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Platform Management by Brandon Chu

Mind the Product

Platform product managers need specific skill sets in order to be excellent at their jobs: Software Engineering: With platforms, your product is code. While tight restrictions and policies may help earn trust with consumers, it can have the opposite effect on developers. Your purpose, policy, and business model must be aligned.

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Continuous Improvement: How It’s Important for Software Developers

The Product Coalition

Incremental = inexpensive: This principle also involves software developers’ bases. Most software engineers work in custom software development firms, so it’s easier for them to see which parts need continuous improvement. Little incremental changes are often inexpensive.

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Guide to the Software Engineer Career Path

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

Trying to better understand the software engineer career path? Want to know what your next steps are as an engineer as you make your way to CTO? An engineering career can go in many different directions depending on your technical skill set and what you want out of a job. We've got your covered.

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Top Six eCommerce QA Tips: What to Undertake to Keep Ahead of the Competition

The Product Coalition

In the world of DevOps, QA and software engineers hold equally high responsibility for the overall impeccable software quality, stability, and performance, which only increases the chances of improving operational efficiency and delivering robust eCommerce products.

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Managing high availability at Intercom

Intercom, Inc.

“The secret to Intercom’s success in this realm is simple: years of consistent, careful, and multi-faceted cultural, organizational, and engineering work”. The secret to Intercom’s success in this realm is simple: years of consistent, careful, and multi-faceted cultural, organizational, systems and software engineering work.

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Agile Laws & Distributed Teams

The Product Coalition

Brooks’ Law Frederick Brooks stated in his 1975 book The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering that “adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.” Goodhart’s Law Back in 1975, the British economist Charles Goodhart first published the idea that would carry his name, when he wrote about monetary policy.

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Remote Work Is Changing Tech Salaries In The Era Of Coronavirus

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

Software Engineers , data scientists, and project managers are smart people. The software engineers who just finished their coding bootcamps might feel they are in a conundrum. Pay rates will continue to be competitive as the top companies entice experienced software engineers. It’s tough to say.