What are KPIs?
Every part of MUI has Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) linked to the company OKRs.
Types
- Lagging: measures the actual impact after it happens. For instance, revenues tend to grow after npm downloads do.
- Real-time: measures the actual impact. For instance, at the product level, our mission is fulfilled when people deploy to production, using our product over alternatives.
- Leading: measures the actual impact before it happens. For instance, I believe we have been able to use survey data to steer the above metrics in the right direction.
Legend
📊 indicates that the KPI is operational and is embedded in the handbook next to the definition and shown publicly.
🔗 indicates that the KPI is operational and there is a link from the handbook to another system. This may be because the KPI cannot be public or because it isn't possible to embed it yet.
🚧 indicates that the KPI is in a WIP: work in progress status estimated to be shipped in any system within the month. When using this indicator, an issue should also be linked to this page.
🐔 indicates that the KPI is unlikely to be operationalized in the near term.
Company KPIs
KPIs are the most important indicators of company performance:
Revenue 🔗 (North Star KPI)
- Type: Lagging
- Why? This KPI correlates with “how much value we generate” factor “how much we are able to capture”.
Even if revenue is the North Star KPI, revenue is a tool to push the mission. It’s critical to remember that the mission of MUI is not about growing the revenues (or even generating financial outcomes for its owners, if we want to push the argument to the extreme, Tesla and SpaceX have never been about how to earn more money for Elon, the richest person on Earth but about achieving a mission, no matter the cost). Revenue is our North Star KPI because we need to counterbalance the natural tendencies of the dev tools space: capturing 0% of the value created. If you might worry that picking this North Star might lead to us abandoning the open-source community, fear not, the North Star KPI of MUI Core is precisely to grow it: assuming that, at the company level, we give them the team to do it, it should fly. The Nonprofit is also meant as a counterweight. Stewardship also sets limits for lines we don't want to cross.
- Value:
- Accountable: CEO @Olivier Tassinari
MAU (Monthly Active Users on the docs) 🔗