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I don't like this story. The outcome is only accidentally good and what the author seems to miss entirely is the elephant in the room: A crass failure to communicate with the developers. If you try to establish something like KPIs (not commenting on if that is good or bad here) you need to talk to the team and get them on board. If you treat them like lab rats and try to measure individual performance from the outside that is an obvious fail. In the end, where they state that they "quietly" dropped it, indicates that the real lesson was not learned.
Uh, and a dilbert comic.
I think that is rather intentional. The story does not actually offer much of an insight, but give it a Dilbert and slap a clickbaity, slightly misleading spin on it, and you get a descent amount of upvotes.
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Scott Adams is a raving lunatic.
Here's a resonable summary: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Scott_Adams
You can also check out his blog directly.
https://www.npr.org/2023/02/26/1159580425/newspapers-have-dropped-the-dilbert-comic-strip-after-a-racist-rant-by-its-creat
Enjoy
Some people just go off the deep end... yikes. His comics are still funny though.