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Calm’s Will Larson on how to build a technical leadership career

Intercom, Inc.

As it turns out, he’s also quite the writer – since the last time we spoke , he has published not one but two books on engineering. After writing An Elegant Puzzle about the challenges of engineering management in high-growth organizations, his focus shifted to a career path that’s much less understood – the technical leadership track.

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How Delta Testing Keeps the Focus on Customer Delight During Agile

Centercode

They’re not just crowdsourced QA testers. Because they’ll know exactly what will affect their customer the most, the pre-prioritized insights provided by Delta Testing increase engineering efficiency by 10%. It’s continuous (i.e.,

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Clearbit’s VP of Customer Success on turning economic headwinds into a growth opportunity

Intercom, Inc.

Clearbit , the leading marketing data engine, has reaped the rewards of automation firsthand – leveraging it for everything from identifying churn risks to closing renewals, all without human involvement. It feels like crowdsourced problem-solving. And it’s not to blame [anyone] or point fingers. And you pose your challenge.

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How we use Slack at Slack

The Product Coalition

For instance, the engineering team uses a brain emoji to crowdsource relevant posts or documents about postmortems into #announce-postmortems, where people can stay informed about recent review meetings and their outcomes. Every week, the owner of each key result gets a ping in Slack.

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Launched — The New Product Coalition Podcast

The Product Coalition

Recordings are with product leaders, founders, co-founders or lead employees, who have a love for product management, product design or engineering. Over 3,000 articles review Since launching in 2014, I’ve read and reviewed over 3,000 product management articles?—?wow! I just stumbled across this stat last week.

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429: Innovation practices of the best companies – with Sally Kay

Product Innovation Educators

When I visited Corning, it didn’t matter whether we were visiting engineering, marketing, or sales—everybody could quote the innovation strategy. Another example is Novazymes, a biotech company, which created their own crowdsourcing platform for their employees. One of those elements is solving a significant customer problem.

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Mixpanel Community: Top posts from 2021

Mixpanel

If you didn’t know Mixpanel had a community, here’s a quick intro: With over 7,000 members, the community is designed for members to share how they’re using Mixpanel, interact directly with our engineers and Customer Support Managers, and start conversations on just about anything related. Enjoy—we’re here to help!