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WTF are OKRs?
Don’t know an OKR from a KPI from any other TLA? Dive into the world of Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) with our no-nonsense WTF are OKRs guide. You’ll find basic words, meanings, and context about when and how OKRs are useful, and access No-BS OKR cheat-sheets not available anywhere else
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We’ll collect all of our Objectives and Key Result Frequently Asked Questions here, so you have a one-stop place for simple, straightforward answers to questions about OKRs.
What are OKRs? (Objectives and Key Results)
This chapter of my upcoming Objectives and Key Results Book shares some basics about OKRs: a method for collaborative goal setting and alignment. In practice, well-formed OKRs can help us fill the gap between our high-level strategy and our tactical implementation decisions, so that what we do is better aligned with achieving our most important outcomes.
How to: Create low-fidelity index measures to fill progress data gaps
We come across a scenario often, when teams are subjectively estimating their progress (overly optimistically), and then missing the mark on their ultimate outcome goals. In the OKR biz, that's a "watermelon metric" scenario: our performance is "green" on our estimated progress all quarter and then flips to "red" when the actual data comes in at the end of the term. Green on the outside, red on the inside = the metric went watermelon….