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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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Brew and Review: Building a knowledge sharing loop for Customer Success

Intercom, Inc.

It was almost a year ago when our Customer Success team came up against an issue that all growing teams face: knowledge sharing. Our de-facto ways of working made it difficult for us to learn from one another, especially when it came to socializing best practices for talking to our customers. We were operating in silos.

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Four Key Product Management Lessons from Jessi Alva, Director, Technical Product Management at SAP Concur

Alchemer Mobile

While you can watch the full hour-long interview here , this post breaks down four of the key lessons we learned from Jessi Alva, Director, Technical Product Management at SAP Concur. What have been your favorite ways to connect and get feedback from your customers? “You really need to be technical.

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

Intercom, Inc.

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. Write a draft, talk through it with your peers, your manager and other staff engineers – and don’t forget to ask for feedback.

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Challenges of Product Management and How to Overcome Them

Alchemer Mobile

Speaking up might spur a conversation around how to adjust your role to better fit your needs, or better yet, to bring in another team member to share your workload. It means that the product focus has shifted to prioritize mobile as the main consumer channel, with others coming secondary. Not enough time in the day. We hear ya.

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Product in Practice: Assumption Testing with Engineers at Orion Labs

Product Talk

Engineers will hear different insights during your customer interviews. This is because they have a depth of knowledge of what’s possible technically. But this only works when it’s coupled with a depth of knowledge of the customer’s context. We so easily fall back to asking them to just deliver what we asked for.”. Tweet This.

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Dealing with an Underperforming Development Team

Roman Pichler

A development team does a good job if the following three conditions are fulfilled: First, the group reliably meets the agreed sprint goals and delivers product increments that offer a great user experience and exhibit the desired software quality. Say that you are working on a new brand-new product. But this would be wrong.