I've experienced this first hand so many times. It is so difficult to steer the boat when the management depends heavily on metrics they don't understand the ne

I've experienced this first hand so many times. It is so difficult to steer the boat when the management depends heavily on metrics they don't understand the need of. Just because others are doing it. And as the flow of pressure goes from top to bottom, engineers end up working towards achieving a metric which burns out the good ones and they leave. I've spent sometimes hours in talking to clients on how they should first focus on metrics that help them ask the right questions. This is prevalent everywhere, Scrum-masters holding meetings to discuss the scrum velocity.