How do you know when a new feature or an update has been successful?
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Workiva Vice President Of Product Management • 2y
If you are an outcome driven product team (which I hope you are), I think this should be defined as the change in behavior you expect to see/create for users of your new ...
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HubSpot Group Product Manager • 2y
I tend to focus on two groups of indicators.First, did we deliver a delightful user experience that added value to the customer? My go-to for answering this is Google’s H...
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Head of Product, VP • 2y
First, any new feature or update should have pre-defined success criteria/metrics that are set before launch. That helps in objectively assessing the success or failure o...
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Adobe Senior Director of Product Management & Growth (Creative Cloud) • 3mo
True success isn't measured at the moment of impact; it’s measured by sustained impact to core metrics against predicted forecasts, accounting for seasonality.While it is...
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Oracle Product Strategy Director • 2y
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) should be identified for every feature and those should then be monitored to determine the effect of the change. This can be the number ...
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Bluevine Senior Director of Product Management | Formerly Xero, Practice Fusion • 3mo
When defining a new feature or change, also define what your anticipated impact will be to the customer and OKRs. This should be part of your prioritization framework in ...
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Unity Principal Product Strategy • 1y
If you haven’t already, it’s helpful to start with the context of the question: “How do you define a mature product?”Finding success with new work on a mature product can...
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Contentful VP, Product Management | Formerly Twilio, SendGrid • 3y
The best PMs define success before building a feature. To define success, teams should think through: The customer problem they're solving, what does it look like when s...
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