Metrics
Pearls of Innovation - Visual Tools to Make Better Product Decisions
TCGen principal and Innovate Products Faster co-author Jeanne Bradford explores how visual tools help product teams make better decisions, communicate more clearly, and bring products to market faster.
Learning Loops and Customer Satisfaction
Many leaders view Net Promoter Score as the standard for measuring customer satisfaction, but by itself NPS is useless for deciding what ought to change to drive improvement. Read this paper to learn how to develop habits that drive improvement in customer outcomes.
Capacity Models in Agile Development
A good capacity model is your secret weapon for improving your ability to deliver value rapidly. This paper describes how capacity models work and steps to develop your own.
Predictive Metrics - Measuring the right things to ensure project success
Companies are measuring the wrong things and ending up with the wrong results. Many times we get stuck on measuring what’s easy instead of what’s useful. Predictive metrics are a solution.
Schedule Prediction Accuracy - Anticipating Problems to Deliver On Time
Measuring schedules is not new. Using this graphical tool, that allows you to quickly monitor performance to the initial plan and check key drivers that can take you off course, is a new technique for many organizations.
The Sprint Planning Scorecard Increases Project Predictability
Agile is not just for software anymore. Many companies that develop tangible products – be they hardware or mixed software/hardware systems – are applying techniques, like the sprint scoreboard borrowed from Agile. By combining Agile with traditional processes, they are accelerating programs and delivering winning products.
Predictive Metrics Tree: Measuring the Behaviors That Drive Results
The Predictive Metrics Tree is a tool that ensures that what you’re measuring helps you achieve your program goals. Learn to create Predictive Metrics Tree.
Your Company Is Not Investing Enough in Engineering Productivity, And You Know It!
Organizations are failing to take a stake in improving productivity in engineering, a core process that is the engine of top-line growth.
5 Agile Estimation Techniques For Your Projects
Agile estimation techniques are crucial for effective project management. Master these five methods to streamline your team’s workflow and achieve project success.
Stop Measuring Results: Start Measuring Predictive Indicators First
Companies are producing the wrong results, because they’re measuring the wrong things. If you want to ensure long–term success use short-term predictive metrics to quickly inform you that you’re on the right path.
9 Essential Product Development KPIs to Drive Business Growth
Product development KPIs, or key performance indicators, are specific product management metrics that track and monitor business goals and give vital insights into the product development process.
Complete Guide to Agile Performance Management: Definition, Benefits, and How to Implement It
Move away from traditional performance management and achieve true agility by implementing an agile approach to performance management for your business.
The Top 10 Agile Metrics You Need to be Aware of in 2025
Discover what agile metrics are, why they’re important, and the 10 best agile metrics you need to measure your business’s success and reach your goals
How to Use OKRs in Product Management
Understand Product Management OKRs, why they are important, and how to use them to streamline your organization’s process and workflow
Time To Market (TTM): What it is & Why It's Important
Time to market (TTM) is the length of time to develop a product from conception until it is released to the market and is available for sale.
Product Management Performance Metrics
Learn everything related to product management performance metrics in our ultimate guide put together by our team of experts on the field.
Product Development Metrics
Boost innovation with TCGen’s Product Development Metrics Consulting. Enhance leadership, make superior decisions, and drive remarkable growth today!
Product Development Metrics Tools
These Product Development Metrics Tools are based on real life examples, and have been tested in the field with clients on multiple engagements. We often are stuck when first getting started working on a complex issue, because we don’t know how to take the first step.
Visualizing the Resource Gaps in Product Development Projects
Inadequate staffing or unclear priorities can leave resource gaps that derail projects. Team Wheel helps identify resource gaps.
Staffing Ratio Matrix: Optimizing Workloads Across Functions
The Staffing Ratio Matrix contains a summary of all the projects in a given function, charted against the key functions found on a cross-functional team.
How do you quantify the probability of success of a new product?
The best way to estimate the probability of success is a combination of internal factors and an understanding of the competitive structure of the market environment. Triangulation provides the most reliable guidance with the least effort.
Empowering Teams Through Metrics at Apple
Four times Apple tried and failed to adopt a consistent product development process. We established a target metric with the aim of seeding the changes within the organization so that they took root.
Managing Project Cadence: Deliverable Hit Rate Chart
The Deliverable Hit Rate tool manages project cadence by monitoring the progress of completed tasks against a target over time.
Agile Burndown Graphs
In agile development, the team goes through the whole build/integrate/test cycle with the goal of solving the greatest number of user stories or requirements per build. Tracking the number of user stories completed per build combines many best practices into one easy-to-use system.
Software Product Management – Staffing Ratios
Product Management is often an understaffed, overworked function. And the impact on the organization is huge.
Why Benchmarking Often Fails to Deliver Results
Benchmarking often fails just when you need it most. All the best benchmarking and best practices lead nowhere if they are not implemented.
Staffing Ratio Matrix
The Staffing Ratio Matrix identifies overloaded individual contributors and functional bottlenecks. It indicates the relative number of projects per function, enabling better resource allocation, fast...
Schedule Prediction Accuracy Chart
The Schedule Prediction Accuracy Chart provides an early warning when a project fails to hit the schedule. This tool allows project teams to anticipate problems before they occur, and to intervene bef...
Deliverable Hit Rate Chart
The Deliverable Hit Rate Chart monitors the progress of completed tasks against a target over time. It is a graph that indicates whether programs are staying on schedule by tracking the rate of task c...