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At what point do you talk about success metrics with your development team?

Advaita Nigudkar
BILL Director Product Management6mo
I believe it's important to bring the development team in early — not just on the what, but on the why and how we’ll measure success.Success metrics shouldn’t be an after...
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DJ Chung
Shopify Senior Staff Product Manager3y
At the beginning of the project. Before we start implementation, I make sure to define: What problem are we trying to solve and for whom? Why is this problem important ...
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Aleks Bass
Typeform Chief Product Officer3y
Our team believes that success metrics have the highest likelihood of driving focus and execution quality when they are tied to our strategy and something we consistently...
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Poorvi Shrivastav
Meta Senior Director of Product Management5mo
Success metrics are key to implementing the strategy. As soon as we decide what we are building, we align on success criteria, instrumentation/data collection, and how we...
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C. Todd Lombardo
Co-author Product Roadmaps Relaunched | Formerly Openly, MachineMetrics, ConstantContact, Vempathy, Fresh Tilled Soil2y
As soon as we start talking about the idea. PMs need to have a hypothesis about what a good outcome looks lie in the beginning. For example we were talking about some cha...
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Sirisha Machiraju
Level AI VP of Product2y
Success metrics should be front and center of every conversation from the get go. Success metric is what I would refer to as ‘impact number’ or key results in an OKR. Whe...
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Mike Flouton
Boxford Capital Managing Partner | Formerly Barracuda, SilverSky, Digital Guardian, OpenPages, Cybertrust3y
Metrics work best when they are continuously embedded into the process. We use OKRs, and cascade them down from top level corporate goals into product line metrics, produ...
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Saikat Paul
Asana Former Head of Product Operations | Formerly Adobe2y
Short answer: Always :)Seriously, discussing success metrics with your development team is essential to ensure alignment on project and sprint goals, plus it's a great mo...
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Katherine Man
HubSpot Group Product Manager, CRM Platform2y
Success metrics should be discussed early with engineers to ensure alignment with the product or feature's goals. By setting these metrics early, it helps prioritize what...
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Laura Oppenheimer
Bubble Group Product Manager | Formerly Quizlet, Chegg3y
At the very beginning! It's so important to align on the why for any initiative. Why now? Why is it important? And a big part of that why is what the world will look like...
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