📰 The 48 Best Newsletter Articles Of The Week In Product & Growth
August 26th to September 1st
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🧐 Today At A Glance
48 new articles published this week segmented by the following categories:
Product Management (10 articles)
Growth (10)
Leadership & Strategy (9)
Experimentation & Analysis (10)
Agile & Product Ownership (9)
My favorite article for each category
The top 10 articles that our community clicked on last week
ONWARDS! 🚀🚀🚀
📰 Best 10 Newsletter Posts In Product
10 powerful habits for Product Managers
by Manan Modi
Do you have a Customer Barometer? Use this Simple Mental Map to Uncover Customer Pressures
by Kaan Akkanat
What the Heck is Product Analytics in Product Management?
by Ochade Udome
Product-level building blocks for designing activation
by Oleg Yakubenkov
Why do security products fail?
by Emilio Escobar
Customers can’t innovate for you
by Roger Norton
Platform Product, do you know how to ride it?
by Antonio Neto
Extrapolating from a Data Set of One or Fewer
by Deb Liu
Bi-Directional Product Management
by Brad Dunn
How to collaborate with Tech Leads and Architects
by PH
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📰 Best 10 Newsletter Posts In Growth
Case Study: Netflix’s 67% Decline
by Aakash Gupta
5 trends and 10 startups that will shape the future of travel
by Leo Luo
by Daphne Tideman
How to get actionable insights from market sizing
by Bart Krawczyk
5 SEO Activities to Rank 10 Times Faster
by Jerry Keszka
A 6 step framework to articulate GTM strategies
by Ali Abouelatta
Simon Sinek’s “Start with Why” Contradicts A Major Branding Law — Here’s How
by Mofrad Muntasir
Gamification and products: Decoding English Premier league’s gamification strategy
by Mahidhar K
How to increase retention by offboarding users the right way
by Dan Benoni & Louis-Xavier Lavallée
The 5 Phases of Figma’s Community-Led Growth: From Stealth to Enterprise
by Claire Butler
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📰 Best 9 Newsletter Posts In Leadership & Strategy
by Roger Martin
BCG Growth Share Matrix: How to make product investment decisions at a strategic level.
by Product Mindset
by Michal Lenik
The Eight Core Elements of a Winning Product Strategy
by John Utz
Why Steve Jobs didn't need a script
by Linda Zhang
5 P’s of Data Platform Strategy
by Manvik Kathuria
by Matthew E. May
It is better to lead from behind. But it’s hard.
by Gosia Kowalska
Bar raisers, hiring committees, and other complex ways to improve hiring quality.
by Will Larson
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📰 Best 10 Newsletter Posts In Experimentation & Analysis
Product Metrics: North Star Metrics, Counter-metrics and Sensitivity
by Deepak Singh
Adoption Metrics for Product Managers
by Nrupal Das
How to measure cohort retention
by Olga Berezovsky and Lenny Rachitsky
by Jeremiah Rizzo
Attrition & Retention Analytics to Increase Repeat Buyers
by Brandon Khoo
Making Safer Bets by Optimising Your Product with Analytics
by Alan Hili
The dangers of ‘Engagement’ as an untethered KPI
by Melinda Jacobs
Ecommerce Site Performance & Speed to Boost Conversions
by Adnan Umar
Unit economics of Digital Products
by Vishwanath
How to Measure Inbound Marketing ROI
by Maeve
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📰 Best 9 Newsletter Posts In Agile & Product Ownership
26 Agile Metrics to Help You Track Software Development and Testing
by Stefana Zaric
Why training in SAFe or scaling agile is wrong for PMs early in their careers
by Shaw Li
14 Success Principles of the Product Backlog Refinement
by Stefan Wolpers
These 4 Reasons Seal Your Scrum Team’s Failure
by Andreas D.
The Importance of User Stories
by Michael Johnson
Agile Estimation and Agile Estimation Methods
by David Thiel
How to conduct sprint retrospective session?
by Sanidhi Kadayan
Scrum Has Failed the Developers
by Willem-Jan Ageling
The Real Reason You’ll Miss Your OKRs Again This Cycle
by Michael Goitein
⭐ My favorite article this week from each category
Product
Product-level building blocks for designing activation
by Oleg Yakubenkov
Growth
by Daphne Tideman
Leadership & Strategy
It is better to lead from behind. But it’s hard.
by Gosia Kowalska
Experimentation & Analysis
Attrition & Retention Analytics to Increase Repeat Buyers
by Brandon Khoo
Agile & Product Ownership
Scrum Has Failed the Developers
by Willem-Jan Ageling
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🏆 Top 10 Most Popular Articles From Last Week!
Out of the 48 articles we shared last week, the following are the top 10 articles our community clicked on the most.
The Most Valuable Question in Strategy
by Roger Martin
How To Leverage The STP Model For Growth: Segmentation, Targeting & Positioning
by Product Mindset
PayTm, Nykaa, Uber & Rebel foods' growth experiments that made millions
by Abhishek Patil
These 8 Copywriting Frameworks Will Teach You More About Marketing Than a College Degree
by Jon Brosio
How Fast Is SEO? (Answered for Beginners)
by Christopher Kokoski
Customer Churn Analysis: 6 Ways to Effectively Analyze Churn Data
by Masooma Memon
A Guide to Using User-Experience Research Methods
by Kelley Gordon and Christian Rohrer
How to Design Badass Barriers Like Apple To Stop Your Customers From Leaving
by Mofrad Muntasir
A Survival Guide To Your First 3 Months As A Product Manager
by John McDonald
Skip the Slides: Drive Faster & Better Decisions with a Memo
by Kevin Bechtel
There you have it! 48 of the best articles of the last week, my favorites, and the top 10 favorites of our community from the previous week.
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