[Aust-NZ] Initial Proposal - [was Finding a way forward - GeoNetwork ... ANZLIC Profile]

[Bruce.Bannerman at dpi.vic.gov.au]

IMO:

Cameron,

I'll comment on only one point for now.

I'll leave the rest until a few more people have had a say.

> > - For some of our permanent developers, we could start setting 
> performance goals relating
> >   to GeoNetwork contributions and providing work time for this to 
> occur. These goals
> >   could possibly relate to a specific number of commits being 
> accepted by the community. 
> >   The work may or may not be explicitly AP related. 
> > 
> Software development performance goals are very easy to fudge, and as 
> soon as you tie pay scales to metrics, the metrics become meaningless.
> Lets put this point to the side for a bit.


Agreed.

However, in the public sector and also in many larger private 
organisations there
is a Human Resources process in place that are based on Performance 
Management.

If we are to get resources committed outside of Project Work, this is 
probably the 
best way to do it.

As to specific metrics that can be used, I'm open to suggestions. They 
must be 
specific, meaningful and measurable.



We have a window of opportunity now to get this sorted out as typically 
the 
Performance Management process re-starts early in in the new financial 
year.


Bruce Bannerman








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