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Reddit’s Nick Caldwell on engineering leadership

Intercom, Inc.

On day one as Reddit’s new VP of Engineering, Nick Caldwell faced a dilemma. He had just spent 13 years at Microsoft, most recently as the head of 300 engineers. At Reddit, he led a team of 35 – none of whom knew how to manage other engineers. Nick Caldwell: I’m VP of engineering at Reddit.

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Don’t Miss These Speakers at #mtpcon San Francisco

Mind the Product

Originally trained as a scientist, he’s had job titles ranging from scientist, to engineer, to product manager, to designer, and even professor. He is the co-author of both Design Sprint (O’Reilly, 2015) and Product Roadmaps Relaunched (O’Reilly, 2017). Kate Leto, Product Coach. Tom Coates, Co-Founder of Thington.

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Top App Development Agencies 2018–2019

The Product Coalition

Glassdoor’s Employees’ Choice Award in 2017 , five W3 awards, People’s Choice Webby Award in 2018, and the Appy Awards Winner?—?Gold Dave Weiss, CTO BabyCenter LLC, Johnson & Johnson “The biggest success for us was having WillowTree take over the app.”? —?Vice Chris Weldon Prospect Hill Advisors, LLC 12.

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10 Years of Balsamiq: What I’ve Learned | Peldi Guilizzoni, Balsamiq | BoS USA 2018

Business of Software Conference

On realizing he’s still too integral to the business, Peldi started the ‘Winter 2018 Injected Turbulence Project’ – delegated product design and engineering management, deleted Slack and witter from his phone, and stopped watching their internal wiki. And then I realized that there was a lot I needed to coach.

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The ‘Balance’ Audit: An Honest Inventory on Gender Equality at StubHub

StubHub

Vaishali Gandhi , Head of Data Engineering & Delivery (San Francisco, CA): An organization that allows an individual to grow their career and fulfill their family duties is a “balanced” work environment. This comes from a 2017 McKinsey Report. We haven’t reached the ideal goal by any measure. to list a few. This stuck with me.

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10 Easy Ways To Irritate Your Design Team | Jane Austin, Babylon Health | BoS Europe 2018

Business of Software Conference

So the Quad has Product, ExD (that’s our design team) the Tech team and we have the Agile delivery coach (in other organizations this might be the delivery manager). Then you have tech and then from tech we move to Agile delivery coach who facilitates this team to make great decisions and between them they delight customers.