SPECIMEN No. 046 · Measurement habit
Product Analytics
Recording every click users make, in case someone eventually asks a question the clicks can answer.
📈 Proliferating- 🏠 Habitat
- A tracking plan last edited in March
- 🦈 Natural predator
- Ad blockers, and the consent banner
- 🤒 Common symptom
- button_clicked_v2_final
THE DEBATE
The room is split
If the whole team walked into the review, who would reach for Product Analytics, and who would push back.
💖 Track everything
MayaThe Visionary“Every experiment needs an answer, and you cannot A/B test a click you never logged.”
TaylorThe AI Native“Storage is cheap and an agent can query the warehouse; more events means more questions answerable later.”
GregThe Hedger“You can't backfill a question; an event logged today is an option kept open for next year.”
AlexThe Architect“One typed tracking plan, generated into every client, so checkout_started means the same thing everywhere.”
🛑 Track what you'll read
RileyThe Minimalist“The orders table already knows who paid; client events are an untested second copy of reality.”
NoraThe User Advocate“10,000 rows say where users leave, never why; five watched sessions do.”
MorganThe Threat Modeler“Every event is personal data with a consent question attached; what you never collected can't leak.”
RuthThe Maintainer“She has migrated three analytics vendors; each time, most events had never been queried once.”
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