What Are Low-Fidelity Index Measures?
We come across a scenario often, when teams are subjectively estimating their progress (overly optimistically), and then missing the mark on their ultimate outcome goals.
In the OKR biz, that’s called a watermelon metric scenario: our performance is “green” on our estimated progress all quarter and then flips to “red” when the actual data comes in at the end of the term. Green on the outside, red on the inside = the metric “went watermelon.”
When we have this pattern, or where we have gaps in measurable data, we can work toward improving our predictive capability about progress estimation by experimenting with a low-fidelity index measure, so that we can:
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Watch that measure more often (as often as we want / need) to see what our progress might be? and
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Fill gaps where we just do NOT have data.
In this video, I walk through an anonymized example scenario, sharing the questions I ask and the steps we follow to help clients identify this helpful type of experimentation with measurement.
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