Loi De Goodhart
Fleeting- External reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
- External reference: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loi_de_Goodhart
See this article that presents the concept quite well (to my mind).
lorsqu’une mesure devient un objectif, elle cesse d’être une bonne mesure, car elle devient sujette à des manipulations, directes (trucage des chiffres) ou indirectes (travailler uniquement à améliorer cette mesure)
In my mind, to apply this maxim appropriately, one should differentiate between instrumental objective and final objective.
Indeed, to me, there is nothing wrong with setting instrumental objectives, as long as we keep in mind that those are simple steps to fulfill a final objective.
When the instrumental objective stops being appropriate in satisfying the final objective, I think is stops becoming useful and should be reassessed. Therefore, to me the problem of measure that becomes an objective here is the symptom of people forgetting that the objective was instrumental and consider it as a final one.
As a conclusion, I would precise that a measure the becomes an instrumental goal may still be a good measure, if the goal is explicitly stated as being instrumental. If otherwise, a measure becomes a final goal, it forgets why the measure was setup in the first place and stops being a good measure.
lorsqu’un outil devient un objectif, il cesse d’être un bon outil
lorsqu’une méthode devient un objectif, elle cesse d’être une bonne méthode
lorsqu’un objectif instrumental est utilisé comme un objectif final, il sert d’être un bon objectif instrumental
Notes linking here
- #ModernAgileShow 25 | Interview with Vasco Duarte, #NoEstimates - YouTube
- #NoEstimate
- Agile & Scrum Don’t Work | Allen Holub In The Engineering Room
- asynchronous code review should be used only when it makes sense
- Campbell’s law
- cobra effect
- code coverage
- consider tests as being an instrumental objective
- Corporate Hacks - Work Chronicles
- example with clk
- Hofstadter’s Law
- in a job description becomes a goal, it stops being a good job description
- Leading and lagging metrics
- method becoming a final objective fallacy
- method priest
- mon attitude vis à vis des ceintures de karate
- never try to make the indicator pass
- objectif instrumental
- promises coverage
- que dois-je attendre d’une société d’individus qui n’arrivent pas à appeler les manchots « manchots » ?
- toki pona
- velocity
- what implies 80% of coverage in sonar?
- working code, then elegant code
- You get what you measure