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Digital Sustainability: A Growing Frontier in Software Development

The Product Coalition

Software development with sustainability in mind is a rising trend in digital spaces. While software is intangible and doesn’t directly consume energy or produce emissions, its environmental implications lie in its development and usage. As software builders, we are uniquely positioned to influence this environmental trajectory.

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Run Less Software

Intercom, Inc.

by Rich Archbold, Senior Director of Engineering at Intercom. The same is true in software. In this battle, I’ve found a secret weapon hidden within one of our core engineering strategies, an idea called Run Less Software. When I say “execute”, I don’t simply mean the engineering challenges of building something.

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How to Reduce Code Cycle Time with Feature Flags

Split

Companies that invest constantly in tools to help engineering teams reduce the cycle time show a higher degree of employee satisfaction, leading to less employee frustration and higher retention over time. The next tier down, the highly successful engineering orgs have cycle time at one week or less. Time to First Review.

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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

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Why Your Engineers Are Hungry for Your Product Vision.

The Product Coalition

Review design. As I’ll explain below, the “why” and “where” form your product vision, and your product team (especially your engineers), not only want this from you, but need it in order to do their best work. Why does product vision matter to your engineers? Write code. Review sprint work in retro. Write spec.

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Guide to Knowledge Base Creation For SaaS: Steps, Best Practices, and Tools

Userpilot

Don’t custom code – use the right knowledge base software. It can serve as a reference point, so customers can review the steps whenever necessary. Identify areas where users need help Use your customers’ needs and pain points as reference points when developing your knowledge base.