Agile Manager's Performance Review

How do we do performance appraisal for a Manager who is managing couple of scrum teams?

Most of these managers are owning team members. On Daily basis they inspire team members to perform better. They remove organizational impediments for these teams to perform better.They have become time sheet manager, they have become servant leaders. Some time they use power to control the situation.

Now appraisal time for these Managers!

Peter Drucker makes it clear that performance cannot be measured fully “As each human being is unique, we cannot simply add them together, or subtract them from one another.... To arrive at meaningful measurements is one of the greatest challenges to management.”

For a Director to take Performance appraisal review for such of these Agile Managers what they should look into ? One of the Director asked us about our thought process.

Frederic Herzberg concluded that,

“If you want people to do a good job, give them a good job to do.

Let us look into the data points from all the various areas.

Pay for Performance

This discussion is happening at monthly level and in the tool, data has captured twice in a year.

All these 16 points need to elaborate and discuss in detail. Purpose is to improve the current state and provide constructive feedback.Come out with action plan.

According to The Successful Manager’s Handbook, “Successful negotiation engages people, especially those who have ongoing interaction, in seeking and identifying a solution satisfactory to all.

When both sides are open to winning on some points and compromising or losing on others, they are more likely to arrive at a solution they can accept and support. When a clear winner and a clear loser emerge from a negotiation session, hard feelings are likely to result.The “loser” may undermine the solution, and it is possible that no one will “win” in the long run"

Please share if I have missed any points.

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