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The 3 Pillars of Observability in Distributed Software Systems[System Design Sundays]

Technology Made Simple • 99 implied HN points • 19 Jun 23
🕹 Technology Observability Metrics
  1. Observability in distributed software systems is crucial as they grow in complexity and scale.
  2. The 3 pillars of observability are logs, metrics, and traces, each offering unique insights into the system's operations.
  3. Combining logs, metrics, and traces is essential for building tools that enhance observability and improve system performance.

Choosing the right UX metrics - Part 2

UX Psychology • 158 implied HN points • 03 Oct 22
🕹 Technology UX Design Metrics Product Management User Experience Data Analysis
  1. Identifying clear goals is crucial in choosing the right UX metrics, involving team and stakeholders can help define meaningful and actionable metrics.
  2. Mapping goals to signals helps track progress towards goals; gathering user feedback and reviews can be essential signals to measure UX success.
  3. Refining signals into specific metrics is the final step, where data scientists can assist in ensuring metrics are measured accurately; focus on key metrics and avoid adding unnecessary data.
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Choosing the right UX metrics - Part 1

UX Psychology • 119 implied HN points • 20 Sep 22
🕹 Technology UX Design Metrics User Experience Product Analytics
  1. UX metrics are vital for making evidence-based UX decisions instead of relying on opinions and beliefs.
  2. Using a combination of attitudinal and behavioral metrics can provide a comprehensive understanding of user experience.
  3. The HEART framework - Happiness, Engagement, Adoption, Retention, and Task Success - offers a structured way to select and track UX metrics for data-driven decision-making.

Three Dimensions of Developer Productivity

Engineering Enablement • 31 implied HN points • 01 Sep 23
🕹 Technology Developer Productivity Software Development Engineering Metrics
  1. Developer productivity can be conceptualized through three dimensions: Velocity, Quality, and Satisfaction.
  2. Leaders should clarify their goals for measuring productivity by considering stakeholders, level of measurement, and time period.
  3. Transitioning from dimensions to selecting metrics can be done using the Goals, Signals, Metrics approach.

The value-destroying potential of AI

Apperceptive (moved to buttondown) • 32 implied HN points • 31 Jul 23
🕹 Technology AI Software Metrics Chatbots Applications
  1. Many businesses struggle to measure the true value of implementing AI solutions.
  2. The key problem lies in defining and measuring what 'good driving' or 'good writing' actually means.
  3. Executives should be cautious about overly relying on AI like ChatGPT for creative tasks, as they may miss out on the unique perspectives and insights that humans offer.

How Much Data Is Too Much?

Build To Scale • 19 implied HN points • 15 Sep 23
💼 Business Metrics Decision-making Analytics Culture
  1. Focus on a small set of key metrics at the executive level to avoid conflicting views and promote progress.
  2. Be cautious of over-analyzing data and creating a culture where analysis overshadows taking necessary actions.
  3. For startups, while revenue predictability is important, it's natural to experience volatility, especially in early stages.

The Engineering Leader's Process for Continuous Improvement

Developing Leadership • 39 implied HN points • 25 Apr 23
💼 Business Leadership Engineering Metrics Organization Decision-making
  1. Engineering leaders have two main responsibilities: improving developer experience and delivering impact to end-users.
  2. The Engineering Leader's Process for Continuous Improvement involves identifying, discussing, deciding, aligning, acting, and measuring.
  3. It is important for engineering leaders to continuously loop through the improvement process, not just during times of issue.

Three-Bucket Framework for Engineering Metrics

Engineering Enablement • 38 implied HN points • 10 Mar 23
🕹 Technology Metrics Engineering Leadership Productivity Development
  1. Deciding what metrics to track and report to stakeholders is a common challenge for engineering leaders.
  2. Reframing the problem and using a three-bucket framework can help in choosing relevant engineering metrics.
  3. The three buckets for engineering metrics include business impact, system performance, and developer effectiveness.

Week 27 - 📈 📊 How to Develop and Write KPIs: A Guide for Product Managers 📋

The Product Channel By Sid Saladi • 40 implied HN points • 19 Feb 23
💼 Business Product Management Metrics KPIs
  1. KPIs and metrics help product managers track product performance and areas for improvement.
  2. Developing effective KPIs involves aligning them with business objectives and defining specific metrics.
  3. Choosing the right KPIs and metrics is crucial for measuring progress, making data-driven decisions, and communicating with stakeholders.

Input Metrics for SEO

The SEO MBA • 32 implied HN points • 31 Mar 23
💼 Business SEO Metrics Investment Reporting Strategy
  1. SEO success depends on more than just the SEO team - it's a cross-functional effort.
  2. Use input metrics, not just output metrics, to drive buy-in for SEO programs.
  3. Choosing measurable input metrics and evolving them over time helps predict success and guide actions for SEO programs.

A Quest for Accurate North Star Metrics

Balancing Act • 19 implied HN points • 07 Apr 23
💼 Business Metrics Real Estate Blockchain Market Analysis
  1. North Star Metrics are crucial for measuring business success, but accurately comparing them to competitors can be challenging.
  2. Real estate data, particularly from the MLS, provides companies like Zillow and Redfin with precise market insights for measuring market share.
  3. Selecting and refining a North Star Metric as a business grows is essential, and leveraging industry-specific data sources can improve metric accuracy.

Standardized usability questionnaires: which one to use?

UX Psychology • 79 implied HN points • 16 Dec 21
🕹 Technology Usability User Experience Research Metrics
  1. Standardized usability questionnaires have many advantages like objectivity, reliability, and validity.
  2. There are various post-test standardized usability questionnaires available, such as QUIS, SUMI, PSSUQ, SUS, and SUPR-Q, each with unique features and applications.
  3. Choosing the right questionnaire depends on factors like the nature of the project, stage of research, goals of the study, and budget limitations.

How We Drive Developer Productivity at Yelp | with Kent Wills, Director of Engineering, Engineering Effectiveness at Yelp

platocommunity • 2 HN points • 25 Jan 24
🕹 Technology Engineering Developer Productivity Metrics Automation
  1. Engineering Effectiveness at Yelp aims to boost engineering capacity through organizational efficiency, working on projects to enhance workflows and systems, like 'paved paths' inspired by Netflix.
  2. Yelp dealt with challenges like transitioning from a monolith to a service-oriented architecture, focusing on issues such as maintaining consistent styles, testing across service boundaries, and facilitating migrations.
  3. The current state of Yelp's Engineering Effectiveness involves supporting web development, improving language support, automating code migrations, and prioritizing better observability of debt and engineering value.

Clouded Judgement 1.19.24 - The Bar for Going Public

Clouded Judgement • 2 HN points • 19 Jan 24
💼 Business Finance Metrics Investing Market Analysis Valuation
  1. The bar for going public is set very high, with companies needing impressive metrics like $200m ARR, 50% YoY growth, and over 120% net retention.
  2. New IPOs face challenges like concentrated ownership, lower liquidity, high stock dilution, and the need to build trust with public market investors.
  3. Startups aiming to go public should focus on metrics attractive to public market investors, including understanding stock compensation and equity dilution.

Cultivating a Culture of Excellence

Fish Food for Thought • 15 implied HN points • 31 May 23
💼 Business Team Dynamics Metrics Hiring Goals Culture
  1. Empowering teams leads to fostering a culture of excellence by giving them real authority and accountability.
  2. Effective measurement systems are crucial in building a culture of excellence, focusing on metrics that truly matter to the business.
  3. Hiring, nurturing, and weeding out team members are strategic decisions that significantly impact an organization's future in cultivating a culture of excellence.

26/36 : 🚀📝 Product Pitch Deck Framework

Product Mindset's Newsletter • 11 implied HN points • 23 Jul 23
💼 Business Startups Investors Metrics Market Analysis Pitch Decks
  1. Focus on building something that a small number of users love, rather than aiming for a large number of users who just like your product.
  2. A pitch deck should provide a clear and concise overview of your startup, focusing on key areas like problem, solution, market, product, team, competition, and financial projections.
  3. Key to a successful pitch deck is clarity, differentiation, and convincing the audience of your idea's high potential and chances of success.

Churn Paradox

Magis • 1 HN point • 20 Feb 24
💼 Business Statistics Metrics Investors Financial Statements
  1. Simpson's paradox teaches us that aggregate metrics can lead to wrong conclusions when not considering the composition of the aggregate.
  2. A common construction of churn metrics can be misleading; decreasing aggregate churn rate may not always mean the revenue base quality is improving, and sudden increases can be due to new customers rather than a decline in quality.
  3. Churn paradox occurs when fixed-period aggregate churn rates ignore the sizes of customer acquisition cohorts, leading to skewed conclusions about customer retention and revenue base.

A Look Back at Q1 '23 Public Cloud Software Earnings

Clouded Judgement • 12 implied HN points • 20 Jun 23
💼 Business Earnings Metrics Guidance Performance Valuations
  1. Analysis of Q1 public cloud software earnings provides insights for startup entrepreneurs on managing their businesses.
  2. Indications suggest a potential bottoming phase in the software industry with hopes for reacceleration by the year's end.
  3. Metrics such as revenue performance, growth, and sales efficiency play key roles in evaluating the success of a quarter for cloud businesses.

Clouded Judgement 5.19.23

Clouded Judgement • 13 implied HN points • 19 May 23
💼 Business Software Stocks Earnings Valuation Metrics
  1. Cloud software companies saw a boost in stock prices, but operating performance is not as positive.
  2. Companies added less new ARR in Q1 '23 compared to the previous year, indicating a headwind in new bookings.
  3. Median revenue growth rate declined in Q1 '23, along with net retention rates, CAC payback periods, but FCF margins showed improvement.

Clouded Judgement 5.26.23

Clouded Judgement • 12 implied HN points • 26 May 23
💼 Business Finance Software Earnings Valuation Metrics
  1. Snowflake reported weakening consumption trends in April/May compared to Feb/March.
  2. The change in data retention policies by customers was a big factor in consumption weakness for Snowflake.
  3. Snowflake's report raises questions about the anticipated acceleration in consumption software and highlights the volatility of consumption models.

Clouded Judgement 6.23.23 - Atlas Consumption and Q1 Earnings Trends

Clouded Judgement • 10 implied HN points • 23 Jun 23
💰 Finance Software Metrics Valuation
  1. MongoDB Atlas consumption trends showed a drop in Q2 of last year but picked up in Q1 and may continue. Monitoring this trend is key.
  2. Quarterly metrics trends like growth, net retention, sales efficiency, and FCF margins have been fluctuating in the recent quarters.
  3. Valuation metrics like EV/NTM revenue multiples and growth rates are important for understanding the relative valuation of software companies.