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Common Usability Issues with Web APIs: And How Discovery Can Help

Product Talk

Remember, an API defines a pre-defined language for how code can interact with another service. If that language is not well documented, then engineers wont know how to construct requests or interpret responses. Field names werent descriptive and no further context was provided. Watch as the customer reviews the documentation.

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A Step-by-Step Guide to Constructing a Persona Workshop

Mind the Product

His name is Eric. Eric is a senior developer at a medium-sized software company. Eric loves coding and is passionate about new products. Company name. As the name of this exercise promises: we developed a 20/20 vision of Eric’s needs. Review Your Marketing Strategy. Review the messages on your website.

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Succeeding with Product Delivery and Scrum: 10 Tips for Product People

Roman Pichler

Note that frequently adapting your product requires that it’s easy to modify the code. If the software is brittle and the code quality is poor, changing the product will take longer and be more expensive. It is therefore worthwhile to measure the code quality and minimise technical debt. Third, form a product team.

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Five Product Owner Myths Busted

Roman Pichler

I have always regarded the Scrum product owner as an agile product manager, and I find it an unfortunate mistake that SAFe use the same name for its tactical product role. Unlike traditional approaches to software development, Scrum does not offer the role of a project manager.

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The ultimate marketing technology stack for 2019

Intercom, Inc.

By early 2018, Brinker had updated it with almost 2,000 more vendors — that’s nearly 7,000 marketing software companies fighting for the same buyers’ attention. The reasons for this growth – high-velocity economics of software innovation, the migration of money from old media to new media, etc.

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How to prepare for engineering interview assignments

Intercom, Inc.

Through the looking glass – empathy for the reviewer. It’s useful when putting together a take-home test submission to build a little empathy for the reviewer. Reviewers typically won’t execute your code so consider providing some sample output. Your reviewer is human. Need to learn how to do this?

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How I Write

Sachin Rekhi

Book reviews. With these, I try to bring a personal perspective to the book review as opposed to simply summarizing it. What they realized in preparing these decks was that they would waste a lot of time finalizing slides only to have the presentation dramatically altered after reviewing it with the partner on the project.