Re:Microsoft 365 has employee surveillance and analytics bui...
by outworlder on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @02:44PM
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> That doesn't provide a way of measuring your individual performance only that of the team
Exactly!
Team metrics can be useful. It is important to know if, say, a team is missing deliverables more than another team. Then you can potentially track down _systemic reasons_.
On an individual level? Can't do it, there's not enough context.
On a pure "lines per code" metric, the most important members on my team would have an abysmal metric. But if they didn't do their jobs, the productivity for everyone else would drop enormously.
Re:Microsoft 365 has employee surveillance and analytics bui...
by na85 on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @04:18PM
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>That doesn't provide a way of measuring your individual performance only that of the team.
Indeed.
Is there a clause I'm unaware of in the saying I quoted that stipulates a target/metric must be an individual one only?
In most cases the measurements are proxies for your "share" of the job. In these case they are almost always bad. In all my years in tech I've not seen a way of directly measuring what I do.