It also encourages people to game the system through various ways. Such as ordinary office politics, of course. Also working on more visible and easily completed projects than tackling tough, more diffuse projects. And especially in spending time on new projects instead of fixing existing stuff. All of this has seriously hurt productivity within the company and the ability of big parts of the company to execute on projects that actually provide serious end-user benefits. The way to get ahead seems to be to work on the easiest and flashiest projects regardless of customer impact.