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If the ultimate business goal is revenue, the product team's main metrics can’t be about revenue. This is because the primary function of OKRs is not to qualify for a bigger bonus, a promotion or personal validation. They should be used as a tool unjudgementally to *indicate* whether the team’s work is generating the right outcome for users. It gives clues to whether progress made is resonating with customers.
The focus on customer centric metrics eliminates the distraction and worry for the product team. It means they can be laser focussed on building the sharpist product to solve the specific user problems that have been identified by the team to be the most important to solve.
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Product Breaks
I also recommend a minimum of three, one‐hour customer interactions each week, ongoing, and during the weekly 1:1, I love to ask about these customer interactions and see what the product person has learned. I also encourage the product person to share with me stories of what they experienced during these visits, and then to share these stories widely around the company. I explain that my purpose is to establish the reputation of this product person as someone who has a deep and personal knowledge of the company's users and customers.
Empowered
Marty Cagan and Chris Jones
In the same way, a good business strategy deals with the edge between the known and the unknown. Again, it is competition with others that pushes us to edges of knowledge. Only there are found the opportunities to keep ahead of rivals. There is no avoiding it. That uneasy sense of ambiguity you feel is real. It is the scent of opportunity.
Good Strategy/Bad Strategy
Richard Rumelt
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