Performance Reviews

Performance reviews tend to be a very tricky endeavor for most organizations. Recently our development group has started embracing the attitude "performance reviews are not helpful, feedback is".

Several examples have been highlighted as out conversation has evolved to reflect the disposition of our development group. They are:

http://www.jrothman.com/blog/mpd/2014/01/performance-reviews-are-not-useful-feedback-is.html

https://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140206114808-15893932-how-adobe-got-rid-of-traditional-performance-reviews?trk=object-title&_mSplash=1

As we look to understand effective ways to conduct "reviews" the theme that has evolve can be summarized best as, "Don't get rid of performance reviews; do them all the time and let teammates own their job role."