> The MBA-brained idea that management is a skill that transcends individual disciplines is part of PM software’s pitch The part of the ‘MBA-brain’ that these

> The MBA-brained idea that management is a skill that transcends individual disciplines is part of PM software’s pitch The part of the ‘MBA-brain’ that these tools take advantage of is that all you need are metrics, if you have the metrics you can manage. It’s a fallacy that that’s all you need. Managers need to understand the work they oversee. Without that, it doesn’t matter whether you use SPI, CPI, velocity, etc. If those metrics aren’t valid, and you don’t know it, you’re not going to make valid decisions.