{"id":"pm-metric-definition-labeled","audience":"product-managers","category":"explaining","track":"writing","technique":"format","title":"Pin down a metric definition the analysts can use","free":false,"task":"Your analytics team needs the final definition of 'Weekly Active Team' for the new dashboard. Write exactly 4 lines labeled Name:, Counts when:, Excludes: and Window:, in that order, under 70 words, plain text. Use only the final decisions from the thread, and leave out the history of the debate.","materialLabel":"The Slack thread (attached to your prompt automatically)","material":"#metrics-definitions thread\n\nAna (PM), Mon: Proposal for \"Weekly Active Team\": a workspace where anyone viewed or edited a doc in the last 30 days.\nDev (analyst): \"Viewed\" will count people who open a link from email once. Inflates it.\nAna: OK, drop viewing. Created or edited a doc only.\nSam (CEO), Tue: 30 days isn't weekly. Make it 7 days.\nAna: Agreed, 7 days, rolling.\nDev: And \"team\" should mean more than one person. Solo workspaces aren't teams.\nAna: Right: at least 2 different members created or edited a doc in the window.\nDev: We also need to exclude our own test workspaces (anything on the @tallyroom.io domain).\nKim (growth): And trials that are less than 3 days old? They spike on day 1.\nAna: Yes, exclude trials under 3 days old.\nSam: Can we also count comments as activity?\nAna: Not for v1. Let's revisit in Q2.\nDev: Final, then? I'll build it Thursday.\nAna: Final. Thanks all.","rules":[{"type":"maxWords","max":70},{"type":"plainText"}],"mistakes":[{"title":"Asking 'what's the definition'","why":"The AI explains the whole discussion with headings and bullets.","fix":"Show the shape: \"4 lines labeled Name:, Counts when:, Excludes:, Window:.\"","checks":["r0","plainText"]},{"title":"Trusting the AI to count words","why":"AI is bad at counting. Ask for a total word limit and it often lands over it.","fix":"Cap each line instead: \"each line under 15 words.\"","checks":["maxWords"]},{"title":"Mixing in dropped ideas","why":"Viewing, comments and 30 days all appear in the thread, and the AI may include them.","fix":"Add: \"Use only the final decisions: create or edit, 7 days rolling.\"","checks":["r1"]},{"title":"Telling the story","why":"AI likes to explain how a decision was reached, which analysts don't need.","fix":"Add: \"No history of the debate. Just the definition.\"","checks":["r2"]}],"promptHints":[{"label":"Shows the line labels","patterns":["name:","counts when","excludes:?","window:?"]},{"label":"Uses only final decisions","patterns":["final","latest","7 days","seven days"]},{"label":"Drops the history","patterns":["no (history|debate|story)","leave out","skip the (discussion|debate)","just the definition"]},{"label":"Says who it's for","patterns":["analyst","dashboard","analytics"]},{"label":"Sets a word limit","patterns":["\\d+\\s*words","word (limit|count)"]}],"hint":"Analysts need a rule they can build, not a recap. Give the AI the exact labels, tell it to use only the final decisions, and to skip the debate.","rubricLabels":["Has exactly 4 lines labeled Name:, Counts when:, Excludes: and Window:, in that order, and nothing else","Counts when says at least 2 different members created or edited a doc (viewing and comments do not count), Excludes covers @tallyroom.io test workspaces and trials under 3 days old, and Window is 7 days rolling","Leaves out the history of the debate (no mention of the 30-day idea, who proposed what, or the Q2 revisit)"]}