Reminds me of the magic quadrant: http://www.gartner.com/DisplayDocument?doc_cd=131166 http://www.gartner.com/DisplayDocument?doc_cd=131166 Though that's not

Reminds me of the magic quadrant: http://www.gartner.com/DisplayDocument?doc_cd=131166 http://www.gartner.com/DisplayDocument?doc_cd=131166 Though that's not how I heard about it personally. One of the smartest people I've known in business used it for analysis of the costs/benefits of groups and persons within a business (it seems impersonal -- and perhaps patience with those in the negative/negative area makes sense). It's amazing how effective two-dimensional analysis can be though (esp. with two dimensions that are measurable, meaningfully, in relation to some other dimension -- e.g., short-term and long-term benefits/costs, as axes, are related to each other via the axis of time). Why two work so well and not three is also curious. I guess 27-cubic analysis is harder on the ol' pre-frontal cortex. Because I think the beauty of this quadrant analysis is that it's thorough. You're able to judge two dimensions thoroughly, whereas normally they're just averaged together. A star developer who is arrogant and lowers the productivity of others can be put in a context (maybe he or she is a short term benefit, but a long term detriment, which is otherwise easy to overlook).