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Technical Review: A Trusted Look Under the Hood

TechEmpower - Product Management

Most innovators don’t have a technical background, so it’s hard to evaluate the truth of the situation. And unless they have a tech background, they can’t look under the hood themselves. The answer is to engage a trusted outside source for a Technical Review – a deep-dive assessment that provides a C-suite perspective.

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How to Become a Technical Program Manager

The Product HQ

Becoming a technical program manager is a dream for many. Technical program managers are the ones who handle all technical projects for their respective organizations. A reliable technical program manager oversees a program from initiation to completion.

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Core responsibility: How we scaled our core technologies team

Intercom, Inc.

It’s a familiar problem for all companies that scale fast – how do you keep your core technologies manageable for the increasing number of teams that depend on them? How our core technologies were being used was also diverging, leading to needlessly increased complexity in our systems. Our first challenge – Elasticsearch.

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How technical conservatism helps us scale faster and better

Intercom, Inc.

But when we make technical decisions, we like to be conservative. In practice, being technically conservative looks like reusing existing technologies and frameworks in our stack, or promoting tried and tested patterns and solutions. Here, Waheed discusses our engineering principle “Be technically conservative”.

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10 technical strategies to avoid when scaling your startup (and 5 to embrace)

Intercom, Inc.

From premature optimization to over-engineering solutions for your product, it’s easy to get caught up in making technology decisions that slow you down instead of speeding you up. So when it comes to building your technical strategy, you need to assess each component in relation to what success will look like for your business.

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The ultimate customer support tech stack for 2022

Intercom, Inc.

But in today’s fast-paced world, your customer support can only be as effective as the technology that underpins it. Study after study shows that the vast majority of support teams are unhappy with their current customer support tech stacks. Download The Ultimate Modern Support Tech Stack guide. Is your tech stack ready?

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Creating a Value Based Resume – Stop TELLING and Start SELLING

Product Management University

Here we are in the early part of 2023 and so many of my talented friends, former colleagues and customers have fallen victim to the mass layoffs in high tech. Product Management Leader), a positioning statement or career objective followed by work experience, hard/soft skills, education, and other interests. I wish I had a magic wand.