Comments on ƴƈ, ∃ and ∀: Measuring Your Engineers

Could you give a little more detail about what you...

2010-01-11T02:46:55.296-08:00

Could you give a little more detail about what you mean by "stories delivered"? I guess it has something to do with stories told by customers, but it's quite unclear. Have you or someone else you're aware of written about this before?

You might find this interesting: http://www.basel...

2009-08-04T07:55:07.997-07:00

You might find this interesting:

http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/IT-Management/10-Ways-IT-Employees-are-Different-from-Everyone-Else/

My first company - A japanese manufacturing monste...

2009-07-23T23:31:56.713-07:00

My first company - A japanese manufacturing monster - if you come in 1 minute late, you're considered "late" and deserving of a warning.

The best reason for Bigger companies to impose KPI's are that they are thoroughly streamlined. So you go in, do your job and nothing else. To impose KPI's strictly in a smaller company will mean you are potentially killing off initiative. Hey helping my colleague solve his bug does nothing to my KPI so why should I do it?

I have a friend who was moved across different teams to make sure his department reaches it's KPI. But in the process what results is that he himself did not reach his.
For his dept to reach their KPI he has to sacrifice his - and that means no bonus, no raise.

I'm not against KPI's but for it to really work it has to be periodically reconsidered and redrawn. And make sure those who monitor the KPI's know everything the person does and how it contributes to the organization as a whole. John Nash's Theories > KPI's