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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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Algolia’s Sarah Dayan on what sets a staff plus engineer apart

Intercom, Inc.

When you reach senior level on an engineering track, you’re expected to be optimal in your hard skill set. You’re autonomous, your code is immaculate, and you have a deep understanding of building and shipping software. Then, four years ago, in 2018, she got a job at Algolia as a software engineer.

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Leveraging Software Platforms

Roman Pichler

Be Clear on What a Software Platform Is. Different people have suggested different definitions for the term software platform. Let me briefly share mine: I view such a platform as a collection of software assets that are used by several products, as the following picture illustrates. But platforms come with potential drawbacks.

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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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Ask the Community: How Do You Shift From Functional Teams to Value-Driven Teams?

Product Talk

Instead, they hand off work from team to team—the back-end engineers design the data model and system architecture, the front-end engineers build the interface elements, the mobile engineers work toward feature parity, etc. These teams can rarely deliver value on their own. Click the image to see a larger version.

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Hiring a UX designer won’t magically solve your product problems & other UX misconceptions debunked

Modus Create

You might have read a little about user experience design and now believe adding a UX designer will be the panacea for your messy product. In engineering-driven organizations, product management can be very feature-focused. Engineering teams likely have a history of delivering features and delivering them very fast.

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

Userpilot

Personalize the knowledge base content based on user segment. 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. Video tutorials : Users retain a significant amount of video content. Let’s dive in!