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People leave managers, not companies – 4 ways to better support your team

Intercom, Inc.

As a software engineer, no matter how senior you are, you always seek code reviews before deploying new code to production. . I often discover the best next step is not giving ‘constructive feedback’ to someone on my team about their mistakes; it’s requesting feedback on how I can better support them in future”.

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How we stay close to customers to create better user personas at Mixpanel

Mixpanel

And when you’re building an analytics tool for everyone , persona work is nuanced. For example, if we know an engineering team or data team owns the Mixpanel budget, we know it’s most important to convey how easy it is to implement tracking with Mixpanel. That’s our situation here at Mixpanel.

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Agile and People: The Transformation Will Happen Naturally

The Product Coalition

People influence the system around them, but more often than not people conform to the system within which they operate. I believe that an Agile transformation is first and foremost a transformation of people, and the system within which they operate. We seem to miss this perspective in technology companies.

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Agile Laws & Distributed Teams

The Product Coalition

Starting changing, and I am not referring to the introduction of a new video conferencing tool, always requires the acceptance that there is a problem that needs attention. Curtis Carlson: “ In a world where so many people now have access to education and cheap tools of innovation. That has always been a challenge.

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Are You Using Feature Flags for Controlled Rollouts, but Winging It for Observability?

Split

The main point in What’s The Difference Between Feature Flags and Other “Flags” in Software Engineering? At QCon New York and GOTO Chicago, I gave talks about how Booking.com, LinkedIn and a few other internet giants have built amazing in-house systems for control and observation with feature flags. Some Fly!).

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Implicit Versus Explicit Event Tracking: Hits and Misses

Iteratively Blog

What are your thoughts on having engineers write tracking code?" Breaking it down, what they want to know is essentially the difference between using tools that autotrack analytics versus having their engineers programmatically add tracking code, and which one is better for their company. The hits - implicit tracking.

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Method to the Product Madness

The Product Guy

When I joined Wetu in 2014, I was the 7th employee, we had just over 100 companies using our software, we were exclusively available in Africa, and the product was already 5 years old. Since then we have grown to over 100 employees, we have more than 800 companies using our software, and we have expanded globally. About Terri Boshoff.