SMART objectives and performance evaluations for software developers
September 23rd, 2004
I head up a small software development group in a small company, with fewer than 25 employees. I am struggling with coming up with good performance objectives for the folks in my group. We often face rapidly changing business conditions; a situation whose impact on the day to day activities of the developers I try to minimize. The upshot of the changing conditions is, however, that I find it very difficult to come up with SMART objectives that aren’t trivial or frivolous.
I’ve looked at Joel Spolsky’s view on performance reviews and I agree with him only to a point, He blasts performance reviews in general. I believe that if one sets good (aka SMART) goals, the problems he raises would be alleviated.
How do you set goals for your development teams and how to you measure performance against these goals?
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3 Comments
1. Michael | August 4th, 2004 at 12:58 am
Reward programmers on how many bugs they fix. Says Wally (of Dilbert): “I’m going to write me a minivan.”
2. Dennis Grinberg | August 4th, 2004 at 8:35 am
I’m surprised that you didn’t link to this.
3. deeptanshuv's WebLog&hellip | August 27th, 2004 at 7:08 am
re: Performance reviews take time…