Toots from 2024-01-17#
It’s performance rating season again! Considering the “impact” of an IC institutionalizes Outcom…#
It’s performance rating season again!
Considering the “impact” of an IC institutionalizes Outcome Bias as an evaluation criteria. Outcomes typically aren’t within the agency of a single person. And even if they were, does the organization have isolated feedback mechanisms to which an IC could respond? Is it even possible for a person to understand the effect of their engineering decisions from last year’s Q2?
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Throughout the year everyone has made decisions under uncertainty. How were those decisions made, how was consensus established, how was evidence produced, what messages was their management team sharing? Their behaviors may produce impact, but that’s only known in hindsight.
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“The ultimate solution to the 300% problem will be the same across the 3 pillars. Simplicity. M…#
“The ultimate solution to the 300% problem will be the same across the 3 pillars. Simplicity. Making decisions that reduce the amount of knowledge required to become an expert in one of those 3 pillars will dramatically affect your overall success rate at getting your applications into production.”
https://leebriggs.co.uk/blog/2023/09/28/300_percent_problem.html