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Product in Practice: Introducing Opportunity Solution Trees at Texthelp

Product Talk

When they read Continuous Discovery Habits , Tali says she found the methods both inspiring and practical and she started by mapping opportunity solution trees: “It raised so many questions about the business goals and the product goals. That puts a big weight on the shoulders of the product manager.

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How to get engineering buy-in (and even excitement) on product analytics

Mixpanel

At most companies, software engineers are in a constant state of rushing to get features and bug fixes out the door. This means product analytics can be seen as a burdensome afterthought for a lot of engineers —one that just adds more grind to an already packed schedule.

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Technical Product Manager: Exploring Their Role and Responsibilities

Userpilot

Technical PMs play an important role in helping the development and product team gain a shared understanding of the product goals and technical requirements. Technical product managers are also responsible for running experiments and collecting customer feedback to inform future iterations. Product vision.

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Top Retention and Churn Product Manager Roles (+ Candidate Spotlight)

Userpilot

An individual adept at owning and driving roadmap strategy and definition, with a track record of end-to-end product delivery. A professional experienced in feature delivery and making trade-offs to meet product goals. A person who was given little decision-making power as a product manager.

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Mobile app event tracking: Telling the story of how your app works (or doesn’t work)

Mixpanel

You can define the events that are important to your business or product goals, and they are imported into Mixpanel for you to slice and dice how you please. He’s also given technical interviews to 1,400 software engineers who have gone on to accept roles at Apple, Dropbox, Yelp, and other major Bay Area firms.

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How to be the go-to engineer for product analytics

Mixpanel

Someone on the product team can have an incredible vision for analytics tracking, but if it’s not understood with sufficient nuance by the person implementing that vision, the resultant data is going to be of limited use or even counterproductive. Not only that, most don’t really care to learn.

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Essential Startup Product Manager Skills

The Product HQ

While you don’t need to know as much about technical product development as an engineer, you should have a good enough understanding and basic knowledge of how technology works. For starters, having sound knowledge of technical product development will make it easier for you to plan with software engineers.