Football has metrics - yards per rush, completion percentage, time of possession. Do you think Mike Tomlin talked about their yards after the catch after they won the super bowl? Do you think Arizona fans cared that their team won the time of possession battle? In football, metrics are useful tools for the teams and only important in fantasy football. Every football player and coach in the NFL understands that the only metric that matters is W's.
We have metrics in software - burn downs, lines of code, reopen rates. We spend years delivering metrics and no products. We have SMART goals to justify our bonuses. We WORSHIP our metrics. In our fantasy world, we are world class developers and have the metrics to prove it. When our products don't fly in the market, our business owners are idiots, we got bad requirements, our sales people suck; but our metrics are awesome.
Are you smarter than the average linebacker? Has your software career been concusion-free? Then stop trying to be a rock star in fantasy development and start focusing on your product's success.
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