> your middle manager is responsible for enforcing the C-suite's directives on you So true, our company monitors PR counts, it’s all pushed from higher level e

> your middle manager is responsible for enforcing the C-suite's directives on you So true, our company monitors PR counts, it’s all pushed from higher level execs. So my manager, the middle manager, tells us, “make sure your PR counts do not stand out negatively” and pretty much independently of this, make sure you deliver value. We need to keep the PR count up, so that execs see charts going up, and need to work on things that matter so that they don’t realize those are BS metrics to enforce. The thing is measuring what matters is not trivial for software engineering, so they measure what’s easy to measure, and they can pat themselves on the back for being data driven.