Why I Quit Google to Work for Myself
&gt; I drastically reduced the time developers spent repairing those failures, but there were no metrics that tracked developer time.<p>For several jobs in a row, I&#x27;ve felt that helping others on a team is undervalued and under-recorded. I&#x27;ve been planning to implement the &quot;assist&quot; metric, similar to basketball, on my own team for a while.<p>The idea would be something along the lines of everyone gets a set of assist points they must distribute to people who help them the most.<p>While I don&#x27;t love the idea of gamifying it, all the places I&#x27;ve ever worked have had too strong of a reverse incentive towards individual achievement, especially when it comes to promotion, and not nearly enough support for teamwork in specific and measurable ways.<p>Anybody have experience with teamwork metrics like this, or others that worked or didn&#x27;t work?