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Delivery Management

To Measure or Not to Measure

Individual performance metrics may destroy morale and kill teamwork, if used wrongly, but their absence hurts even more.

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Yegor Bugaenko
Jun 23, 2020 • 6 min read
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Summary

Project founder and programmer Yegor Bugeyenko, criticizes the modern way of management claiming that programmers have way too much power over projects than managers exempting them from individual performance metrics and that should not be the case. Moreover, they believe that putting a metric on them is a bad practice as it might have negative effects on the team and the organization at large. However, according to Yegor and other Agile experts, individual performance metrics seem to have a positive and contagious effect on all the other members of the team when used correctly. Read the article for more information on why we need good performance metrics in organizations and how to choose them.

Takeaways

  • In modern management, programmers seem to be more in charge than managers.
  • Some experts like Bradley Kirkman believe that individual performance metric seems to have a positive and contagious effect on all the other members of the team.
  • The negativity aimed at individual performance metrics is caused by their wrong usage.
  • There's a belief in modern management that programmers are not supposed to be measured.

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