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Building Resolution Bot: How to apply machine learning in product development

Intercom, Inc.

ML products also require us to manage relatively large technology risks – this is an area where, unlike in most other product development, technical limitations might render the entire design impossible. New software engineers quickly learn that a lot of complexity arises from error handling. Case study: Resolution Bot.

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Product Bugs: A Comprehensive Guide?—?Part 1

The Product Coalition

Some people want to believe that they won’t happen or don’t want to talk about them so that they don’t risk being seen as bad at their job. I’ve never seen a roadmap naming the bugs a team wants to introduce?—?but For our purposes, we’re going to use the same definition for product bugs. of the gross domestic product.”

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The new dawn of Machine Learning

Intercom, Inc.

ML teams tend to invest a fair share of resources in research that never ships. If you want to invest in ML, hire someone with experience on both the tech and the operational side so they can start working with the product team from day one. Des Traynor: So, maybe just a couple of dictionary definitions. Fergal Reid: Exactly.

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Stripe’s Will Larson on engineering and infrastructure management

Intercom, Inc.

They’re the ones making sure your app is secure, that uptime looks good, and that the rest of your engineering org has the right tools to build features your users need and want. Will Larson has managed infrastructure teams for some of the biggest names in software. The tenets of foundation engineering at Stripe.

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Scrum Development Team Anti-Patterns

The Product Coalition

TL; DR: Development Team Anti-Patterns After covering the Scrum Master and the Product Owner, this article addresses Development Team anti-patterns, covering all Scrum Events as well as the Product Backlog artifact. Only members of the Development Team create the Increment. Source : Scrum Guide 2017.

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Technical Women Are Software Managers

Johanna Rothman

Up until the mid-80s, many of the software engineering jobs were for special-purpose machines or applications. Too many of these educated people had no idea how to work as a collaborative team. They acted as if they were indispensable or 10x developers. What's so bad about that? Can't people catch up?

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How do we feel about being called ‘women in tech’?

Intercom, Inc.

We’ve reached out to a few of our colleagues on Intercom’s R&D team to hear their reflections on the movement and what the term “women in tech” means for them. What’s in a name? ” Recently, myself and the Content team were discussing the different ways we could approach this important topic.