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Product Metrics Instrumentation The first step is to analyze the current state of your product’s engagement data. You’ll want to assess the following: - Is engagement data enabled today? - Which tool(s) are we using? - When were the event tags implemented? - What kind of metrics are we able to see? - Can we measure engagement on all of our products and/or features? - What would we want the optimal state to look like, in terms of data captured?

Product Operations

Melissa Perri and Denise Tilles

Some teams will define one key metric, sometimes called the Local North Star, which they continuously try to improve on. For example, the customer onboarding team may focus on the % of Customers that Successfully Onboard, while the Search team may focus on Click-Through Rates of Top Ten Search Results. In fact in some quarters this may be the only key result they’ll need. However, the goal is never just to grow a number. The teams should also set objectives, or team missions, for example “All customers onboard fast and successfully” or “Searchers immediately find what they’re after.”

Evidence-Guided

Itamar Gilad

The top-down, change-resistant planning we see in the Fire Phone story is all too common. It’s the norm in large organizations. Most often it’s expressed in a document called a feature road map. This is a compelling document. It gives a clear sense of where we are, where we’re headed, and what features we’ll build to get from here to there.

Sense and Respond

Jeff Gothelf, Josh Seiden

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