{"id":702,"date":"2004-09-24T15:29:41","date_gmt":"2004-09-24T20:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/creator\/2004\/09\/24\/if-you-monitor-human-human-interaction-you-do-it-on-your-own-time-understand\/"},"modified":"2004-09-24T15:29:41","modified_gmt":"2004-09-24T20:29:41","slug":"if-you-monitor-human-human-interaction-you-do-it-on-your-own-time-understand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2004\/09\/24\/if-you-monitor-human-human-interaction-you-do-it-on-your-own-time-understand\/","title":{"rendered":"If you monitor human-human interaction, you do it on your own time, understand?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been thinking about my performance evaluations class (which I’m failing, but still find interesting, except for the math), Leonard’s comment on bad metrics<\/a> and the concept of keystroke counters and loggers (thanks to spam). There’s a quote in the textbook for the aforementioned class, “that which is monitored improves,” attributed to “Source Unknown.” So I can’t call out the person who said it for being wrong, which it is.<\/p>\n

Here’s a handy set of heuristics for deciding when to monitor. For you! It would be better drawn as a flowchart or tree, but I’m lazy.<\/p>\n

Good Things To Monitor<\/b><\/p>\n