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vanity metric

A metric that looks impressive on the surface but offers little or no actionable insight to guide decisions.

Key Points

  • Emphasizes appearance over insight; it seems positive but is not decision-useful.
  • Often lacks a clear link to outcomes, customer value, or strategic objectives.
  • Can mislead stakeholders and hide real problems if used to claim success.
  • Prefer actionable, outcome-focused indicators; if tracked, use vanity metrics only as context.

Example

An Agile team celebrates a spike in page views for a new feature announcement. However, activation rate, task completion in the feature, and retention do not improve. Page views alone are a vanity metric because they do not show real user value or inform next steps.

PMP Example Question

Which metric is most likely a vanity metric for an Agile team evaluating a recent release?

  1. Total page views of the release announcement
  2. Lead time from commit to production
  3. Customer retention rate 30 days after release
  4. Defect escape rate to production

Correct Answer: A — Total page views of the release announcement

Explanation: Page views can look impressive but do not indicate behavior change or delivered value, and they do not directly guide decisions.

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