[ulfw]

Experimentation has become a cop out in many companies I've seen. I've seen it become an easy way for product managers to show 'they're doing something' and no one would ever blame them for it. I've seen it used as an excuse for not being creative, hard working, knowing the market and competitors and making big bold bets, but rather to just throw random stuff on a jira board. Later in meetings the experiment 'working or not working' is being discussed without any repercussions for having wasted a whole engineering team's time for weeks.

I'm not against experimenting in general, but it has a place. Experiment what you truly don't know. Don't experiment what you know. If you're good at your job you know things that need to happen. Get those done.

[lifeplusplus]

This. Incompetence is framed as natural happening and well part of the process