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Motivating Development Teams

Mironov Consulting

But the symptoms aren’t so obvious to the outbound (and extroverted) part of the company. Motivation and engagement look different on the tech side of the room: the outbound team often can’t tell whether Engineering is emotionally engaged. Some Engineering teams are unmotivated, though. And first prize is a Cadillac.

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Intercom presents Engineer Chats

Intercom, Inc.

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. The core of algorithms and systems is data models. The legal team isn’t there to slow R&D down. That is an ambiguous problem.

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9 essential sales steps you need to grow your SaaS startup

Intercom, Inc.

It is important that these friendly connections represent the target persona market you have outlined, as otherwise, the feedback loop is likely to be weak. The cost of CRM systems have fallen sharply and there is now a host of entry-level systems you can use to manage your pipeline. Iterate the product based on feedback.

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Starter KPIs for B2B/Enterprise

Mironov Consulting

Just as every organization needs a finance/accounting team that follows GAAP and tracks cashflow. So we should take the time to propose various metrics, review them with our teams, argue a bit, and consider our first choices as experiments rather than instant full-year commitments. 15 days in their IT queue for system access?

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How DevSecOps Can Help Mitigate the Next Log4j Vulnerability

Modus Create

When building complex applications, development teams often employ a microservice architecture pattern to achieve a maintainable, testable, and loosely coupled service structure. In the case of Log4j, if we know the Java daemon shouldn’t be making outbound calls or connections, we can disrupt the attacker’s kill chain.

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Finding & Nurturing Top Talent | Elpie Bannister & Alex Yang | BoS Europe 2019

Business of Software Conference

In this informative BoS Talk, Alex Yang and Elpie Bannister take us through the Simprints’ method of finding, hiring, nurturing, and developing top talent and explain a few of the processes they had to go through to hone this skill. How do you still manage to assemble a superstar team before you dive in.

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Tackling complex design debt: a three-step framework

Intercom, Inc.

In our early days, like many other companies, we prioritized the speed of shipping over maintaining the consistency and interconnectedness of our system. We knew we had to change tack and find a way to align teams and functions as we scaled. Alongside this issue, we were quietly building another type of debt: functional debt.

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