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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. Or does this whole tech career thing support the writing? Architect, Tech Lead, Solver, and Right Hand. I don’t know.

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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. Slack uses Slack to stay connected?—?2000+

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30 Steps to Mobile App Launch

Alchemer Mobile

To make your job a little easier, we’ve curated a list of resources to the submission processes of the three most popular app stores: Apple App Store Review Guidelines. Use this as an opportunity to crowdsource quality assurance and ensure a relatively bug-free experience once you release your public app.

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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. Crowdsourcing can help you collect feedback and generate ideas from diverse people and perspectives. What is crowdsourcing? Why crowdsource product ideas.

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Business model first–and other innovation insights for product managers Aug 19, 2016 - The Everyday Innovator – Resources for Product Managers and Innovators

Product Innovation Educators

Should product managers be technical? Some stress technical skills and even engineering or computer science degrees. For some organizations, technical chops are most important for product managers, but this is not the norm. Read just how technical (or not) you need to be… https://under10consulting.com/articles/technical/.

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

Intercom, Inc.

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. Then, because budgets and resources are undoubtedly restricted, they must learn how to do more – with less.

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Crowdtesting – all you need to know

Usersnap

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. Crowdsourcing happens online.