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When KPIs Become Requirements: The Hidden Engineering Tax of Metrics

When KPIs Become Requirements: The Hidden Engineering Tax of Metrics

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 Business metrics are meant to guide decisions, not dictate architecture — but they often do both. In this episode Mirko Peters walks listeners through the common, avoidable path where a headline KPI morphs into a brittle system requirement: dashboards spawn batch jobs, SLAs create unnecessary real-time coupling, and product vanity numbers drive feature work that multiplies operational load. Mirko describes the problem from the business perspective (clarity, accountability, urgency), then the IT perspective (data plumbing, latency, monitoring, cost), and pinpoints the translation failures that cause the tax. Using a generalized consulting example, he shows how simple metric design choices ripple into months of work and recurring operational burden. The episode concludes with a short, practical metric-to-requirement checklist and three rules teams can apply this week to keep KPIs useful — not expensive.

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