## Self assessment
### Manager performance review 


### Self-entered EOY review
**🎵 Performance Wrapped: Saurabh’s FY26 Highlight Reel**

**🏆 Top Hit of the Year**

- Biggest Achievement: Drive forward TPX vision and extend product strategy muscle by owning multiple high-stakes workstreams E2E such as [Unified Basket](https://confluence.dell.com/display/DCP/Unified+Basket+-+TPX), [MTQ Transition State](https://dell-my.sharepoint.com/personal/saurabh_pitkar_dell_com/Documents/TPX/Unified%20Basket/MTQ%20Transition%20State%20Management.pptx?web=1) (includes Assisted Quote Conversion), [Marketplace Hub](https://dell-my.sharepoint.com/:p:/r/personal/saurabh_pitkar_dell_com/Documents/TPX/FY27/Marketplace%20Integration%20Types.pptx?d=wef0a292849d342dfbeb36a3fc054598c&csf=1&web=1&e=xSZT34), [Insights platform](https://dell-my.sharepoint.com/:p:/r/personal/saurabh_pitkar_dell_com/Documents/TPX/FY27/Business%20Insights%20as%20nudges%20-%20FY27.pptx?d=wdffc76c488154c9695f0e2c0723872a5&csf=1&web=1&e=DKl1sb) MVP, and [Agentic Checkout](https://dell-my.sharepoint.com/:p:/r/personal/mike_loranger_dell_com/Documents/Documents/TPX/FY26/Agentic%20Commerce/Agentic%20Checkout%20-%20Nov%202025.pptx?d=wc31f82a00ed146bfadd285c1aca011d2&csf=1&web=1&e=tendkR). And focused discovery and execution with iterative approach to deliver incremental progress. This was done while meeting aggressive timelines for Modern Dell initiative.
- Impact Metrics:
	- Onboarded ISG solution configurator and saved items to UB to streamline E2E journey across all sales motions aimed at bringing 85%+ self-serve.
	- Minimized CSAT impact via experience alignment across 6 CXLP design and product teams and business
	- Long term productivity gains and cost-savings (4 product teams to be repurposed, + DSC team will be leaner) with simplified UB architecture design. (conservative estimate saving ~$1.8M per year in HC costs which is 50% of resource cost for 4 teams, assuming $900K annual spend per product team, plus saving cost on app infra).
	- UB is expected to bring ~50% latency improvement for checkout workflows from cart and quote by removing gateways.

**Other notable hits**:
- Vision and strategy on [Transact Agentic AI](https://dell-my.sharepoint.com/personal/saurabh_pitkar_dell_com/Documents/TPX/FY27/Transact%20Agents%20-%20FY27.pptx?web=1), and [Business Insights](https://dell-my.sharepoint.com/personal/saurabh_pitkar_dell_com/Documents/TPX/FY27/Business%20Insights%20as%20nudges%20-%20FY27.pptx?web=1) platform.
- Innovation with [Marketplace Hub - Configurable Worker](https://dell-my.sharepoint.com/:p:/r/personal/saurabh_pitkar_dell_com/Documents/TPX/FY27/Marketplace%20Integration%20Types.pptx?d=wef0a292849d342dfbeb36a3fc054598c&csf=1&web=1&e=8Wsd3N) approach to speed up onboarding by 4X.

**📈 Skills Leveled Up**
- Learned about gen AI use cases, agentic AI approaches, UX design elements  
- Learned to extract API logs via complex Splunk queries
- Learned to use API testing tools like Postman and Apidog
- Learned about supervised ML, reinforcement learning that’ll be relevant for insights platform

**🔮 Next Year's Playlist**
What you're excited to "drop" next year
- Shape vision for ‘Proposal’ construct to streamline selling journey
- Go-live with UB in production globally
- Deliver Agentic Commerce Integration with PayPal
- Build Transact AI Agents
- Go-live on MVP of insights platform

Professional Development Goals:
- Lead DnF and execution for all key AI-workstreams
- Potential Career Tracks:
- Promotion to Sr Consultant (i10)
- Skill Investments:
- Executive presence
- User research on E2E journeys

**References:**
Transition State: [MTQ Transition State Management.pptx](https://dell-my.sharepoint.com/:p:/r/personal/saurabh_pitkar_dell_com/Documents/TPX/Unified%20Basket/MTQ%20Transition%20State%20Management.pptx?d=wa1112f3e5b304102a57d01e5d2570bf5&csf=1&web=1&e=dQVprx), video on design changes: [Global Architecture Migration - Transitional UX Preview.mp4](https://dell.sharepoint.com/sites/Transact/_layouts/15/stream.aspx?id=%2Fsites%2FTransact%2FVideos%2FGlobal+Architecture+Migration+-+Transitional+UX+Preview.mp4&referrer=StreamWebApp.Web&referrerScenario=AddressBarCopied.view.76191612-4e78-44b7-ad1a-c388c2003d10)
Unified Basket: [Unified Basket.pptx](https://dell-my.sharepoint.com/:p:/r/personal/saurabh_pitkar_dell_com/Documents/CP/Roadmap/Product%20Vision/Unified%20Basket/Unified%20Basket%20-%20Jul%202024.pptx?d=waf9048fd748e4becb4d9f87210ca3122&csf=1&web=1&e=5IRHh4)
MHUB: [Configurable worker](https://dell-my.sharepoint.com/:p:/r/personal/saurabh_pitkar_dell_com/Documents/TPX/FY27/Marketplace%20Integration%20Types.pptx?d=wef0a292849d342dfbeb36a3fc054598c&csf=1&web=1&e=w3tUVV)
Agentic Checkout: [Roadmap](https://dell-my.sharepoint.com/:p:/r/personal/mike_loranger_dell_com/Documents/Documents/TPX/FY26/Agentic%20Commerce/Agentic%20Checkout%20-%20Nov%202025.pptx?d=wc31f82a00ed146bfadd285c1aca011d2&csf=1&web=1&e=APWtCk)
Business Insights Platform idea: [Business Insights as nudges - FY27.pptx](https://dell-my.sharepoint.com/:p:/r/personal/saurabh_pitkar_dell_com/Documents/TPX/FY27/Business%20Insights%20as%20nudges%20-%20FY27.pptx?d=wdffc76c488154c9695f0e2c0723872a5&csf=1&web=1&e=DZFE74)

## Feedback to others
### Ted
Strength: Deep domain expertise around how sales experiences influences transact workflows. Ted has brought a lot of expertise to help us expedite on solving seller problems.

Improvement area: Ted could improve on innovation by pressure-testing ideas that bring further simplification of sales experience via UX changes or automations to help seller productivity outcome. I have seen that he would want to build capability at scale, but sometimes he holds back on taking the most innovative route and rather picks what existing experience DSA has, it may solve the immediate problem at hand, but may not further seller productivity.
### Ranjit
Strength: Very good in operations

Improvement: Ranjit should improve understanding of UB domain further. I have seen that he would many times struggle with UB services capabilities, structure and interactions. Once he has this grasp better, he will be able to drive the team on program level updates very well.

### Mohan
Strength: Innovation at scale and simplicity - Mohan brought a ton of innovation in UB and have gone extra mile having several tough conversations with team-members and UX clients to make sure it gets executed. I would encourage him to continue doing this to push the bar across all of TPX architecture.

Improvement area: Storytelling is something Mohan can improve that will really help bring his ideas to life sooner and with broader alignment. He brings so much innovation and I have seen his passion. He will shine brighter with better storytelling skills no matter what problem he's solving.

### Jayanth
Strength: Jayanth's domain expertise by far is his strongest pillar. He understands Dell-wide enterprise systems well and brings several insights patiently when talking about any new problems to solve.

Improvement: I would want Jayanth to bring up more innovation in state-of-the-art technical implementation and push the bar for others. I have seen he tends to hold back sometimes, thinking the approach may not scale or may be difficult. Couple of focus areas in my opinion: how transact can leverage ML and vector databases to solve business problems at scale.

### Hemnath:
Strength: Spotless delivery of technical capabilities with UB marketplace

Improvement: I haven't seen any improvement area so far.