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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. During the process, I also gained a much deeper understanding of the technologies we are building and how the company operates.

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Data thinking vs. product thinking

Mixpanel

UX design, branding, feature-set, nuanced differences in user perspectives, and a million other variables can impact (with varying levels of influence) whether our products get used or ignored. Never before has there been better access to rich and nuanced data about the ways your users engage with your products. Create counter metrics.

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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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Why it’s never too early to add product analytics to your app

Mixpanel

So it’s tempting to think the additional add-on of measuring user events in your code (i.e., implementing product analytics) is something that can wait until your team is bigger, until you have more users, or until you have more money. You know where users clicked and didn’t click, when they clicked, and in what order.

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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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The Disproportionate Impact of Coaching on Startup Survival

Bain Public

FUN FACT: It is actually thanks to the coaching service for innovative and technological SMBs (PMEit) administered by MAIN that we’ve been able to work with some of our incredible clients, Wastack , LiveScale , Blaise Transit and Enkidoo , and provide them with product management, consultancy and coaching support. Are you a product manager?