North Star Metric
One metric that captures the value
- Best for
- aligning the team on one number
- Time
- 30–60 min
- Difficulty
- Intermediate
Example
Picking one metric to align the whole team on for the year
Candidates and final pick
- Candidate — MAU (rejected: doesn't capture value delivered)
- Candidate — revenue (rejected: lags behind product reality)
- Candidate — frameworks-saved per active user / month — PICK
- Why it works — captures depth of value, leads revenue, hard to fake
- Target — grow from 4.1 to 7.0 by year-end
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