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If you've performance reviews, then you also most likely have some kind of metric, and if you've a metric people will start to game it. A colleague of mine alw

• gaius 9y ago
  See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart's_law https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart's_law
• rootlocus 9y ago
  Management at my company really likes to use jira estimation points as a metric, which is why I always argue for more points and occasionally snatch low hanging fruits (overestimated simple tasks). I'm aware it's stupid, which is why I always point it out, but nobody seems to care. I was the "most productive employee of the year" last year and while I didn't cheat by any definition of the word, it certainly did affect my priorities.
  • throwaway413 9y ago
    This. In fact, at one of the last companies I was at, an agency of about 20, devs were grouped into small teams (1-5) to work on different projects. While we used Jira points - these internal teams had different measurements regarding point count. When I brought it up to various PMs and execs, I got the same answer - "that's the way it's supposed to work." And they used these point counts and burndowns to analyze performance of each dev in comparison with the rest of the team as a whole! So if you estimated 1 point for your story, but some other dev estimated 5 for their story, and they are essentially the same tasks just on different projects - that developer is 5x as productive as you are by their record.