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. So when it comes to building your technical strategy, you need to assess each component in relation to what success will look like for your business.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

Kevin has almost a decade of experience working at some of the world’s most innovative software companies. Next, the analytics setup depends on engineers, which disrupts their workflow. It also draws out the process by requiring time-consuming agreement on needs and strict protocols, like QA reviews.

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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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TechEmpower - Product Management

AUGUST 21, 2023

Many CEOs of software-enabled businesses call us with a similar concern: Are we getting the right results from our software team? Most innovators don’t have a technical background, so it’s hard to evaluate the truth of the situation. The explanation from software leadership is often unsatisfying or unclear.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Many engineers who make the transition to a management role face a bit of a conundrum – if I stop doing hands-on work, my team will lose a strong engineer and instead will gain an inexperienced manager. Therefore, coding activities may become a distraction from what is really important in your new position.

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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. As she tells it, “When I was fresh out of college, I was working at my first job in the tech industry. Think about the impact that racism has already had in tech. Know the scope of the issue.

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Product Talk

APRIL 9, 2025

To adequately cover this topic, we are going to get into the nitty-gritty of the technical underpinnings of APIs. If you need help getting up to speed on these technical details, be sure to read last weeks article. Remember, an API defines a pre-defined language for how code can interact with another service.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

So, I’ll start with this: a little while ago, I was having a difficult video call with my tech lead. 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 and one engineer in Iceland.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

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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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

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. First Attempt.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Known as the Martech 5000 — nicknamed after the 5,000 companies that were competing in the global marketing technology space in 2017, it’s said to be the most frequently shared slide of all time. The reasons for this growth – high-velocity economics of software innovation, the migration of money from old media to new media, etc.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2021

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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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.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

We’re well overdue a conversation about Product Managers and technical skills. It doesn’t seem to matter how many times the industry tries to reassure newcomers that you don’t need to be a full stack software engineer to be a good Product Manager. And yet…we all seem to stay hung up on technical skills.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 2, 2018

The code you’ve spent so much time on never ships. 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. Our technical design process. Own your technical design…to the end.

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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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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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Lenny Rachitsky

JANUARY 7, 2025

He also wrote my 9th most popular post of all time ( Become a more technical product manager ). 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.

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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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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Recently, at Hemnet, Sweden’s beloved property platform, she led product development that drove a 130% increase in top line revenues, making it the growth engine of the business. Leadership doesn’t always mean management Many professionals enter product management from technical backgrounds, such as engineering or development.

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Product Talk

MAY 14, 2025

And just because APIs are slightly more technical products, that doesnt mean that you cant apply discovery to them. Chi started sitting in on quarterly business reviews with top vendors. To make this happen, Chi needed to connect with her vendors product and technology folks. They still exist, even when your product is an API.

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Product Talk

MAY 4, 2022

For example, while Teresa recommends creating a product trio that includes a product manager, engineering lead, and a designer, she acknowledges that some product trios might be made up of slightly different members. It’s not about finding the right tech stack; it’s about finding the tech stack that works for your team.

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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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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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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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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 27, 2024

Software development with sustainability in mind is a rising trend in digital spaces. Digital technology has inadvertently become a significant contributor to the growing carbon footprint of the tech industry. As software builders, we are uniquely positioned to influence this environmental trajectory.

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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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Lenny Rachitsky

MAY 15, 2025

Depth over breadth: Revolut’s leaders deliberately go extremely deep into 7 to 10 projects (out of 100 or more running simultaneously), but at a code and technical implementation level. This eliminates the uncertainty of whether poor traction is due to a bad idea or poor execution, making feedback interpretation clearer.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 20, 2022

But when we make technical decisions, we like to be conservative. In practice, being technically conservative looks like reusing existing technologies and frameworks in our stack, or promoting tried and tested patterns and solutions. Here, Waheed discusses our engineering principle “Be technically conservative”.

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

You also might be reading this post thinking: “Who’s adding new tools to their tech stack right now?” Incorporating these tools into your customer experience tech stack will drive more engagement, gather high-quality customer feedback, and help inform your product roadmap. Supporting tech. This is a valid question.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 6, 2021

In today’s competitive business environment, technology is increasingly shaping the strategies that companies develop to try to outdo their competition. 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. Let’s dive right in.

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Split

JULY 13, 2023

The need for efficient and effective software development methodologies has never been more paramount. Amid this incessant search for perfection, two paradigms have become prominent: Test-driven development (TDD) and feature flag-driven development (FFDD). Then, they write the minimum amount of code needed to pass the test.

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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. Her background is in developer tools and distributed systems.

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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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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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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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