OKRs

OKRs aren’t a magic fix—they can even be a burden. This post highlights three cases where OKRs create more hassle than value.

Objectives and Key Results: Focusing on customer outcomes to drive product roadmaps, alignment and agilityObjectives and Key Results. Ask around and you’ll h...

How do we measure performance? How do we know we are doing the right things? How do we set aligned goals?

Here is a set of questions to ask yourself to check to see how good your OKRs are. Overall ☑ Who is the customer? Is it clear who the value is being delivered to? ☑ Do we understand what behaviour change we are expecting? Why is the customer desiring this change? ☑ Was the OKR written as a collabora

I gave a talk on OKRs (Objectives and Key Results, a goal-setting framework) after years of using them and looking into how to make them work better for me. I’ve written before about how useful I find writing this kind of talk: The act of just getting a talk planned helps summarise and bring together […]

OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) are supposed to make everything faster, clearer, and more focused. And when you’re in a small company or early-stage start-up, they often do. When you’re that smal…

Anti-goals (aka NOKRs) explicitly state what you aren't trying to do. They help set expectations and clarify your strategy. A good exercise for setting anti-goals is to ask, "What might someone reasonably assume might happen because of our work that will likely NOT happen?"

Advanced reflections on using OKRs and insights for getting it right

How good are your OKRs? Here is a set of questions to ask yourself to check to see how good your OKRs are.Overall:☑️ Who is the customer? Is it clear who the value is being delivered to?☑️ Do we understand what behaviour change we are expecting? Why is the customer desiring this change?☑️ Was the OKR written as a collaborative cross-functional team?☑️ Is the OKR time bound? Does it have an owner?☑️ Is the OKR connected to strategy?☑️ Does the OKR have a parent/child? (e.g. 1-year OKR connected t

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If all of this is true, why do companies have so many challenges with OKRs? Why do they treat them as yet another zombie process that no one particularly believes in or thinks about, yet continue "checking the box" quarter after quarter?

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You don’t need endless weeks of planning or fancy tracking tools. You need good habits coupled with the building blocks that lead to excellent performance.

In the context of unique change, the journey from current condition to next target condition (articulated as a quarterly OKR hypothesis), is not knowable. It… | 10 comments on LinkedIn

With no complicated model, tooling, or jargon needed the Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) method is popular among organizations for its simplicity and accessibility, but this can be deceptive. Here’s everything you need to consider before adopting OKRs:

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I've been aware of OKRs for some time and a recent post by Dan North on applying them prompted me to re-visit them from the perspective of Strategy Deployment.

Learn how “Objectives and Key Results” (OKRs) are being used in conjunction with Beyond Budgeting tools in Agile organizations.

At this BVSSH meetup, we were lucky to have Jon Smart presenting a talk he had recently given at DevOps Enterprise Summit. After the talk, there are 30 minutes of Q&A on the topic of OKRs and how to implement them. The presentation covers: What are OKRs? The 3Ms of OKRs: Mindset, Mission and Measurement OK and NOTOK OKRs : patterns and antipatterns OKR alignment needed when you are a large complex organization with many people and many products in many business units How to get (re)started I will be sharing lessons learnt the hard way. A lot of this is common sense, but not common practice. It's easy to say, and hard to do. Because it's mostly about culture, mindset, behaviour.

Do you know how your organization can benefit from OKRA? No, not the vegetable!In this webinar, Dimitar Karaivanov, Kanbanize Co-founder and CEO, will take y...

About the Session:In this talk, Jon will share misadventures with OKRs, lessons learned the hard way, covering the 3Ms of OKRs, OK and NOTOK OKRs, OKR alignm...

Corporate agile often represents an improvement over what went before but falls short on delivering the high performance management wants and quality engineering environment developers dream of. The backlog becomes tyranny. Could OKRs - objectives and key results - reawaken the radical side of agile? Or do OKRs represent a return to command and control?

I am indebted to Yoan Thirion for created this infographic to illustrate Succeeding with OKRs in Agile. He’s done a brilliant job on both the graphics and the summary – undoubtedly better graphics than I could have done and probably a better summary than I would too, sometimes one can be too close to a … OKRs in Agile infographic Read More »

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OKRs—Objectives and Key Results—can propel you and your team to achieve the audacious, like Google. Learn how with OKR success stories, FAQs, and resources by John Doerr's team.