The question I was responding to implied an external client. For internal clients, everywhere I have every worked, your initial compensation is negotiated at hiring, and thereafter is adjusted by a percentage based on your performance, the company's performance, and cost of living. An earlier post by Doug Swartz describes a quite workable team-based compensation system for determining the percentage increase for each individual on the team.
As I stated in another post, for the majority of developers, as long as compensation is reasonably competitive and the working environment is fulfilling, differential compensation is not a retention factor. Steven Gordon -----Original Message----- From: Chris Wheeler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sun 11/7/2004 6:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Subject: RE: [XP] Measuring individual developer productivity/accountability > The client can certainly tell us how they want team > performance measured. > The client should not tell us how they want > individual performance measured. Do you beleive in group salary? If one can't determine individual performance, how can one determine individual salary? Pay the team a group salary and divide it as the team sees fit? How about just paying every person exactly the same amount? The other thing I am confused about is the term 'client' in the post. Where I work, the 'client' is my boss, the person I report to. Are you saying that he has no say in how my performance is judged? Chris. ===== --------------------------- C H R I S W H E E L E R Extreme Programmer & Coach __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. www.yahoo.com To Post a message, send it to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe, send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ad-free courtesy of objectmentor.com Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] To Post a message, send it to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe, send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ad-free courtesy of objectmentor.com Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/extremeprogramming/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
