Product & Design 4 min read
The golden mean of design and engineering
There was a time when I viewed designers with the same scepticism as I viewed homeopathy. When I pictured designers…
Engineering
Product & Design 5 min read
Building a cross-platform product
Our product teams pride themselves on working in small, autonomous units. Each team has their own roadmap, their own weekly…
Engineering 36 min listen
Poornima Vijayshanker on startup career growth
Poornima’s the founder of Femgineer, an education startup helping tech professionals advance their careers and build great product, while promoting inclusivity…
Engineering 4 min read
The programming of everyday things
Software has become an everyday thing. Our TVs are smart, our thermostats learn our routines and our cars will soon…
Product & Design 5 min read
There’s no hand off in product design
What makes or breaks a product team? Strong design principles are one. A clear, effective roadmap is another. But one…
Product & Design 10 min read
Lessons learned from scaling a product team
There’s been lots written about how Internet businesses should build software, from books like The Lean Start-Up, and posts from…
News & Updates 3 min read
Building a platform at Intercom
When you think of Salesforce.com, what do you think of? The CRM tool for salespeople? A product for managing marketing…
Engineering 10 min read
9 tips to attract top engineers
One of the most frustrating aspects of hiring great people to my team was poor timing, or so I thought….
Engineering 14 min watch
Analyze the recipe when you bake a failure cake
Fundamentally software engineering is about managing complexity and as sure as night follows day catastrophe follows complexity. That’s the conclusion…
