This post is the second in a series of four, where I reflect on how I have worked with my professional development during the last 15 years:
how to create a short and long term strategy
In a modern world with job, family, and for some people even fitness training, it is difficult to find time for professional development. I have had one single month without kids in my career, so I have always had to plan to have time for professional development. And since I graduated in pure math, and took a job as a programmer, I had quite a curriculum to learn compared to my colleagues with a computer science degree.
During the last 10 years, I have kept lists of things, I wanted to do, things I wanted to learn, books/blogs/papers I wanted to read. Whenever I was inspired by something, I wrote it down.
I also made plans divided into semesters, where my plans reached 2-3 years out. In a plan I identified a number of perspectives in my learning. Examples are
Certifications
Books to read
Courses
Technologies
Networking
Company level
Team level
Personal level
You should of course identify perspectives, which fits into your career vision.
Next, for each semester, I picked from the list of things I wanted, put them in perspectives.
In an agile manner, I always were explicit in the upcoming semester, and more vague in future semesters.
This is my strategy process and the semester-perspective matrix with goals is my learning strategy. I do this exercise at least twice a year to help me prioritize learning goals.
Read more about how to achieve the goals in the strategy in the next post coming up soon.
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