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intuitively i agree with you, i've seen a lot of the pseudo-science. But curious, can you elaborate on how telemetry driven development leads to organizational turf wars? I think i've seen that too but interested to hear your thoughts.
Everything from what gets tracked to how the data gets interpreted. It also can put a target on certain growth areas that will attract the more "ambitious" people from the company. All will try to make the case with the telemetry data. Does more time on a page mean users are more engaged or are they struggling to find out what's going on? Depends on which product manager can make a better case, probably involving eve…
This is great for helping to build products, not companies. Companies are larger than just their products; they also have obligations to existing customers, stakeholders represented by auditors, etc. That's not an argument that new products should be anchored down by these other concerns; it's an argument that "creative IC" should only be launched with clear alpha/beta/preview-style labeling, and that there should also be engineers who are not paired with Product, whose job it is to "fill in the rest", so to speak, because it's also important.