Your metrics are fine - you just need to fix your storytelling

How data storytelling can fix the communication crisis.

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You spent three hours preparing charts showing decreased cycle time, improved deployment frequency, and reduced error rates. Your senior stakeholders nodded politely, asked zero follow-up questions, and approved exactly none of your resource requests.

It is not a data problem, it’s how you present it.

Brilliant engineering teams get their budgets slashed because they can’t translate “reduced P95 latency from 450ms to 180ms” into anything meaningful to leadership.