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Common technical hiccups in your product analytics that are easy to spot

Mixpanel

You can spend all the time in the world devising a thoughtful, nuanced analytics strategy for your product analytics, but if your event tracking isn’t set up behind the scenes just how you need it, some (or all) of your data might be rendered far less helpful than you’d like. So why could that happen from a technical standpoint?

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

The Product Coalition

Being a Product Manager at an Early Stage Startup In my previous article , I reflected on a few things that I would tell myself if I could travel back in time and the concept of “three waves of changes.” In this post, I want to talk about the three most important lessons I have learned so far as a Product Manager at a startup.

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

Mixpanel

He’s been developing apps for almost as long as the App Store has existed—wearing every hat from full-time engineer to product manager, UX designer, founder, content creator, and technical cofounder.

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What We Learned About Building Products People Love in 2016

Mind the Product

2016 was a year when the product management community grew significantly and continued to mature. Lots of us are still trying to work out what the scope of a product management role should be and how it should be applied within their organisations. Perhaps product management is becoming a misnomer?

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Mobile app event tracking: Telling the story of how your app works (or doesn’t work)

Mixpanel

It’s the primary technique used to capture usage information by product analytics platforms like Mixpanel. It’s, therefore, essential for you, as a product manager, designer, or any kind of product stakeholder, to have a sophisticated understanding of how event tracking works so you can, well, know what’s happening in your mobile app.

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Data thinking vs. product thinking

Mixpanel

Both data thinking at the micro level and product thinking at the macro level need to be synthesized in order to achieve truly breakthrough design in your digital products. There’s an enormous amount of ambiguity when it comes to developing products. Here’s how. Understand the role of data with nuance.