Metrics-driven product development sounds like a good idea but in practice ends up being Cargo Culting. That's usually because people rarely reflect on the met

Metrics-driven product development sounds like a good idea but in practice ends up being Cargo Culting. That's usually because people rarely reflect on the metrics they're deriving meaning from, rarely abandoning ambiguous metrics as misleading, and rarely imagining new metrics to find utility. Those are very hard tasks that take time and deep thought.