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>People who think judging performance is hard have a broken development methodology or no technical chops. And this is exactly why I asked the question. Here y
by tensor 13y ago
>People who think judging performance is hard have a broken development methodology or no technical chops.
And this is exactly why I asked the question. Here you have judged me, since I said judging performance was hard, on both my development methodology and technical chops. Yet you know nothing about me at all.
The problem of evaluation is an important one, and one I'm always interested in reading more on. Unfortunately the strategy of taking one's self as a gold standard isn't exactly what I was looking for. It does seem obvious that being an expert in your domain is a necessary trait to be able to evaluate others, but it's not at all obvious that it is a sufficient trait.
The idea of multi-source feedback seems intuitively good, despite the conflicting research on it. That more input will expose biases or inaccuracies is a decent hypothesis. On the other hand, judgment from a single person seems highly error prone. Whatever faults that one person has will never be exposed and reviews seem almost guaranteed to have bias.
In the end, I'm left with no idea why you so quickly discard the reports of your peers.
- Ensorceled 13y agoIn fairness, you judged me first. I've never had a problem judging performance when I was doing my job right. Any time I've been unsure it's because I was either not managing the team properly or did not have enough technical knowledge to evaluate the estimates and claims (e.g. this took longer because of X and Y). I know you can manage performance in a way that allows evaluation even if you don't have the technical chops to evaluate it technically, because I have seen technically weak peers do a good job of it. I didn't discard the reports of my peers. I noticed a trend of the peers who liked me rating me higher in areas of weakness (as perceived by both myself and my boss) than my skills deserved. Data that contains some bias is not useless if you can adjust for the bias.
- Iftheshoefits 13y agoMost managers are unable to adjust for their own biases, though. I'm especially skeptical of managers who evaluate themselves as having above average technical ability after they have asserted how poorly most people evaluate their peers. The necessary conclusion of such an assertion is that people therefore haven't a rational basis on which to judge their own skills relative to others.
- Ensorceled 13y agoUmmmm, sure. Are you always this aggressive of an ass?
- jmmcd 13y ago> I've never had a problem judging performance when I was doing my job right. Any time I've been unsure It's not what you don't know that hurts you. It's what you know that just ain't so.