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Don’t let fear of feedback undermine your technical design

Intercom, Inc.

You arrange the meeting and present your plan at the altar of the architect. We abstractly know that feedback is supposed to be a positive thing, but in reality our egos are fragile. Our technical design process. We also explicitly call out that the individual engineer owns the technical design process for their own projects.

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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. Or does this whole tech career thing support the writing? Architect, Tech Lead, Solver, and Right Hand. I don’t know.

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Intercom presents Engineer Chats

Intercom, Inc.

When tackling a technical design for a system, make sure you always understand the data models first. ” versus when you’re figuring out, “Hey, how should I tech design this?” Liam Geraghty: To connect all of this with a concrete example, Jamie presents this one. Being one with the data models.

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A Brief Guide to Product Discovery

Roman Pichler

Will the product make a positive impact on people’s lives, the wider society, and the planet, or will it at least not cause any harm ? What architecture patterns and technologies may be used? This includes discovering the right UX design and functionality and making the right technical decisions. What are the major touch points?

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Report templates for less status meetings

Folding Burritos

Our goals and work are defined elsewhere, at different times, and there are good tools for that (like face-to face discussions, presentations, and roadmapping, product design and collaboration tools). Another reason is that people from outside of Tech don’t really like / know / want / remember to go to JIRA and Confluence.

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Words matter: Removing exclusionary terminology from our codebase

Intercom, Inc.

As she tells it, “When I was fresh out of college, I was working at my first job in the tech industry. Think about the impact that racism has already had in tech. Many people believe tech to be apolitical and unbiased, but that’s simply not true. The language we use shapes our world. Know the scope of the issue. Share the work.

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BWP 2017 Year in Review

bpma ProductHub

Boston Women in Product 2017 Year in Review: By Emera Trujillo. We organized 5 events in 2017, ranging from morning workshops to afterhours panel presentations, with really great event hosts, sponsors, and partners including: ZipCar, Fresh Tilled Soil, Wayfair, Rue La La, Pivotal Labs (an event partner for the 2nd year!)