Tag: objectives and key results
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Discipline-specific OKRs
Disciplines that function as services to product teams can have OKRs too. Here are two ways to think about how…
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OKR Leadership: Stop telling people what to do
The biggest change a leader has to make if OKRs are to succeed is to stop telling their teams what…
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OKR Leadership: A safe culture of learning
OKRs require the psychological safety for teams to be wrong and a culture that celebrates the learning they bring from…
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OKR Leadership: Without trust for your teams OKRs fail
Leading teams with OKRs requires several changes to the way you manage. The first and most important is trusting the…
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OKR Anti-pattern: Sandbagging your key results
Teams that sandbag their OKRs set easily achievable goals. Here’s why this stifles innovation and what you can do about…
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Planning work with OKRs
Planning work with OKRs exposes the uncertainty in software-driven business planning. Here’s how to deal with it.
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Performance management criteria for OKRs
If we’re going to set new goals with OKRs, we need to change how we measure the performance of our…
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the relationship between okrs and strategy
Objectives and Key Results can do a lot of things. One thing they can’t do is determine your strategy. Here’s…
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Output, Outcomes, Impact and KPIs
There is a lot of confusion around the terms output, outcome, impact and KPI. Here is what each one means…
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Bottom-up? Or Top-down? What’s the best way to set OKRs?
Don’t assume that telling your teams what their OKR goals should be is the best approach. Here’s a better way.