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Is your engineering team experiencing alert fatigue? Ask these 8 questions

Intercom, Inc.

Alert fatigue is a common problem among engineering teams that handle operations and maintain infrastructure. The result is lots of semi-meaningful alerts, noise, context-switching, and multitasking for the on-call engineer. Are the steps clear enough to be followed by any engineer on the team? Is the alert still relevant?

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When should engineering managers write code?

Intercom, Inc.

Many engineers who make the transition to a management role face a bit of a conundrum – if I stop doing hands-on work, my team will lose a strong engineer and instead will gain an inexperienced manager. When I joined Intercom, my manager asked me if I wanted to onboard as an engineer or as a manager. When should you write code?

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Product Managers Struggle To Get Dashboard Screens Correct

The Accidental Product Manager

Dashboard screens are nice to look at but hard to make correctly Image Credit: Andrea. If you’ve had a chance to jump into a new car lately, undoubtedly your attention has been drawn to the dashboard screen that just about every car has nowadays. The Problems With Dashboard Screens. What All Of This Means For You.

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Beyond launch day: How to plan successful B2B product rollouts

Mixpanel

We have a wide range of user types, from marketers to engineers to product managers and more. Working backward, the product team (engineering, product, and design) can decide how we might build the feature to ensure it’s a success based on the positioning. This is largely because of the challenges that are inherent in B2B.

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Monetizing Analytics Features: Why Data Visualizations Will Never Be Enough

But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago they may have. Discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your embedded analytics. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.

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Free vs Paid Analytics Platforms: How to Choose One (+ Best Tools in Each Category)

Userpilot

Free tools cost nothing and offer basic tools like event tracking , user segmentation, reporting features, dashboards , and visualizations, but are limited in data processing, lack customizations and technical support, and have no integrations with other apps. Analytics dashboards. A dashboard from Mixpanel. Reverse ETL.

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Product Managers Prepare To Battle For The Inside Of Your Car

The Accidental Product Manager

A battle is brewing for your car’s dashboard screen Image Credit: may bird If you think about it, all of the screens in your life have already been claimed by someone. It’s the screen that is on the dashboard of your car. Your PC screen is owned by either Microsoft or Apple. Your phone screen is owned by either Google or Apple.

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Turning Metrics into Dollars: How to Turn Your Analytics Data into a Real Financial Model for your Startup

Speaker: Tristan Kromer, Lean Agile Coach, Kromatic

increase isn't worth the engineering time we're spending! You'll learn: How to turn basic dashboard metrics into a financial model. Some teams struggle to constantly optimize conversion rates without understanding the financial impact of those conversion rates. Sometimes that 0.1% May 1, 2018 11:00 AM PST, 2:00 PM EST, 7:00 PM GMT