What performance indicators are you judged on?
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What key performance indicators (KPIs) are you judged on? It's often said that KPIs for developers don't work. I tend to agree and think in the end it has to be judged by a human with at least basic software development knowledge. I bet in a lot of places, it's how many times you laugh at the boss's jokes :) Which ones do your company use, and are they useful?
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What key performance indicators (KPIs) are you judged on? It's often said that KPIs for developers don't work. I tend to agree and think in the end it has to be judged by a human with at least basic software development knowledge. I bet in a lot of places, it's how many times you laugh at the boss's jokes :) Which ones do your company use, and are they useful?
Do you finish your work on time, to budget and adhere to our standards. That's all we really care about (our standards are quite stringent though, code that passes our ndepends tests to a sufficient level, TDD, low external test failure rates - positive and negative tests).
"WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith
As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.
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Do you finish your work on time, to budget and adhere to our standards. That's all we really care about (our standards are quite stringent though, code that passes our ndepends tests to a sufficient level, TDD, low external test failure rates - positive and negative tests).
"WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith
As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.
Managers/Directors/Auditors like to see a number "4 out of 5" or "80% performance". It's difficult to measure these things. Are these things any more than just an indicator to look further into it? A developer who misses the deadlines 50% of the time may be doing it to actually ensure the code is high quality before it goes out. Your code may fail lots of silly little tests and seem unreliable whereas someone's may fail one big test and not really work at all but percentage wise rank higher. I agree that TDD and coding standards and reviews helps software quality. This will raise the standard of development as a whole. How do you decide who deserves the best pay rise though...
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Managers/Directors/Auditors like to see a number "4 out of 5" or "80% performance". It's difficult to measure these things. Are these things any more than just an indicator to look further into it? A developer who misses the deadlines 50% of the time may be doing it to actually ensure the code is high quality before it goes out. Your code may fail lots of silly little tests and seem unreliable whereas someone's may fail one big test and not really work at all but percentage wise rank higher. I agree that TDD and coding standards and reviews helps software quality. This will raise the standard of development as a whole. How do you decide who deserves the best pay rise though...
JamesA_Dev wrote:
Managers/Directors/Auditors like to see a number "4 out of 5" or "80% performance". It's difficult to measure these things.
That's why our rating is set the way it is. As the owner of a company, I'm lucky enough to be in the position where it's small enough for me to know the team personally, and know how they work. That makes my job easier - if we ever grow too big, then I'll need to rethink this.
"WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith
As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.
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What key performance indicators (KPIs) are you judged on? It's often said that KPIs for developers don't work. I tend to agree and think in the end it has to be judged by a human with at least basic software development knowledge. I bet in a lot of places, it's how many times you laugh at the boss's jokes :) Which ones do your company use, and are they useful?
Hi, In response to your question, www.smatKPIs.com might be a good resource for you. It contains a user friendly library of well-documented performance measures/ KPIs. At the moment it lists over 3100 KPI examples http://www.smartkpis.com/kpi/browse-kpis/ , grouped in 73 functional areas, as well as 83 industries and sub-categories. In addition to examples of performance measures, www.smartKPIs.com also contains a catalogue of performance reports that illustrate the use of KPIs in practice http://www.smartkpis.com/kpi\_examples\_in\_practice/browse-kpis/ . Hope this helps you. Regards, smartKPIs.com
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Hi, In response to your question, www.smatKPIs.com might be a good resource for you. It contains a user friendly library of well-documented performance measures/ KPIs. At the moment it lists over 3100 KPI examples http://www.smartkpis.com/kpi/browse-kpis/ , grouped in 73 functional areas, as well as 83 industries and sub-categories. In addition to examples of performance measures, www.smartKPIs.com also contains a catalogue of performance reports that illustrate the use of KPIs in practice http://www.smartkpis.com/kpi\_examples\_in\_practice/browse-kpis/ . Hope this helps you. Regards, smartKPIs.com