Even worse than stakeholders not having data is stakeholders having relatively raw data and building “reports” themselves with Excel that don’t actually mean an

Even worse than stakeholders not having data is stakeholders having relatively raw data and building “reports” themselves with Excel that don’t actually mean anything. Sometimes this is just done to provide justification for something someone wants to do, but over time these things get built up and entrenched and the business is actually driving decisions off of completely meaningless metrics. So while it may be tempting to simply hand data over to the business because “that’s not my job”, that can totally come back to bite you in the ass when your product roadmap is being dictated by ill conceived Excel formulas.