Finding evidence for promotion

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Read this in a blog:  I persistently documented promotional evidence.  It’s critical to learn how to sell your work through quantitative and qualitative metrics.  Before starting a task, I searched for metrics that would show the current state of the system.  After working the task, I referred back to those metrics and performed a calculation to measure impact.  Then, I documented everything about the task in my promotion documents. I included a STAR write-up, quantitative metrics, and links to code reviews, graphs, or other work artifacts.  Could someone break this down into more step by step instructions? Was curious how you would search for metrics and then measure impact.

Jonathan C · Accepted Answer

Let's start by looking at metrics and measuring impact with it since that was explicitly called out.

How would you prove your code actually did something for your team/company?

Some line that the company is tracking is going up. That line is a metric. If your project helped the company, the line's slope goes up more. That change of slope is your project's impact.

Finding evidence for promotion

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