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Run Less Software

Intercom, Inc.

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. As well as being a critical philosophy behind how we build software, it also represents how I feel about the software industry and technology in general.

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Investment Due-diligence Checklist for Product Managers

The Product Coalition

Gone are the times when the sketch on a napkin from your lunch was enough to secure your company Series A funding. In the current economy… Continue reading on Product Coalition ».

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Problem Solving as a Product Manager

The Product Guy

After every discussion with customers, sales, service, leadership and my colleagues, I was left with a laundry list of problems that needed my attention. On another occasion, I started a business review discussion by explaining the customer profile, sharing the problems faced by customer and why I was focusing on those problems.

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Dealing with an Underperforming Development Team

Roman Pichler

A development team does a good job if the following three conditions are fulfilled: First, the group reliably meets the agreed sprint goals and delivers product increments that offer a great user experience and exhibit the desired software quality. Third, the team observes sustainable pace. But this would be wrong.

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Data-Driven Performance Feedback Helps Teams Improve Customer Outcomes

Speaker: Mickey Mantle, Founder and CEO at Wanderful Interactive Storybooks | Ron Lichty, Consultant: Interim VP Engineering, Author, Ron Lichty Consulting, Inc.

In order to be successful at delivering software, organizations need to become data-driven. Teams and their leadership need to leverage data to achieve better customer outcomes. Data-driven performance reviews help to align employee goals and team goals with company goals. How data-driven performance reviews do that.

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How to Develop, Articulate, and Sell Product Strategy

The Product Guy

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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The Software Development Deli Counter

Mironov Consulting

I’ve noticed a frequent executive-level misalignment of expectations across a range of software/tech companies, particularly in B2B/Enterprise companies and where Sales/Marketing is geographically far away from Engineering/Product Management. Let’s call it the software development deli counter problem.