Problems with New Appraisal System

1. New appraisal system believes that every thing is measurable . There are many areas that cannot be measured but can only be sensed

1.1. Technical Skills

1.1.1. OutOfMemoryError

1.1.2. Nullpointer without stack trace

1.1.3. Performance backlogs

1.1.4. Participation in code reviews

1.2. Domain Knowledge

1.2.1. Missed train reportings

1.2.2. Message Failure Analaysis

1.3. Mentoring Skills

1.4. Leadership Skills

1.4.1. Identifying areas of improvement , identifying small steps and executing them

1.5. Engagement Levels

1.6. Communication Skills

2. Even in areas that can be measured , Measurement criteria is not correct

2.1. Number of sessions

2.1.1. Friday Sessions

2.2. Number of defects

2.2.1. Few work items will never have defects

2.3. Number of hours burned

2.3.1. It becomes a number game

2.4. Attrition rate

2.4.1. If there are 2 employees reporting

2.5. Estimations

2.5.1. Number game

2.6. Hiring Success

2.6.1. Many factors will influence this

3. Morale of employee goes down

3.1. Least Score = Last Rank

3.2. Explaining how we generate score leads to problems