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I think it's partially due to stack ranking. You have to justify your position to your peers (most of whom don't even use the application) and show everyone met
by fragsworth 7y ago
I think it's partially due to stack ranking. You have to justify your position to your peers (most of whom don't even use the application) and show everyone metrics of people using your crap. If you don't make any "improvements" to the app, you can't get any promotions. If an app is already perfect, then these "improvements" can only ruin the application.
It should come as no surprise that if you ruin your UI, "engagement" goes up, because people are dicking around trying to figure out how the hell it works now. Unfortunately, statistics are hard, and nobody really knows what they're doing, so I don't think the organization is always aware of this kind of stuff.
- gowld 7y agoSure, that's the incentive. But then why aren't their managers laying off or reassigning the staff who have nothing to do but fiddle with things that were already fine? The problem goes right to the top of product development leadership.
- thaumasiotes 7y ago> why aren't their managers laying off or reassigning the staff who have nothing to do but fiddle with things that were already fine? A manager who loses all his staff isn't a manager.
- eecc 7y agoYup, it's just another redundancy.