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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. We decided that now is not the time to experiment with slower ways of shipping.

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Digital Sustainability: A Growing Frontier in Software Development

The Product Coalition

Software development with sustainability in mind is a rising trend in digital spaces. Data centers, a vital component of our digital ecosystem, consume about 2% of global electricity. While software is intangible and doesn’t directly consume energy or produce emissions, its environmental implications lie in its development and usage.

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A Leader's Guide to Metrics Reviews

Sachin Rekhi

Ada and I both had the privilege of working at two data-driven companies, LinkedIn and SurveyMonkey , led by two analytically rigorous leaders, Jeff Weiner , and the late Dave Goldberg. Those experiences shaped the way that we both now think about building an effective data-driven product culture. Why metrics reviews matter.

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Food & Drink Apps: Using Industry Benchmark Data to Understand Changes in Mobile Customer Sentiment

Alchemer Mobile

For example, according to data compiled by Foursquare, QSR foot traffic increased 11 percent from mid-February to mid-March in the United States. ? Why are more people leaving reviews? When you have solid benchmarks to measure against, they can help you make sense of your own data and answer these questions.

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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.

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Built for you: Improved Surveys, enriched push notifications, Australian data hosting, and more

Intercom, Inc.

Last month we turned our attention to data – unleashing new features that help you improve how you collect, access, and use first-party data to influence your product and scale your business. We’ve added three new updates to Surveys: advanced reporting, branching logic, and triggering Surveys via code in your mobile app.

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How to Choose the Right KPIs for Your Product

Roman Pichler

Using KPIs and collecting the relevant data helps you balance intuition with empirical evidence. But if the team motivation is declining—as people are being overworked or stressed—or if the code quality is deteriorating—as bugs are accumulating and the code complexity is increasing, alarm bells should go off.