📰 The 60 Best Newsletter Articles Of The Week In Product & Growth
September 9th to September 15th
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🧐 Today At A Glance
60 of our favorites, segmented by the following categories:
Product Management (10 articles)
Growth (10)
Leadership & Strategy (10)
Experimentation & Analysis (10)
Agile & Product Ownership (10)
User Experience, Research, & Design (10)
My favorite article for each category
The top 10 articles that our community clicked on last week
ONWARDS! 🚀🚀🚀
📰 Best 10 Newsletter Posts In Product
by Aakash Gupta
How To Defeat Feature Creep Before It Defeats You As A Product Manager?
by Shehab Beram
9 things product managers should do every week
by Siddharth Arora
by Ibrahim Bashir
“Product Development Frameworks” Aren’t Helpful. Here’s Something That Is.
by John McDonald
How Product Managers Can Build Uncommonly Good Judgment
by JJ Rorie
by Kent Beck
Product Managers' worst nightmare →Technical debt 😱. How to tackle it?
by Rohit Verma
Stakeholder Management for Product Managers
by Gagan Mahajan
If data is a product, what is production?
by Benn Stancil
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📰 Best 10 Newsletter Posts In Growth
How deep user empathy helped Propel to acquire 5M users
by Leo Luo
Gartner's Customer Experience Management Maturity Model Explained
by Product Mindset
Starbucks Makes $160 Million From Unused Gift Cards — Genius or Not?
by Mofrad Muntasir
SEO basic concepts — crawling, page indexing, and ranking
by Alex A. Szczurek
When and why to add people to the user activation process
by Oleg Yakubenkov
What You Learn from Hypergrowth: 3 Years at Hopin
by Dave Schools
How to Increase Product Virality by Escaping Network Saturation
by Timothy Daniell
Time to Value and Ways to use it for Increase Activation
by Eren Gündüz
Price of iOS in-app purchase jumps 40%
by Anne Freer
School's Out: Why the MOOC future still hasn't arrived
by DanT
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📰 Best 10 Newsletter Posts In Leadership & Strategy
by Roger Martin
Creating a Learning Culture isn’t just for the “Big Boys.”
by Laura Burford
Leadership hack: Feed my own feedback loop
by Ami Vora
by Roman Pichler
Standing at the crossroads of authenticity and career advancement
by Michael F. Buckley
Crawl, Walk, Run, and the Fragility of Frameworks
by John Cutler
Should every team be cross-functional?
by Chris Combe
Practical Frameworks in Human-Centered Innovation
by Fergie Leung
How the difference between unfair and invalid feedback lies in the details
by Deb Liu
by Ben Thompson
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📰 Best 10 Newsletter Posts In Experimentation & Analysis
What PMs need to know about Churn
by Aatir Abdul Rauf
Measuring user experience for human-robot collaborative interfaces
by Bhavana Inaganti
Four metrics to measure any feature launch success
by Miccie
Why are Vanity Metrics still problematic?
by Rémy Rey-De Barros
4 ways to prioritize work (in-depth)
by Ari Cohen
Present actionable insights that stakeholders actually care about
by Eric Chung
How to Complete an Accurate Sales Funnel Analysis
by Noorisingh Saini
by KonstantinDr
ICE Framework — Best Method For Prioritizing MVP & Growth Experiments
by Igor Makarov
by Jeff Gothelf
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📰 Best 10 Newsletter Posts In Agile & Product Ownership
14 First Principles to Help Your Scrum Team Succeed
by Stefan Wolpers
Implementing Scrum Without Talking About Scrum
by David Pereira
POs should Consider Communication Channel & Dev Team Type
by Ron A
Data Projects vs. Data Products — Why Mindset Matters
by Clayton Karges
by Sorin Dumitrascu
Informed Decision-Making in Product Management using Weighted Short Job First Prioritization Method
by Harikrishnan C
9 Practices that Haunt Developers Working with Scrum
by Willem-Jan Ageling
by Yamini Hundare
Potential Benefits of Velocity and Story Points
by Jowen Mei
by Sjoerd Nijland
📰 Best 10 Newsletter Posts In User Experience, Research, & Design
The Honeycomb: Seven Methods to Exceed User Experience Expectations
by Anil Tilbe
Overlooked User Research Methods That Will Make Your Product Stand Out
by Alexander Rådahl
Zeigarnik Effect…why it's hard to leave things incomplete.
by Dan Benoni & Louis-Xavier Lavallée
Learning to see problems from above to create new approaches and solutions
by Kike Peña
Are we failing our designer’s professional development?
by Finlay Stevens-Hunt
How to embrace uncertainty in your design process
by Eric Chung
We love to hate Clippy — but what if Clippy was right?
by Tash Keuneman
How to Run Your First Design Sprint
by Sophie Harpur
by Sara Ramaswamy
App Badges & Streak: How NOT to be dreadful at designing them
by Dhananjay Garg
⭐ My favorite article this week from each category
Product
by Ibrahim Bashir
Growth
What You Learn from Hypergrowth: 3 Years at Hopin
by Dave Schools
Leadership & Strategy
by Ben Thompson
Experimentation & Analysis
Why are Vanity Metrics still problematic?
by Rémy Rey-De Barros
Agile & Product Ownership
by Sjoerd Nijland
User Experience, Research & Design
We love to hate Clippy — but what if Clippy was right?
by Tash Keuneman
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🏆 Top 10 Most Popular Articles From Last Week!
Out of the 49 articles we shared last week, the following are the top 10 articles our community clicked on the most.
4 Major Problems With The Lean Startup Methodology
by Sachin Rekhi
The toughest question of product discovery: Continue, pivot, kill, or charge ahead?
by Martin Spinnangr
Using Contextual Nudges to improve feature discovery and adoption
by Vikram Goyal
Music-as-an-algorithm At Spotify
by Bandan Jot Singh
UX Research Insights from Three Social Science Theories
by Santhosh Gandhi
Connecting B2B Products to Revenue
by Ibrahim Bashir
How Opportunity Mapping Improved Product Discovery At Trivago
by Melissa Suzuno
Reverse Interviewing—How to interview a company as well as they interview you
by Adam Fishman
Thinking about Ideas as a System: Evaluation of Ideas
by Mikko
It took me ten years to realize that I hate Agile/Scrum💥
by Reanimated Man
There you have it! 60 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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