SMART Targets

What are SMART Targets?

SMART objectives enable companies or in our case, us as Computing students to develop and meet goals enabling us to be successful in what we are pursuing. The definition of the mnemonic SMART is:

·      Specific – Target must be clear, significant to the subject and well defined.

·      Measurable – Target must be obtainable and you should have an idea of how long it will take to achieve the target.

·      Attainable – Target must be achievable in terms of skill, resources and goals.

·      Realistic- Target should be realistic in terms of resource, knowledge, deadline availability.

·      Time Bound – Sufficient time to achieve the target set.

SMART Targets references

Below are the links provided for me, and to read up and extend my knowledge on SMART Targets.

http://www.ehow.com/how_4545193_develop-personal-action-plan.html

http://moodle.newcollege.ac.uk/mod/resource/view.php?inpopup=true&id=37056

Here are the links, I found helpful, while researching SMART Targets.

http://www.charliemoos.co.uk/blog/read_11703/smart-targetsgoals.html

http://www.projectsmart.co.uk/smart-goals.html

http://changingminds.org/disciplines/hr/performance_management/smart_objectives.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMART_criteria

Being SMART

Hear are my three SMART Targets for the first year of my COMPUTING FdSc.

1.     Achieve a merit or above for the first year of the course.

2.     Consistently update my Blogs throughout the course year.

3.     Hand in Assignments and Task Exercises on deadline.