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As an engineer recently turned technical product manager, I think this is one of the values I've provided. I focus on feature deliverables and meeting timelines. How you get there is sausage making that doesn't need to be over-emphasized.

There are too many ways to game the metrics. I've done it, and I'm constantly impressed at seeing how innovative colleagues do it. If you focus so much on metrics during the development process, you're going to just add useless overhead and piss off developers. My boss comes from a sales background, and thankfully he gets it despite pressure from other senior leaders.