Comments on: Chapter 3: Performance management http://managinguxteams.com/2008/08/12/performance-management/ Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 21 Apr 2010 14:54:30 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: cosmiquemuffin http://managinguxteams.com/2008/08/12/performance-management/comment-page-1/#comment-3 cosmiquemuffin Fri, 15 Aug 2008 17:04:56 +0000 http://managinguxteams.com/?p=21#comment-3 I like having what's known in the industry as S.M.A.R.T. goals, Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-bound. While it makes for a cute acronym, the key ones I've found are SMT. The thing to avoid in goals are amorphous clouds like: "Help the Agile team with their current project" and get down to specific-measurable-timely goals such as: "Set up interdisciplinary scrum team, meetings, and shared tracking sheet by end of month". Another helpful technique (if your company allows) is to aim for an average of 70% completion of goals. Comparing a company with 100% completion of goals vs. one that encourages far-reaching and 70% completion as the average, one encourages aiming very low, and the other encourages innovation through experimentation and thinking outside the box. I like having what’s known in the industry as S.M.A.R.T. goals, Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-bound. While it makes for a cute acronym, the key ones I’ve found are SMT. The thing to avoid in goals are amorphous clouds like: “Help the Agile team with their current project” and get down to specific-measurable-timely goals such as: “Set up interdisciplinary scrum team, meetings, and shared tracking sheet by end of month”.

Another helpful technique (if your company allows) is to aim for an average of 70% completion of goals. Comparing a company with 100% completion of goals vs. one that encourages far-reaching and 70% completion as the average, one encourages aiming very low, and the other encourages innovation through experimentation and thinking outside the box.

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