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Managing Performance

15 May 200915 May 2009 ~ Mrityunjay Kumar ~ 4 Comments

See my previous post for background on this series of posts. The question we are attempting to answer is: How does someone (in this case, my friend Ravi who has 9 direct reports) set performance objectives for teams and individuals so that he does not have to spend too much time directing day-to-day activities? There … Continue reading Managing Performance

Characteristics of High-performance Teams

28 Jan 20091 Feb 2009 ~ Mrityunjay Kumar ~ Leave a comment

In this post, I would like to discuss about characteristics of high-performance teams as defined in The Wisdom of Teams. For more detailed review of the book that I wrote sometime back, see here: Part-I, Part-II and Part-III. The book defines a team as follows (my formatting) A small number of people with complementary skills … Continue reading Characteristics of High-performance Teams

Is Annual Performance Review a waste of time?

22 Jan 20091 Feb 2009 ~ Mrityunjay Kumar ~ Leave a comment

Recently someone forwarded me this post about the fact that Performance reviews are a big fat waste of time. This is a long post talking about why it is so and proposes that we should just lose them. Here are the reasons the post mentions as to why this is the case: Everybody hates them … Continue reading Is Annual Performance Review a waste of time?

Doing performance self-appraisal well

8 Feb 200815 May 2009 ~ Mrityunjay Kumar ~ 3 Comments

As I was completing the performance reviews for my team, I was reminded of the fact that so few people actually do a good job of appraising themselves. I have noticed this over the past 5-6 years that I am doing performance reviews and have gotten similar feedback from several other folks, and it hasn't … Continue reading Doing performance self-appraisal well

Trust in Manager-employee relationship

20 Jan 200815 May 2009 ~ Mrityunjay Kumar ~ 6 Comments

In a previous post Do you think your manager is fair to you?, I proposed that trust is the most important part of the manager-employee relationship and it determines whether manager is considered fair or not by his/her employees. So the question is: how do you create trust in such a relationship? This is pertinent … Continue reading Trust in Manager-employee relationship

Performance Measurement – Team or individual?

10 Jan 200815 May 2009 ~ Mrityunjay Kumar ~ Leave a comment

Among many advantages of agile development is the one which produces efficiency by squeezing away the cost of interaction between various members (roles) of a development team (for example, QA doesn't need to raise the bug and wait for it to be fixed and then verify it, he/she can walk up to the dev and … Continue reading Performance Measurement – Team or individual?

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