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

Intercom, Inc.

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. How do you approach your writing projects, and do you actually want to be a writer when you grow up? I don’t know.

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The Importance of Crowdsourcing Your Product Ideas

ProductPlan

Because you are not your customer, and your customer does not always understand the possibilities and constraints of technology, you need to cast a wide net for product ideas. Otherwise, how else are you going to know what problems they still want to be solved and whether your product helps your customers solve their top of line problems?

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How we use Slack at Slack

The Product Coalition

2000+ people from 18 offices, across 10 countries, are all currently working remotely There’s no such thing as too many channels I’ve been working in and leading tech teams for a long time, and bringing people together and aligning them around a common goal is always one of the biggest challenges. So how do we do this at Slack?

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

Intercom, Inc.

Then, because budgets and resources are undoubtedly restricted, they must learn how to do more – with less. Unlike previous financial downturns, businesses have more access than ever to technology that can put their data to work. It doesn’t feel like a pipeline review. It feels like crowdsourced problem-solving.

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Crowdtesting – all you need to know

Usersnap

How did crowdtesting come about? Let’s look at the primary “Crowdsourcing” concept first. Industries are being disrupted by digital technologies today. Due to this disruption, traditional ways of innovation are insufficient. The collation of inputs from large groups is called crowdsourcing.

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The Most Under-Appreciated Product Management Skill

ProductPlan

The skills are wide-ranging, from ruthless prioritization, the ability to build consensus with stakeholders, metrics-based decision making, and a host of other business and technical skills. Crowdsourced Picks. Most of the cases, what you do daily as a PM is undefined, and to add value, one must first learn ‘how to add value.’”.

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Developing a Test Strategy for the Agile World

Centercode

” Part of what we are going to talk about is how to create test strategies for an Agile world. You must have a review session to discuss the points of the strategy document. In Waterfall, this can be done as part of the official QA review. In Agile, this could be done during Sprint Planning. Adam : Keep learning!