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From Data Points to Storylines - Follow Up Story

Narratives and business cases in product management

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Amy Mitchell
Dec 12, 2025
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This week’s backstory is about communicating with data:

From Data Points to Storylines

From Data Points to Storylines

Amy Mitchell and Hodman Murad
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October 7, 2025
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What Prompted This Article?

Some of the best moments in this newsletter are when another writer offers to do an interesting guest post. Hodman Murad approached me with a guest post idea: how to tell a narrative with data.

This topic is an area I struggle with at work. I get constant feedback to simplify my business cases and improve my executive communication.

Product managers can access more data than ever before. I lept at the opportunity to learn new tips to communicate with data from Hodman’s data scientist experience.

Hodman’s suggestions on issue trees and MECE structure will help simplify my presentations:

MECE for product managers presenting data

I had never heard of MECE before. I was looking forward to trying Hodman’s narrative tips.

What Happened After This Article?

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