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A Leader's Guide to Metrics Reviews

Sachin Rekhi

One practice that both companies established was weekly executive-level metrics reviews. I've come to believe that establishing such a metrics review meeting is critical for developing an effective data-driven culture and I wanted to share some of the best practices around doing so. Why metrics reviews matter.

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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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Building Intercom from home: Software delivery in challenging times

Intercom, Inc.

We’d like to share some insights from what we’ve learned so far about software delivery and operations over the past few weeks of working from home during COVID-19 , and how we as an engineering team have adjusted to this unprecedented, unpredictable situation. New situation, new processes?

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Decoding Amazon’s Working Backwards Process [Book Review]

NextBigWhat

The book, Working Backwards walks you through the launch of some of the iconic Amazon products including Kindle, Amazon Prime, Amazon Echo and Alexa, and AWS (and of course, Fire Phone too). A common question asked by executives when reviewing the product features in the PR is “so what?” Before you can improve any system.

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In Pursuit of the Checkered Flag: The Challenge of Developing a Driverless Race Car System

Product Management Unpacked

CMU Master of Science in Product Management program student Erick Valencia landed a PM experience of a lifetime as part of a student team developing a driverless race car system to race in the Indy Autonomous Challenge. His was one of six sub-teams all designing portions of the autonomous driving system. “I Mid-summer test.

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User Experience is more than just the UI

The Product Bistro

They ran Windows, and they ran our software that then runs the instrument. In the then current generation there are a lot of customers with older systems. These are expensive systems, and they expect, scratch that, demand 5 or more years of life. People also expect there to be perpetual free software upgrades.

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Ask Teresa: Does the Engineer in the Product Trio Need to be the Tech Lead?

Product Talk

They are responsible for deciding what to build (with appropriate input from the rest of the team, of course). Our more senior engineer might be most interested in system architecture, code reviews, and mentoring other engineers. So it’s natural that the more senior people on the team are part of this group.