I’ve worked at a company that took this too far and product managers used the release cycle clock to game the system by launching features that were not even ha

I’ve worked at a company that took this too far and product managers used the release cycle clock to game the system by launching features that were not even half-baked but just outright didn’t work but since they hit their official target of launching managed they to get promoted and the next person in line is responsible for fixing the problem. Instead of using the release cycle as a way to focus the product process it became a goal in itself. But this author seems to work with really top class people so maybe that level of stupidity in using the metric as the goal in itself is less of an issue in those circles