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Six Common KPI Mistakes to Avoid

Roman Pichler

While common sense suggests that managing a product without the right measurements is not a sensible approach, I’ve seen product teams who did not use any KPIs. Consequently, these teams relied on: Anecdotal feedback : “Customers love our product, they told me so.” Don’t forget to regularly review and adjust your KPIs.

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Ask the Community: Tracking Opportunities Not Related to Your Outcome

Product Talk

Sometimes youre early in your discovery journey and youre still developing your understanding of the opportunity space. He realized that his regular customer interviews provided him with plenty of promising opportunities that werent related to the outcome his team was focused on at the time and he wondered what to do with them.

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Good Product Team/Bad Product Team

Amplitude

As VP of Product at Amplitude, I get the opportunity to work with hundreds of different products teams every year?—?ranging So in the mode of Ben Horowitz’s classic essay Good PM/Bad PM , I’ve captured my thoughts on what I believe makes a good product team vs a bad product team. PM, Design and Engineering?—?are

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How to keep KPIs meaningful for your customer support team

Intercom, Inc.

They help managers evaluate how their employees are doing, the value they bring to a team and how their work can be improved. But KPIs carry the risk of seeming impersonal. When I first started to work at Intercom as a Customer Support Representative (CSR), KPIs were completely foreign to me.

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SVPMA July Meeting – Steven Haines

The Product Bistro

An interesting role play, Steven lined up 6 victims willing participants, to represent the major functional groups in an organization, Product Management, Operations, Sales, Marketing, Customer Support, and Development, providing each of them a backstory to guide their motivation. The exercise was interesting. Still, it was illuminating.

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Top Tips for Negotiating With Stakeholders

Mind the Product

At a minimum, a good vision needs to identify three things: the problem you are trying to solve, who you are trying to solve it for and what outcomes you want to meet (evidenced by a solid, meaningful KPI). It’s simply not good enough to just feel or think that something is a good or a bad idea. Bullet dodged! Justify Your Position.

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The Dark Days of a Product: How Teams Provide Value During the Tough Times

The Product Coalition

Dark periods are when a product team knows what to design and develop and go about doing it, but the work has yet to be exposed to users in any significant way. Product dark periods are when a product team’s commitment and culture are tested. Developers will be knocking out cards. The dark periods are challenging.