Unfortunately most companies don't put much thought into the tools and processes they use. They simply do what everyone else is doing. This is why monstrosities such as Quality Center are popular even though they are disgustingly expensive and of questionable value.
This is the failing of the idea that you can take someone who is really good at management (or in most cases, really mediocre) and put them in charge of software developers. When your manager doesn't have a deep understanding of what you do they have little ability to judge how well you do it. So they look at all sorts of questionable metrics, reports and graphs to try to make sense of things.
This is the failing of the idea that you can take someone who is really good at management (or in most cases, really mediocre) and put them in charge of software developers. When your manager doesn't have a deep understanding of what you do they have little ability to judge how well you do it. So they look at all sorts of questionable metrics, reports and graphs to try to make sense of things.