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Technical Review: A Trusted Look Under the Hood

TechEmpower - Product Management

Many CEOs of software-enabled businesses call us with a similar concern: Are we getting the right results from our software team? We hear them explain that their current software development is expensive, deliveries are rarely on time, and random bugs appear. What does a business leader do in this situation?

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Words matter: Removing exclusionary terminology from our codebase

Intercom, Inc.

It was first proposed after Benjamin Whorf, a fire safety inspector at the time, observed how oil workers treated empty oil barrels as less hazardous than full oil barrels, despite them being equally flammable due to the traces of oil remaining in them. And the response was overwhelming. The question was not, “should we do this?”

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Introducing Core 4: The best way to measure and improve your product velocity

Lenny Rachitsky

Laura Tacho is the CTO at DX , has taught over 1,000 tech leaders through her course on developer productivity metrics , and on the side is an executive coach for engineering leaders. Her background is in developer tools and distributed systems. I’ve yet to come across a software leader who isn’t.

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Conducting User Research in Product Management

The Product Guy

Jordan has enterprise Software-as-a-Service experience within the facilities management, legal and pharmaceutical verticals, having most recently worked at ServiceChannel, Epiq Systems and Medidata Solutions. Vikas started his career as software developer with Siemens. Krishna Madhuvarsu Director of Product Strategy, Oracle Inc.

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Applying Product Management to Web Design in a Multiscreen Era

The Product Guy

Jordan has enterprise Software-as-a-Service experience within the facilities management, legal and pharmaceutical verticals, having most recently worked at ServiceChannel, Epiq Systems and Medidata Solutions. Vikas started his career as software developer with Siemens. Krishna Madhuvarsu Director of Product Strategy, Oracle Inc.

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437: Product road mapping for executives to align customer needs and business strategy – with Maziar Adl

Product Innovation Educators

How product mangers can improve collaboration in cross-functional teams Today we are talking with Maziar Adl, the co-founder and CTO of Gocious, an organization that creates product roadmap management software. Many of the tools product managers use on a day-to-day basis are engineering-focused ticketing systems.

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Rapid response: How we fixed our on call process to avoid engineer burnout

Intercom, Inc.

Being on call out of office hours is inherently disruptive to your life. Uptime is influenced by many factors such as the software architecture and the quality of day to day operations. Back in the early days of Intercom, our CTO Ciaran was the entirety of the on call team, both in and out of the office.