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Value Engineering and Build vs. Rent

Mironov Consulting

 And calling out the need for some honest discovery before we embark on major engineering efforts. This would seem obvious, but every week I discover another engineering/product organization building generic software in-house that’s not strategic to their core business.   " issues.  CRMs

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Stripe’s Will Larson on engineering and infrastructure management

Intercom, Inc.

As a startup scales, the importance of infrastructure engineers simply can’t be overstated. 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. The tenets of foundation engineering at Stripe.

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Experimental Design For Product Testing?—?Important Concepts and Considerations

The Product Coalition

Experimental Design For Product Testing?—?Important The use of controlled experiments to understand and test ideas also extends to the online world, in the form of A/B testing. Lots have been written on the topic of highly successful tech companies such as Google, Amazon and others using A/B testing to iterate on ideas quickly.

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Reddit’s Nick Caldwell on engineering leadership

Intercom, Inc.

On day one as Reddit’s new VP of Engineering, Nick Caldwell faced a dilemma. He had just spent 13 years at Microsoft, most recently as the head of 300 engineers. At Reddit, he led a team of 35 – none of whom knew how to manage other engineers. Nick Caldwell: I’m VP of engineering at Reddit.

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How to Engineer Culture

Amplitude

One thing we’ve found valuable is scaling culture through engineering projects, and I’m going to share two examples. When engineers have empathy for salespeople , amazing things happen. As an example, this is a lunch group I was in with people from engineering, customer success, sales, recruiting, marketing, and professional services.

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How To Write An Engineering Manager Resume

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

Are you thinking of becoming an engineering manager? That's why we wrote this article; to help candidates work through their process of writing an engineering manager's resume to impress all the hiring managers who see it. How Do Engineering Managers Define Their Role? They also represent engineering cross-functionally.

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Testing a Feature-Flagged Change

Split

Hard truth: Engineers are deploying half-finished features into production, and they’re doing it on purpose. These engineers are able to do this without getting fired because they’re using feature flags to hide their partially completed work. In this post, I’ll explore some of the options you have to test a feature-flagged change.