// track 06 · 7 lessons · ~35 min
Metrics & Iteration.
What's working, what's not.
Reading the project. Leading vs lagging indicators, OKR depth (writing key results that aren't tasks), A/B testing without peeking, funnel + cohort analysis (why aggregates lie), Earned Value Management for capital projects, DORA's four software-delivery metrics, and how to write a project health check that doesn't become a watermelon.
- 14 min06.01
Leading vs lagging indicators
Lagging tells you what happened. Leading tells you what's coming.
- 5 min06.02
OKRs — deep dive
Writing key results that actually measure the objective.
- 6 min06.03
A/B testing for PMs
Hypothesis, sample size, primary metric, guardrails.
- 5 min06.04
Funnel + cohort analysis
Where users drop off, and how long they stay once they don't.
- 6 min06.05
Earned Value Management (EVM)
PV, EV, AC — and the four numbers that tell you if you'll finish on time and on budget.
- 5 min06.06
Software quality metrics
Defect density, MTTR, change-failure rate — DORA's four.
- 4 min06.07
Project health checks
RAG status, weighted dimensions, the watermelon problem.
// canonical reading for this track
Beyond what we wrote.
These are the primary sources our lessons draw from. If you want to go deep on this track, start here.
// put it into practice
Reading is half the work.
The simulator drops you into real PM scenarios so the concepts from these lessons stop being abstract.