If it can't be measured, it can't be managed - this quote is untrue.
Nels Davis challenges the narrow analytics-only view of data-driven product management, debunking the misattributed Drucker quote about measurement, warning about perverse incentives from tracking wrong metrics, and advocating for broader qualitative data sources.

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A useful reminder that data-driven product management is broader than numbers.

The episode frames data-driven product management as a matter of judgment, not just measurement. Nels Davis makes the case that data can improve decisions under uncertainty, while also noting that numbers are only one kind of evidence and that some important work cannot be…

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Press play if you want a steadier take on being data-driven.

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