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Essential product management skills
How to work effectively with cross-functional teams
How to identify and prioritize customer needs
Outputs vs Inputs ℹ️
Most metrics like a retention metric or revenue metric are output metrics. These are metrics you should should monitor.
Giving output metrics to teams as goals can be dangerous. They need to know how to break them down into input metrics to make them actionable. When this doesn't happen it leads to teams thrashing between things.
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Definition Is More Important Than A Dashboard 📊
Most people focus on "building a dashboard." But what is 10X more important is choosing which metrics are important and defining those metrics well.
Defining is more complicated than people think. For example, there are many ways to define a retention metric depending on y...
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Usage First not Revenue First
This is the most common version of outputs vs inputs. Usage creates revenue, revenue does not create usage. As a result the most important metrics in terms of creating growth are not your revenue metrics, they are your usage metrics.
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Metrics are not a replacement for Strategy
Your metrics are a reflection of your strategy. They help answer, is the strategy working? Metrics without strategy is like looking at a bunch of random numbers.
You need to define the strategy before you define your metrics. What are the key hypotheses of the strategy? Wh...
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Retention ≠ Engagement 😕
Lots of teams think retention and engagement are the same things. They are not:
- Retention is binary. It answers the question, was this person active within my defined time period? Yes or no.
- Engagement is depth. It answers the question, how a...
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Break Down Your Tasks
It's likely that from all the financial planning you'll eventually get overwhelmed and think about giving up. Should that scenario happen, allow yourself to take a break and self-soothe. Afterwards, list down everything that you need to do and divide them into manageable tasks then allocate a ce...
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