KPIs for the Pirate Product Manager. -- A break down of Dave McClure's “Pirate Metrics”—with the addition of another essential area, Team—and how they apply to building your product.
2. The AARRRT of a great product.
Data is a great way to measure and test the
effectiveness of your work, but most of us feel like we
don’t have time or even know where to start when
collecting and comparing data.
We’ve developed a helpful guide that will take you
through many of the most popular KPIs for product
development, business, and
customer success.
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3. Actionable: create a goal for the KPI
Measurable: Choose KPIs that are specific and can easily be
tracked and recorded
Comparable: Knowing how your KPIs interrelate can help you
discover how moving one lever can affect other outcomes
Valid: Indicators aren’t useful
unless they are based on good
data and correct assumptions.
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4. User-focused: KPIs work best when you understand the
improving them directly impacts the success of your
customer
Owned: Someone needs to be accountable for each KPI
Shared: KPIs are most effective when the entire
organization understands what
issues need to be addressed.
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5. Lagging indicators track output. Easy to measure but hard
to influence.
Leading indicators tend to be predictive and can change
quickly.
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6. Every decision-maker and stakeholder
in your business should be able to see
KPIs in a dashboard that shows where you
are meeting goals, where you are off-target,
and what factors correlate.
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7. acquisition
Acquisition metrics help you understand
which sources or channels are the most
useful for driving customer growth.
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8. Conversion from Lead Source
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10. activation
Activation metrics help you understand
what your customers are actually doing,
giving you insight into where your product
is most useful and where it’s superfluous.
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Average Session per User
12. Weekly Active Users
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13. retention
Retention metrics will help you understand
how to reduce churn, one of the most
important aspects of a SaaS company.
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14. Customer Churn
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15. Revenue Churn
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16. referral
If you have sharing or referral features in
your app, understanding who is activating
referrals and to whom is critical to
understanding your growth
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17. Net Promoter Score
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18. Referrals via Social Media
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19. revenue
Revenue metrics can help you plan product
development, saving you from building
features customers won’t pay for.
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20. Average Revenue Per User
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21. Customer Lifetime Value
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22. team
Team statistics can help drive quality,
efficiency, and accountability during
product development.
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23. Backlog Burn Rate
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24. Defect Removal Efficiency
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25. The map to real treasure.
Remember, no one metric can tell you everything, so look at
your KPIs in relation to each other.
We built Notion to give you a clear, sharable, visual interface
to compare your KPIs and increase product insight for
your whole team.
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