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How do engineering managers actually measure the productivity of their teams? This seems like a crucial issue for an engineering manager but it rarely seems lik
by Jefro118 6y ago
How do engineering managers actually measure the productivity of their teams? This seems like a crucial issue for an engineering manager but it rarely seems like people are happy with how this is done or it's all just subjective.
- cdavid 6y agoIf you're not very close to the money, that's very hard. You can measure the team's productivity, but going down to the individual level is difficult. The process is also fundamentally political in the sense that it is a zero-sum game: there is almost always a certain budget available, independently of how individual people perform. The best short description I know about the constraints of performance reviews was written by Sinofsky: https://medium.learningbyshipping.com/performance-of-performance-reviews-cd7494eeaef8 https://medium.learningbyshipping.com/performance-of-perform... This is something that has to be done, but I know very few managers who enjoy the formal evaluation periods. That's certainly the part I myself enjoy the least.