There is a technique called 'feedback analysis' that can be applied to
yourself to learn more about your personal strengths.

For example, whenever you decide to take an action, you write down the
expected results, then 9 months later (or so) look at the results and
compare your expectation to that. From this you can learn your
strengths and weaknesses.

I picked up this concept and description from "Managing Oneself", an
artile from the March-April 1999 Harvard Business Review. I have now
typed into this question, the entire understanding I have of this
concept.

In one of the examples provided in the article, the results suggested
at the end that person X deals well with engineers. The question/test
was not revealed.

I can not understand how this method works nor how I could apply it to myself.

I don't work in an environment where I can go work with engineers for
9 months to find out that I work well with them. I work in an
environment that the pace changes quickly and needs results fast.
Therefore, 9 months was probably a bad example for me, I would have
lost interest in the test by then. Tests that run quicker, however,
seem to be less correct because they have less data.

For a little background, I work 2 jobs (80 hours per week), one as a
senior programmer and consultant, the other as a technical manager.
Out of work, I am kayaking, biking, or doing some sort of home
improvement. So, I am busy and trying to figure out how to fine tune
things to create more time and work on my strengths.

So, here are the questions:

1) How could this apply to me (simple examples)?
2) What are the types of questions / tests you would ask?
3) What would type of situation would prompt a test?
4) What kind of results would this provide?

Many thanks, this is my first 'question' to google Answers, hopefully
it is not too far from the format.