Measuring growth
“You can’t manage what you can’t measure” is a quote you see thrown around quite a bit, and typically attributed to Peter Drucker, the Austrian-born American management consultant, educator, and author. Drucker’s statement holds true, as when you say “I want to improve X,” you need a baseline to build your measurements and then a target to go toward. Let’s say a project wants to get 1,000 commits a year; if that rate is 10 commits a month, there is a ton of work to do. But if it’s 50 commits a month, it’s a much more realistic growth.
On the flip side, Homer Simpson, the father in the long-running sitcom, The Simpsons, stated flippantly in an episode in which he was being interviewed, “Oh Kent, you can use statistics to prove anything; 45% of all people know that!” Simpson calls out a fair point, where you could find the numbers to make any assertion seem plausible. I see this from...
