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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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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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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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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. Game console makers have always integrated hardware and software.

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Product Discovery Anti-Patterns Leading to Failure

The Product Coalition

software is eating the world?—?, Example : The Secret Tesla Motors Master Plan (just between you and me) from August 2nd, 2006.) They are supposed to code as it is easier to hire an additional UX designer by comparison. Building the wrong thing due to isolating the engineers is, for several reasons, incredibly expensive.

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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. part of this is a result of my work but a part is also due to my style but it is also due to the nature of my job (coaching organizations). I had only worked in waterfall projects and was not impressed.”

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