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by krageon 2437 days ago
> management using past data as a stick to drive "faster" future development

Of course bad management is bad, but the idea that the type of metrics available to them make any material difference is not one that has any merit to my mind. A bad manager will always make your life hell, regardless of what measuring tools they have available.

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> A bad manager will always make your life hell, regardless of what measuring tools they have available.

Correct. That's why developers with bad managers strive to make as few measuring tools available to them as possible. In other words, if you're a manager and your employees seem to resent and fight against more ways of measuring "velocity" and the like, you should probably consider that your usage of this data and how you express the results might need some work.