Defining Product Success: Using the HEART Metrics Framework

Cole Mercer Cole Mercer US Senior Product Manager, Listener Experience at SoundCloud

Defining success with the right product metrics is vital to agile development, but choosing the right metrics to track is often difficult. In this talk, we’ll look at how you can implement the “HEART Framework” first popularized by UX researcher Kerry Rodden at Google Ventures. Once you understand the basics, the framework is an easy way for UX Designers and Product Managers to ensure they’re looking at product metrics through the entire user lifecycle instead of only a single point.
Topics covered are: – Why defining success with product metrics is vital to iterative development – What the HEART Framework is, when to use it, and how it works by encouraging you to set goals, identify signals, and define metrics – A full fledged example of a HEART framework implemented on a fictional product

Cole Mercer, Senior Product Manager, Listener Experience at SoundCloud

Cole MercerCole Mercer is a Senior Product Manager at SoundCloud in Berlin, one of the world's largest music streaming services with several hundred million active users. Previously, Cole was a Product Manager at Bonobos in NYC, a web-focused retail clothing brand where he oversaw web and mobile products. Cole has also held roles as a Product Management course instructor at General Assembly in NYC, a freelance product consultant to over 10 companies, as well as full time positions in business and consumer technology companies such as Mass Relevance and Chasm.io.