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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. Instead of submitting your work for review, afraid of the amount of feedback you’re going to get, embrace the process and seek out the opinions of those who will give you the most feedback from day one. Our technical design process.

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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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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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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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2021 Engagement Benchmarks for Media Apps

Alchemer Mobile

Technology (media creation, connectivity, etc.). News apps saw incredibly high retention rates , likely due to how much news people consumed and the fact that there was breaking news almost daily. Music apps had the most app store ratings and reviews out of all Media subcategories. Technology Apps. Music Apps.

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A Brief Guide to Product Discovery

Roman Pichler

What architecture patterns and technologies may be used? This includes discovering the right UX design and functionality and making the right technical decisions. To do so, consider the amount of innovation and risk present and allocate an appropriate timebox. How might people use the product? What are the major touch points?