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Defining good KPIs

Defining good KPIs

- [Narrator] As we've seen in the last video, KPIs are super important for collecting the right requirements and then understanding exactly what to do, what the goals are. Now with KPIs, there are usually two problems, you get KPIs from others and you need to figure out is this a good KPI, so does that make sense, or is this a bad KPI or if you come up with KPIs yourself, you need to set them correctly, you need to create good KPIs. So let's, in this video, take a look at that because bad KPIs is always a problem because they allow a lot of interpretation and interpretation that leads to confusion that leads to bad communication that leads to systems not built right that need leads to redesigns that leads to more effort to more cost that leads to problems. So let's look at how to define KPIs. The thing is with good KPIs, first of all, the KPIs need to be relevant and I mentioned this before, sometimes you might get…

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