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Define Success Criteria for Initiative

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Problem

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You've been asked to kick off a new engineering initiative. Before delivery begins, you want to define what success looks like so the team, product, and business stakeholders are not optimizing for different outcomes later.

Question

How would you define success criteria for this initiative?

What This Tests

  • Defining concrete success criteria before execution starts
  • Choosing KPIs and leading indicators instead of vague goals
  • Aligning stakeholders with different definitions of success
  • Separating primary outcomes from guardrails