remote-manager-playbook

Goals

“Bad goals are indistinguishable from numbers.” - Will Larson

Good goals are made up of 4 specific kinds of numbers:

1. A target - where you want to go
2. A baseline - where you are now
3. A trend - your current velocity
4. A time frame - the bounds for the change

The tests for a good goal are:

1. Someone that doesn’t know the details of the project can tell its difficulty.
2. Someone that doesn’t know the details of the project can determine if it was successful.

Investments and baselines

An investment describes where you want to be in the future, a baseline describes what you have now that you want to keep.

It is often a great idea to pair investments with baselines in your goals to help narrow the scope you use to find a solution. Baselines can also be useful in identifying when you should pause on an going after a goal and instead invest in platform quality.