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Performance Review: How to respond to frustrating or lazy performance feedback

Let's Grow Leaders

Speak Up to Get Better Feedback in Your Next Performance Review. A few years ago, I wrote “Avoid These Infuriating Phrases in End-of-Year Feedback” to encourage managers to stop making stupid comments when giving a performance review. How to Respond to the Most Infuriating Kind of Performance Review.

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Article: Better Metrics for Building High Performance Teams

InfoQ Culture Methods

There is no agreed way to build and measure high performing engineering teams, let alone to track the success of software engineers. This article explores ways to support individuals and teams right from onboarding and identifies useful metrics which can help make performance factors visible and actionable.

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Developers don’t need performance reviews

InfoWorld

I’ve never been a big fan of annual performance reviews. Any competent manager should be meeting regularly with all of her direct reports, and should make sure that each employee knows clearly where they stand and how they are performing. To read this article in full, please click here No one enjoys the process.

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Ubuntu Linux update brings performance boosts, tool updates

InfoWorld

LTS, aka “Noble Numbat,” a new Long Term Support release of the popular Linux distribution that brings performance enhancements and toolchain updates for developers. kernel capabilities with improved syscall performance, nested KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) support on ppc64el (IBM PowerPC), and access to the new beachefs file system.

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Explainer: Building a high-performing last-mile delivery software

CIO

After aggregating a driver’s availability at a particular time and location, the auto-scheduler performs instant delegation of delivery tasks. This is called delivery upselling and articles are brought to the customer’s doorstep. Auto-assignment and fleet scheduling are common features in last-mile delivery software apps.

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Article: Lessons Learned in Performance Testing

InfoQ Culture Methods

Performance testing is a hard discipline to get right and many things can go wrong. This article describes a few common problems seen frequently with performance testing and shares tips on how to make your performance testing routine better.

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The Best Leadership Articles of 2021 (according to you)

Let's Grow Leaders

Your Favorite Leadership Articles of the Year. These are your favorite leadership articles of 2021 based on views and shares. What was your favorite article of the year? What leadership articles would you like us to write about more in the coming year? How to Provide More Meaningful Performance Feedback.