📰 The 53 Best Newsletter Articles Of The Week In Product & Growth
📰 The 53 Best Newsletter Articles Of The Week In Product & Growth
November 18th to November 24th
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53 articles, categorized by:
Product Management (10 articles)
Growth (9)
Strategy (9)
User Experience, Research, & Design (10)
Experimentation & Analysis (5)
Agile & Product Ownership (10)
My favorite article for each category
The top 10 articles that our community clicked on last week
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📰 Best 10 Newsletter Posts: Product Management
Netflix's "5 A's" for giving & receiving feedback
by Gibson Biddle
Type: Personal Development
5 Competency Layers of Product Management
by Aatir Abdul Rauf
Type: Functional Excellence
The Product-Design-Engineering Circle of Collaboration
by Bandan Jot Singh
Type: Relationships
How To Build An Achievable Product Roadmap?
by Shehab Beram
Type: Functional Excellence
3 Common PM Role Antipatterns
by Itamar Gilad
Type: Insights
Pyramid of Leadership Self/Other Awareness
by John Cutler
Type: Leadership
Guiding principle: Speed generates quality
by Jason Yip
Type: Functional Excellence
Writing your company’s customer centric mission statement using Jobs-to-be-done
by Helge Tennø
Type: Leadership
A simple 4-step framework to use in any feature call
by Sakky B
Type: Functional Excellence
We Should Be Focusing on Net Positive Products
by Lisa Zane
Type: Functional Excellence
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📰 Best 9 Newsletter Posts: Growth
The rise of the Jasper Empire: From launch to unicorn and ~$75M in revenue - all in a mere 18 months
by Rahul Krishnan and Ruchin Kulkarni
Type: Case Study
How Did Black Friday Originate (Hint: It Had Nothing To Do With Marketing)
by Ash Jurberg
Type: Case Study
Startup to exit: Lessons from a first-time founder
by Suril Kantaria
Type: Insights
How Intercom Grows
by Jaryd Hermann
Type: Case Study
Content Distribution is Your Competitive Advantage
by Anna Burgess Yang
Type: Functional Excellence
What killed Swiggy "Pop"?
by Abhishek Patil
Type: Case Study
The genius of Red Bull marketing
by Trung Phan
Type: Case Study
Understanding pricing: Bucket vs Progressive tiers
by Celine Wee
Type: Functional Excellence
How Pay-as-you-go Pricing strategy drives massive revenue for AWS, Stripe, and Mailchimp?
by Navdeep Yadav
Type: Functional Excellence
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📰 Best 9 Newsletter Posts: Strategy
Strategy vs. Planning: Complements not Substitutes
by Roger Martin
Type: Functional Excellence
Sun Tzu’s “The Art of War” and its Application to Product Strategy
by Rahadian Sri Pamungkas
Type: Insights
Effective Leaders Focus on Workability
by Jeannette Seibly
Type: Leadership
Vehicles of Extraction
by Paris Marx
Type: Insights
Adopting a Product-Centric operating model at Scale
by Simone Cicero
Type: Functional Excellence
The Streaming Wars. Part 5: A Brief History of TV
by Nero Okwa
Type: Case Study
Conway’s Law in Action
by Stephan Schulze
Type: Relationships
Executing on your product strategy
by Michael Dubinsky
Type: Functional Excellence
Instagram’s TikTok Dilemma — Why It’s A Profitable Bad Idea
by Mofrad Muntasir
Type: Insights
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📰 Best 10 Newsletter Posts: User Experience, Research, & Design
Welcome Emails
by Ali Abouelatta
Type: Functional Excellence
How do I plan the design process for complex products
by Edward Chechique
Type: Functional Excellence
Understanding different types of Value Propositions to design better products
by Bart Krawczyk
Type: Insights
The dark side of UX: How designers can manipulate users
by Design & Hustle
Type: Insights
Digital serendipity: who are we without our algorithms?
by Yuna Shin
Type: Insights
The cybernetics of design: A brief introduction to Applied Cybernetics in UX
by Jay Acutt
Type: Insights
Disney’s UX before it was invented
by Sanne Eikelboom
Type: Insights
Less design leadership. More design authorship
by Matt Owens
Type: Personal Development
The Wizard of Oz Method in UX
by Sara Ramaswamy
Type: Functional Excellence
Redefining Leadership Through Empathy
by Michaela Hackner
Type: Leadership
📰 Best 5 Newsletter Posts: Experimentation & Analysis
User Retention Defines Your Product’s Success: Here Are 3 Ways to Improve It
by Nick Chasinov
Type: Functional Excellence
Building Airbnb Categories with ML and Human-in-the-Loop
by Mihajlo Grbovic
Type: Functional Excellence
VRIO Analysis Framework
by Product Mindset
Type: Functional Excellence
Which 3rd-Party Traffic Estimate Best Matches Google Analytics?
by Rand Fishkin
Type: Insights
Product feature retention deep dive — MCC coefficient
by Paul Levchuk
Type: Functional Excellence
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📰 Best 10 Newsletter Posts: Agile & Product Ownership
We Need to Fix Scrum. It Doesn't Help Product Managers Enough
by Paweł Huryn
Type: Functional Excellence
We Failed Agile! Shame on Us!
by David Pereira
Type: Insights
Shift Left: Value Creation in Scrum
by Stefan Wolpers
Type: Functional Excellence
Agile is not a Product Development Process
by Lizzy Masotta
Type: Insights
When the cackle-bladder isn't enough
by Ethan Mollick
Type: Personal Development
What Happened When Zapier Cancelled Meetings for a Week?
by Cal Newport
Type: Relationships
The Words We Use To Avoid Accountability
by Jeff Gothelf
Type: Personal Development
How we are building domain knowledge and shared ownership in our Development Team
by David Theil
Type: Insights
7 Reasons Why Scrum Fails
by Willem-Jan Ageling
Type: Insights
This is how Scrum improves your risk-taking process
by Sahin Guvenilir
Type: Functional Excellence
⭐ My favorite article this week from each category
Product Management
The Product-Design-Engineering Circle of Collaboration
by Bandan Jot Singh
Type: Relationships
Growth
How Did Black Friday Originate (Hint: It Had Nothing To Do With Marketing)
by Ash Jurberg
Type: Case Study
Strategy
Effective Leaders Focus on Workability
by Jeannette Seibly
Type: Leadership
User Experience, Research, & Design
Less design leadership. More design authorship
by Matt Owens
Type: Personal Development
Experimentation & Analysis
Building Airbnb Categories with ML and Human-in-the-Loop
by Mihajlo Grbovic
Type: Functional Excellence
Agile & Product Ownership
Shift Left: Value Creation in Scrum
by Stefan Wolpers
Type: Functional Excellence
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🏆 Top 10 Most Popular Articles From Last Week!
Out of the 47 articles we shared last week, the following are the top 10 articles our community clicked on the most.
#10 - The Diamond of Strategic Leadership
by Mark Melford
Type: Leadership
#9 - Your Pricing Should Be Free or Ultra Expensive (And What To Do If It’s Stuck In The Middle)
by Nicolas Cole
Type: Functional Excellence
#8 - Building a Platform That Scales With You
by Will Dunlop
Type: Insights
#7 - How Airbnb designs for trust
by Bart Krawczyk
Type: Functional Excellence
#6 - How the Best Leaders Create an Exciting and Compelling Vision
by Greg Longoria
Type: Leadership
#5 - LinkedIn’s Revenue Diversification is like no other product
by Akash Mukherjee
Type: Insights
#4 - Resolving Conflicts as a Product Manager
by Gayathri Govindaraju
Type: Relationships
#3 - Finding Your Management Style — The “Sum of All Parts” Method
by John Hartley
Type: Personal Development
#2 - Bowman's Strategy Clock
by Product Mindset
Type: Functional Excellence
#1 - The Evidence Ecosystem: Where PMs get their ideas from
by Aatir Abdul Rauf
Type: Insights
There you have it! 53 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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