Who This Helps
This is for the Team Lead who’s tired of the Monday morning scramble. You know your team needs consistent data to make good calls, but pulling it together eats up half your day. The Product Metrics Basics course shows you how to move from reactive number-checking to proactive insight-sharing.
Mini Case
Sam’s team spent 4 hours every Monday manually updating a 15-slide metrics deck. After automating the core data pull and summary, they cut that to 30 minutes. The report now runs itself, and the team spots trends 3 days faster.
Do This Now (5 Steps)
- Pick your one non-negotiable metric. Is it weekly active users? Feature adoption rate? Choose one.
- Find its source. Is it in your data warehouse, an analytics tool, or a spreadsheet? Locate the live feed.
- Schedule a 10-minute check. Use a calendar invite or a simple tool to run a data pull every Friday at 4 PM.
- Compare this week to last week. Did it go up, down, or stay flat? Note the percentage change.
- Write one sentence on ‘why.’ Was there a launch? A bug? A seasonal trend? One sentence adds the crucial context.
Avoid These Traps
- Don’t try to automate everything at once. Start with one metric. Seriously, just one.
- Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good. A simple, automated 80% solution is better than a perfect manual report that’s always late.
- Don’t forget to tell a story. A number by itself is just a trivia fact. Connect it to what the team actually did or is planning to do next.
Your Win by Friday
By this Friday, you’ll have one key metric on auto-pilot. You’ll get that time back to actually talk with your team about what the numbers *mean*. That’s the real win—turning data from a chore into a conversation starter. You’ve got this!