Smart Goals
Goals: What you've been asked to do and what you are trying to achieve.
Project goal: The desired outcome of the project.
The project manager should define all goals and set success criteria for each of them.
SMAR GOALS
Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, and Time-Bound (SMART) goals are very helpful for ensuring project success.
All the project managers should be familiar with SMART goals and set them into the projects.
SMART goals can be a great mindset for organizations and help the project managers and team members to reach goals.
SMART goals can help you clearly define project success in concrete terms.
Let's talk about each of them:
Specific:The objective has no ambiguity for the project team to project misinterpret.
Measurable:Metrics help the project team determine when the objective is met.
Attainable:The project team agrees the objective is realistic.
Relevant:The goal fit's the organization's strategic plan and supports the project charter.
Time-Bound: The project team documents a date to achieve the goal.
(You may see variations on what each letter in the SMART acronym stands for. for example, you may see "actionable" or " achievable" instead of "attainable" or "realistic" instead of "relevant". but these are similar).
Focusing on the M in the SMART
The M in smart, which is stands for measurable . having measurable goals allows you to assess the success of your project based on quantifiable or tangible metrics, such as dollar amounts, number of outputs, quantifies, etc.
Seriously not every metric will have value, so you will have to determine which metrics make make sense for the project.
For example, measuring how many meetings the software engineers on your project attend on a weekly basis may not be the most valuable metric for a productivity goal. Alternatively, you might measure other aspects of the engineers productivity, such as particular number of features created per engineer or a specific number of issue flgged per day.
You can Measure your goals by:
Metric: What you use to measure something
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Benchmarks: Points of refrences
Always try to use SMART goals to make your projects seccessful. Then try to set success criteria for each goal and define some ways to achieve your goals.