Your good intentions aren't relevant. This thread is critiquing a marketing message. I'm sure you're great at what you do, but the strategy of producing volumes of well-groomed data about your process will work against you with many managers, and isn't expected by any managers.
You keep referencing things I made no mention of "mentality that carefully-documented work is a substitute for results", "set out to achieve a result and receive instead a detailed log of steps that failed to produce it", "the strategy of producing volumes of well-groomed data".
I don't see how you managed to fantasize all that from my suggestion about the potential utility of an easy, concise way to share what I'm working on and how with someone.
"That's bad idea." - Fine.
"No one cares." - Cool.
"Don't try to hide your failure to produce results behind a pretty status chart." - What the fuck are you talking about?
That's where the topic of intent came from, you keep baking it into your judgments.
By this point in the tangent I thought the interesting topic was why you seem to think that the work or method behind a specific result is irrelevant?
