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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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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. During the process, I also gained a much deeper understanding of the technologies we are building and how the company operates.

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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

They need to be actively aware of all of the requirements, why those requirements exist, and the nuanced value the feature intends to deliver to the user. Engineers are technical. They tend to process technical information better than less formal information, and that’s where analytics comes in. This is a multi-team waste fest!

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How to be the go-to engineer for product analytics

Mixpanel

The point is that some of these might be catchable by non-technical team members whose job it is to analyze the data, but a lot of cases could only ever be noticed by someone who understands how the implementation actually works on a technical level: an engineer like yourself. Keep the product folks technically up-to-date.

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The Disproportionate Impact of Coaching on Startup Survival

Bain Public

FUN FACT: It is actually thanks to the coaching service for innovative and technological SMBs (PMEit) administered by MAIN that we’ve been able to work with some of our incredible clients, Wastack , LiveScale , Blaise Transit and Enkidoo , and provide them with product management, consultancy and coaching support. Are you a product manager?