I haven’t really thought of tying any direct Agile results to individual performance and I don’t know if I will get there, because from all different perspectives – I do feel like artificial data like dates and boundaries ultimately don’t measure a talented person. So those are the two things where I have found value in implementing Scrum and the fact that implemented Scrum has brought out our talented folks to be direct, respectful and ready to deal with conflict. Not necessarily whether they’re performing well or not, but measuring our folks to see if they’re able to get over that barrier and help them with a lot of personal coaching, outside coaching, to get over the barrier of direct communication and conflict management. So through this, while we were transitioning a few things we did was measure our folks. And I’m sure not all business leaders would agree with me, but it worked well for the team, it helps with the morale and motivation. Which is a little bit of a different way to look at Agile. But it’s very outcome-based, not necessarily estimates vs. We do surveys with our stakeholders, we do after-demo surveys for the big projects.

And we have data that we use to measure it internally. I don’t really say it has to be tied to a date, although dates are important, don’t get me wrong – but I don’t really tie directly to their run-rate – it’s about what outcome did you achieve at the end of two weeks, at the end of four sprints is how we measure it. There’s a team level performance which is directly tied to the outcome of the Agile aspects of the process. So what we do, and I can only speak about what I do and it is working pretty well in our organizations: two things. And myself have gone through a lot of performance metrics, being a leader, I’m doing it a little outside the box. From my personal perspective, given our context and culture, it’s a little bit different to perform mixed measurement and management.

Nupura: I have been asked this question a couple of times before.

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