User Pilot

MARCH 27, 2023

How can product analytics help product managers create better digital products and more satisfying user experiences? We finish with an overview of product analytics tools that your team can benefit from. We finish with an overview of product analytics tools that your team can benefit from. Let’s get right to it.

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OPEXEngine

AUGUST 31, 2021

Tech debt refers to the cost of redeveloping existing products and code that wouldn’t otherwise be able to scale or evolve over time to meet shifting consumer needs. And while the concept has been around for years, for most of that time, tech debt was primarily the concern of product and engineering teams. Measuring tech debt.

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Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Scale 52

OPEXEngine

AUGUST 31, 2021

Tech debt refers to the cost of redeveloping existing products and code that wouldn’t otherwise be able to scale or evolve over time to meet shifting consumer needs. And while the concept has been around for years, for most of that time, tech debt was primarily the concern of product and engineering teams. Measuring tech debt.

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Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Scale 52

Audacix

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Even after knowing the massive difference that automated vulnerability scanning tools can make, many organizations are hesitant to integrate application security tools in the software development life cycle. Similarly, testers and developers need to know about these features of application security tools.

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Payment Services Payment Solutions DevOps as a Service Payments 40

Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2019

If an organization’s founders aren’t designers and don’t come from a background where well-designed products played a key role in their lives, it can often be the last discipline to be brought onboard the team. On a bad day, a lot more of it got thrown away. My responsibility was to build a design team in that new agile way of working.

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Underperforming Technical Team Scale Innovation Startup 179

SaaStr

JUNE 7, 2021

If you don’t have tickets, lock in Early Bird pricing today and bring your team! We’ve evolved around content management. When you get that thing where you’re a rational person and you think it will be great and 99 out of 100 people think it’s bad, that’s when you have opportunity. Get tickets here.

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Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Headcount 337

Audacix

MAY 27, 2022

How to build a culture of security within your SaaS development team? In order to get your repeat business, they forget to explain just how you can build a repeatable, scaleable and consistent application security structure within your software development teams. Why do I need a penetration test?

Payment Solutions 52

Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Underperforming Technical Team Payment Services 52

SaaSOptics

MAY 19, 2022

Below, we’ll dive into how to develop a customer acquisition strategy from start to finish. . How to Develop a Customer Acquisition Strategy. Funneling time, energy, and resources into developing a stellar customer acquisition strategy is only helpful if it’s designed with your target market in mind.

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Acquisition Scale Strategy Software Review 59

OpenView Labs

MAY 20, 2021

I saw this as a client partner and then regional managing director at an eBusiness firm that scaled from 0 to 2,000 people in three years, organically. The same was true when I ran the People function at a software development consultancy that doubled its headcount to ~100 while reducing attrition from 40% to 5% voluntary in 18 months.

Scale 84

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Headcount Software Review 84

FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

Ryan Austin had VP-level experience in training when he decided to start a consulting business to help enterprise-level companies with their corporate learning and development initiatives. Ryan and his team noticed so many inefficiencies across the L&D workflows. “It There are now over 150 enterprise companies using the platform.

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Payment Solutions Payment Services SaaS Payments VP of Engineering 108

SaaStr

MAY 24, 2019

235: Andrew Filev is the Founder & CEO @ Wrike, the cloud based collaboration and project management software that scales across teams in any business. Before this transaction, Andrew had raised over $45m in funding from the likes of Rory @ Scale and Bain Capital Ventures just to name a few.

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Sales Hiring Scale SMB Sales Recruiting 150

Neil Patel

JANUARY 25, 2021

How to Choose the Best Data Analysis Software for You. Data analysis software isn’t a cheap investment, so use caution when making a selection. Your team is the very pulse of your business, which is why their skillset is the most crucial factor when it comes to choosing a software tool. Or is your team less technical?

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Data Analysis Software Data Scale 128

Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 16, 2023

How can we operationalize a good decision process and decision hygiene into our teams and organizations? Annie is interviewed by a16z managing partner, Jeff Jordan, who was previously CEO and then executive chairman of OpenTable, former GM of eBay North America, and much more. Good decision, bad outcome — that would be bad luck.

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Underperforming Technical Team Investment Scale Sales Hiring 76

Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

We talk a lot about scaling when there’s VC funding involved, but bootstrapping is a whole other game. Alina Vandenberghe is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Chili Piper , an inbound conversion software that helps sales teams automatically schedule appointments and instantly turn leads into qualified meetings.

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VP of Engineering Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team 118

Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 5, 2023

But along the way we found that the tool that we’d built was really interesting to a lot of other developers. So, myself and my co founder, we were kind of software developers, like kind of engineers by background. H ow did you guys think about the API that you wanted to launch with for other developers to build on?

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Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Banking Outsourced Development 84

Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 12, 2021

This post is an adaptation of a talk I recently gave at the Amazon Web Services (AWS) community day event in Dublin about the technical strategies I’ve experienced that don’t work and the ones that have helped us to grow and scale at Intercom. But over time, we noticed that teams hated working on these services.

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Technical Review Scale multi-cloud Kubernetes Scaling 269

Audacix

JULY 18, 2022

Whether you're about to implement DevOps or searching for ways to make it work better for your team, you must remember that DevOps is all about discipline. DevOps is really a set of ideas and practices that emphasise a culture and environment where building, testing, and releasing software can happen rapidly, frequently, and more reliably.

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DevOps as a Service Technical Review CTO Coach Underperforming Technical Team 52

Audacix

MAY 23, 2018

Is this an application that your team members or vendors use to make sure that you are actually able to service your customers? Most testing programs usually require a test or delivery manager to make this decision based on their assessment of quality readiness. Boy, do we have some embarrassing stories on this front!

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Outsourcing Services Underperforming Technical Team DevOps as a Service Outsourced Development 52

BetterCloud

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

When it comes to enterprise software, the build vs. buy conundrum is a common one that many companies grapple with. At first blush, the “build” route for managing SaaS apps seems ideal. One exec’s greatest failure: “I was seduced by a build scenario … it turned out to be a very poor decision”. 11 questions to consider.

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VP of Engineering Underperforming Technical Team Outsourced Development Engineering 45

Valuize Consulting

JUNE 10, 2020

Perhaps it was fueled by all of the strategic expertise, funding and time required to develop a category-leading customer success strategy—one that transforms your company’s revenue retention and expansion metrics. And we measure scale by numbers of customers and/or products covered. Perhaps it was a carefully thought out initiative.

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Customer Success Engineering Scale Technical Review 40

Outseta

AUGUST 23, 2017

But a growing number of businesses - particularly those who are embracing self management principles - are beginning to flip the script. Simply put, activities like budgeting and forecasting are not compatible with self management. The executive team needed this plan to drive alignment. The second scenario is equally as common.

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Forecasting Scale Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 52

SaaStr

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Before I joined the venture capital industry many years ago, I was a software developer, and I worked for a startup around the 2000 time period. I think that’s probably the fastest we’ve ever seen a company get to that scale. They got to 100 million of ARR from 1 million in three years, which is just incredible.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 14, 2019

Successfully managing complex sales requires a different level of visibility into your deals. You have to be part salesperson, part project manager. A large-scale data restructuring project involving another vendor. The first turning point for me was learning about agile project management.

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Scale Management Underperforming Technical Team Sales 147

Trint

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

I’d never been exposed to software developers and the mysterious world of coding. I was introduced to a team of software engineers who’d been working on tech that aligned audio and text so that you could follow it like karaoke. I remember saying to the team, “We just invented the future.” Originally published here.

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Branding Advertising Underperforming Technical Team VP of Engineering 130

SaaStr

MARCH 20, 2019

Prior to founding Twilio, Jeff was the Founder & CTO @ Nine Star Inc and enjoyed a spell at Amazon as a Technical Product Manager. What does Jeff mean when he says, “the developer first approach is a maturation of the supply chain of software?” Then I was one of the first product managers at Amazon Web Services.

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Underperforming Technical Team Development Software New CTO 119

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 3, 2022

Those are resources that most sales teams do not have, and resources that most marketing teams need to protect. To meaningfully speed up your content creation process without sacrificing quality or quantity, though, you also need to look closely at how your team approached sales enablement. Develop T-shaped professionals.

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SaaStr

JUNE 15, 2021

Twilio is a cloud communications platform that allows software developers to embed communications into the apps that they’re building. He said, “I feel so bad. Jeff : I felt really bad, because you plan way ahead. For real, why is the developer market bigger today? ” I’ve never heard that.

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Scale Underperforming Technical Team Engineering Wireless 292

SaaStr

MAY 7, 2019

So how I got started, so I am like a career product manager. It’s about the people you bring into the organization, that culture and that’s what’s going to take you from kind of the zero to one to like a scaling company. How are you trying to scale it? I’m the CEO and co-founder of Winnie. Only the best.

Scale 117

Scale Scaling Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team 117

Clouded Judgement

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

If you don’t want to manage all of the infrastructure around Iceberg (plus allocating headcount to do this!) One key component of a modern cloud-native data architecture is the data lake - which allows for cost-efficient storage of large amounts of data used for analytics and ML at scale.

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User Pilot

MARCH 24, 2023

This article will compare the features, strengths, weaknesses, reviews, and pricing of each tool, enabling you to confidently decide which one is the best fit for your business needs. Using a tool for interactive user guides is crucial since it reduces reliance on developers and enables you to trigger user guides contextually.

Software Review 52

Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Onboarding 52

Frontegg

MAY 20, 2021

This architecture emerged as a solution to the old monolithic approach to web application development. In monolithic software, everything is built as one unit. Even the smallest code changes require building and deploying a new version of the whole software. These services are loosely coupled and independently deployable.

Scale 145

Scale Transportation Underperforming Technical Team Communication 145

Frontegg

MAY 24, 2021

The software development world has changed dramatically over the last few years. Following the SaaS revolution, almost no software products are sold today outside a cloud and subscription model. Scaling ?—?Scaling When working as a new developer on a huge code base, the onboarding process gets really complicated.

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Software Review SaaS DevOps as a Service Underperforming Technical Team 98

User Pilot

MARCH 22, 2023

Which is the ideal tool for developing interactive user guides – Whatfix or WalkMe? A tool is necessary to create interactive user guides as it reduces dependencies on software developers. All product managers want to delight and engage their customers. Easy to create flows, even for non-technical team members.

Software Review 52

Software Review Onboarding Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 52

Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

We were fairly poor. So I started to develop a hankering for making money at an early age. I realized after three or four weeks that retirement was boring and then set up a gaming software company called Inspire Gaming Group” And I always wanted to work in technology. I always loved software and developing software.

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Transportation Business Travel Underperforming Technical Team 183

Outseta

JANUARY 20, 2020

To be honest, I wasn’t enormously enthusiastic about this—I’m not techy, so working for a software company wasn’t particularly appealing to me. And working in the property management industry? I was managing a team of 15 and the company had grown to about 140 employees. We could translate the software into Spanish.

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SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Payment Methods Payment Services 145

Crafty CTO

MAY 1, 2020

We left off at the handoff of shaped, de-risked work to the development teams. In effect, we are saying: “Here you go, dev team. ” Traditional agile, let’s say Scrum for example, looks a bit different: “OK dev team! This post will focus on Shape Up’s approach to building. And shipping!)

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Underperforming Technical Team Software Review New CTO Scale 52

User Pilot

MARCH 15, 2023

Appcues is a no-code user onboarding platform that helps non-technical teams track and analyze product usage. All product managers want to delight and engage their customers. Appcues for interactive user guides Appcues is a no-code user onboarding platform that helps non-technical teams track and analyze product usage.

Software Review 52

Software Review Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Onboarding 52