individual-performance-appraisals-just-say-no 
Allen Holub
DECEMBER 1, 2019
For some reason, the notion of individual performance reviews comes up a lot. companies are dropping individual reviews, including stodgy places like General Electric. There are books written on the subject,… The post Individual Performance Appraisals, Just Say No! Almost a third of U.S.
Martin Fowler
FEBRUARY 11, 2020
This is true of an individual developer trying improve her own performance, for managers looking to improve teams within an organization, or a maven like me trying to raise the game of the entire industry. The common phrase says "you get what you measure", in this case it's more like "you get what you try to measure".
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Puppies, Flowers, Rainbows and Kittens
DECEMBER 18, 2021
This article is part three of my series on writing valuable performance reviews. The second article discusses writing the appraisal. Determining compensation is a crucial part of performance management. In some companies, the manager creating and delivering the performance review has little input in the compensation decision.
Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User
SEPTEMBER 24, 2018
Did you just work your way out of a job? And your most valuable work is just beginning. However, to say anything meaningful about Agile management we need a definition of what traditional management does to show how the two differ. Traditional Management: Sets objectives, often in the form of performance objectives or KPIs.
Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User
SEPTEMBER 24, 2019
Related Anti-Patterns: Sprint Burndown Charts, Velocity is Important, Time Tracking, Individual Incentives. This is a critical consideration because, at the heart of Scrum, we’re attempting to grow a group of people into a resilient, high-performing team. Aliases: Over-Controlling; Someone is Looking over My Shoulder.
QAspire
SEPTEMBER 16, 2010
Nope, I’m A Writer by Terry Starbucker: Terry goes over the roof top and says that he is a writer, not just a blogger. He says, I do it because I love it. Wally Bock , great as ever, prescribes a method to simplify performance appraisals. Sometimes, what we look for is more important than what we get.
Strategy Driven
JULY 26, 2013
Office Idiots are those individuals whose actions, inaction, antics, and ridiculous behaviors generate widespread dissatisfaction and undercut the performance and productivity of fellow employees near and far and at any job level. You should say something, lest you are actually enabling this behavior.
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