Making Data-Driven Decisions

Discussions about how different organizations are using data to make informed product decisions

31 Topics
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31 Topics

Christy HCommunity Manager

Leaders - How have you created a "data culture" within your team?

Creating a data driven culture is a process that doesn’t just happen overnight. I would love to hear what you (or others in your org) did to drive data adoption?Did you hold a monthly team meeting where you shared metrics, did you give your team templates, did you make building a dashboard a part of the official JIRA launch process, did you hold a competition for the person who ran the most queries?Any and all ideas would be appreciated!

28 days ago

Shai G.ANew Participant

asked in Making Data-Driven Decisions

Heatmaps - RTL vs LTR langugaes

Hi,The new Heatmap feature is awesome.We wanted to know if there is a plan to allow a separate analysis for RTL/LTR languages as the location of the objects within the page vary significantly between them.Thanks!

1 month ago

PlasticlizzardFrequent Participant

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Counting widgets on a page

I am trying to figure out if i can count somehow how many widgets are on a page.Context - Customers can add chart widgets to a page, do some config, then they have them on their dashboard.I can count the clicks on the “add widget button”, I can count the widgets they choose, and I know if they have added it to the page.What i was trying to work out is how may people have on their pages. We had a hypothesis that people would use multiples of the same widget just configured slightly differently. Unfortunately I am sort of stuck on the counting bit. ThanksMike

2 months ago

mariabkNew Member

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Filtering by UTM Source

Hello there!I’m new to Heap and I’m working on a journey to see how users interact after receiving an email (filter by UTM Source = Braze). However, the filter only allows for “initial source” and our emails are never the initial source of the interaction.Is there a way to filter by source were it is either the last interaction or any interaction coming from it? I appreciate the help!

2 months ago

XimenaNew Member

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New UI

Hello Heap community! I’m new in product management and taking data-driven decisions is challenging to know what is the best way to act. So I have a question hoping you guys can give me some clarity for my decision. A bit of context: in my company, we use Heap for tracking (which I love) but we are soon to release a new version of our app, this version was a total makeover so nothing is the same. So my questions are:What will be the recommended action here, we of course do not want to delete all the data from the current version because we want to compare the metrics. So is creating a different project the best thing to do? or continue in the same one? I hope my question was clear and thanks in advance for your helpful answers.

3 months ago

Ben LempertHeap Employee

published in Making Data-Driven Decisions

Worksheet - Segmenting Your Users

Worksheet - Segmenting Your Users We’ve been building a whole new series of templates for using data to make decisions! As you all know, there’s lots of high-level guidance for being data-driven, most of it not actionable. We’re working on making actionable, useful templates and guides for teams who want to bring data into their decision-making. Use the framework worksheet attached below to identify your key user groups and track their behavior.You’ve provided great feedback on our first Product Management template series, with our problem brief, design brief, and after-action report. You can download the full report here. We’re adding new assets everyday Feel free to visit, download, and share: https://heap.io/how-to-hubWe’re always open to your ideas. Would love to hear your thoughts! --Ben

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4 months ago

asweanyNew Member

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Combining user research insights with Heap analytics

Hey folks, We’re just getting Heap up and running at my current company, and as a user researcher I’d love to begin using Heap to increase confidence in insights derived from small sample qualitative research (interviews, usability tests, etc.). Does anyone have a case study or two of combining qual research findings with analytics to either bolster, or refute, or learn additional insights? Thanks, Andrew

5 months ago

Yana-HEAPNew Participant

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Problem with Launch visual labeling for iOS Event Visualizer for iOS in Stage: cannot connect phone (Scan this QR code says No usable data found)

we are about to launch new Mobile app (not in Apple store yet, but on TestFlight pointed to our Stage env). I need to create analytics and want to use Visualizer. Did following steps:Logged into my App via Apple phone to make sure it is active Open page “Launch visual labeling for iOS”, tried to scan QR code to pair my device with HEAP Scanning gave me an error - No usable data There is also instruction (You can also use the legacy pairing gesture...) that i did not get how it works. Any suggestions what to do and how i can connect my device? Thank you in advance

6 months ago

Paul from WelbiNew Participant

asked in Making Data-Driven Decisions

Looking for Time to Value for a given feature

For a given feature, we’re interested in knowing how soon a user does this action after their first log-in. Do they do X within the first hour of signing in or do they not find X until 10 days after they’ve signed in for the first time? Is this possible? We’d be more interested in real-time, not logged-in time, but both are valuable.For example, if user logs in for first time on Monday and logs out immediately after and then does feature X on Tuesday as soon as they log in, we’d want to know that it took them a day to find feature X. But knowing that it only took a minute is also interesting.

8 months ago

Ben LempertHeap Employee

published in Making Data-Driven Decisions

Worksheet - Creating Behavioral Personas

Worksheet - Creating Behavioral Personas We’ve been building a whole new series of templates for using data to make decisions! As you all know, there’s lots of high-level guidance for being data-driven, most of it not actionable. We’re working on making actionable, useful templates and guides for teams who want to bring data into their decision-making. Use the framework attached below to identify your user personas based on their product behavior and then track their performance over time against key milestones. You’ve provided great feedback on our first Product Management template series, with our problem brief, design brief, and after-action report. You can download the full report here. We’re adding new assets everyday Feel free to visit, download, and share: https://heap.io/how-to-hubWe’re always open to your ideas. Would love to hear your thoughts!

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8 months ago

Ben LempertHeap Employee

published in Making Data-Driven Decisions

Worksheet - Measure Feature Success

Worksheet - Measure Feature Success We’ve been building a whole new series of templates for using data to make decisions! As you all know, there’s lots of high-level guidance for being data-driven, most of it not actionable. We’re working on making actionable, useful templates and guides for teams who want to bring data into their decision-making. Use the framework worksheet attached below to create a dashboard for measuring product or feature performance and identifying opportunities for improvement.You’ve provided great feedback on our first Product Management template series, with our problem brief, design brief, and after-action report. You can download the full report here. We’re adding new assets everyday Feel free to visit, download, and share: https://heap.io/how-to-hubWe’re always open to your ideas. Would love to hear your thoughts! --Ben

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8 months ago

TrevinHeap Champion

asked in Making Data-Driven Decisions

Dashboard instances should be able to be saved with different filters applied

We create dashboards all the time but the way heap is designed now, you have to make so many reports to support different views. The main problem stems from fact that dashboards cannot be saved with filters applied (at the dashboard level).Scenario:I have 2 product lines: Foo and Bar.I want to have a dashboard that shows:Traffic to Foo product pages Sign Up conversion for Foo Purchase Conversion for FooThe natural thing you want is to create 3 generic reports that can be filtered on product line. You add these 3 reports to a dashboard and save one instance of it filtering (at the dashboard level) for Product=Foo, and another version of the SAME dashboard, but filtering product=bar. This then allow me to have 3 reports powering 2 dashboards. My only choices now are:have 3 reports with 1 dashboard and teach everyone how to use filters create 6 reports (3 filtered on Foo, and 3 filtered on Bar) and create 2 unique dashboards Heap would be so much more powerful if my ideal scenario was

9 months ago

Deanna FurlongHeap Employee

posted in Making Data-Driven Decisions

PM Podcast Resources

Hey Heap Community! I stumbled onto this groovy PM resource while researching ways to learn more about Product Management - thought I share here for anyone who wants to learn more or geek-out on PM-related topics. Caveat: The only one I’ve listened to so far is Product School’s, which was pretty good. So post here if you find any you like or find any really good episodes. Happy listening! 👂🏼10 Product Management Podcasts No PM Should Miss in 2022

9 months ago

Shai G.ANew Participant

asked in Making Data-Driven Decisions

Analyzing repeated action within a single action

Hi,I am looking for a way to analyze a repeated action within a single session. For example how many of our users did action X more than 10 times within a single session or even within several minutes.I only found how to define a specific day/7 days/month etc. and that resolution is not sufficient.Thanks!

10 months ago

daveteeHeap Employee

posted in Making Data-Driven Decisions

Using Data to Overcome Imposter Syndrome

Heap’s own Sr. PM @Josh Roberts authored an article on overcoming self-doubt with data. He provides recommendations to build and reinforce confidence that is central to the roll of all PMs. It’s an under-five-minute read. We welcome you to ask questions and provide your own insights below!5 Ways Data Can Help Product Managers Overcome Imposter SyndromeProduct managers often battle with a sense of imposter syndrome because of their work, the environment they operate in, and the demands they must fulfill within their roles. Josh Roberts, Senior Product Manager, Heap, shares five ways in which focusing on and leveraging data can help product managers overcome feelings of self-doubt.

11 months ago

TrevinHeap Champion

asked in Making Data-Driven Decisions

Filter option to check for CONTAINS or WILDCARD match in file

It should be possible to use an “included in file” filter but matching with wildcard or contain clauses vs equality.

11 months ago

TrevinHeap Champion

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It should be easier to create dashboard with "Entire Range" vs Trending

It’s super common for us to want to have dashboard that show a set of data both in:aggregate (e.g. Entire Range of data based on last 30 days) the trend by day/week over same period.This can show you additional information you can’t get with just #1.For example:It’s effectively the same data just different ways to look at it. Heap should combine these reports into the same one, and give you a way to just toggle how you view it. This would save us a ton of extra reports to create and sift through.

11 months ago

TrevinHeap Champion

asked in Making Data-Driven Decisions

Path comparison should respect groups

When you create a conversion report, then use the “Path comparison” feature (which is super handy!), it does not show groupings that the original report shows. For example look at this report and the groupings at the bottom: But in the paths comparison, it does not break out the groupings. Only wayt to get the visibility is run the report multiple times for each group which is a total pain.

11 months ago

Deanna FurlongHeap Employee

asked in Making Data-Driven Decisions

Are you a PM who came from distinctly Non-PM background (think Art History major)?

You're a PM Pro now, but if you took a trip in the Way Back machine, what concepts/ language/ theories/ practices did you have to learn early on to really rock it out today? I'm particularly interested in hearing from folks who stumbled into their roles as PMs, and probably don't have a business studies background (like me - English Lit major). For example, I didn't know a lot about statistics when I started at Heap, so I did some reading/research on basic concepts/applications to better understand the types of data-driven decisions PMs need to make. In what areas did you need to level up or fill in gaps before you REALLY got it?

1 year ago

Shelly ELHeap Employee

published in Making Data-Driven Decisions

Common PLG Motions

Product Team(+ Engineering, Design) Marketing Team(+ Engineering, Design) Sales(+ Product, Marketing) Customer Success(with Product, Marketing) Self-Serve (SS) Startups, SMB and Lower Mid-Market Drives:Acquisition ActivationRetentionMonetization - All Drives:AcquisitionResurrectionSupports:Activation RetentionMonetization - All No touch No touch Bottoms Up Higher end of mid-market, and small Ent. Drives:ActivationRetentionMonetization - Free to paid Supports: AcquisitionMonetization - Renewal,Expansion Drives:AcquisitionSupports:Activation RetentionResurrectionMonetization - All Drives: Monetization - Expansion Drives: RetentionMonetization - Resurrection, Expansion Sales-Assisted Enterprise Drives: Pipeline of hand-raisers (PQL)Supports:ActivationRetention Drives: AcquisitionPipeline of hand-raisersSupports:Activati

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1 year ago

Shelly ELHeap Employee

published in Making Data-Driven Decisions

Top SaaS Growth Levers and Metrics

Customer Journey and Key Metrics Activation- In PLG motions, Activation and Onboarding means pretty much the same thing. It’s a set of self-serve flows designed to help prospects and new users of paying accounts set up their account, and guide them through experiencing your product’s value for the first time (the “Aha” moment). Many teams include habit creation in the Activation effort. Some refer to it as a complementary metric called Product Adoption Rate that monitors “stickiness”. Either way, you want to ensure that you are optimizing for all these three components (see chart). In sales-assisted or sales-led motions - Activation usually refers to the first milestone in the user-onboarding process. This is the moment focuses on helping a user successfully progress from sign-up to setup to the Aha moment. Establishing habitual use may often require more effort from the Customer Success organization, collaborating with Customer Lifecycle Marketing teams. Why is Activation important?A

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1 year ago

jenNew Participant

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Analyzing product listing pages

Hello! We've done some analysis on our product listing pages and interesting found that conversion rate correlates with sessions with more product impressions - we hypothesize that user with high intent is more likely to take the time to make the right choice and so naturally will have a high number of products and thus have a good conversion rate. However, to truly understand this we need to AB test different size of the same product listing page but we think that the products will also have an impact and of course we can normalise this to an extent but even still it will be to difficult to strip out the impact of the extra skus in the longer grids.Has anyone here come across this problem or done similar testing? If so would love to hear your approach!

1 year ago

jenNew Participant

published in Making Data-Driven Decisions

How we convinced our CEO of the value of Heap

We recently renewed our contract and other customers asked how I positioned Heap to our executives. It distilled down to answering four big questions:Is Heap Central to our current and future business intelligence (BI) tech stack?We’ve made it really easy to integrate Heap into our overall BI stack. This is best demonstrated in the examples below. Is Heap used across different teams and what value are they getting? It was clear the Product team gains value from Heap, but they're not the only ones. The Range teams use Heap to understand purchase conversions and whether there’s engagement with products and how that matches up with trading and forecasting. The Data Science team uses Heap as part of carousel automation and also product recommendations. This breadth and depth of usage reassured leadership of their investment. Is Heap incorporated into our existing tools and workflows?Heap is a big tool whose data we try to surface as widely as possible across all areas of the business. Eve

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1 year ago

daveteeHeap Employee

published in Making Data-Driven Decisions

Time Management for Product Managers

Enjoy this panel on time management and prioritization specifically made for Product Management professionals. It features product leader Rich Mironov, and Heap Sr. PMs Connie Yuan and Josh Roberts. It offers insights for you to develop greater balance and efficiency as a PM. It also includes a segment on transitioning from individual contributor to people manager and suggestions on how to navigate that change. Have additional questions for the panel? Ask in the comments below! Highlights:“Voltaire taught us that ‘perfect is the enemy of the good.’ and a lot of us as product managers are perfectionists. My advice is, before we react to a question by working on something bespoke, ask yourself, do I have something that's pretty close. Rather than spending 18 hours on something that is perfect, can you save yourself that time and provide something that is suitable and decent.”--Rich Mironov“We apply a lot of rigor to forecasting and planning engineering capacity as PMs, but we don't app

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1 year ago

daveteeHeap Employee

posted in Making Data-Driven Decisions

How do you know when a feature is successful?

There are a lot of metrics out there - which ones do you use to monitor the success of your product’s features? How does the way you measure success figure into the decision of which features you’ll build?I know there are many perspectives out there - it would be great to hear ideas from a variety of roles and industries. Thanks!If you’re looking for measurement ideas, or you want to bring other teams up to speed on success measurement, check out Heap’s whitepaper and worksheet on Measuring Feature Success.

1 year ago

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