Re: Performance Reviews

2015-05-22 18:49 GMT+02:00 Eric Gunnerson [email protected]
[SCRUMDEVELOPMENT] <[email protected]>:


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>  I think I wasn’t clear in what I was saying…
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> By “team-based”, I meant that teams are rated instead of individuals. If
> you have multiple teams, that means that you are going to be rating teams
> against each other. I think this situation is probably worse from a gaming
> perspective; in a single agile team the individuals depend on each other so
> there is social pressure against me trying to unfairly look better than my
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> I’m not sure what team measurements would be used, but I my guess is that
> they will set up the wrong incentives.
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that is a harsh statement
what would a team that is going for a better way of working choose for bad
incentives?


one of the teams I know that used this: had a KPI on helping each other


another on how good everyone knew all the code and were able to do all the
work independent of who was in...








> If, for example, you counted story points, you’d see story point
> inflation. If you counted features, you will see some teams feel they got
> treated unfairly because they ended up with the harder and less-flashier
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> I also expect that I will see teams to de-emphasize activities that are
> “low-value-add” to the metrics – things like helping other teams improve,
> keeping technical debt low, that sort of thing.
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> *From:* [email protected] [mailto:
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> *Sent:* Thursday, May 21, 2015 3:28 PM
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> *Subject:* Re: [SCRUMDEVELOPMENT] Performance Reviews
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> Wouldn’t team-based gaming reduce the gamer’s rating?
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>  On May 21, 2015, at 6:11 PM, Eric Gunnerson [email protected]
> [SCRUMDEVELOPMENT] <[email protected]> wrote:
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> I like the idea of team-based over individual based, but I’m wondering if
> you might see gaming and reduced cooperation at the team level instead of
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> Ron Jeffries
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> Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to
> understand him. - George Santayana
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