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Like CEO pay, purely metrics driven performance reviews lead to gaming the metrics. Maybe you wouldn't do it, but how would you feel if your peers were getting
by jerkstate 10y ago
Like CEO pay, purely metrics driven performance reviews lead to gaming the metrics. Maybe you wouldn't do it, but how would you feel if your peers were getting better raises and bonuses than you because they file and close more do-nothing bugs, or ship more features because they wrote fewer tests.
- ryandrake 10y agoThis would be a problem with the choice of metrics, and I've already conceded that coming up with the right "un-gameable" metrics is a tough problem indeed.
- corysama 10y agoAt Pixar they concluded that all metrics would be gamed eventually. So, they responded by changing up the metrics on a regular basis.
- _RPM 10y agowhen a metric becomes a target...