Draft a self-review from your own notes

Draft my self-review from my own notes.

**Premise: the reader already knows the team's output. What they do not know is which part was mine.**

1. **Sort what I gave you into:** ***what I did*** / what the team did / what happened around me. **Only the first group is the review**
2. **Per item, write it as: what changed because I did it.** ***Not the activity, the outcome.*** **"Ran the migration" is activity. "Cut the nightly job from 4 hours to 40 minutes" is outcome**
3. **Where I have no outcome, say so** — ***write `[outcome not measured]` rather than reaching for a vague one***
4. **Order by what matters to the reader**, not chronologically
5. ***Include what did not work*** — **one item, with what I changed afterwards.** **A review with no misses reads as either unaware or defensive**

**Then, separately for me:**
- **What is thin** — where I have activity but no result, and **what I could still go and find**
- ***What I am underselling*** — something in my notes that reads bigger than I wrote it
- **What my manager will ask about**, and what I should have ready

⚠️ ***Use only what I gave you. Do not invent a project, a number, a result, or a contribution.*** **This document is read by someone who was there.** Where the material is thin, **say what is missing and ask.**