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This paper was inspired by a three-day exploration into measurement and its impact on development practice. Fourteen development practitioners from different parts of the world, fulfilling different functions in the development sector, participated in the process. What brought us together is a commitment to building a development practice that has the best chance of countering the societal forces that exclude, marginalise, and undermine people’s ability to develop to their fullest potential. This is not in any way an attempt to capture the collective conclusions of the group process. Through this paper we share only what lives in, and between, the two of us after engaging with the others. As with all interactive learning processes it is impossible to claim exclusive ownership of the ideas, or to impose responsibility for them on others.