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In their thought-provoking presentation titled “Pragmatic Approach to Architecture Metrics” at GSAS’22 organized by Apiumhub, Sonya Natanzon, and Vlad Khononov delivered valuable insights. They offered the audience ample food for thought, emphasizing the importance of considering relevant metrics and adopting a pragmatic approach shed light on understanding the objectives of metrics and the need to make informed decisions about what to measure.

Pragmatic Approach to Architecture Metrics The importance of architecture metrics

With metrics, we start thinking in terms of …

What gets measured, gets managed -Peter Drucker

But it may be more appropriate to rephrase it as …

What gets measured, gets managed — even when it’s pointless to measure and manage it, and even if it harms the purpose of the organization to do so

-Simon Caulkin on V.F. Ridgeway’s paper “Dysfunctional Consequences of Performance Measurements”, 1956

Not everything that we can measure necessarily holds significant importance, and

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