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

Mixpanel

The good news is that many technical quirks tend to follow certain patterns that can be easily spotted—even by non-engineers. Here are four technical hiccups associated with corrupt event tracking data, how to spot them, and what to do about them. So how can you tell as a non-technical individual if this data is real or a stutter.

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

The Product Coalition

I saw the needs for UX research but we didn’t have a UI/UX team. I then convinced the team to hire a part-time UX consultant to help me with user research. A friend of mine who also worked for an early-stage startup once told me “Think of yourself as the cofounder of the company, how will you make your decisions differently?”

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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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What We Learned About Building Products People Love in 2016

Mind the Product

Suzie’s post both educates and entertains and is full of practical advice and, as Suzie says, its point is “to empower you and inform you about technical practices that are meant to be business-relevant”. This opens up and demystifies these practices with definitions, examples, easy to understand diagrams, and suggestions for further reading.

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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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How to add analytics event tracking in SwiftUI (the elegant way)

Mixpanel

We’ve heard reports of a variety of types of unexpected behavior that can sometimes occur in your lifecycle callbacks, so its important to test each view thoroughly to see where workarounds may be required, particularly as updates to SwiftUI are released.