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Re:“Please don't waste maintainers' time on your KPI grabbin... by shkkmo on Friday June 25, 2021 @06:01PM (#27636806)
Um, what? The degree to which a metric is directly tied to incentives absolutely impacts how much that metric will be gamed. It is not trite at all to caution that metrics that are critical to understanding your business should remain as decoupled as possible from incentives. This allows you to maintain the quality of the signals your metrics provide.

This isn't just theory. This is precisely why there are laws that prohibit rewarding people based on how they voted.

Re:“Please don't waste maintainers' time on your KPI grabbin... by Ericson2314 on Saturday June 26, 2021 @12:50PM (#27643482)
So tell me this: how is the degree to which a given metric is tied to incentives meant to be varied?

> This is precisely why there are laws that prohibit rewarding people based on how they voted.

Voting is not an evaluation method of the voter: the voter is the one doing the evaluating. Because the powers should not discriminate between voters as you say, the vote cannot be used to evaluate the voters on and individual basis at all.

Maybe the answer is that: no individual/team assessments of any sort. That makes no incentives. But that also doesn't help with fine-grained strategy.

Re:“Please don't waste maintainers' time on your KPI grabbin... by shkkmo on Saturday June 26, 2021 @10:10PM (#27647893)
> So tell me this: how is the degree to which a given metric is tied to incentives meant to be varied?

...by not tieing incentives to it? I feel like I must not understand your question because this seems blindingly obvious...

> Voting is not an evaluation method of the voter: the voter is the one doing the evaluating. Because the powers should not discriminate between voters as you say, the vote cannot be used to evaluate the voters on and individual basis at all.

I don't even get where you got this strawman from.

> no individual/team assessments of any sort. That makes no incentives. But that also doesn't help with fine-grained strategy.

No, just dont use KPIs that are critical to understanding your business in assessments tied to incentices because that will distort your KPIs and make you less capable of understanding your business.