framework for all sorts of products. The wave of agile transition projects, particularly in large, established organizations over recent years, has provided those frameworks with a tremendous tailwind. software is eating the world?—?,

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Agile Movers & Shakers (1): Viktor Cessan

The Product Coalition

I had no prior knowledge of agile back then (in 2006). So to me, the work I’m doing is larger than software development. With that said it’s probably easier to look at what’s Not in my toolbox and that’s large predefined scaled agile frameworks or operating systems like holacracy. It’s not so much about being agile.

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Coda’s Shishir Mehrotra on rethinking docs from scratch

Intercom, Inc.

I went from most of my day being watching other people do things, being in meetings and reviews and so on, to all of a sudden writing specs, doing designs and trying to figure out what the product was. And they would name a bunch of software, but they’d use Docs and Sheets to do just about everything. What did we build it in?

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Remix: What You Should Know From Our Experience

Modus Create

In 2006 everybody wanted to introduce dynamic data loading (aka “Ajax”) into their PHP websites. Remix is a modern framework for building websites with React. They decided to combine their collective know-how into a framework that anyone can use repeatedly. Remix is a Developer-Friendly Full-Stack Framework.

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The 5 Pillars Of Good Design Leadership

UX Studio: Product Management

At this point I personally get a great deal of excitement because we are starting to see tremendously valuable opportunities outside the artboards in the design software and more inside the client’s organisational habits of doing product design and strategy. Going on in a complex project without any framework is not the solution though.