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Intercom presents Engineer Chats

Intercom, Inc.

From the process of disambiguation and the worst outage we ever had to our obsession with speed and how legal and engineering teams can work better together, Engineer Chats will give you a peek behind the engineering process at Intercom. The legal team isn’t there to slow R&D down. That is an ambiguous problem.

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Product Manager: Seeking Help

The Product Guy

When seeking guidance from a superior, make an effort to present your solution or describe how you are thinking of approaching the situation. Present the context and be specific on your needs and agree on an expected timeline. I am working on a fairly large scale project with my manager that touches multiple tech teams.

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A Tale of Two Roadmaps?—?And Why You Can’t Succeed With Only One

The Product Coalition

The first was a precise set of tasks, milestones, and deliverables for the diligent civil servants tasked with building — the engineers, designers, and product managers. In the product team’s, err, I mean civil servants’ headquarters, the roadmap was a living document, evolving like a dynamic organism. The bottom line?

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Run Less Software

Intercom, Inc.

are making it easier and faster for software developers to develop complex software applications atop this infrastructure. What took you months to ideate, design and develop can now be copied in days or weeks thanks to these new tools. This is a philosophy worthy of its own presentation. Choose standard technology.

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To Ensure Project Success, Follow your Intuition and Ask for Clarity

The Product Coalition

I hope you find this helpful: Digital product development presents incredible opportunities for us to help our customers and our colleagues. The project launched to realize his vision and his team went to work diligently. This will position your team to execute well and be successful. As a product person?—?when

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Creative Selection by Ken Kocienda

Sachin Rekhi

I've long believed that the most innovative products are built by teams who innovate on the very process by which they develop those products. Ken goes through the many challenges and subsequent iterations to address those challenges with building the first keyboard to be presented only on a glass display.

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How Johannes Gutenberg Can Make You a Better Product Manager

The Product Coalition

Because scribes display more diligence and industry than printers.” Maybe the snake oil of its time, either way, he failed due to timing. However, it was delayed due to a flood?—?leaving Due to Gutenberg’s lack of means to pay back, Fust received the machinery, type set and supplies. 1492, to be exact. Fust prevailed.