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Module 2 of 6Lesson 2 of 2~16 min

Define measurable success criteria

How to turn the goal of an AI feature into success criteria the team can measure and agree on. Without this work, everyone judges quality their own way and launch discussions go in circles; with it, you know which errors are tolerable and which ones should stop a release.

Lesson objective

By the end of this lesson, you will be able to turn an AI feature's goal into specific, measurable, achievable and relevant success criteria, covering several dimensions and ranked by error severity.

Questions this lesson answers

  • How do you define measurable success criteria for an AI feature?
  • Why isn't one overall score enough to evaluate an AI feature?

Topics covered

  • success criteria
  • error severity
  • quality dimensions
  • AI feature evaluation

In the glossary

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Where it fits

Why evaluate, and what to measure

What proves that an AI feature works, and against which criteria?

Lessons in this module

  1. Why vibes are not enough
  2. Define measurable success criteria (this lesson)

What you will learn in this module

This lesson is part of the course Evaluate an AI feature: test sets, metrics and LLM judges

  • Turn an AI feature's goal into specific, measurable, achievable and relevant success criteria, taking error severity into account.