Performance Evaluations Does Not Add Value

Recently, I watched a presentation by Jeff Sutherland which is filmed during QCon 2007. In one part of the presantation he said that "A study show that performance evoluations actually disincent employers. 80% of the companies in the world have them and 90% of the companies have them failed to get  any value out of them." This suprised me a lot. I always think that companies should have them.

He said Google is almost unique on the planet that they figured this out and has no performance evoluations. Instead, they make a rule says that every developer must have a web page which includes what s/he is doing and objectives for next three months.

The presentation is about Scrum. It is a fairly good presentation especially If you want to learn about Scrum. The man is a Scrum guru and has a lot of experience in applying it. He also talks a lot about how things get done in Google. I give the link below for people who want to watch it.

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Agile-Management-Google-Jeff-Sutherland