Continuous benchmarking: the task everyone in product should do

Penelope
5 min readNov 22, 2021

I’ve worked on numerous positions on product teams. From junior product assistant, to running the entire show, to everything somewhere in between.

There is one task I’ve found vital in all of them. I call it continuous benchmarking.

What is benchmarking? Why it is important?

“Benchmarking”, in a product context, means looking at how direct and indirect competition achieve what you want to do.

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Penelope

PM turned Full Stack. I’ve worked on plenty of successful (and unsuccessful) products. Top writer for Leadership.