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 \nCHAPTER 1  \n06 About the North Star Framework  \nCHAPTER 2  \n14 The North Star checklist and statement exercise  \nCHAPTER 3  \n23 Get specific: defining your North Star  \nCHAPTER 4  \n34 Troubleshooting: fixing issues and avoiding traps  \nCHAPTER 5  \n43 Making the North Star Framework stick and changing your North Star  \nCHAPTER 6  \n48 Putting your North Star into action  \nCHAPTER 7  \n59 Reap the benefits of the North Star Framework  \nTHE NORTH STAR PLAY BOOK 2  \nMeet  \nTHE  \nexperts  \nA special thanks to the industry experts who shared their invaluable time, knowledge, and perspectives with us for this playbook.  \nAbbie Kouzmanoff  \nSenior Director of Product, Amplitude  \nAbbie is a senior director of product at Amplitude, where she leads the analytics product team. She was previously a growth product manager at Dropbox focused on driving revenue for the selfserve business.  \nJohn Cutler  \nFormer Product Evangelist, Amplitude, and co-author of The North Star Playbook  \nJohn Cutler focuses on the messy overlaps and patterns of product—The Beautiful Mess (the title of his newsletter). Until recently, John supported product teams at Toast as Senior Director, Product Enablement. Prior to Toast, he was a product evangelist and coach at Amplitude where he interacted with diverse product teams and product leaders from around the world. There are few people in the world that have this kind of exposure, and if you follow John’s writing over the last couple years, you can see the influence of this perspective. He has a background in product management and UX research, including B2BSaaS companies like Zendesk, Pendo, and AppFolio, and before that B2C, ad-tech, banking, and media. John is a prolific (or some might say obsessive) writer, with almost a thousand posts spread across various newsletters, blogs, and Medium.  \nIbrahim Bashir  \nVice President of Product Management, Amplitude, and Chief Creative Officer, Run the Business  \nIbrahim Bashir has been building and shipping software for over 20 years. He is currently an executive at Amplitude, where he serves as the VP of product for the core analytics offering. Before that, he scaled Box’s platform ecosystem, Twitter’s service infrastructure, and Amazon’s Kindle business. And in past lives, he studied computer science, taught algorithms courses, wrote radiology software, built ecommerce platforms, and served as a technology consultant. Ibrahim is also a prolific creator of content around the discipline of product management and the craft of cross-functional leadership. You can consume his latest musings via his Substack newsletter, Run the Business.  \nTed Clark  \nSenior Customer Success Architect, Amplitude  \nTed is a Senior Customer Success Architect at Amplitude where he helps stakeholders establish the core principles, cultural mindset, and technical integrations required to transition to a product-led growth organization. Ted has over 20 years experience developing digital insights and customer stories to activate data-driven decision making.  \nTHE NORTH STAR PLAY BOOK 3  \nINTRODUCTION  \nWhy should you read this playbook?  \nProduct managers, designers, and developers all work tirelessly to create the best, most profitable products. They want to design digital experiences that acquire, engage, and create customers for life. But despite their best efforts, many struggle to create the clarity, alignment, and accountability needed to realize their goals.  \nTake Tia. Tia was feeling burned out. When we met her at a North Star workshop in New York City, she’d already been a product designer and product manager at an enterprise business-to-business (B2B) softwareas-a-service (SaaS) company for four years.  \nShe did everything a product person should do: She researched her market, advocated for the humans using the product, emphasized outcomes o","cbCainyVU1tzkfF1","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCainyVU1tzkfF1","pdf",2427849,63,"English","# Meet the experts\n# Introduction: Why should you read this playbook?\n# About the North Star Framework\n# The North Star checklist and statement exercise\n# Get specific: defining your North Star\n# Troubleshooting: fixing issues and avoiding traps\n# Making the North Star Framework stick and changing your North Star\n# Putting your North Star into action\n# Reap the benefits of the North Star Framework","[{\"question\":\"What problem does the North Star Framework address?\",\"answer\":\"It helps product teams break cycles of misalignment by connecting customer, product, and business perspectives so decisions are not fragmented.\"},{\"question\":\"How do teams define their North Star Metric in the playbook?\",\"answer\":\"Through a specific process that includes a checklist and a statement exercise to turn the metric into a clear, shared focus.\"},{\"question\":\"What does the playbook cover after defining the North Star?\",\"answer\":\"It addresses troubleshooting, avoiding implementation traps, keeping the framework effective over time, and putting the North Star into action to drive improved outcomes.\"}]","The North Star Playbook - Playbook Guide | PDF",159]