north star metric

Senior Product Manager Christina Cassar looks at what can be done to deliver that North Star of the entertainment space – a single platform that integrates all of your favourite content Read more »

A north star metric is an essential tool for navigating your business. It’s a number that allows you to measure how successful or unsuccessful you are in achieving your goals. Let’s jump into identifying the best metric for your product. Read more »

April saw Mind the Product run a focus week on “learning to lead”, a podcast from Pluralsight’s Ha Phan on machine learning in discovery, and publish plenty more insightful content besides. Here’s a recap of our top posts from the past month. Read more »

This article focuses on measuring the right things in order to build successful products. It discusses different types of metrics and provides an actionable framework that can be used by Product Managers to measure the path from the customer problem to reaching the product vision Read more »

Figuring out what to prioritise is one of a product team’s biggest challenges. Using a North Star metric to orient around can make it easier—but, as Maahir Shah, Product Manager at Facebook, tells us, it can also lead you in the wrong direction. Read more »

Analytics help product people to realise their product goals through being evidence and outcome driven — today they are a vital part of any product person’s toolkit. This deep dive into analytics aims to give you some background information on analytics, some handy dos and don’ts and also shares some key insights from a new Read more »

In this ProductTank Barcelona talk, John Cutler, Product Evangelist at Amplitude, showcases some simple hacks he’s used time and time again as an advisor to help nudge organizations forward and get them thinking in new ways. His key points include: The messy middle Framing bets Explore “ownership” boundaries Hack the language North star framework Watch the Read more »

In this talk to ProductTank Cardiff product management coach and one-time Google product manager Itamar Gilad looks at how to deal with uncertainty through lean product management. Itamar starts with a story from his former company Google and how it has dealt with social networking over the years. Google had a social networking service called Read more »

In this talk from #MTP Engage Manchester consultant Itamar Gilad takes us through his GIST (goals, ideas, steps, tasks) framework. Itamar has over 20 years of product management experience working with industry leaders such as Google and Microsoft. He’s now a consultant, speaker and writer. Three Types of Launch Part of the role of a Read more »

Jorge Rodriguez-Ramos considers how you can best incorporate data-driven decisions into product management. Read more »