“2015 I got promoted because I mastered the art of increasing velocity”… you yourself answered why someone would pursue something like above which may not have a significant impact on the business. Most people don’t want to get fired or want to grow in their career and unfortunately are incentivized to take suboptimal decisions.
This is indeed one of the hardest parts of product management. Yet one of the most important ones.
We need to do the important things, even when they are the hard ones.
“2015 I got promoted because I mastered the art of increasing velocity”… you yourself answered why someone would pursue something like above which may not have a significant impact on the business. Most people don’t want to get fired or want to grow in their career and unfortunately are incentivized to take suboptimal decisions.