Can any one share a few company names that has implemented these type of changes along with their Agile/Scrum adoption?
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From: Sarath Kummamuru <kcsarath@...>
Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 17:23:31 +0530
To: <Scrum-India@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: Re: [Scrum-India] Apprisal Process in Scrum.
Absolutely agree with Siddharth,
Models that I have seen working with teams that I have coached include base salaries and a base bonus based on the performance as a team. Some additional bonus for people who helped the team perform better, based on the team's feed back on each of the others.
Some things that I would like a team member to be rewarded on should be
:
Customer collaboration, communication and initiative to add
value to the customer's business.
Quality of the code
Ability to identify problem areas in the team, help the team
improve on those and seek the team's help on his/her weaknesses.
Commitment to the agile values and practices
Ability to learn, collaborate and help others achieve goals
together.
Ability to work together in the team.
Ability to pitch in as a cross functional member, helping the
team in areas that are not his basic core. (For exmple a dev helping
with testing tasks, etc).
So basically I would value his/her performance and ATTITUDE during the
project.
This is kind of an already solved problem. We just need to look at any
team based activity, like say a cricket team. You don't see Tendulkar
and Dravid rewarded in proportion to the hundreds that they score.
Instead there are some slabs and everyone in one slab gets the same
amount. When the team does well, everyone gets an equal bonus. If
someone gets man of the match, the reward is split equally among
everyone. If someone is not performing, you dont adjust the salary, you
drop them from the team.
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