Template:Review

= Overview =

Overall
Contractor being reviewed:

Contractor job description:

Reviewer:

Target date:

Review status: (XXX: process that includes explicit agreement)

Rating
Global reviewer rating:

Global self-rating:

Global community rating:

The ratings below are from the reviewer.

General assessment
Strategical thinking:

Team work and relationships:

Result orientation:

Communication:

Creativity, innovation and change:

Management and guidance:

Professionalism:

Project objectives
XXX main facts

Operational objectives
XXX main facts

Personal development objectives
XXX main facts

=General assessment=

Strategical thinking
Description:
 * Understands how the project works globally, the connection between the role and the functioning of the project, as well as the interdependences between the various roles within the project and its community
 * Envisions inspiring directions and communicate them clearly and formulates strategies and plans to implement those directions
 * Developed strategies relate to the project's overall values, mission, objectives, competitive context and stakeholders (community, contributors, shareholders, contractors...)
 * Involves the broadest range of community members in the making of those strategies
 * Takes into account the interdependencies between roles within the project and maximises connexions across departments
 * Successfully implements strategies and changes, coming from him or from others
 * Adequately decides between conflicting priorities
 * Maintain an in-depth knowledge of the game genre and theme, as well as the pop culture of the audience.

Relationships and team work
Description:
 * Works cooperatively with contributors, players and all project stakeholders accross boundaries and disciplines, and satisfies their needs
 * Efficiently solves conflicts and facilitates consensual outcomes
 * Proactively engages external projects, especially free software projects and online communities used by the project, and establishes trusted relationships with them
 * Works and interacts efficiently with people having a different skillset, background or experience

Result orientation
Description:
 * Turns strategy into specific planning, objectives and deadlines
 * Responsively handles the level of autonomy and flexibility given by telecommuting work
 * Spontaneously commits to precise deadlines, and gets the expected work and commitments done on time
 * Develops quantitative metrics and proactively seek feedback from all stakeholders to evaluate work progression
 * Keeps all stakeholders (community, players, contributors, shareholders, contractors...) highly satisfied
 * Efficiently and proactively solves problems

Communication
Description:
 * Efficiently follows all project discussions, asks questions to ensure proper understanding
 * Proactively identifies and communicates all relevant information through the proper communication channels in a timely manner
 * Constructively contributes to on-going discussions, frequently posting answers, questions, comments and ideas, even on discussions that do not directly relate to his own responsibilities
 * Communicates with a diverse set of interlocutors - including players, community members, contributors and people from a variety of specialities
 * Proactively engages the community on diverse communication channels: forum/ML, chat, blog, social networks...
 * Provides proper context and explanations when presenting new ideas and implementation plans to others
 * Adapts his communication to allow the intended audience to allow efficient understanding
 * Is confident working publicly and discussing issues publicly, adopts an open approach to discussions: avoids closed door meetings and decisions, fosters transparency and invites diverse points of view
 * Is consistently available to quickly answer questions and comments 5 days/week: is available on the chat and responds to emails within 24 hours (except during planned leave, notified and agreed in advance)
 * Documents produced work and results of discussions in the wiki
 * Uses correct grammar, spelling and syntax

Creativity, innovation and change
Description:
 * Welcomes changes, shows openness to new points of view and effectively integrates new approaches
 * Maintains high flexibility and avoids the "author complex", sees the project through the community's eye and identifies the parts that capture the players' imagination, to focus on what makes them tick
 * On the lookout for new opportunities, doesn't hesitate to take intelligent risks
 * Encourages open-minded and creative thinking environments and discussions
 * Creative and proactive approach to problem-solving, out of the box thinking
 * Constructively criticizes the established way of doing things and proposes viable solutions

Management and guidance
Description (all positions):
 * Encourages and supports diversity in people, skills, experience and work approach
 * Enables others to develop themselves by providing opportunities to learn and improve, feedback and mentoring
 * Ensures that own actions maintains and develops a high level of motivation and morale in others
 * Publicly acknowledges and encourages other's achievements

Additional description (managerial positions):
 * Ensures that contributors and contractors are provided with adequate direction, knowledge, resources, time and autonomy to perform their work
 * Puts a lot of energy and empathy into the recruitment and follow-up processes
 * Follows and inspires new talents to achieve challenging goals
 * Consistently address performance problems and drives appropriate outcome

Professionalism
Description:
 * Consistently displays energy, initiative, empathy and respect
 * Maintains high standards of excellence for self and others, sets a good example
 * Trustworthy and honest attitude, matches promises with results
 * Learns from experience, successes and mistakes alike, and strives to improve
 * Handles high levels of stress effectively
 * Properly employs the tools used for project communication and productivity, shows adaptability and confidence in using them and learning new ones
 * Maintains knowledge of the existing processes, carefully and consistently follows them
 * Attention to detail

NB: Some excerpts for strategic thinking are from Wikipedia)

=Project objectives=

Defined every six months for the project as a whole, they are global objectives set for the project, and each recurring contractor is evaluated on his contributions to match them during the appraisal process (ex: "Have 10.000 accounts created on the project games by February 30th 2011")

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SMART expected outcomes:
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SMART expected outcomes:
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=Operational objectives=

Tailored to every job and every recurring contractor, the goal is to set clear goals that are linked to the daily operational work (ex: "Do not delay more than 3 weekly iterations by February 30th 2011")

=Personal development objectives=

Not necessarily directly linked to the daily operational work and are more there to provide guidance on the person personal development, ie learning new skills or improving existing ones (ex: "Learn 3D animation and get at least three different 3D animations integrated to one of the project games by February 30th 2011" for a designer with no previous knowledge of 3D animation)