metrics
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🚀 Accelerating or Decelerating?
Is your work accelerating or decelerating? This may be hard to measure, but in our gut we know. A few ideas: Where do we spend our time? Moving things forward, or just keeping things afloat? Are we releasing more or less often? How about t…
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🪞 The illusion of project meta-data
Many tools exist for managing and tracking projects: Jira, Trello, GitHub projects/issues, Notion, Airtable, Asana, MS Project, etc. These all can be very useful. Why then does effective project tracking remain so elusive? As mentioned in t…
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📏 Goodhart's law
Goodhart’s law states: “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure”. Metrics are useful, but they are just a tool, not the goal. If Metrics become the goal, then they undermine collaboration, trust, and transparency.