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Hamish,</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">I see this particular aspect applying
to permanent employees of public and larger private organisations (though
particular aspects could also possibly be applied to support contracts).</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">We need to find meaningful measures
that Managers or Employees can take into the Performance Planning sessions
to discuss the need to undertake GeoNetwork work. It is a two-way process
and can be initiated by either party.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">We could look at measures such as ...
"Get feature X accepted into the trunk of GeoNetwork by June 2009",
however this is probably unrealistic as to do this the developer
will have to have existing credibility within the community and there may
be good reasons why the community does not want to have 'product X' included.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Any thoughts on measures are appreciated.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Bruce Bannerman</font>
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<div align=right><font size=1 face="sans-serif">To</font></div>
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Bruce.Bannerman@dpi.vic.gov.au</font>
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<td><font size=1 face="sans-serif">Re: [Aust-NZ] Initial Proposal - [was
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<br><font size=2><tt>Bruce wrote:<br>
> However, in the public sector and also in many larger private<br>
> organisations there is a Human Resources process in place that<br>
> are based on Performance Management.<br>
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> As to specific metrics that can be used, I'm open to<br>
> suggestions. They must be specific, meaningful and measurable.<br>
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there is nothing too wrong with outcome based funding, they want to know
thier money is well spent even if they are not an expert in the field.
but I think it is wise to avoid metrics which micro-manage and focus on
deliverable results instead.<br>
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e.g. assesment by number of lines of code committed per day or number of
commits is very useless. I can commit each time I save the file or wait
and do one big commit when I have finished the module I am working on;
SVN likes big atomic commits, while I assume a CMS like git likes many
smaller ones, more often. If I want more lines of code I can adjust indent
rules or write less efficient C ...<br>
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better is to have contracts that say "we will pay you X dollars to
impliment Y feature in a functional and usable way, and require you to
submit it to upstream with documentation and examples and assist with any
merge issues that arise therein." rather than get hung up on the details
of lines of code or commits.<br>
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