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Technical Review: A Trusted Look Under the Hood

TechEmpower - Product Management

Most innovators don’t have a technical background, so it’s hard to evaluate the truth of the situation. And unless they have a tech background, they can’t look under the hood themselves. The answer is to engage a trusted outside source for a Technical Review – a deep-dive assessment that provides a C-suite perspective.

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Core responsibility: How we scaled our core technologies team

Intercom, Inc.

It’s a familiar problem for all companies that scale fast – how do you keep your core technologies manageable for the increasing number of teams that depend on them? This surfaced as an increasingly large percentage of our product teams’ time being spent on operations or deep diving into understanding our small set of core technologies.

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The ultimate customer support tech stack for 2022

Intercom, Inc.

But in today’s fast-paced world, your customer support can only be as effective as the technology that underpins it. Study after study shows that the vast majority of support teams are unhappy with their current customer support tech stacks. Download The Ultimate Modern Support Tech Stack guide. Is your tech stack ready?

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Calm’s Will Larson on how to build a technical leadership career

Intercom, Inc.

As it turns out, he’s also quite the writer – since the last time we spoke , he has published not one but two books on engineering. After writing An Elegant Puzzle about the challenges of engineering management in high-growth organizations, his focus shifted to a career path that’s much less understood – the technical leadership track.

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How to Hire an Engineering Consultant

The Product Coalition

In today’s competitive business environment, technology is increasingly shaping the strategies that companies develop to try to outdo their competition. To create such solutions, companies need software engineering professionals who can provide the expertise required. This is precisely what we’ll be looking at in this blog post.

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Don’t let fear of feedback undermine your technical design

Intercom, Inc.

We abstractly know that feedback is supposed to be a positive thing, but in reality our egos are fragile. Instead of submitting your work for review, afraid of the amount of feedback you’re going to get, embrace the process and seek out the opinions of those who will give you the most feedback from day one.

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Product Breaking Point To Breakthrough: How To Drive Successful Product Reviews

The Product Coalition

I enjoyed in-person meetings, especially in-person product review meetings. Early in the pandemic, this led me to resent virtual meetings, especially virtual product review meetings. This particular product review meeting was a breaking point. I struggled to figure out how to run the product review meeting effectively.