I set goals at the beginning of the year, and I’m tracking my progress in these updates during 2021.

As I look at goal progress for 2021, I’m going to follow a similar pattern as last year. I’ll give myself a current grade and report on overall progress in of the areas where I set goals.

Current Grade: C

I think I’m making some progress, but perhaps not as much as I’d like. I started this post last week, but with Redgate buying the PASS assets, this week has been almost a loss for anything work or career related.

Reading

The goal was 4 books (3 non-fiction, 1 tech). Here’s the current progress:

• Career – Project to Product – 11%
• Career – TBD
• Career – TBD
• Technical – TBD

Technical Skills

I’m solving the Advent of Code three times.  I’m also studying for certification.

• Certification –  AZ-900 – 0%
• Certification – DP-200 – 0%
• Skills – T-SQL – 2020 Advent of Code – 4/25
• Skills – Python – 2020 Advent of Code – 1/25
• Skills – PowerShell – 2020 Advent of Code – 0/25
• Skills – TBD

Projects

I had a few projects for myself. Most of January was supporting SQL Memorial as well as doing some SQL Saturday/Data Saturday stuff. So far things appear to be working fine.

• Support events: submitted and approved some PRs.
• Speak at the 3 local user groups, at least one live presentation
• Help organize a Denver/Colorado event, live or virtual
• Complete my Power BI Volleyball report – I know lots of kids will use this, so I need to get it done – 20%
• SQL Memorial – 80% – This is mostly done, but working on some networking changes. I also need to move the repo out of my personal account, but this also entails pipeline changes, possibly security issues with hosting, etc.