New website, new year, new goals. It wasn't until mid this year that I realized that I've always made goals. It was never anything formal, but they were clear and always had a measurable result to determine if I achieved my goal. It wasn't until I was introduced to the concept of OKRs (Objective and Key Results) at work that I decided to formalize it by writing it down and making them public.
\nThe tl;dr of OKRs is to create a set of objectives with measurable ambitious key results that dictate its achievement; ambitious being the most important aspect for me. In my mind, having an easy goal is not really a goal; it's more a feel good thing. Apart from giving you more focus, goals should be ambitious so that if you even do not achieve it you've made significant improvements.
\nSo that being said, these are my OKRs for 2017 and the results of my OKRs for 2016.
\nObjective:\nBe a better product manager
\nObjective:\nBe a better athlete
\nObjective:\nBe a better photographer
\nObjective:\nBe a better person
\nObjective:\nComplete a trialthon
\nKey Results:
\nResults:
\nI did not compete in an Olympic distance Triathlon; I raced in the Subaru Guelph Lake II Sprint Triathlon (it wasn't an actual sprint, it was slightly more. 750m Swim, 30km bike, 7.5km run). I ended placing 130 overall and 8th in my age category.
\nMy final time was: 1:52:39. My splits were
\nObjective:\nTeach a Non-Swimmer to Swim
\nKey Results:
\nResults:\nStarting in February, I trained a friend to overcome his fear of water. He started off with not being able to submerge his head under water to complete the Guelph Lake II Sprint Triathlon. His final time was: 2:05:29 with the following splits:
\nObjective:\nBe a Better Climber
\nKey Results:
\nResults:\nNot only did I complete a V5, but I also completed 2 and became comfortable projecting V4! I also redid the V5s the following week as proof to myself that it wasn't just a fluke. That was a good day. Unfortunately now that was the end of my climbing since I've moved downtown. When I pick it up again, it will be a long journey again and I'm looking forward to it.
\nObjective:\nBe a product manager
\nKey Results:
\nResults:\nI still don't know what a product manager means; it seems very vague and consists of a large gamut of work ranging from customer support to product requirements to development to quality control. Despite not knowing this, I managed to bring the Nymi Companion Device Application to market; I was the initial designer/programmer/tester that built the application in preparation for one of Microsoft's international conferences. I was able to see the product being demoed on stage by a Microsoft speaker.
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