Choosing your metrics, KPIs, etc...
how to measure what matters + philosophical musings on whether the important things can be measured
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Choosing your metrics, KPIs, etc...
Finding the right metric
Ted Merz, who used to be the Global Head of News Product at Bloomberg, has an insightful article about how the company's founder (Mike Bloomberg) uses metrics as a management tool. One metric that is prominently displayed around the office on TV screens is the number of Bloomberg terminals sold year-to-date.
This single numbe... See more
Ted Merz, who used to be the Global Head of News Product at Bloomberg, has an insightful article about how the company's founder (Mike Bloomberg) uses metrics as a management tool. One metric that is prominently displayed around the office on TV screens is the number of Bloomberg terminals sold year-to-date.
This single numbe... See more
There are things that can be measured. There are things that are worth measuring. But what can be measured is not always what is worth measuring; what gets measured may have no relationship to what we really want to know. The costs of measuring may be greater than the benefits. The things that get measured may draw effort away from the things we re... See more
The Tyranny of Metrics Quotes by Jerry Z. Muller
People who insist that every product decision should be metrics-driven would also have to logically admit that theirs will be the first job to get automated by AI.
Shreyas Doshix.com
Building something no one else can measure
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Human pain is too abstract to be represented in spreadsheets.
Craig Mod • Offscreen Magazine Interview
We believe that being data-informed comes down to internalizing a set of values. These are simple, few, yet exceedingly powerful:
- Conviction around a purpose rather than searching for meaning in numbers
- Setting verifiable goals rather than vague aspirations
- Company-wide familiarity with metrics rather than outsourcing to “data peo