5 ms·
Ahhh the HIPPO strikes again.
by james_s_tayler 7y ago
Ahhh the HIPPO strikes again.
- FridgeSeal 7y agoWhat’s that stand for? I’m guessing something along the lines of: High Importance Person Pushing Own (desires??)?
- itsrajju 7y agoI think it stands for _Highest Paid Person's Opinion_
- Arathorn 7y agohighest paid person's opinion
- iamtheworstdev 7y agoHIghest Paid Person's Opinion
- rurounijones 7y agoAs others have said it means "Highest Paid Person's Opinion" but as a little extra. It is usually used when a company has no actual data to work on and therefore goes with the "obvious" as defined by "the boss" (Hippo). Not that it is necessarily true. There could be lots of data that some people are not aware of and that only senior people are privy to, but if that is not shared with the team developing the software then that is in itself not a great sign.
- TeMPOraL 7y agoNah, HIPPO works perfectly well in "data-driven" companies: the highest paid person proclaims what the data is supposed to tell, and then lots of data "science" happens to make the data show exactly that.
- kdeldycke 7y agoHiPPO stands for HIghest Paid Person's Opinion, a trait of dysfunctional culture, in which power politics trumps data. The concept seems to originate from Netscape's CEO and the acronym exists since 2006, according HiPPO FAQ: http://bitly.com/HIPPOExplained http://bitly.com/HIPPOExplained
- randunel 7y agoWhy are you trying to track us? Please post non-tracking links https://exp-platform.com/Pages/HiPPO_explained.aspx https://exp-platform.com/Pages/HiPPO_explained.aspx
- jsjohnst 7y agoAny time I see a bitly link like that, I always copy rather than click and add a + to the end. I should make an extension to do it on hover I guess.
- deleted 7y ago[deleted]
- christefano 7y agoGood tip on adding the ‘+’ to the end. Thanks! To anyone wondering, adding the plus (when logged in to Bitly) displays an info page with the referrers (refererers) and locations by country. And where the link goes to, obviously. No idea if this counts toward the Bitly link open rate.
- jsjohnst 7y agoMy pleasure! Two tiny points 1) don’t need to be logged in for the + to work 2) I’ve not seen it increment the clicks by visiting the + stats page, but can’t speak authoritatively on that.
- kdeldycke 7y agoSorry, I was just trying to respect the FAQ author's method to keep a stable URL (see the bottom of the FAQ).