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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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Don’t let fear of feedback undermine your technical design

Intercom, Inc.

You’ve carefully justified your choice of programming language and why you just need to use a complex gossip protocol to build the system – it is theoretically the “best” language, but it’ll be tricky to get right (and yet really fun to build). You arrange the meeting and present your plan at the altar of the architect.

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Intercom presents Engineer Chats

Intercom, Inc.

Previously hosted by Jamie Osler , a Senior Product Engineer at Intercom for over seven years, it’s now up to Principal Systems Engineer Brian Scanlan to pick up the baton and keep the chats going. The core of algorithms and systems is data models. Liam Geraghty: To connect all of this with a concrete example, Jamie presents this one.

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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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Sprint Review – Make it Much More Than a Demo…

Agile Velocity

In a previous post in our Scrum Assessment Series , we shared some ideas to help catalyze engaging sprint reviews. Here, we take a deeper dive into the topic of awesome Sprint Reviews. The Sprint Review, just like the Retrospective , is an important feedback loop in a Scrum team’s toolbox. Why is the Review so important?

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Release Planning Advice

Roman Pichler

Sample goals include acquiring new users, increasing conversion, reducing cost, and removing technical debt to future proof the product. But don’t forget to regularly review the product roadmap —at least once every three months, as a rule of thumb. But in reality, unforeseen things do happen. Rough, high-level estimates are sufficient.

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Run Less Software

Intercom, Inc.

As well as being a critical philosophy behind how we build software, it also represents how I feel about the software industry and technology in general. Basic technology execution is becoming easier too. There are more technology jobs than ever before. Choose standard technology. Choose standard technology.