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I can tell you how I would do it, which would be to have as strong a tie as possible between 'Project X' and 'Revenue generated by Project X'. If it's true that

I can tell you how I would do it, which would be to have as strong a tie as possible between 'Project X' and 'Revenue generated by Project X'. If it's true that most projects that get launched are launched by small teams, then the problem isn't much more complicated than that (divide the bonus equally between the members of the team, or in proportion to how long they worked on the project). If the teams are larger, you need to allocate bonus pools for the managers/tech leads to divide amongst their team - and that could get political.

RyanMcGreal 15y ago
> to have as strong a tie as possible between 'Project X' and 'Revenue generated by Project X'. At Google, that would mean the only teams to get bonuses would be teams working on Adwords.
- amouat 15y ago
  Yeah, it's a pretty bad suggestion. Many projects don't directly generate revenue. It ignores practically all support projects that help people to do their job (i.e. improving the bugtracker, sales software, test software etc).
wisty 15y ago
How about internal tools? Should tool makers charge for use (which creates friction, losing the benefit of working in a large org)?