Appraisal Process:It is the basic evaluation Process done for an employee or a IT Professional to assess the development in his regular activites of technical aspects like development and personality behaviourial skills like communication,team skills etc.Objectives of Appraisal Process:1. Encouraging the Employee based on his Work.2. Refreshing the current Knowledge3. Step by Step development of the Employee4. Career building5. Statistical analysis of Work6. Helping in overcoming the drawbacks 7. Gaining Potential in the areas of strengthSignificance of Appraisal Gives the company an analysis on the development of each individual on which the overall growth and success of the firm is based on.Elements of Appraisal Process: The main members in the Appraisal Process are1. Appraisee: Employee which is being assessed. Any individual who is working in the company.2. Appraiser : The Primary Employee/Immediate Supervisor who evaluates the Appraisee. This could be his Project leader/ Supervisor based on the role of the Appraisee. He will the Primary person who is entirely aware of the work done by the Appraisee and to whom the Appraisee is reporting in the Current Appraisal year.3. Reviewer: The Secondary Employee who evaluates the Appraisee. This could be his Project Manager/ Supervisor based on the role of the Appraisee. He will be just monitoring on the Apraisee and Appraiser if the Process is going in an effective manner and will help in reviewing the goals set to the Appraisee and will help the Appariser in evaluating the Appraisee.4. HR : The role of HR is key to the Appraisal. He will be monitoring on the basic needs of the employee in raising the Appraisal Process and will guide the employee till the end of the Process and will be responsible for the satisfaction of the employee.Types of Appraisal Process:1. Final Anniversary2. H13. H2Final Anniversary:This intiated only once int the first year of joining the company.H1:Every Year this will be rating based evaluation in the first half i.e from April to December.H2:This is a band based evaluation on which the Salary hike is decided . This is given at the end of the financial Year.Phases in the Appraisal Evaluation CycleStartData ValidationGoal SettingSelf EvaluationAppraiser EvaluationReviewer EvaluationProcess EndsAspects of Evaluation:These can vary from Person to Person based on their roles whether the employee is management related or purely technical and depending on their Work like the employee is doing development activities or Support activities .Some of the Prominent Aspects on which the Apraisee (precisely Technical and development) is evaluated are given below: 1. Timely Performance/Application monitoring and fixing2. Customer Satisfaction Index3. Number of trainings Attended / Conducted / Certifications received4. No. of defects closed on time5. Timely identification of the Root cause of the problem in the system6. % Rework effort arising out of the developed code by the associate7. No. of reusable components developed/ deployed8. Status Reporting9. % compliance to timesheet / IPMS10. Innovation & Creativity11. Analytical Ability12. Customer Orientation13. Team Skill