Management
Goal | Gain experience in managing a budget. |
Objective | Plan, submit and control a budget for the ABC project by the end of Q1. |
Measurements | On time completion of budget, compliance to budget process, budget variance |
Project Management
Goal | Gain project management experience. |
Objective | Manage a challenging project and deliver to schedule and budget. |
Target date | end of Q2 |
Measurements | Schedule variance, budget variance, stakeholder feedback |
Training
Goal | Improve architecture and design skills. |
Objective | Complete architecture and design training. |
Target date | end of Q2 |
Measurement | Successful completion of training |
Professional Certification
Goal | Certify capabilities as a project manager |
Objective | Complete project management training and obtain professional certification by Q4. |
Measurement | Successful certification |
Strategy
Goal | Develop strategic planning abilities |
Objective | Develop and pitch a business case for a new product. |
Target date | end of Q3 |
Measurements | Successful completion of business case, feedback, approval of budget |
Leadership
Goal | Improve ability to influence and motivate teams and stakeholders. |
Objective | Lead the development team for the ABC project to represent the team with stakeholders, clear issues and deliver to commitments. |
Target date | End of year |
Measurements | Feedback from stakeholders and team members, on time delivery of commitments |
Time Management
Goal | Improve time management skills. |
Objective | Experiment with a new format to cut weekly team meeting to 30 minutes from 90 minutes without losing any value. Measure results and improve. |
Target date | start in Q1 |
Measurements | Time consumed by weekly meeting, participant feedback |
Productivity
Goal | Improve work habits to increase my throughput. |
Objective | Work from home one day a week where my environment is free from distraction to deliver at least 1000 lines of a code in a day. |
Target date | start in Q1 |
Measurements | Throughput in lines of code. |
Creativity
Goal | Develop creative abilities. |
Objective | Work to improve my designs to significantly exceed client expectations. |
Target date | start in Q1, ongoing |
Measurements | Client feedback |
Communication
Goal | Improve communication skills. |
Objective | Take the lead to resolve production incidents by coordinating efforts across technology teams and business units. |
Target date | end of Q4 |
Measurements |
Public Speaking
Goal | Gain experience in public speaking. |
Objective | Complete two presentations by the end of Q2. |
Measurements | Successful completion of two presentations, participant feedback. |
Technical Skills
Goal | Learn the ABC cloud platform API. |
Objective | Complete training and write code that uses the ABC cloud platform API. |
Target date | end of Q4 |
Measurements | Completion of training, check in code that uses the ABC API. |
Customer Satisfaction
Goal | Improve customer service skills. |
Objective | Carefully tailor service to each customer by listening to their problems and reading their emotions and needs. |
Target date | end of Q2 |
Measurement | Customer feedback, customer satisfaction |
Decision Making
Goal | Improve decision making skills by developing innovative ways to measure alternatives. |
Objective | Develop risk scores for projects to incorporate the risk of failure in funding approvals. |
Measurement | Successful development of risk scores for at least 70% of project proposals in the Q4 planning cycle. |
Problem Solving
Goal | Improve troubleshooting skills by gaining experience in resolving incidents. |
Objective | Participant in production support to resolve incidents. |
Target date | end of Q4 |
Measurements | Number of incidents resolved, mean time to repair |
Analysis
Goal | Improve analysis skills. |
Objective | Produce a gap analysis to identify inefficiencies in the order fulfillment process. |
Target date | end of Q3 |
Measurement | Reduce the turnaround time of the order fulfillment process by at least 10%. |
Planning
Goal | Develop project planning skills. |
Objective | Deliver a project charter for the ABC project by Q2. |
Measurements | Completion of project charter, stakeholder sign off |
Summary
Development objectives are goals that an employee develops to improve in their profession, work and career. These are commonly included as part of an employee's overall performance objectives.
