Chapter 6. COWORKERS ARE THE BEST JUDGES
Articles written about Google mention its peer review policy less frequently than its 20 percent rule, but the peer review policy is at least as important in filtering out the best projects for development and feeding Google's innovation pipeline.
As mentioned in Chapter 5, a team with a prospective project that is an outgrowth of the 20 percent rule presents the project for coworkers from other departments to review. In a traditional company, such a review would be the province of top executives, the marketing department, or an executive committee. But at Google, peer review takes place within a committee composed of coworkers. Like an academic peer review group, this committee meets frequently to decide ...
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