What is it about the term "Data-driven" that is so divisive? Trying to explain this to someone, but coming up short.
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I suspect most people (myself included, for the majority of my life) have not worked in an environment where there is a healthy respect for and use of data.
Most orgs aren’t data driven.
After awhile folk start to believe it’s not possible, and they cite the McNamara fallacy.
I have seen manipulative leaders bully people with data lies
e.g., after an eng. spent a month instrumenting something, their first broken draft report was used in a big argument between managers to hurt the team who would own the stat collection
_everyone_ abandoned it 🚨☣️
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Oh wow, this is totally one failure mode I didn’t consider in my initial tweet.
Another one: a metrics owner argues that the metrics are right and anecdotal reports are wrong, and then 6 months later everyone finds out they were measuring wrong.
Result: everyone is scarred.
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