Northwind Energy: Weekly active teams Dropped 21%

Product Management
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Razorpay
Scenario

You are the PM for Northwind Energy's core renewables product.

Weekly active teams has fallen 21% over the past 7 days. The drop appears concentrated in iOS and is most pronounced in India.

Context that may or may not be relevant:

  • A redesigned onboarding flow shipped 11 days ago to 70% of users
  • Marketing paused a paid acquisition campaign 20 days ago
  • A competitor launched a free tier last month
  • The data team migrated the analytics pipeline 14 days ago

Your VP wants an answer by end of day and is already asking whether the redesign should be rolled back.

Supporting data

incident

metric
weekly active teams
drop pct
21
window days
7
concentrated region
India
concentrated platform
iOS

recent changes

onboarding rollout pct
70
onboarding redesign days ago
11
competitor free tier launched
last month
paid campaign paused days ago
20
analytics pipeline migrated days ago
14
Your task

Diagnose the drop. Provide:

  1. Analysis — how you would structure the investigation and which hypotheses you would test in what order.
  2. Risks — of acting too early, and of acting too late.
  3. Recommendation — your diagnostic sequence and what you would tell the VP today.

Be specific about the data cuts you would pull.

Ready to move forward? Up next: Market Sizing Sprint: India ConsumerNext question
How you'll be graded

100 points, 60% to pass.

  • data analysis25
  • recommendation25
  • problem structuring25
  • hypothesis generation25
Hint
Reveal suggested structure
  1. Is it real? Check instrumentation first — the pipeline migration is the cheapest hypothesis to eliminate and the most embarrassing to miss.
  2. Decompose the metric. For DAU: new + returning + resurrected − churned. Which component moved?
  3. Segment. Platform, region, cohort, acquisition channel, new vs existing users.
  4. Timeline. Does the drop align with a specific deploy, or is it gradual?
  5. Internal vs external. Internal changes are testable and reversible; external ones are not.
  6. Act on the evidence, with a rollback only if the evidence points there.