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Based on this picture, these metrics can help you calibrate your progress:
- The total number of ideas evaluated per quarter (using, at minimum, ICE analysis and goals alignment)
- Number of ideas tested per quarter
- The number of ideas released per quarter
- Total number of tests and experiments conducted per month
- Percent of steps that generated learning (i.e., where we were able to rescore the idea and/or generate useful insights based on the evidence collected)
- Percent of ideas launched at least with a medium Confidence level (per the Confidence Meter)
- Percent of ideas released that generate measurable outcome improvements
The first four metrics are aligned with Linus Pauling’s observation that the way to have good ideas is to test many ideas.
Evidence-Guided
Itamar Gilad
Every item on the roadmap should also be tied back to the rationale of why we are doing it and how it will further the business.
Product Operations
Melissa Perri and Denise Tilles
There are two tools that should be in every product team’s toolbox—unmoderated user testing and one-question surveys. Unmoderated user-testing services allow you to post a stimulus (e.g., a prototype) and define tasks to complete and questions to answer. Participants then complete the tasks and answer the questions on their own time. You get a video of their work. These types of tools are game changers. Instead of having to recruit 10 participants and run the sessions yourself, you can post your task, go home for the night, and come back the next day to a set of videos ready for you to watch.
Continuous Discovery Habits
Teresa Torres
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