Mistaking making for the thing you've made

Short summary

Jason Fried argues that development metrics—speed, commits, team size, hours—say nothing about product quality, fit, or customer experience. Confusing the process of making with the thing made is like reviewing a restaurant by counting cooks instead of tasting the meal. What matters most is the product itself, not how it was produced.

• •Development metrics (speed, commits, hours) don't reflect product quality or customer experience
• •Process and output are connected but fundamentally different things
• •The product matters far more than the story of how it was built

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