[hnhg]

I think what you're doing is a great exercise, culturally, but I wouldn't use it to assess anyone's performance objectively.

What happens if you have a great employee who finds it difficult to articulate on these points? Would you have to hear through the grapevine that they were doing great things? What if you have someone who is a poor employee but can talk the talk?

[arethuza]

That's a good point - what you'd be evaluating there is how good people are at talking about their performance rather than their actual performance.

A lot of excellent developers I've known (in fact I might say particularly the excellent ones) were rather modest and often rather hard on themselves.