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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

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.

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What We Learned About Building Products People Love in 2016

Mind the Product

Was it insight, opinion, guidance on how to get the best out of colleagues or to make your voice heard, career advice, best practices, or something more fundamental? Organise around customers. It’s important to understand that we who are building these products and services know things that our users don’t.

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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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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. Do some user research. Make some mockups.

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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

Here’s how to harness the incredible product insights of an analytics framework like Mixpanel, while keeping your SwiftUI as clean and simple as it was meant to be. Use custom event initializers to reduce footprint. Use custom view modifiers for more logical grouping. Thanks to custom view modifiers, we can!