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Personal Performance Indicators (PPI): Tool support on it’s way

In the past I talked about Personal Performance Indicators. The last months I’ve had a few hours to build basic tool support for Personal Performance Indicators. It’s all pretty basic. The UI looks like the following.

first-preview-ppi 

The whole tool is based on plugin-support. The two personal goals are configured using a ‘periodic’ plugin which will be part of the first release.

I can think of other plugins, build by others, or by me. Think about an excel-sheet you use for keeping track of your productivity in hours a week. You already use this excel-sheet, but it could be nice to have an indicator showing if your productivity is on track, isn’t it?

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Personal Performance Indicator Tool Wannabe’s

A little more than a month ago I posted about Personal Performance Indicators (PPI). You can compare a PPI to a KPI but a PPI is for a person himself. I was thinking about building a small simple PPI system, but due to lack of time I haven’t started yet. But of course the world hasn’t been standing still.

Some time ago an article about Jerry Seinfeld’s productivity secret appeared on Life Hacker. For the complete explanation about his secret you should read that article. For now I’ll only tell you it’s about: setting a goal and keeping yourself to this goal. There are already some tools supporting the secret from Jerry Seinfeld. I’m not using any of this tools yet, but I might get inspired by those tools for the PPI system.

Don’t Break The Chain!

dontbreakthechain

Smarter Fitter Seinfeldian Chain

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Joe’s Goals

joesgoals

Personal Performance Indicators (PPI’s)

In a lot of business environments it’s all about KPI’s. Key Performance Indicators are metrics used to quantify objective to reflect the strategic performance of an organization. I can say a lot about KPI’s, but you can read it for yourself on Wikipedia. The only thing about KPI’s I want to say is: They need to be SMART (more about SMART).

  • Specific
  • Measurable
  • Achievable
  • Realistic
  • Timely

This is all about the business, but what about your own goals? Those goals should also be SMART of course. I would call those Personal Performance Indicators, PPI’s.

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