Mind · Strategy
Metricmirror
Review how a success metric changes behaviour and what valuable work it fails to count
Definition
Mechanism
When a Metric is used to judge work, it is reviewed on a stated schedule for two things: behaviour that has shifted to raise the measure without serving the goal, and valuable activity the measure does not count. Findings are recorded with the metric.
Invariants
- The metric is reviewed on a stated schedule.
- Each review records observed gaming and valuable activity the metric misses.
Risks
Failure modes
Goodhart drift
work optimises the measure, not the goal.
Mirror blindness
reviews look only at the measure and so find nothing.
Relationships
Builds on
References
Infrastructure
Definition of a quantitative property and its value semantics
Nothing in this library builds on this pattern yet.
Reference