You've shipped a product change and want to understand its full impact. The team is looking at immediate usage signals as well as longer-term outcomes, and you need a clear way to decide which metrics help you read early progress versus final business results.
How do you decide whether a metric is a leading indicator or a lagging indicator?
Ability to distinguish early directional metrics from outcome metricsUnderstanding of KPI chains and causal orderingJudgment about when retention is a lagging metric versus an intermediate KPIAbility to ground the framework in a realistic product example like Quora onboarding