I don't know whose idea this was originally, but I have to applaud the sheer *ingeniousness* of putting ALL of your accomplishments the past year into one document. I have trouble recalling what I did last week. Let alone LAST YEAR.
If the aim of this document is to make rating as objective as possible by relying on physically recorded accomplishments, then bravo. Riddled with document titles and page numbers, source code files and line count and other nuggets of information deemed "appropriate", this document is to objectivity as cookies are to basil. No, that doesn't make any sense. Neither does a Design Portfolio document.
Sure it makes for good reading of what you've accomplished during the past year. If you just didn't spend an unwarranted excruciating week filling it up.
I know of no person that likes doing this document. The rookies don't like it either. I think the general sentiment toward it is borderline HATE. When the majority of people who have to do one thing don't like it, there's a real problem. Yes, nobody likes throwing out the trash either, but that's a NECESSITY. Doing this unholy abomination of a task, is NOT.
If the aim is to create an objective atmosphere in terms of rating, why not do the rating 4 times a year? That way, the accomplishments will still be fresh in everybody's (the rater's and the ratee's) minds. Plus you don't have to create an ungodly 10-page document that nobody really reads. Rather than waste everybody's time with something that serves no purpose other than for ego-boosting (or deflating, if you find yourself at a complete loss on what to jot down), why not inject a little bit of creativity here and go with a different style. Surely almost a decade of doing this crap has tired somebody out.
If the aim of this document is to make rating as objective as possible by relying on physically recorded accomplishments, then bravo. Riddled with document titles and page numbers, source code files and line count and other nuggets of information deemed "appropriate", this document is to objectivity as cookies are to basil. No, that doesn't make any sense. Neither does a Design Portfolio document.
Sure it makes for good reading of what you've accomplished during the past year. If you just didn't spend an unwarranted excruciating week filling it up.
I know of no person that likes doing this document. The rookies don't like it either. I think the general sentiment toward it is borderline HATE. When the majority of people who have to do one thing don't like it, there's a real problem. Yes, nobody likes throwing out the trash either, but that's a NECESSITY. Doing this unholy abomination of a task, is NOT.
If the aim is to create an objective atmosphere in terms of rating, why not do the rating 4 times a year? That way, the accomplishments will still be fresh in everybody's (the rater's and the ratee's) minds. Plus you don't have to create an ungodly 10-page document that nobody really reads. Rather than waste everybody's time with something that serves no purpose other than for ego-boosting (or deflating, if you find yourself at a complete loss on what to jot down), why not inject a little bit of creativity here and go with a different style. Surely almost a decade of doing this crap has tired somebody out.
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