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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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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. We introduced regular alert review sessions for teams dealing with frequent alerts.

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How to Hire an Engineering Consultant

The Product Coalition

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. To create such solutions, companies need software engineering professionals who can provide the expertise required. Let’s dive right in. by the year 2024.

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The Benefits of Leveraging Feature Toggles in Software Development

Split

Feature Toggles, or feature flags as they’re often called, are a powerful tool for software engineers. Feature toggles have become increasingly popular among software developers. This is probably due to their ability to improve agility, accelerate time-to-market velocity, and increase reliability. Take notes! Take notes!

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Building Intercom from home: Software delivery in challenging times

Intercom, Inc.

We’d like to share some insights from what we’ve learned so far about software delivery and operations over the past few weeks of working from home during COVID-19 , and how we as an engineering team have adjusted to this unprecedented, unpredictable situation. What information do we need to figure this out?

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Continuous Improvement: How It’s Important for Software Developers

The Product Coalition

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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Two Development Team Configurations I Lobby Against

Mironov Consulting

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