Product Practice #301 |
Dear Reader,
Frameworks must be in service of the intention product teams try to achieve. One of the most helpful ways to do that is by combining them with the attributes and principles of useful Discovery insights, OKRs, or Strategy components.
As I wrote before, finding valuable metrics for your NSM or OKRs comes down to building your KPI landscape through a KPI tree. Through continuous questions about what a given metric drives or is driven by, you‘ll create your metrics landscape.
But this range of metrics options can be overwhelming, and you shouldn‘t use every metric you could measure. Instead, use practices like the IDLE attributes of useful Product OKRs as a lens to assess the items on your KPI trees to find starting points for your next OKRs.
This could be as simple as a 5-column table. First column: the metric, Other columns: the attributes you look for (like with IDLE). You go through them and check if the attribute is met or not. Where they are met is your starting point for useful KRs.
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Tim
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