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Growth Product Manager's Handbook

By : Eve Chen
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Growth Product Manager's Handbook

By: Eve Chen

Overview of this book

In the dynamic landscape of modern product management, professionals face a myriad of challenges, spanning customer acquisition, monetization, user retention, competition, and technical expertise. To overcome these hurdles, this book crystalizes growth strategies that revolve around harnessing the power of data, experimentation, and user insights to drive growth for a product. This handbook serves as your guide to exploring the essential growth product management models and their applications in various contexts, unveiling their role in enhancing revenue performance and customer retention. Along the way, actionable steps will steer you in implementing these models while helping you better understand your users, experiment with new features and marketing strategies, and measure the impact of your efforts, ultimately guiding you to achieve your customer retention and lifetime customer goals. By the end of this book, you’ll have gained advanced insights into growth product management, models, and growth strategies, and when and how to use them to achieve customer-for-life goals and optimized revenue performance.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
1
Part 1: A User-Centric Management Strategy
5
Part 2: Demonstrating Your Product’s Value
9
Part 3: A Successful Product-Focused Strategy
13
Part 4: Winning the Battle and the War

Summary

In this chapter, I have provided a comprehensive guide for leveraging experimentation to drive product-led growth. It emphasized how testing and validating ideas with real user data enables continuously improving products and experiences in a sustainable way.

We first covered the immense value proposition of experimentation, including reduced risk, accelerated learning, improved ROI, increased agility, fostered innovation, data-driven alignment, and optimized user experiences. This establishes an imperative for rigorously testing assumptions.

Key principles for effective growth testing were then explored in detail. This included formulating clear, measurable hypotheses connected to business goals. Choosing appropriate success metrics aligned with objectives was highlighted while avoiding analysis paralysis through too many vanity metrics.

Proper controlled experiment design was also covered extensively, including A/B testing techniques, randomness, and blinding to...