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How would you set goals as a Product Manager for Youtube?

The Product Coalition

In this blog, I’ll talk about the steps that I as a Product Manager at Youtube would take to do this. Deciding on a specific goal as a success metric Here, I could go for either an engagement metric or a revenue metric. It is easy to forget about creators but they form an important part of this metric too.

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What Is Your Product’s North Star?

The Product Coalition

In real life, the North Star is the star Polaris, the brightest in the constellation Ursa Minor. Essentially, ‘north star’ is shorthand for what guides you when you’re lost. That’s why every product or service needs a north star. What Does ‘North Star’ Mean in Product?

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Why Data is key in Building a Company That Learns

Mind the Product

How many metrics do I monitor? Start by measuring the most important thing: your north star metric (NSM). What is a North Star Metric? It’s the one metric that measures your company’s impact (Amplitude wrote a great article on this). Your north star should be. Data collection.

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My Journey to Find the North Star

Amplitude

I read all the blogs. So when our team started reading up on and discussing “North Star Metrics” towards the end of the year, I was begrudgingly intrigued. Then a colleague introduced the North Star Playbook authored by Product Coach John Cutler. Snippet from the first page of The North Star Playbook.

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Interview With Alex Levitch (PM at Google): How to Run Product Experiments to Grow Products

Userpilot

You can grow products using product experiments, but also use such experiments to boost key metrics once you’re up and running. Alongside that, you’ll want to know how you will measure such goals, aka your success metric or north star metric. For example, is your north star metric the number of repeat users?

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Double Thumbs Up for Better Netflix Recommendations

The Product Coalition

Reports estimate that NRE saves the company north of $1 billion every year. Although, I am curious as to why Netflix would want to add something like this over a star rating system?—?something A large contribution to NRE’s high performance is from the data collected when users interact with the platform?—?when

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Tell Us About Your Team: Take the Continuous Discovery Habits Benchmark Survey

Product Talk

This has been our North Star metric. P.S. If you want to learn more about this survey, check out Teresa Torres’s blog post about it. For years, I’ve shared that Product Talk’s primary outcome is to increase the number of product teams who adopt a continuous cadence to their discovery work. It has guided our work.