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Product Talk
OCTOBER 23, 2024
Without input from a product manager, a designer, and an engineer, it’s difficult for us to account for the cross-functional perspectives we need to build successful products. However, most companies tend to have more engineers than product managers or designers. Which engineers should participate in trios?
Intercom, Inc.
FEBRUARY 26, 2018
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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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.
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.
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.
Intercom, Inc.
APRIL 27, 2018
Uptime is influenced by many factors such as the software architecture and the quality of day to day operations. On call work like this can be a powerful customer orientated activity that connects engineers to the value customers get from your product. Our on call went from being spread across more than 30 engineers to just 6 or 7.
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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