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How Delta Testing Keeps the Focus on Customer Delight During Agile

Centercode

One of the greatest traits of agile development is that it allows teams to respond to customer desires quickly. Unlike the avalanche of changes you’d release every so often under Waterfall, this snowball approach of cumulative product evolution over time enables teams to act on what customers want, when they want it.

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

Intercom, Inc.

If you’re a senior engineer and want to further your career, what skills should you develop? Moving forward in your career, avoid the trap of doing work that feels high-impact, but it’s actually not , or work that makes you look good at the expense of the project and the team. How do people move into staff engineering roles?

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30 Steps to Mobile App Launch

Alchemer Mobile

According to an InMobi survey , the number one challenge facing app developers today isn’t design or development. The bad news? You don’t need a big budget or a dedicated marketing team to market your app. Participating in these groups is a great way to conduct market research (What is your target market talking about?

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Why You Need to Keep MOATs Front and Center in Your Product Roadmap Strategies

Bain Public

The product manager’s role is to help determine the product mission that will lead their team on a path to achieving goals, transforming visions from strategy to execution. A bad example would be Yahoo. Remember that great companies will reinforce their MOAT(s) early and often. It’s also about strategic acquisition of IP.

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Black Women’s Business Collective founder Zanade Mann on advocating for your peers

Intercom, Inc.

What began as a crowdsourcing initiative quickly evolved into an ecosystem where women can access funding, business training, and community building to help their businesses scale. ” And because of my background in business solutions, business development, marketing, communications, education, I’m used to planning.

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Finding & Nurturing Top Talent | Elpie Bannister & Alex Yang | BoS Europe 2019

Business of Software Conference

In this informative BoS Talk, Alex Yang and Elpie Bannister take us through the Simprints’ method of finding, hiring, nurturing, and developing top talent and explain a few of the processes they had to go through to hone this skill. How do you still manage to assemble a superstar team before you dive in.

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Humans Are Awesome/Terrible At Risk Management | Andy Ellis, Akamai | BoS USA 2019

Business of Software Conference

And now what happens out of something like this is you’ll do a thing that your security professional thinks is bad. They’re pretty bad at it. This is actually crowdsourced words I didn’t even come up with these on my own. So, I started with this concept that we think people make bad decisions. This is great.