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Five Strategies for Slaying the Data Puking Dragon.

Occam's Razor

Your digital performance dashboard has 16 metrics along 9 dimensions, and you know that the font-size 6 text and sparkline sized charts make them incomprehensible. Focus only on KPIs, eliminate metrics. Here are the definitions you'll find in my books: Metric : A metric is a number. Time on Page is a metric.

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The Lean Analytics Cycle: Metrics > Hypothesis > Experiment > Act

Occam's Razor

To win in business you need to follow this process: Metrics > Hypothesis > Experiment > Act. We are far too enamored with data collection and reporting the standard metrics we love because others love them because someone else said they were nice so many years ago. That metric is tied to a KPI.

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Make Every Sprint Count with DevOps Analytics

Sisense

DevOps first came about in 2007-2008 to fix problems in the software industry and bring with it continuous improvement and greater efficiencies. Start by listing your KPIs. You should have at least one KPI for every part of your product cycle; planning, development, testing, deployment, release, and monitoring. Getting Started.

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Knowledge

Occam's Razor

" ~ Web Metrics: "What is a KPI? " + Standard Metrics Revisited Series. "Engagement" Is Not A Metric, It's An Excuse. Defining a "Master Metric", + a Framework to Gain a Competitive Advantage in Web Analytics. Triggers, Benchmarking, Identifying Goals & KPI Cards.

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"Dear Avinash": Be Awesome At Comparing KPI Trends Over Time

Occam's Razor

I have tried to find some metric that mixes Y/Y and M/M, but to no avail. Here's me comparing performance of this blog over two years for the Visitors metric: Overall happiness reigns, I think. Let's say I did lots of things to drive SEO from Nov 2007 to May 2008. Do you have any thoughts on this matter?

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