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Any example of a smart KPI ?

groffee 5y ago
"Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, and Timely" Basically just one of those meaningless buzz words that gets thrown around. https://corporatefinanceinstitute.com/resources/knowledge/other/smart-goal/ https://corporatefinanceinstitute.com/resources/knowledge/ot...
- lobocinza 5y ago
  It sure sounds smart, just isn't. Another example of a mechanistic approach in a field were humans are the major factor. Goals at best are arbitrary targets reached via consensus.
  - sinenomine 5y ago
    In my honest opinion one of the largest meta-problems ever amounts to decent mechanistic routes of helping each other being not taken in favor of more feel-good decent sounding verbal coping. Virtue signaling should be banned.
disembiggen 5y ago
it's an acronym, Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-Bound. So if you're struggling to read books say, "Finish this book by the end of the month" is: Specific: read the book Measurable: no ambiguity as to whether you've read it Achievable: a month is a reasonable amount of time to finish a book in Relevant: read a book to improve your reading habits Time-bound: it's not a project that'll hang over you for ages, you're done at the end of the month
sinenomine 5y ago
Some examples of directly measurable KPIs: 1. Mood diary 2. Time spent on social media, negative 3. Hours of sleep 4. Steps walked, number of repetitions in exercise, calories burnt 5. Psychometric tests (help measure mental clarity) https://openpsychometrics.org/ https://openpsychometrics.org/ 6. N-back: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02208/full https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.0220... 7. Active vocabulary test to measure available crystallized intelligence 8. Biomarkers, for example the simple Levine PhenoAge clock: https://michaellustgarten.com/2019/09/09/quantifying-biological-age/ https://michaellustgarten.com/2019/09/09/quantifying-biologi... You don't gave to measure every one of these, of course. In my experience they are more or less correlated: good lifestyle interventions improve many measures at once. SMART goals regarding these KPIs are pretty obvious.
- adriand 5y ago
  I have a strong dislike of the modern focus on personal measurement and metrics. It implies a sort of mechanistic existence. It’s also often connected to a focus on productivity optimization, which given that the OP may be suffering from burnout, seems like it might be the wrong direction. My advice to OP: whether it’s burnout or not (and it does sound like it), you aren’t liking what you’re doing right now, so if you can, stop doing it for a while. Summer is coming. Can you take a sabbatical? If not, can you quit? If you are able to regain your energy and enthusiasm you will surely be extremely employable, so your overall risk seems low. Use the time to nourish your body and your spirit. Get off the internet and into the outdoors. Don’t measure your steps or your sleep duration, instead, reflect on how you feel. Lay back in the grass and watch the stars and ponder your place in this vast universe. I wish you good luck and if you are able to start this journey, I’m excited for you.
  - sinenomine 5y ago
    I too would like if my life were nice by default, but it is not. When faced with a hard problem we have to resort to hard measurements of progress, because otherwise we tend to go in circles in high-dimensional parameter space. Otherwise taking a sabbatical is a nice decent feel-good advice. > If you are able to regain your energy and enthusiasm you will surely be extremely employable, so your overall risk seems low. And that's a big if.
  - taylorius 5y ago
    If I could upvote your comment twice, I would. Measurement has become the be all and end all, and it's useful of course. But it's easy to make the mistake that you've captured the whole of something on your graph, or spreadsheet, and usually that is far from the case. The spirit of a thing is not easily captured.
    - ipaddr 5y ago
      I'll give him one on your behalf.
  - junon 5y ago
jordanbeiber 5y ago
Take one full day every other week where you play around, learn and explore. If you have not been able to do this at least 5 times last quarter - why not? What can we do to allow for that to happen. This is an example of an actual goal I have for members of my team - it is Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic/Relevant and Time-bound. It's also tangential to the OP's topic here in a couple of ways. Good things happen when you allow for slack, but we often put too much pressure on ourselves, and won't allow it. I'm looking at it as a bit of "lucky lotto": https://danlebrero.com/2021/06/30/cto-dairy-lucky-lotto-chaos-engineering-for-teams/ https://danlebrero.com/2021/06/30/cto-dairy-lucky-lotto-chao...

"Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, and Timely" Basically just one of those meaningless buzz words that gets thrown around. https://corporatefinanceinstitute.com/resources/knowledge/other/smart-goal/ https://corporatefinanceinstitute.com/resources/knowledge/ot...

lobocinza 5y ago
It sure sounds smart, just isn't. Another example of a mechanistic approach in a field were humans are the major factor. Goals at best are arbitrary targets reached via consensus.
- sinenomine 5y ago
  In my honest opinion one of the largest meta-problems ever amounts to decent mechanistic routes of helping each other being not taken in favor of more feel-good decent sounding verbal coping. Virtue signaling should be banned.

disembiggen 5y ago

it's an acronym, Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-Bound. So if you're struggling to read books say, "Finish this book by the end of the month" is: Specific: read the book Measurable: no ambiguity as to whether you've read it Achievable: a month is a reasonable amount of time to finish a book in Relevant: read a book to improve your reading habits Time-bound: it's not a project that'll hang over you for ages, you're done at the end of the month

sinenomine 5y ago

Some examples of directly measurable KPIs: 1. Mood diary 2. Time spent on social media, negative 3. Hours of sleep 4. Steps walked, number of repetitions in exercise, calories burnt 5. Psychometric tests (help measure mental clarity) https://openpsychometrics.org/ https://openpsychometrics.org/ 6. N-back: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02208/full https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.0220... 7. Active vocabulary test to measure available crystallized intelligence 8. Biomarkers, for example the simple Levine PhenoAge clock: https://michaellustgarten.com/2019/09/09/quantifying-biological-age/ https://michaellustgarten.com/2019/09/09/quantifying-biologi... You don't gave to measure every one of these, of course. In my experience they are more or less correlated: good lifestyle interventions improve many measures at once. SMART goals regarding these KPIs are pretty obvious.

adriand 5y ago
I have a strong dislike of the modern focus on personal measurement and metrics. It implies a sort of mechanistic existence. It’s also often connected to a focus on productivity optimization, which given that the OP may be suffering from burnout, seems like it might be the wrong direction. My advice to OP: whether it’s burnout or not (and it does sound like it), you aren’t liking what you’re doing right now, so if you can, stop doing it for a while. Summer is coming. Can you take a sabbatical? If not, can you quit? If you are able to regain your energy and enthusiasm you will surely be extremely employable, so your overall risk seems low. Use the time to nourish your body and your spirit. Get off the internet and into the outdoors. Don’t measure your steps or your sleep duration, instead, reflect on how you feel. Lay back in the grass and watch the stars and ponder your place in this vast universe. I wish you good luck and if you are able to start this journey, I’m excited for you.
- sinenomine 5y ago
  I too would like if my life were nice by default, but it is not. When faced with a hard problem we have to resort to hard measurements of progress, because otherwise we tend to go in circles in high-dimensional parameter space. Otherwise taking a sabbatical is a nice decent feel-good advice. > If you are able to regain your energy and enthusiasm you will surely be extremely employable, so your overall risk seems low. And that's a big if.
- taylorius 5y ago
  If I could upvote your comment twice, I would. Measurement has become the be all and end all, and it's useful of course. But it's easy to make the mistake that you've captured the whole of something on your graph, or spreadsheet, and usually that is far from the case. The spirit of a thing is not easily captured.
  - ipaddr 5y ago
    I'll give him one on your behalf.
- junon 5y ago

jordanbeiber 5y ago

Take one full day every other week where you play around, learn and explore. If you have not been able to do this at least 5 times last quarter - why not? What can we do to allow for that to happen. This is an example of an actual goal I have for members of my team - it is Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic/Relevant and Time-bound. It's also tangential to the OP's topic here in a couple of ways. Good things happen when you allow for slack, but we often put too much pressure on ourselves, and won't allow it. I'm looking at it as a bit of "lucky lotto": https://danlebrero.com/2021/06/30/cto-dairy-lucky-lotto-chaos-engineering-for-teams/ https://danlebrero.com/2021/06/30/cto-dairy-lucky-lotto-chao...