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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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How to be the go-to engineer for product analytics

Mixpanel

As data-driven product development continues to balloon in popularity, so does the need for accurate and sophisticated implementation of analytics tracking in software products. Keep the product folks technically up-to-date. One of those niches that’s become more valuable in recent years: product analytics.

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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. When your team is trying to build something that doesn’t currently exist, the development process is full of moments of uncertainty. Hand it off to your developers and design team, and let them execute on it.

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What We Learned About Building Products People Love in 2016

Mind the Product

Product Owners: How to get Your Development Team to Love you was a post from Daniel Elizalde with some relationship advice, product management style, via a ProductTank presentation from former Apple Product Manager and industry veteran Ron Lichty. How do product owners get their development teams to love them?

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

Mixpanel

Here are eight reasons you should always implement your analytics in the same sprint as your feature development and not at a separate time after development is complete. Analytics should be tested alongside features. I’m here to tell you the former approach is decidedly better than the latter. This is a multi-team waste fest!

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

Mixpanel

SwiftUI is an incredible framework that allows for UI development at rates that are orders of magnitude above many UIKit approaches. 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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The Podcast Ecosystem in 2019 – a16z’s 68 page analysis (Guest essay by Li Jin)

Andrew Chen

Apple Podcasts played a pivotal role in the development of the industry and remains the dominant app for listening. In order of descending audience sizes, these categories are: Media companies that have internal podcast departments , whose goals in podcasting can range from audience development to diversifying revenue.