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I disagree. A year is a long time, and a valuable, difficult achievement in February may raise your prestige for a while, but by December that's faded to backgr
by taejo 9y ago
I disagree. A year is a long time, and a valuable, difficult achievement in February may raise your prestige for a while, but by December that's faded to background levels. I even forget my own achievements from nine months ago, never mind those of a dozen other people on my team.
- 77pt77 9y agoThe question is always: > What can you do for me or have done for me recently? Services provided so far in the past that need to be reminded are at best irrelevant and it can actually hurt you to bring them up. I'm not saying that it is nice, only that humans behave individually and (even more collectively) according to this.
- taejo 9y agoSo at my annual review in December I should only be assessed on work in the last quarter? I guess I'd better save my best work for November.
- webmaven 9y agoDepending on the attention span of your particular managers (and their managers as well, most likely), this can indeed be a viable strategy. You might also carefully consider your company's culture when deciding how to split your efforts between new (user-visible) features, preventive maintenance, and bugs affecting end users (especially any VIP end users that have your managers' ears). For example, a 'Hero' culture rewards last-minute, late night, death march efforts, whether to fix an urgent problem, or to add that one feature that is (supposedly) needed to land a specific high-value customer/sale.