Q&A - How Do You Know When Your Metric Tree is Getting Too Granular?
Mitra Abrahams explains how to avoid overly granular metric trees and find the right level of detail for impactful insights.

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Does it get too granular? I guess the metric tree. How's how how does it get too granular? How do you know when it to stop going down the tree down the funnel? What would you say to that, Mitra? How do you stop making the disturbance explode all the way down hundreds of levels? Yeah. I think it's a a really fair question. I think there's, I talked about simplifying earlier. They're sort of simplifying across, and then they're stopping at a simple point as you're going down. I think, really, there's no rules. I think you will naturally get to some metrics that you will think we we can influence these. Like, we already influence these. So we're we're sitting at a level that we understand. Like, if this is the needle we need to move, we're comfortable knowing how to do that. And I think that's probably the assessment that you you would need to make. I think if you keep going and keep going, you will suddenly realize that you were just getting into such naughty detail that you'll almost end up being like, this group of ten metrics in the bottom corner is what I need to move, but, actually, I understand these as just the one above it. So I think just contextualizing what you do in your organization to affect these will help you on that. I agree. That's it. You'd be also surprised at how powerful even a high level metric tree like this is only two levels. This is even even the clarity of, like, what's driving performance at this level of detail is surprisingly powerful. So I wouldn't even go that deep to start off with, but, obviously, you can you wanna go ideally, go as deep as Mitrice as you can as the lever that you can pull, but even starting off with this level of clarity is a really powerful place to to to start as well. So don't, again, don't let, perfect be any enemy of the good in terms of getting a perfect tree before you launch it.