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Tie it to deliverables, like reporting back to the team about the content or giving seminar style talks.

• settsu 7y ago
  > Tie it to deliverables That's a great idea in theory because tackling a real world problem tends to motivate towards a real world solution. However, learning invariably encompasses failure which rarely measures up well with typical (if arguably useful/useless) performance metrics that developers contend with.
  • gbrown 7y ago
    If the deliverable is a team report, then failures are super useful and still count. "I tried implementing X as a test after reading about method Y, but found that for our domain there are serious drawbacks."
    • settsu 7y ago
      I wholeheartedly agree with that outcome. I was referring to the potential for a metric that could backfire in the context of a performance review. (And that'd be a relatively tame surprise in one of those god-forsaken events...)