Tag: Okr

  • How One Lawyer Learned To Love OKRs

    How One Lawyer Learned To Love OKRs

    Everyone makes a product. Everyone has customers. Even those who don’t think they do. Here’s a quick story about making…

  • What OKRs Mean for Middle Managers

    What OKRs Mean for Middle Managers

    Middle managers can strongly influence the success of OKRs. Here’s how their job changes to support these new goals.

  • The Words We Use to Avoid Accountability

    The Words We Use to Avoid Accountability

    We say these words all the time yet they mean nothing. Here’s a list of phrases to avoid and what…

  • OKR Anti-pattern: Using measures of system behavior

    OKR Anti-pattern: Using measures of system behavior

    Measuring the performance of our products and services can easily get confused with measuring our users’ behavior. Here’s how to…

  • Discipline-specific OKRs

    Discipline-specific OKRs

    Disciplines that function as services to product teams can have OKRs too. Here are two ways to think about how…

  • Business Problem Statements vs Opportunity Statements

    Business Problem Statements vs Opportunity Statements

    Defining your work is crucial to creativity, innovation and agility. Here are two templates to help your team do that.

  • How do OKRs impact the tools teams need to be successful?

    How do OKRs impact the tools teams need to be successful?

    OKRs require continuous learning. Your teams require tools that help them do that. Here’s what they’ll need.

  • Percentages or absolute numbers for OKRs?

    Percentages or absolute numbers for OKRs?

    If your key result is a metric (and it should be), should you use absolute numbers or percentages? Here are…

  • The Truth Curve

    The Truth Curve

    As we experiment we learn and through that learning we earn the right to invest more in our ideas. The…

  • OKRs Evolve

    OKRs Evolve

    Fixed goals equal static products and ultimately failed businesses. OKRs encourage agility both in your product and business. Here’s how.