The Product Coalition

JANUARY 27, 2024

Software development with sustainability in mind is a rising trend in digital spaces. I would like to thank Tremis Skeete, Executive Editor of Product Coalition, for his valuable contributions to this article's research, development, and writing. Let’s explore how and why this matters. It comprises of four components: 1.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JANUARY 7, 2025

For much more hands-on learning, sign up for Colin’s live four-week cohort-based course on AI prototyping , where you’ll master AI prototyping tools, debug common issues, and build a fundamental understanding of how coding works. Use code “LENNYSLIST” to get $100 off. Enrollment closes January 23rd.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Engineers are often reluctant to participate in discovery. This is only natural: Through years of bad habits, many of us have shown engineers that we only value them for the code they can write. But there are many reasons why engineers are one of the essential members of the product trio. And this is a good thing.

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Product Talk

APRIL 9, 2025

Today, Ill be covering the most common usability issues that arise when developers start working with a new API. When engineers encounter friction when learning a new API, it reduces their likelihood of having success with your product. Remember, an API defines a pre-defined language for how code can interact with another service.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

We had just hired a new VP of Product who was radically (and rapidly) changing our product development process, and our engineers – based remotely, in Argentina – were struggling to keep up. “To Well, before, product knew what was going on and engineering didn’t.” and one engineer in Iceland. So, what can one do?

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The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Chris Butler, lead a conversation around “Business Development vs. Product Management”. He translates complex business problems into solutions that are easily consumed by engineering, marketing and sales. Vikas started his career as software developer with Siemens.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 18, 2022

Continuous improvement is a continual process to improve components of enterprise software?—?processes, Regardless of today’s software development aspect, increasing demand for new features in the products makes competitive advantage higher than ever. Changes can be large or small, which depends on the software projects.

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Arkenea

APRIL 10, 2025

In a fastmoving digital economy, many organizations leverage outsourced software product development to accelerate innovation, control costs, and tap into global expertise. Rather than building and maintaining a large inhouse team, businesses partner with specialized vendors to handle design, development, testing, and deployment.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JANUARY 14, 2025

Core 4 pulls everything they’ve learned from working with thousands of teams into a single unified developer productivity framework. 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.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

The conflict between launching new features versus improving the code quality is real and never ending. And sometime during the sprint, the development team realizes that if we want to implement it the correct way - ensuring engineering best practices, it will overspill and is not feasible to complete in the earlier planned timelines.’

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Product Talk

APRIL 16, 2025

But then, one day, I found myself reading Ask Your Developer by Jeff Lawson and I realized I was the one making the mistake. Dont Ask Humans to Do Tasks That Should Be Automated If you arent familiar with Ask Your Developer, its a great read. Its written to help non-engineers understand the value of software engineering.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 6, 2021

In today’s competitive business environment, technology is increasingly shaping the strategies that companies develop to try to outdo their competition. One of the main examples of this are the customized software applications that companies are rushing to develop to allow them to better connect with their users.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 11, 2020

And while seeing this work come to fruition, Sam, a Product Engineer at Intercom, was inspired to find more ways to get involved. My team’s lead engineer stopped what he was doing and announced to the all-male room, ‘Looks like the token female engineer has arrived.’ She published it in our Slack channel with over 200 members.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 2, 2021

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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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 12, 2021

From premature optimization to over-engineering solutions for your product, it’s easy to get caught up in making technology decisions that slow you down instead of speeding you up. Don’t add to your stack unless you’re certain that your use case will not be satisfied by existing software. The top ten technical strategies to avoid.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 30, 2017

The team had been working for almost a year and had a huge amount of code under their belts. But just because it was a lot of code doesn’t mean it worked. The relationship between QA and Engineering was bordering on food fights, and we’d only achieved half of our requirements. We’d made great code. How did I get here?

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Mironov Consulting

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Product management doesn’t run Engineering; Engineering runs Engineering. And at least in public, Engineering and Product leadership need to be shoulder-to-shoulder , actively supporting each other at every turn. But there are some engineering team configurations that I see as problematic.  So

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 20, 2021

However, I didn’t receive any particular instructions except for one: I should familiarize the group with Java basics and then later transfer them to the QA automation engineer mentor as soon as possible. Well, I’d never worked with testers or rather I’d never taught testers how to code. Who is a QA Automation engineer?

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Sachin Rekhi

APRIL 5, 2020

One practice that both companies established was weekly executive-level metrics reviews. I've come to believe that establishing such a metrics review meeting is critical for developing an effective data-driven culture and I wanted to share some of the best practices around doing so. Why metrics reviews matter.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 3, 2020

Their team was busy working and coding the product but nothing had been officially released yet. Rahul admits this was due to him not believing that they had product/market fit. The post The Product Market Fit Engine by Rahul Vohra appeared first on Mind the Product. Measuring Product/Market Fit.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 11, 2021

It breathes life into your engineering team, and teams across the company, as customer issues and requests are resolved quickly and efficiently. Production is the only place where your code, infrastructure, and customers come together to represent objective reality. Here at Intercom, we believe in shipping as quickly as possible. .

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients.

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The Product Guy

DECEMBER 6, 2018

On one hand, everybody expected me to focus on the problems that will help them to succeed in their workflows or function, and on the other hand, I had limited time to give all the problems their due attention it. He completed his MBA from UNC Kenan-Flagler (USA) and Engineering in Computer Science from BIT Mesra, India.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 9, 2019

In my company, we review a living document with our management chain on a quarterly basis to align business direction for the short-term (immediate one to two quarters) to the long-term (two to five years). The challenge to the product managers is to translate these into a more functional plan for our engineering team. Second Attempt.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Recently, at Hemnet, Sweden’s beloved property platform, she led product development that drove a 130% increase in top line revenues, making it the growth engine of the business. This evolution in understanding reflects broader changes in how modern organizations approach product development.

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TechEmpower - Product Management

AUGUST 21, 2023

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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Product Management Unpacked

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

CMU Master of Science in Product Management program student Erick Valencia landed a PM experience of a lifetime as part of a student team developing a driverless race car system to race in the Indy Autonomous Challenge. As a business engineer, just like a Product Manager, you’re trained to perform different key roles in an organization.”.

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Product Talk

MAY 14, 2025

We discussed the most common challenges developers face when starting with a new API. Its more common for developers to decide what to build. This story stands out because as a PM, Chi used discovery tactics like customer interviewing and story mapping to shape the development of an API.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 25, 2022

At Intercom, we aim to run less software. This allows us to develop teams of deep domain experts to support and enable product engineers as they build the next generation of Intercom, and provide world class observability tooling, scaling, reliability, and secure-by-default build patterns. .

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Lenny Rachitsky

MAY 15, 2025

Depth over breadth: Revolut’s leaders deliberately go extremely deep into 7 to 10 projects (out of 100 or more running simultaneously), but at a code and technical implementation level. This eliminates the uncertainty of whether poor traction is due to a bad idea or poor execution, making feedback interpretation clearer.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 17, 2020

And while machine translation is often suited to live conversations due to the importance of responding in real-time, anything less than human translation for knowledge base articles and onboarding flows won’t make for a good customer experience – and will inevitably result in low engagement and adoption rates.

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Usersnap

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

A couple of months ago, we reviewed the new Firefox browser designed for developers. Since then most of our developers kept Google Chrome as their primary browser. With the built-in developer tools, there seems to be no further need for more tools. 16 of the best Google Chrome Extensions for developers.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 14, 2021

As a principal engineer, you can effectively be operating as a team of one – and that makes it a little trickier to manage your time. . At Intercom, we believe that a principal engineer should “set goals autonomously and at the level of scope and ambition usually associated with a team.” Engineering org needs. Personal goals.

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The Product Guy

JUNE 20, 2019

When I joined Wetu in 2014, I was the 7th employee, we had just over 100 companies using our software, we were exclusively available in Africa, and the product was already 5 years old. Since then we have grown to over 100 employees, we have more than 800 companies using our software, and we have expanded globally.

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Product Talk

JUNE 5, 2024

How can you get your engineer to participate in your product trio? Most product trios are comprised of a product manager, a designer, and an engineer. The most common form of cross-functional collaboration happens between product managers, designers, and engineers. The engineers start building.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 20, 2025

Software bugs are a budget killer for your company and a buzzkill for your users. Even with a rigorous software testing process, one pesky bug always slips through. In 2014, a software error on Amazon caused some items to drop to just one penny. Engineering teams are pulled away from planned projects to investigate.

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