[teampractices] HBR article on annual perf evaluations that mentions Agile Manifesto

[Kevin Smith]

Thanks for sharing this, Grace. I had read a much shorter article a couple
months ago, and it was interesting to dive in deeper.

For better or worse, a lot of the companies seem to be going for a
quarterly cadence, rather than annual.

This factoid warmed my heart:
2012

Adobe ended annual performance reviews, in keeping with the famous “Agile
Manifesto” and the notion that annual targets were irrelevant to the way
its business operated.

I think performance reviews do serve multiple purposes. As frustrating as
they are, I wouldn't want to drop them without putting other systems in
place to get the benefits. Shifting from annual to quarterly seems like a
good incremental step.

Thank goodness the wave of "forced rankings" seems to be behind us. That's
where you have to grade everyone on a curve, and the people at the bottom,
no matter how good or bad they are, must leave. If you want a sure-fire way
to kill teamwork, it's perfect.



Kevin Smith
Agile Coach, Wikimedia Foundation


On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 8:58 AM, Grace Gellerman <ggellerman at wikimedia.org>
wrote:

> Interesting long read on why companies are moving away from the
> traditional annual performance review:
>
> https://hbr.org/2016/10/the-performance-management-revolution
>
> The TL;DR is that the annual feedback loops are too long to be manageable
> or meaningful.
>
> Thanks
> Grace
>
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