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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
PavelASamsonov ("Pavel A. Samsonov") wrote:
VCs fund companies who get on the latest hype train. Solving a real user problem is a secondary concern; "product market fit" is seen as something you do only after you build, a sales problem.
But when the product doesn't solve any real problems, showing "progress" to your board is impossible!
So managers invent metrics. Many people are going to come back to the office this week and set goals based on what activity is easiest to measure, rather than what is important.
https://productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/your-metrics-are-an-avoidance-strategy