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Re:Ask HN: What are useful OKRs and KPIs for SWEs by logifail on Saturday December 12, 2020 @11:34AM (#25399362)
> Why would you want to game metrics that honestly can help improve your business outcome?

Q: If your manager imposed OKRs/KPIs on your team, especially if there were a financial incentive linked to achieving "results"/"performance indicators", how would you feel?

Note that what is good for the business may or may not have much to do - at least in the short to medium term - with what is good for the employees.

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Re:Ask HN: What are useful OKRs and KPIs for SWEs by rvdmei on Saturday December 12, 2020 @11:57AM (#25399592)
Definitely a reason to try and game the metrics (and probably easy too). In my experience the metrics make sense when you use them to improve as a team, I would actually try to avoid using them as OKR or KPI.
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