Goal Setting Focus Areas

Objective is to identify key focus areas so that RMs can use this as reference for goal setting. Please note that thi

Level Title
B2_B5 LevelPractice Manager/ Practice Head
B5_Level Delivery Head
B4_Level Director, Account Management
B4_Level Director, Delivery Management
B4_Level Director, Head of People, India
B4_Level Director, Operations
B4_Level Director, Project Management
B4_Level Director, Software Engineering
B4_Level Director, Software Testing
B4_Level Director, Talent Acquisition
B4_Level Director, Technology Consulting
B4_Level Director, Technology Solutions
B3_Level Principal Business Consultant
B3_Level Senior Account Manager
B3_Level Senior Agile Coach
B3_Level Senior Delivery Manager
B3_Level Senior Functional Consulting Manager
B3_Level Senior IT Manager
B3_Level Senior Manager, People Partner
B3_Level Senior Manager, People Programs
B3_Level Senior Project Manager
B3_Level Senior Resource Development Manager
B3_Level Senior Scrum Master
B3_Level Senior Solution Architect
B3_Level Senior Staffing Manager
B2_Level Accounting Manager
B2_Level Administrative Manager
B2_Level Delivery Manager
B2_Level Functional Consulting Manager
B2_Level IT Manager
B2_Level Manager, Compliance Assurance
B2_Level Manager, OTC Business Partnering
B2_Level Manager, People Experience
B2_Level Performance Optimization Manager
B2_Level Project Manager
B2_Level Service Delivery Manager
B2_Level Software Engineering Manager
B2_Level Solution Architect
B2_Level Systems Architect
B1_Level Solution Architect
B1_Level Associate Manager, Travel Services
B1_Level Software Engineering Team Leader
B1_Level Software Testing Team Leader
B1_Level Project Manager
B1_Level Systems Architect
B1_Level Delivery Manager
B1_Level Associate Manager, Learning & Development
A track Chief Software Engineer
can use this as reference for goal setting. Please note that this doesn't limit RMs to set other set of goals based on actual role played b

Focus Areas Goals Category

Utilization, NetAdds, Margins Organization
Green Delivery, ENGX, Margins, Nedadds (Demand creation) Personal
Neadds, new demand creation and Margins Performance
Green Delivery, ENGX, Margins, Nedadds (Demand creation) Others
ATTR and AE
Utilization and Netadds
Green Delivery, ENGX, Margins, Nedadds (Demand creation)
EngX, Tech Focus, Green Delivery, LnD
EngX, Tech Focus, LnD, PDP
Nedadds
Tech Focus
Tech Focus

Neadds, new demand creation and Margins

L&D, Green Delivery
Green Delivery, ENGX, Margins, Nedadds (Demand creation)

AE, Green Delivery

ATTR and AE
ATTR and AE
Green Delivery, ENGX, Margins, Nedadds (Demand creation)
Netadds and Associate Experience/ Attrition
L&D, Green Delivery
Tech Focus, ENGX
Utilization and Netadds
AE
AE
Green Delivery, ENGX

AE, Green Delivery

AE, L&D

ATTR and AE
Green Delivery
Green Delivery, ENGX
Green Delivery, ENGX
Utilization, NetAdds, EngX, PDP
Tech Focus, ENGX
Tech Focus
Tech Focus, ENGX
AE
Green Delivery, ENGX, LnD
Green Delivery, ENGX, LnD
Green Delivery, ENGX
Tech Focus, ENGX
Green Delivery, ENGX
LnD
Green Delivery, ENGX, LnD
als based on actual role played by an individual

B Levels A Levels
B5_Level A1_A2_Level
B4_Level A3_Level
B3_Level A4_A5_Level
B2_Level
B1_Level
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Goal Reference Sub-Category

NETADDS
Smart RD hiring
Addition of New Accounts
Growth within Accounts
CSAT
Productivity
Quality of Delivery
Implement ENGX Practices
Sustaining an existing account
Employee rotation> 18 months within same project
Backup creation in the project
Contribution to Presales
Interviewer/ Certified Interviewer
Others
UTIL
Onboarding time reduction
Forcast utilization with minimum deviation
Skill Ramp up/Incubation Lab
Avoid Surge of Vacation end of the year
Initiate PIP for Non Performers in time
Future scalability/ future ready candidates
Others
ATTR and AE
Building EPAM culture in portfolio
New hire engagement
People Leadership Effectiveness score/ feedback
Focus Group Learning/ Unified Assessment
Improve Support function survey score
Creating a culture of candor and transparent feedback within team
Recognize and reward associates for accelerated performance
Actionizing on People Leadership Effectiveness survey inputs
Improved project/ account onboarding, KT plans, New joinee assimilation thro
Arrange team building events
 Improve Net Promoter Score
Skill vs role match
Skip meeting
Manage Aspirations
Hipo and High Risk Talent management
Increased connects through townhall/ skip meetings/ focused group meetings
Account/ portfolio news letter/ updates
Townhalls and Leadership/HR connects
Tech Talks/Meetups
Mentor
Others
Margin
Increase project margins (30%)
Rotations within and outside of account
Wage cost/ wage inflation
Inclusion of RDs in accounts/ projects
Seniority Index Optimization
Succession planning
Reduce SGNA costs
Onboarding time reduction
Manage bench within targets
Others
Green_Delivery
Project Initiation Process
No client escalations
Maintain CSAT > 9
Agile practices implement
Accelerated project onboarding
Identify and mitigate project risks avoiding surprises
Implementation of Delivery KPIs and track metrics
Turn project to Green
Maintain >90% green projects
Others
EngX
EngX360 Certification Assessment
Identify and apply ENGX practices in projects
Improve/level up project maturity level in EngX Survey Lite
Implement Static code analysis
Implement Design Thinking Culture
Conducted Assessments/ Skill Reviews
Implementation of quality guards in projects
EngX Weeks/Events
ENGX community events/ Best practice sharing
Conducted Trainings / Working Sessions/Coding Events
Continuous Improvement
EngX recommendation & Implementation
EngX Maturity Level up
Others
LnD
100% PDP creations for team members within the team
Training needs identification for the portfolio and account
 Organize cross skills/ upskill training
Identification of deserving candidates for Focus group learning/ Unified asses
Create a training plan for project/ account
Create a pool of mentors
Create a pool of certified trainers
Reward learning culture within portfolio/ teams
Identify community Champions
Others
Tech_Focus
Technology radar and quarterwise targets
SA contributions- White paper, blogs, GSAT, AEI, Driving SAS
Technology awareness for managers
Create awareness on Technology Capabilities by Practices
Organize Tech Talks
Incubation Lab
Build tech community to drive tech focused sessions
Identification of niche skills and upskilling plans
Increase technical certified interviewers
Increase Solution Architects, SA DP targets
Others
PDP
Self- Learning and development aligning to org objectives
Set Career target role, complete skill gap review and create a learning plan
Attend organizational/ account/ domain specific trainings
Attend Focus Group Learning and prepare for Unified Asssessment
Continuous Learning/ upskills
Leadership ability
Org
Become mentor
Conduct Tech Talk
Conduct trainings
Become Certified Interviewer
Contribute in ENGX events, EPAM garage etc
Contribute in Culture of togetherness initiatives- Clubs
Publishing white Paper
Become a part of organizational initiatives
Goal Category Goals -2022 - Q1
NETADDS Increase net production headcount by 780 (530+250)
UTIL Utilization at or above 79.7%
ATTR Attrition at or below 20%
Margin Site Margin at or below 30%
AE Improve eNPS >60
EngX Embed DelX into Delivery
LnD Focus on Education/Learning
Tech_Focus Technology Focus
PDP Self Learning
Org Organization Initiative

Category Additional Details and examples

Organization
Organization
Organization
Performance Improve customer satisfaction rating
Performance Increase productivity (velocity); reduce time to deploy; automate etc.
Performance Reduce defects; Reduce rework; Reduce delivered defects
Performance Undergo ENGX assessment, implement ENGX recommendations
Performance Ensure SOW renewals on time without reduced capacity
Organization
Organization
Organization
Organization

Organization
Organization
Organization Achieve a (X) profiency level
Performance
Organization
Organization Everyone at L4 & above should have is to create succession planning and make themselves redunda

Organization
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Organization
Personal
Organization
Performance
Performance
Performance
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Performance
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Organization
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Personal Mentor atleast (n) of associates to setup the learning plan

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Performance
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Organization

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Organization
Organization
Performance
Organization Partcipate / contribute (n) EngX events
Organization
Organization Partcipate / contribute (n) Working Sessions/Coding Events
Performance
Performance
Performance

Performance
Performance
Performance Get cross skilled in atleast 1 technology apart from the primary skill
Performance
Performance
Organization
Organization
Organization
Organization

Organization
Organization Conduct (n) tech talks
Organization
Organization
Organization Get cross skilled in atleast 1 technology apart from the primary skill
Organization Become certified interviewer or get more people certified as interviewers
Organization Become a solution architect

Personal
Personal
Personal
Personal
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Organization
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Organization
Organization
Organization
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ake themselves redundant in the project to create atleast 25% bandwidth to contribute to Practice & Org initiatives
Goals Setting Form
Use this template to identify suitable goals for the employee aligned with Org goals.
Create the SMART goals along with success criteria/ target- Not more than 5-6 goals (S-Specific, M-Measurable, A-A
Project goals
Organizational/ Portfolio level contributions
Learning goals
Select "Others" in goal sub-category if none of the reference items in list are matching with goal library
RMs are empowered to decide the weightages and focus areas based on context. However, we highly recommend y
Going forth, you are recommended to review goals once in a quarter and revise goals once in six months.
For the current goal setting, you may set these goals for first 6 months and you may revisit these goals again after 6
Before finalizing goals, discuss personal aspirations and seek mutual consent.
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Create one “Action item” for each goal to specify details and due date.
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Level Title

B2_Level Project Manager

Goal Category Goals -2022 - Q1

PDP Self Learning

Org Organization Initiative
Green_Delivery
Margin Site Margin at or below 30%
ATTR Attrition at or below 20%

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PDP: Self Learning: Attend organizational/ account/ domain specific trainings: Weightage (0.1/1)
Org: Organization Initiative: Conduct trainings: Weightage (0.2/1)
Green_Delivery: : Maintain >90% green projects: Weightage (0.25/1)
Margin: Site Margin at or below 30% : Seniority Index Optimization: Weightage (0.25/1)
ATTR: Attrition at or below 20% : Actionizing on People Leadership Effectiveness survey inputs: Weightage (0.2/1)
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Program Manager

Goal Reference Sub-Category Personal Goal Description

Attend organizational/ account/ domain specifiComplete ABC certification

Conduct trainings Conduct and train 2 teams in Agile basics
Maintain >90% green projects 100% delivery with zero client escalations
Seniority Index Optimization Keep at least 2 RDs as a part of scrum team
Actionizing on People Leadership EffectivenessImprove your PLE score by 10%

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ecific trainings: Weightage (0.1/1) Complete ABC certification: 1
/1) Conduct and train 2 teams in Agile basics: 2
.25/1) 100% delivery with zero client escalations: 1
ation: Weightage (0.25/1) Keep at least 2 RDs as a part of scrum team: 2
ship Effectiveness survey inputs: Weightage (0.2/1) Improve your PLE score by 10%: 0.1
arning intiatives as a part of this template.

and edit goals in between after discussing with team member

Focus Areas Target Period

Green Delivery, ENGX

Goal Target Number and/or Success

Weightage % Remarks
Criteria
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2 20% Suggested non core activities in building the organization
100% 25%
2 25%
10% 20%

TOTAL WEIGHTAGE 100%

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Goals 2022

Contribute in orgranization initiatives

Learn and improve capabilities
Improve quality and productivity with good team coordiation
Goals not available in defined categories

Goal Reference Sub-Category

Contributions to Garage for 1 project (Pre-Prod or Bench)

Tech oversight and review 1 or 2 project
Mentoring: RD Labs trainings, Unified Assessment, Interviewer, Tech Skills, Soft Skills, Garage team
Contribute in orgranization initiatives (Conduct Events/ Talks/ Trainings/ Community events/ PoCs/ Become UA Expert/ Co
Become certified Interviewer and conduct (Suggested -5 or more interviews per month)
Participate and contribute in succession planning in the project
Write a blog on your implementation area in project
Improve code quality and reduce defects
Improve productivity with effective collaboration and reducing rework
Apply ENGX practices effectively in project improving quality (Code reviews, Static Code Analysis, Unit Test coverage, CI/CD
Implementation of Delivery KPIs and track metrics (Defect density, Test Coverage, Productivity)
Identify and mitigate project risks avoiding surprises
Actively identify technical debt in the current code base and propose them to product owner to include in the backlog
First time right code with lesser issues in SCA, code review, QA and UAT
Improve Customer Satisfaction
Create project knowledge base- Application Flow, Architecture, Sequence, past tickets and Collaboration etc.
Read one book and share your learnings with the community
Attend Leadership Development program such as Leads Development program, Leadership esssentials etc.
Enhance Software engineering skills & developing deep skills (Suggested 40 hours per half year)
Complete EngX Trainings (Engineering Operations Model, Clean Code, Clean Design)
Invest time for softskills development (identify specific skill to improve)
Achieving atleast one certifications in one year
Become SME for one or more modules
Attend SAS (Solution Architecture School)
Contribute towards robust solution design and best practices
Proactively look at improvements (architecture, technology refresh, design, user experience)
along with ROI in your project and present to client for implementation

Goal Reference Sub-Category

Implement at least one EPAM accelerator (Report Portal, Drill4J,Mobile Cloud, Willma..) in the current project.
Reduce the % age of flaky test cases in current project
Reduce the regression test execution time by 15-25%.
Less than 5% defect slippage
Complete Clean Code Design Practitioner, so that there no code review comments coming from Reviewer
Upskill at least one new area of testing (API/DB/DQE/Big Data, Agile Thinking, TAF)
Understand and adapt to the BA Activities and Approach on the project
Understand and adapt to project domain, technology, SDLC Agile process, Requirements Management etc on the project
Target to independently work on the BA role on the project and prepare for Internal Assessment to A2 by 6 months of join
To be able to independently work on requirement Elicitation & gathering.
Work as liaison between IT and Business stakeholders independently for Functional &Technical requirements
Independently work on converting Business Requirements into functional, non-functional and technical by creating requir
Adapt to an existing Requirements Management Process and improve it to introduce 2 significant changes/additions to sm
Adapt to the existing BA approach and activities and improve it to introduce 2 significant changes/additions to smoothen
Understand the Stakeholder Analysis documents and improve it to introduce 2 significant changes/additions to smoothen
Understand and adapt to the SDLC delivery process (Agile), improve it to introduce 2 significant changes/additions.
Acquire technical skills on at least two technical integration concepts (API's, ETL's, MQ's etc)
Acquire expertise in domain knowledge on atleast 1 or 2 domains
Acquire new learnings from innovation and technology areas from Learn/Linked-In/Udemy or any online learning platform
Act as single point of contact between Dev and Biz for all requirements on a project
Ownership of low level technical design documents (E.g. Wireframes, ETL Mappings, Data Model etc)
Plan, prepare and conduct at least 2 sessions in a quarter for BAPDM L&D
Act as a proxy PO/PDM on activities like Backlog Ownership, Prioritization, Decision Making, Solution Walkthrough with Bu
Generate ideas which can potentially become new features on the project.
Conduct at least 2 interviews in a week.
Mentor at least 2 UA candidates in a quarter.
Support the practice in Hiring and Fulfilling of BA positions within same or different projects/accounts
Plan, prepare and conduct L&D and Community events to improve PDM knowledge and expertise in BA associates
Get as much information as one can about the situation at hand and the options available to solve it
Improve productivity with effective collaboration and reducing rework (Zero re-opened incidents)
Improve efficiency in resolution of incidents
Implement Proactive Systems Monitoring
Plan and obtain atleast foundation/practitioner level ITIL certification
Ensure architect reviews are performed on assinged project & publish reports on
monthly basis and support EngX
Develop a POC on Cloud/DevOps containers
Improve efficiency in Velocity of deployments
Automate end-to-end/ develop reusable components
Learn C&D TTSO best practices for DevOps
Develop data visualization analysis to provide value-added analytics to decision-makers
Ownership of low level technical design documents( Cluster config, ETL mappings, Data model etc)
Develop Stream data processing
Clean, aggregate, and organize data from disparate sources and transfer it to data warehouses
Able to work on complex ingestion framework parsing unstructured data
Communicate actionable insights using data, often for a non-technical audience
Research and discover new methods to acquire data, and new applications for existing data
Apply data science techniques, such as machine learning, statistical modeling, and artificial intelligence
Define and enforce policies, auditing, and regulations around data
Deploy sophisticated analytics programs, machine learning and statistical methods
Deep knowledge of data mining, machine learning, natural language processing, or information retrieval.
Develop Data Engineering Pipelines
Proficient in writing code in a variety of languages such as Java, R, Python, and SQL
Become certified Cloud Data Engineer ( Azure / AWS / GCP )
Suggest a process improvement track/measure the improvement using any of the related metric
Complete Agile Testing Training
Attend Functional to Automation(QA to QE) Training Program, Minimum ready to perform Test script writing and executio
Upskill in Data Quality testing
Upskill in Web Services Testing - choose program from Linked in
Upskill in Database Testing - choose program from Linked in
Learn performance testing tool and check feasibility/apply in current project
Security Testing: Learn security testing basics / tools
Mobile Testing
Accessibility Testing
Active Participation and Deliver Tech Talks (Pega or Non Pega)
Get Certified (Pega or Non Pega) Related to Project
Learn and Excel in New Skills (Pega or Other BPM Tools)
Active Participation and Deliver Tech Talks
Get certified in new (BPM or RPA) platforms
Build AI/ML capability that can be leveraged to automate ML use case on BPM/RPA platform
Active participation in IA specific presales activities
Ability to evaluate any specific tool or functionality & building a specific POC for new or existing client
Able to create effective workflow model with complex business rules, consistent UI and with appropriate data
Able to integrate/automate API development by following best practice & standards

Contribute towards open source project

Complete Cloud Certification (AWS/GCP/Azure)
Learn one additional language ( Python/Scala/Go/JavaScript)
Learn one messaging platform ( Kafka/Nifi/Pulsar/Celary)
Learn Data and ML technology domain
Learn Service Mesh and Event Mesh
Complete JEDI Basic
Learn Web Component and Microfrontend architecture
Learn Reactive Programming
Learn Kubernetes
Learn Architectural Styles- MS,Event-Driven,Serverless
Learn EventSourcing - Axon/Eventuate
Learn Decentralized Application Development
Ensure architect / code reviews are performed on assigned project & publish reports on monthly basis and support EngX
Generate ideas which can potentially become a new AppExchange accelerator and get it implemented for EPAM (have tea
Implement at least one EPAM accelerator (AppExchange Managed Package) per year
Preparing, Maintaining and Ownership of High level technical design documents( Architecture, application flow, Case stud
Maintain existing certificates and Get Certified (at least 2 certification Sales / Service / Marketing / CPQ / FSL / Community
Become SME for one or more cloud solutions (Sales / Service / Marketing / Health / Community / Education / CPQ / FSL / L
Package / CICD)
Contributions to Garage for 1 project (mandatory)
Enhance Software engineering skills & become a full stack developer (min 40 hours per half year)
1 Tech Talks & organizing community activities
RD Labs trainings & mentoring for minimum 4 hours per half year
1 Cloud Certifications
Any open-source contribution
Participate in Hackathon/s
Mentoring 2 associates @A1 & A2 level (mandatory)
Become a certified Interviewer & taking Interviews (at least 8 interviews per month)
Conducting trainings for minimum 4 hours per half year
1 Tech Talks per year & driving community activities
Achieving at least 1 Cloud certifications in 1 year
Developing deep skills and hot skills( Full Stack )
Any open-source contributions
Participate in Hackathon/s
Succession planning for your role in the project (mandatory)
Certified Interviewers & Interviews (at least 8 interviews per month)
Tech oversight for 1 projects OR conduct 2 project reviews
Mentoring 2 associates @A2 & A3 level
Conducting Trainings for minimum 4 hours per half year OR delivering 1 Tech Talk per half year
Achieving at least 1 Cloud certifications in 1 year
Developing architectural & hot skills
Any open-source contributions
Pre-sales contributions for 2 or more presales opportunities
Mentoring of 1 or more Garage teams
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Auto Testing
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Business Analysis
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Functional Testing
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IA.BPM
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MSTD
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 Goals Setting Form
Use this template to identify suitable goals for the employee aligned with Org goals.
Create the SMART goals along with success criteria/ target- Not more than 5-6 goals (S-Specific, M-Measurable, A-A
Project goals
Organizational/ Portfolio level contributions
Learning goals
Select "Others" in goal sub-category if none of the reference items in list are matching with goal library
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Going forth, you are recommended to review goals once in a quarter and revise goals once in six months.
For the current goal setting, you may set these goals for first 6 months and you may revisit these goals again after 6
Before finalizing goals, discuss personal aspirations and seek mutual consent.
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Level Title

A3 Senior Software Engineer

Goal type Goal reference

Contribute in orgranization initiatives (Conduct

Events/ Talks/ Trainings/ Community events/
PoCs/ Become UA Expert/ Contribute in Presales/
#REF! Organization Garage projects/ Open Source etc)

#REF! Personal Complete Cloud Certification (AWS/GCP/Azure)

#REF! Performance Improve code quality and reduce defects
Apply ENGX practices effectively in project
improving quality (Code reviews, Static Code
#REF! Performance Analysis, Unit Test coverage, CI/CD etc)
First time right code with lesser issues in SCA,
#REF! Performance code review, QA and UAT

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 Talk Summary
Organization: Contribute in orgranization initiatives (Conduct Events/ Talks/ Trainings/ Community events/ PoCs/
Personal: Complete Cloud Certification (AWS/GCP/Azure): : Weightage (0.15/1)
Performance: Improve code quality and reduce defects: : Weightage (0.25/1)
Performance: Apply ENGX practices effectively in project improving quality (Code reviews, Static Code Analysis, Uni
Performance: First time right code with lesser issues in SCA, code review, QA and UAT: : Weightage (0.25/1)
 e aligned with Org goals.
- Not more than 5-6 goals (S-Specific, M-Measurable, A-Attainable, R-Realistic, T-Time bound)

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a quarter and revise goals once in six months.
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d due date.

Employee Name Practice/Competency

XYZ OSTD

Goal Target Number and/or

Personal Goal Description
Success Criteria

Conduct 1 Tech talk and participate in one g 2

Complete Cloud Certification
(AWS/GCP/Azure) 1
Abc 100%

xyz 100%

abc 100%
TOTAL WEIGHTAGE

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 mary Talk Action Item (Goal Description)
ct Events/ Talks/ Trainings/ Community events/ PoCs/ Conduct 1 Tech talk and participate in one garage project Target: 2
: Weightage (0.15/1) Complete Cloud Certification (AWS/GCP/Azure) Target: 1
Weightage (0.25/1) Abc Target: 1
mproving quality (Code reviews, Static Code Analysis, Unixyz Target: 1
, code review, QA and UAT: : Weightage (0.25/1) abc Target: 1
-Time bound)

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Focus Areas Target Period

Delivery Focus, ENGX, L&D

Weightage % Remarks

10%

15%
25%

25%

25%
100%
 Action Item Due
Description)
Date
participate in one garage project Target: 2
ation (AWS/GCP/Azure) Target: 1