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

The Product Coalition

During the process, I also gained a much deeper understanding of the technologies we are building and how the company operates. I also covered project coordination before our technical program manager came on board and proposed to hire a QA/QE lead to make our team more quality-focused and our products more reliable. Think Ahead!

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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. One litmus test for this: if you’re working on your product and you hit a roadblock, and you can’t find a satisfactory answer to your question on Stack Overflow. The uncertainty of technical products.

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

Mixpanel

Analytics should be tested alongside features. In order to effectively test whether a feature has been implemented correctly, a QA engineer needs to understand the feature inside and out. You work like heck to get everything implemented and tested on time and get a brief moment of celebration…then surprise!

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The Podcast Ecosystem in 2019 – a16z’s 68 page analysis (Guest essay by Li Jin)

Andrew Chen

In the world of podcasting, the flywheel is spinning: new technologies including AirPods, connected cars, and smart speakers have made it much easier for consumers to listen to audio content, which in turn creates more revenue and financial opportunity for creators, which further encourages high-quality audio content to flow into the space.

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The Podcast Ecosystem in 2019 – a16z’s 68 page analysis

Andrew Chen

In the world of podcasting, the flywheel is spinning: new technologies including AirPods, connected cars, and smart speakers have made it much easier for consumers to listen to audio content, which in turn creates more revenue and financial opportunity for creators, which further encourages high-quality audio content to flow into the space.