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Intercom, Inc.
AUGUST 18, 2022
When you reach senior level on an engineering track, you’re expected to be optimal in your hard skill set. You’re autonomous, your code is immaculate, and you have a deep understanding of building and shipping software. Then, four years ago, in 2018, she got a job at Algolia as a software engineer.
Roman Pichler
FEBRUARY 11, 2020
Be Clear on What a Software Platform Is. Different people have suggested different definitions for the term software platform. Let me briefly share mine: I view such a platform as a collection of software assets that are used by several products, as the following picture illustrates. But platforms come with potential drawbacks.
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Intercom, Inc.
OCTOBER 31, 2019
Many engineers who make the transition to a management role face a bit of a conundrum – if I stop doing hands-on work, my team will lose a strong engineer and instead will gain an inexperienced manager. Therefore, coding activities may become a distraction from what is really important in your new position.
The Product Coalition
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
We’re well overdue a conversation about Product Managers and technical skills. It doesn’t seem to matter how many times the industry tries to reassure newcomers that you don’t need to be a full stack software engineer to be a good Product Manager. And yet…we all seem to stay hung up on technical skills.
Intercom, Inc.
FEBRUARY 26, 2018
by Rich Archbold, Senior Director of Engineering at Intercom. 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. When I say “execute”, I don’t simply mean the engineering challenges of building something.
Product Talk
MARCH 13, 2024
Instead, they hand off work from team to team—the back-end engineers design the data model and system architecture, the front-end engineers build the interface elements, the mobile engineers work toward feature parity, etc. These teams can rarely deliver value on their own. Click the image to see a larger version.
The Product Coalition
JULY 1, 2021
Tech Spikes are a useful activity for your product development team to perform when you need to explore how you are going to solve a challenging problem. This practical guide to Tech Spikes covers why you would do a tech spike, what they are, when to use them and how to run one. usually writing code?—?is
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