[kat]

Couple of my favourite performance review processes:

- "do your job" should be one of the goals. I want credit for doing my job, rather than having all my goals be tasks that are slightly outside of my job description

- Include soft skills and technical skills in everybody's review. Technical skills are not very useful if you can't explain why or what you've made.

- If you have to work under broad company goals, make examples of what this concretely relates to. ie "make quality software" becomes "maintained 80% test coverage" or "gave a presentation on TDD" etc.

- cost-of-living raises are given for "average" people. The market for developers is too hot to keep people at their existing salary. The company needs to keep salaries at market level which means increasing salaries for everyone, except the "below expected" people.

- quarterly reviews instead of one annual review, keeps people motivated and less surprises