Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

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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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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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 8, 2020

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. New situation, new processes? What do we need to change?

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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. And what can I do about it?

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Product Talk

APRIL 9, 2025

When engineers encounter friction when learning a new API, it reduces their likelihood of having success with your product. APIs, once implemented, have incredible lock-inbecause it takes engineering resources to switch products, customers are much more likely to stick around. But more often than not, its due to the curse of knowledge.

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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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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.

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.’ Know the scope of the issue. Share the work.

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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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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 27, 2024

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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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 6, 2021

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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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

I’ve led teams of engineers for almost a decade but when I look back at my own management career I regularly thought I was a “good manager”, at times even a great one. As a software engineer, no matter how senior you are, you always seek code reviews before deploying new code to production. .

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

This sort of hand-waving has been most prevalent in software companies, where the supposed price of strategy missteps is seen as low. However, this is a naïve analysis that overlooks lost market share due to poor strategic thinking, or the demoralizing effect on engineers having to repeatedly rewrite code because of poor product-market fit.

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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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Lenny Rachitsky

JANUARY 14, 2025

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. I’ve yet to come across a software leader who isn’t. I’ve yet to come across a software leader who isn’t.

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Product Talk

APRIL 16, 2025

Its written to help non-engineers understand the value of software engineering. Its chock-full of stories about how the author solved business problems by writing code. Even though it had been ten years since I had written a line of code, I decided to dive back in and I started automating my business logic.

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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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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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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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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Right off the bat, Kristen acknowledges that the freemium model isn’t a universal cheat code for winning sales. The beauty of the freemium model in an enterprise setting is that the supplier due diligence process is already much further along. Listen to the full episode above or check out Kristen’s key takeaways below.

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Lenny Rachitsky

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Step 1: Preparation (3-5 weeks) The preparation step is a foundational effort where a lot of the groundwork and due diligence is done to inform the strategy selection process. These illustrative concepts are not intended to be “shovel-ready” for engineering to build on. This could include the founders, CEO, etc.

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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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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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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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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. Table of Contents What Is Outsourced Software Product Development? What Is Outsourced Software Product Development?

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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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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. . a customer-facing error) by default.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

He translates complex business problems into solutions that are easily consumed by engineering, marketing and sales. Jordan has enterprise Software-as-a-Service experience within the facilities management, legal and pharmaceutical verticals, having most recently worked at ServiceChannel, Epiq Systems and Medidata Solutions.

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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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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

He translates complex business problems into solutions that are easily consumed by engineering, marketing and sales. Jordan has enterprise Software-as-a-Service experience within the facilities management, legal and pharmaceutical verticals, having most recently worked at ServiceChannel, Epiq Systems and Medidata Solutions.

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Product Talk

MAY 14, 2025

Chi started sitting in on quarterly business reviews with top vendors. These were review sessions Chis companys account management team was already having, and they gave her the chance to ask vendors about their order volume. Chi worked with engineers to build the vendor-facing API and shared the timeline with VPs.

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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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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 13, 2021

Our product engineers are empowered to build great features, fast. A large part of making this belief a reality is the idea of running less software. So we decided to do something contrary to our engineering principles – run our search infrastructure ourselves on Elastic Compute Cloud hosts, or EC2 as it’s known.

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Product Management University

JULY 31, 2023

The career paths for sales engineers (SEs) and solution consultants (SCs) are wide open due to the blend of business and technical skills, sales skills and positioning expertise required to succeed in this role. Are Sales Engineers and Solution Consultants the Same? Answer RFPs – mostly the product sections.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 28, 2022

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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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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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 22, 2023

How product mangers can improve collaboration in cross-functional teams Today we are talking with Maziar Adl, the co-founder and CTO of Gocious, an organization that creates product roadmap management software. Many of the tools product managers use on a day-to-day basis are engineering-focused ticketing systems.

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