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Leveraging Software Platforms

Roman Pichler

Be Clear on What a Software Platform Is. Different people have suggested different definitions for the term software platform. Let me briefly share mine: I view such a platform as a collection of software assets that are used by several products, as the following picture illustrates.

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Ask the Community: How Do You Shift From Functional Teams to Value-Driven Teams?

Product Talk

When an organization shifts from delivery or feature teams to product teams , the first step is often a change to team structure. Delivery and feature teams are often structured by function—front-end teams, back-end teams, mobile teams, etc. These teams can rarely deliver value on their own.

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The Top 20 Symptoms of a Weak Development Team

TechEmpower - Product Management

When speaking with founders and CEOs, we often hear concerns like this: My project manager is losing confidence in the development team. I think that poor communication and differing team cultures might be part of the problem, but how can I know for sure? This is where a technical review can be useful!)

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Everything You Need to Know about Product Portfolio Strategy

Roman Pichler

These might be end-user-facing or internal ones like a software platform, for instance; they might directly generate revenue or support commercial offerings. Part of this process should be regular portfolio strategy reviews. What’s more, it might cause poor alignment and weak buy-in.

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Algolia’s Sarah Dayan on what sets a staff plus engineer apart

Intercom, Inc.

When you reach senior level on an engineering track, you’re expected to be optimal in your hard skill set. You’re autonomous, your code is immaculate, and you have a deep understanding of building and shipping software. Then, four years ago, in 2018, she got a job at Algolia as a software engineer.

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Words matter: Removing exclusionary terminology from our codebase

Intercom, Inc.

And while seeing this work come to fruition, Sam, a Product Engineer at Intercom, was inspired to find more ways to get involved. My team’s lead engineer stopped what he was doing and announced to the all-male room, ‘Looks like the token female engineer has arrived.’

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Product in Practice: Assumption Testing with Engineers at Orion Labs

Product Talk

Engineers are often reluctant to participate in discovery. This is only natural: Through years of bad habits, many of us have shown engineers that we only value them for the code they can write. But there are many reasons why engineers are one of the essential members of the product trio. And this is a good thing.