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How do you know when a new feature or an update has been successful?

Chris Omland
Workiva Vice President Of Product Management2y
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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Lukas Pleva
HubSpot Group Product Manager2y
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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Deepti Pradeep
Adobe Senior Director of Product Management & Growth (Creative Cloud)2mo
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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Deepti Srivastava
Head of Product, VP2y
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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Aaron Bloom
Bluevine Senior Director of Product Management | Formerly Xero, Practice Fusion2mo
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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Laurent Gibert
Unity Principal Product Strategy11mo
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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Robert Wunderlich
Oracle Product Strategy Director2y
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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Kalvin Brite
Contentful VP, Product Management | Formerly Twilio, SendGrid3y
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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