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Top mistakes made by Engineers-turned-Founders: Worry too much about scalability/fixing bugs.and more

NextBigWhat

Top mistakes engineers make when they become founders. Spend too much time building the product instead of talking to users. In the early days, the most important goal is to de-risk the market need for your product. Spending time cleaning up technical debt. Can’t say I haven’t been guilty of these myself ).

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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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20 Top Product Management Books for 2021

Alchemer Mobile

If you’re in digital product management, 2020 has been a roller coaster. Going back to basics to find inspiration has been one way expert product managers adjusted their strategies to meet rapidly-shifting consumer needs. Best Product Management Books. How to Build Habit-Forming Products. by Nir Eyal.

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How to be the go-to engineer for product analytics

Mixpanel

Engineers are always looking for ways to differentiate themselves. One of those niches that’s become more valuable in recent years: product analytics. 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.

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Women Succeeding in the World of Product Management

Product Management Unpacked

They became my female role models and heroines – strong, intelligent problem-solvers who used their feminine skills to their advantage,” says Kate Hare, Chief Product Officer at Photobucket, to Women 2.0 , a media and tech industry leader in gender equality. Product management is a cross-functional discipline.

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

Mixpanel

When engineers implement features, they write code. When engineers add analytics events to new features, they add additional analytics code to their new feature code. As such, the best time for an engineer to make changes to some piece of code is when their attention is fully focused on that piece of code, not weeks after.

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Don’t Miss These Speakers at #mtpcon San Francisco

Mind the Product

Originally trained as a scientist, he’s had job titles ranging from scientist, to engineer, to product manager, to designer, and even professor. He has recently served as the Head of Product & Experience at Workbar, Chief Design Strategist at Fresh Tilled Soil, and Innovation Architect at Constant Contact.