Performance Reviews

Have the Right Tools in Place to Make Performance Reviews Successful — It is important to get the best out of your team. If you want to do that, you must conduct regular performance reviews. It can be hard to find the right time and place to conduct reviews. You will also want to make sure you have the right tools in…

A contronym in the making — prepare for a redundant and very recursive overload. Acronyms are widespread in computer science — right from your very first language as a primordial bedroom coder in the 1980s (BASIC), right through the early days of dial up public internet with Compuserve (POP3), ending…

Progressives thrive on technical ability, not filling in spreadsheets or making slides. Also, what’s this about a ‘career’ ?! I wrote previously about Progression Syndrome — a condition I loosely defined as the actions of someone, usually a hard working and knowledgable developer, who accidentally drifting into management because they…

If you have an insecure manager the process of awards and recognition can be tricky. — Let’s say you lead a team of folks who have just launched 12 innovative portals for your client support/experience team. And let’s say you hit the marks, despite problems with your search engine vendor in India, and your content sources within your company, and you still made all deadlines, even…

Apply his approach to get raises, too — Few topics are sexier than performance reviews, am I right? 😉 My intern Brian did something that no one before or after him had ever done. He approached me before his performance review to discuss it. He wanted me to explain which areas of his performance would be evaluated and…