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At the company I work for, our yearly performance reviews are based partially on the metric "Complete 90% of uninterrupted development sprints with no carry ove
by clumsysmurf 7y ago
At the company I work for, our yearly performance reviews are based partially on the metric "Complete 90% of uninterrupted development sprints with no carry over." What I see most of the time, is developers hurrying towards the end of the sprint to meet this arbitrary deadline, choosing the easiest path A instead of the correct path B. Now the project has been run like this for years, you can imagine how much tech debt has accumulated.
- latchkey 7y agoSounds like a great way for the company to make people work hard (not smart), product mediocre results and not have to pay out bonuses. Have you considered either improving the process or finding a new job?
- signal11 7y agoThis is a good example of Godhart’s Law (“When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure”) in action. There are better ways, but it requires enlightened management.
- signal11 7y agoSorry for the typo: it's Goodhart's Law, not Godhart.
- cryptonector 7y agoRight, "agile" has become a developer metric system. I've seen many management fads. They come and go. They go because everyone tires of them and they get gamified anyways. At Sun I heard many people say things like "I'm going to code myself an SUV" whenever we got a new gamifiable management technique. Sprinting too shall pass.