[Sigia-l] How do you measure success?

[Patrick Walsh]

Paola,
      You might be interested in a blog post I wrote about web stats - 

 
http://patrickcwalsh.wordpress.com/2010/03/07/better-web-statistics-anal
ysis-using-statistical-process-control-spc-part-1-an-overview/

I will be very interested in the replies you get in this thread,

Best of luck

Patrick C Walsh

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Subject: [Sigia-l] How do you measure success?

How do you measure success in a web site? How do you know that your
client's money was well spent?

After a minor brush with breast cancer last year (lopped out - I'm super
fine now) and a slowing down of client work at my two-person company,
I'm contracting this year while I figure out what I REALLY want to do.

I've now been to a few interviews. I ask companies: how do you measure
success? How do you know if you've done a good job?

The answers I am getting are "analytics". Unless I'm mistaken, this'll
be like Google Analytics's reports and graphs.

And I want to know: really? is that all?

What ever happened to Key Performance Indicators? Aren't people writing
in measures of success into requirements documents and then checking
against them after launch?

Inquiring minds want to know.


Paola
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