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10 technical strategies to avoid when scaling your startup (and 5 to embrace)

Intercom, Inc.

From premature optimization to over-engineering solutions for your product, it’s easy to get caught up in making technology decisions that slow you down instead of speeding you up. So when it comes to building your technical strategy, you need to assess each component in relation to what success will look like for your business.

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Writing a Book: How Continuous Discovery Helped Me Write a Better Book

Product Talk

It won’t surprise you to hear that I use the same continuous discovery habits that I wrote about in my book to run my business. When I set out to write my book, I was focused on a specific opportunity : “I’m not sure what discovery tactics to use when.” And thus, I announced that I was in fact writing a book. That was a mistake.

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The ultimate marketing technology stack for 2019

Intercom, Inc.

Known as the Martech 5000 — nicknamed after the 5,000 companies that were competing in the global marketing technology space in 2017, it’s said to be the most frequently shared slide of all time. The reasons for this growth – high-velocity economics of software innovation, the migration of money from old media to new media, etc.

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Calm’s Will Larson on how to build a technical leadership career

Intercom, Inc.

As it turns out, he’s also quite the writer – since the last time we spoke , he has published not one but two books on engineering. After writing An Elegant Puzzle about the challenges of engineering management in high-growth organizations, his focus shifted to a career path that’s much less understood – the technical leadership track.

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A Brief Guide to Product Discovery

Roman Pichler

What architecture patterns and technologies may be used? This includes discovering the right UX design and functionality and making the right technical decisions. Additionally, I recommend running weekly review sessions to understand the progress of the discovery work and adapt it if necessary. How might people use the product?

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10 Tips for Creating an Agile Product Roadmap

Roman Pichler

Whenever you are faced with an agile, dynamic environment—be it that your product is young and is experiencing significant change or that the market is dynamic with new competitors or technologies introducing change, you should work with a goal-oriented product roadmap, sometimes also referred to as theme-based.

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Succeeding with Product Delivery and Scrum: 10 Tips for Product People

Roman Pichler

These are typically brand-new and young products as well as products that are experiencing a bigger change, for example, to extend their life cycle by addressing a new market segment or by replacing some of the technologies. Note that frequently adapting your product requires that it’s easy to modify the code.