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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. These are classic inflection points for a development team.

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Algolia’s Sarah Dayan on what sets a staff plus engineer apart

Intercom, Inc.

When you reach senior level on an engineering track, you’re expected to be optimal in your hard skill set. Despite not having a formal education in engineering, Sarah landed a job as a developer in the French consultant Grand Manitou. Then, four years ago, in 2018, she got a job at Algolia as a software engineer.

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Intercom presents Engineer Chats

Intercom, Inc.

For the very first time, we’re releasing Engineer Chats , an internal podcast here at Intercom about all things engineering. Previously hosted by Jamie Osler , a Senior Product Engineer at Intercom for over seven years, it’s now up to Principal Systems Engineer Brian Scanlan to pick up the baton and keep the chats going.

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A Tale of Two Roadmaps?—?And Why You Can’t Succeed With Only One

The Product Coalition

The first was a precise set of tasks, milestones, and deliverables for the diligent civil servants tasked with building — the engineers, designers, and product managers. In the product team’s, err, I mean civil servants’ headquarters, the roadmap was a living document, evolving like a dynamic organism.

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Successful Roadmaps Avoid One Thing: Drift

The Product Coalition

Product managers and their teams start with enthusiasm, hit the ground running, and create a solid roadmap. The whirlwind of change, driven by intense collaboration with design and engineering, was short-term focused — almost to a fault. The same is true for your roadmap — it takes more than diligence.

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7 Ways API & SDK Solutions Help Product Managers Move Faster

The Product Coalition

As a result, the best product managers thrive on their ability to move quickly, minimizing time to market for feature releases. instead, carefully chosen tools and processes help PMs and their teams gain efficiency. This all adds up to a classic example of the build vs buy dilemma in action?

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Why Product Request SLAs Fail

Mironov Consulting

” GTM leaders typically ascribe this situation to lack of attention, poor work ethic, or weak understanding of customers on the part of product management – i.e. personal failures best addressed by replacing or upgrading product staff.  Or They often propose grading product managers on answering tickets.  This