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A Deep Dive into the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

The Product Coalition

The Software Development Life Cycle provides a practical framework you can apply to your product and improve your processes. With the support of the SDLC, You can track and control your calendar, and increase productivity and speed of development. The first step is of course Planning, so let’s get to work.

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Product Dogfooding in Software Development: A Quick Guide (+Best Practices)

Userpilot

The term comes from a commercial and was first used in the software context by a Microsoft manager in 1988. And Userpilot, of course. First, you teach them how to use the product so that they can test it thoroughly without relying on the customer support team or software developers for guidance.

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Junior Software Developer Interview Tips

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

🧠 Check out Exponent's full software developer interview course. Or, review the most common junior developer interview questions from our question database. It's no secret that the job market is challenging now, and breaking into tech as a junior developer can be especially difficult.

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Is open-source software destined to be our future?

The Product Coalition

Open-source software has proven its potential for accessibility, connected developers, and reduced expenses. Is open source software the inevitable future? Consider how open-source software has impacted the world. It invented the World Wide Web and distant collaborative development, which the epidemic mainstreamed.

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Five star advice: Insider tips for dealing with software review sites

Intercom, Inc.

Some 84% of people trust online reviews as much as a personal recommendations, reason enough why every business should be concerned with who reviews their product and what they have to say about it. What do we mean by the term “review sites”? Not all review sites are made equal. Peer review sites.

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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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The Software Development Deli Counter

Mironov Consulting

I’ve noticed a frequent executive-level misalignment of expectations across a range of software/tech companies, particularly in B2B/Enterprise companies and where Sales/Marketing is geographically far away from Engineering/Product Management. Let’s call it the software development deli counter problem.