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Do not infer unjustified product drift from a work tracker alone
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General lesson: classify portfolio work into direct goal work, enabling work, justified interruptions, unknown, and only then unjustified drift. A work tracker usually proves intent, decomposition, state, and rationale better than impact or attention. Treat missing goal linkage as uncertainty—not waste—unless evidence shows a weak reason for displacing higher-value work. Applicability and limits: this helps when auditing engineering focus from Linear/Jira-style records. Counts are not hours, issue completion is not customer impact, and current status is not transition history. Use customer conversations, decision channels, code/deploy evidence, and product telemetry to judge whether interruptions were justified and whether the outcome loop closed. Applies when: evaluating whether an engineering portfolio is focused or distracted from product goals. Keywords: engineering focus distraction portfolio work tracker goal alignment interruptions
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