As a team grows, there are different teams with different charters they focus on. An immense amount of effort goes into clearly defining those charters, minimizing overlaps, setting success metrics and more.

Why I rarely go to the office, only see my team a couple times a week, and let other people make important decisions.

As a product manager, you probably have a calendar filled with meetings. Every meeting seems like an obstacle in your way that prevents you from focusing on the things that matter: Your customers’ needs and building a quality product.

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Have you ever thought about how much meetings cost? It's spooky.

Formulas, GDE Summary, Hide User Properties, Revenue Properties Segmentation, Reordering Funnels, Outbound Integration Formulas You can now write formulas in the Events Segmentation tab. This is helpful when you want to perform specific analyses on events. For example, you may be interested in seeing the average number of calories logged...

In many ways, 2016 has been the year of the bot. With so many successful companies — Slack, Facebook, Microsoft, Google — at the forefront of the chat bot revolution, some have even wondered if this was the beginning of the end for apps as we know it. We surveyed...

When Ashley Carroll joined Social Capital, a Palo Alto based venture capital firm, she didn’t aspire to become an investor. Hailing from a tenured career in product management, she was just super passionate about working with startups. “I had become pretty active as a mentor and advisor to various startups...

It’s easy to chuckle when you start getting push notifications from an app designed to help you meditate everyday through the stressors of life. But Calm, the brainchild of Alex Tew, uses those push notifications to nudge users to nobler ends. When you tear away all the tech, every startup...

While companies have been building data products well before AI became the next big thing, the formalization of data product management positions is relatively recent.

Customers are the essence of why we launch products. Without customers there is no business. You would think companies would obsess over defining and refining who their customers are, right? You’d be wrong.

Learn how Amplitude's co-founder Spencer Skates scaled his sales team and the lessons he learned along the way.

Learn about the newest members to join the Amplitude executive team and the talents they're bringing to our growing company.

Learn how Wistia modeled their product development process after mountain climbers, coordinating team member responsibilities and strengths.

Discover how to build great products from the people who've built them, including strategies for thriving in a product-led era.

Read how changing a single PostgreSQL config improved slow query performance by 50x in the Amplitude Engineering Blog.

The product/market fit (PMF) concept was developed and named by Andy Rachleff (who is currently the CEO and co-founder of Wealthfront, and is a co-founder of Benchmark Capital). The core of Rachleff’s idea for PMF was based on his analysis of the investing style of the pioneering venture capitalist and Sequoia founder Don Valentine.”

It’s tempting to believe that user acquisition is the key factor for assessing mobile app success, but high download rates do not yield much market benefit without active users. Brands invest massive sums of money attracting users; but, it just begins here. The interest lies in attracting and maintaining consumers after gaining them. Mobile app engagement and mobile app retention are two metrics which provide real insight into an application’s performance. Small participation and retention in the app are a prescription for failure, whereas high commitment and retention are the reverse.

Discover how behavioral analytics for mobile users help enhance both the customer journey and retention, driving product success.

Learn what over 150 industry professionals see as the biggest challenge to user retention and how to overcome it.

See how Amplitude's engineering team used Zstandard to scale operations efficiently and effectively.

Discover how Change.org's distributed teams used product analytics to successfully drive user growth.

Discover why you should get feedback from all customer segments and review behavioral data before adding more product features.

Learn what you might be doing wrong or haven't thought about that could doom your product before it even launches.

Read how data accessibility within a company reduces bottlenecks while creating a decision-making culture based on data-driven insights.

On today's episode, I sat down with Jeff Pease, Sr. Product Designer @ SwipeClock. Jeff has been in design his whole career, but he's had to evolve as industry trends led him into new territories. But even with the digital disruption of the 21st Century, one thing has remained constant for Jeff, the need to include developers early on in the design process.

API product management is a new role both start ups and enterprises alike are looking to fill in order to build and manage a new API platform. How do you identify and hire rock-stars? Given APIs are very developer-centric, you should not just aim to find the best PMs out there, but identify those passionate about APIs and helping developers.