PM Tools for Data Product Manager
Data PMs own data products — pipelines, models, dashboards, and data infrastructure. Your tools straddle product management and data engineering.
Must-have categories
- ✓Data warehouse or BI tool (Looker, Metabase)
- ✓Analytics tracking and instrumentation
- ✓Data documentation
- ✓Observability for data pipelines
Nice-to-have
- +Experiment tracking
- +dbt or data transformation visibility
- +Customer data platform (Segment)
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