Individual versus team goals in CS metrics

For a strategy to be effectively and completely carried out, there must be understanding and an acknowledgment that different components of an organization require different types of motivation. Teams of people should be motivated to nurture the sense that the outcomes will be more powerful through a combination of the energy of individuals. The individual people that comprise the teams should be motivated differently as a way to objectively observe, coach, and measure the performance of each person.

One of the goals of leadership is to strike a balance between encouraging and nurturing the basic human desire to achieve success and the truth that ultimate success for the company comes mainly through combining and channeling the energy of many highly performing people toward the achievement of group goals. In other words, the strength of many is greater than the simple sum of individual parts. If the two types of motivation support the same...