For a report to be considered actionable, it must demonstrate clear cause and effect. Otherwise, it is a vanity metric. - Eric Ries

There is a reason all past management revolutions have been led by engineers: management is human systems engineering.

Validated learning is the process of demonstrating empirically that a team has discovered valuable truths about a startup’s present and future business prospects

From the point of view of individual efficiency, working in large batches makes sense. It also has other benefits: it promotes skill building, makes it easier to hold individual contributors accountable, and, most important, allows experts to work without interruption. At least that’s the theory. Unfortunately, reality seldom works out that way.