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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. But when you’re building a product with lots of technical or business unknowns—something many startups and product teams are doing—this process breaks down. The uncertainty of technical products. Make some mockups.

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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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Solve a Hard Problem (Tinder). Chapter 8 of my upcoming book, The Cold Start Problem

Andrew Chen

These were people with mutual friends living around you, the sort of person you might meet in real life! Jahan Khanna, cofounder/CTO of Sidecar spoke of its origin: It was obvious that letting anyone sign up to a driver would be a big deal. This all created trust.

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The Disproportionate Impact of Coaching on Startup Survival

Bain Public

Bain Public was of tremendous support toward those objectives" Virgile Ollivier, CoFounder & CEO. After meeting at Techstars Montréal AI Accelerator, we provided them with product leadership consulting as well as coaching and advising services. Are you a product manager? Startup founder? See here for more on our work with Livescale.

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20 Top Product Management Books for 2021

Alchemer Mobile

Going back to basics to find inspiration has been one way expert product managers adjusted their strategies to meet rapidly-shifting consumer needs. Companies that live and die by outputs often fall into the “build trap,” cranking out features to meet their schedule rather than the customer’s needs. ” Buy it here.

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User friction can sink your app. Here’s what it is and how to avoid it.

Mixpanel

Don’t throw them for a loop by not meeting these expectations. 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. Users have certain expectations when they use an iPhone.