What metrics do you find most helpful to measure the success of an internal tool?

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Director of Portfolio Marketing in Software2 years ago

I often start with these metrics when evaluating the success of an internal tool:

1. User satisfaction: Interview or survey users to ask how satisfied/dissatisfied they are with the tool. This may be a more qualitative metric than #2 and #3 below.

2. User adoption: Consider the number of new users using the tool each week.

3. User engagement: The number of daily/weekly/monthly/etc active users of the tool (you can pick the frequency that makes sense for the tool).

4. Business impact: This depends on what you are trying to accomplish with the tool and may or may not be available to you to measure. Consider, are you trying to decrease/increase an operation metric or costs perhaps? Check those metrics to see if anything has changed for better or worse.

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