Product analytics Flashcards
Common goals for product analytics
- Build the right products and features
- Reduce friction
- Increase revenue
- Drive more innovation
Types of product metrics
- Business outcomes
- Product usage
- Product quality
Business outcomes
How the product influences key business and financial outcomes.
Examples:
1. Net revenue retention
2. Churn
Product usage
How users behave inside the product, which features the users use the most
and here they are getting stuck
Examples:
1. Feature adoption
2. Stickiness
How the product is doing what it supposes to do
- Response time
- Number of bugs per feature
Lagging indicators
Metrics that you want to move for the health of the business, but may be harder to see results in a short timeframe
Leading indicators
Metrics that are measurable in a shorter time frame, and have a high probability of affecting your lagging indicators
OKRs
Objectives and Key results
‘What are we focused on right now?’
Consists of an objective and three to five supporting key results that map to it.
KPIs
Key performance indicators
‘Are we ok?’
A longer-term view of performance, and typically a set of numbers that you can consistently watch over time
One Metric That Matters
‘Does what we are working on contribute to this one metric?’
Focus on a single metric that matters the most for the success of the business at different stages
North Star Metric
‘Does what we are working on contribute to our primary metric?’
A single metric that is an indicator of achieving user value over a period of time
Check metrics (Balance metrics)
‘Will focusing too much on this one metric have drawbacks?’
Metrics you track to ensure you aren’t over-indexing on any one metric — for example, your primary North Star — and causing unintended negative consequences
Product analytics strategy includes
- The questions you are asking
- The goals you’re working towards
- The metrics you use
Major goal of product analytics
Use quantitative data to identify people from whom you then want to collect qualitative data
Breadth
A measure of how many total users you have, as well as how many users you have per account
Depth
How much of the product your customers are using — specifically how many key features or areas of the product they’re utilizing
Frequency
Measures how often users — or users from a specific account — log in to your product in a given timeframe
Product Analytics
Hierarchy of Needs
- Collect data
- Refine data into metrics
- Build metrics into reports
- Take action
- Data Actualization