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My Biggest Takeaways?—?Being a Product Manager at an Early Stage Startup

The Product Coalition

He considered product managers to be on a spectrum from “librarian” who is focused on facilitating communication and coordination to “poet” who formulates product strategy based on customer insights. I then convinced the team to hire a part-time UX consultant to help me with user research. They do whatever needs to be done.

Startups 101
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Data thinking vs. product thinking

Mixpanel

UX design, branding, feature-set, nuanced differences in user perspectives, and a million other variables can impact (with varying levels of influence) whether our products get used or ignored. The ultimate outcome should be reality-aligned insights. Understand the role of data with nuance. But you’d be wrong.

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How to Deal With Unknown Unknowns in Project Planning

Amplitude

This is a guest post from Dillon Forest, cofounder, CTO & product manager at RankScience. Do some user research. But when you’re building a product with lots of technical or business unknowns—something many startups and product teams are doing—this process breaks down. The uncertainty of technical products.

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Why it’s never too early to add product analytics to your app

Mixpanel

So it’s tempting to think the additional add-on of measuring user events in your code (i.e., implementing product analytics) is something that can wait until your team is bigger, until you have more users, or until you have more money. You know where users clicked and didn’t click, when they clicked, and in what order.

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Always implement analytics as part of feature development. Here’s why.

Mixpanel

When engineers implement features, they write code. When engineers add analytics events to new features, they add additional analytics code to their new feature code. As such, the best time for an engineer to make changes to some piece of code is when their attention is fully focused on that piece of code, not weeks after.

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How to be the go-to engineer for product analytics

Mixpanel

As data-driven product development continues to balloon in popularity, so does the need for accurate and sophisticated implementation of analytics tracking in software products. All over the code, you have ugly calls to complex analytics APIs littered amongst your views and business logic. You’d be celebrated.

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The Disproportionate Impact of Coaching on Startup Survival

Bain Public

Due to the constant evolution of the product manager’s role, in the startup world, often people become product managers by default, and they don’t quite understand how to take on this responsibility. This means deciding what features to develop, when to improve them and how to get users involved. Are you a product manager?