How to provide valuable feedback to Software engineers – is a 360 tool a good idea?

Hi everyone,

I have been working as an Agile coach for the past 8 years. In my current organization, we do not have proper feedback culture and I have a question about how can we provide sufficient feedback to the engineers. Please notice that a year ago we have added internal code reviews which have been proven to work exceptionally well.

Our goal is to provide a process or tool that will assist them to improve their Technical mainly and Soft skills.

So far we have seen various 360 tools, however, I am afraid that this is not the ideal way for assessing technical skills, skills specific to an individual project, or granular performance indicators, since it typically involves many people with different backgrounds and levels of involvement with the reviewer.

360-degree feedback may be too subjective to assess some aspects of a software engineer’s performance.

What is your view on the matter?

Thank you in advance,

John