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Re:Learning at work is work, and we must make space for it by settsu on Wednesday December 11, 2019 @10:45AM (#21763493)
> Tie it to deliverables

That's a great idea in theory because tackling a real world problem tends to motivate towards a real world solution.

However, learning invariably encompasses failure which rarely measures up well with typical (if arguably useful/useless) performance metrics that developers contend with.

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Re:Learning at work is work, and we must make space for it by gbrown on Wednesday December 11, 2019 @11:39AM (#21764115)
If the deliverable is a team report, then failures are super useful and still count. "I tried implementing X as a test after reading about method Y, but found that for our domain there are serious drawbacks."
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Re:Learning at work is work, and we must make space for it by settsu on Wednesday December 11, 2019 @02:55PM (#21766113)
I wholeheartedly agree with that outcome.

I was referring to the potential for a metric that could backfire in the context of a performance review. (And that'd be a relatively tame surprise in one of those god-forsaken events...)

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