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Product Team OKRs

The product team’s objectives are often especially closely aligned with the organisation’s at large.

Even at larger organisations like Google where objectives exist at the parent company, company, division, subdivision, function, team, and individual level, a company-wide objective (e.g. Increase market share within segment Z) may skip multiple levels to be assigned to an individual team! What a thrill to have the entire company rallied behind your success, but quite some pressure too.

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OKRs Explained

OKRs Explained

OKRs provide a flexible hierarchy of objectives that cascade down through every team and individual. Everyone knows what to focus on. Everyone’s objectives are aligned.

Objectives are inspirational (qualitative) goals that communicate the business outcomes you’re looking to reach. They’re ...

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Succeeding with OKRs

The primary purpose of OKRs is not just to document, but galvanize. If OKRs are to be made sufficiently ambitious, they need to be kept separate from performance evaluations. Otherwise goals tend to be set too conservatively to do much good. This is especially true of moonshot OKRs.

If you ...

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Company OKRs

A company’s highest objective is stated in its mission statement, but when discussing top-level objectives, we typically mean the goals the company aims to reach in the next quarter, half-year, or year.

Company objective: Expand our impact by selling to the enterprise (by end of quarter)

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Individual OKRs

If you’re a product manager, your objectives will likely address a handful of user needs or business goals. Key results may include the successful launch of major features and the indicators you use to measure desired outcomes.

Objective: Help customers better categorise their data for rapi...

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PETER DRUCKER

What gets measured gets managed

PETER DRUCKER

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The Pyramid

The key results at the organisational level can become objectives for the next level down — whether that’s division, department, or team (depending on the size of your organisation). The further down you go, the more specific and tactical the objectives become.

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Avoiding The Factory Approach

A lot has been said about avoiding the feature factory approach to product management. No one wants to work on a product as though they’re “sitting in a factory, cranking out features, and sending them down the line,” without knowing if they’re actually having any impact. It’s the definition of a...

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Counter-Balance Your Key Results

When setting key results, consider what negative outcomes they might incidentally incentivize. Aim to counterbalance these.

Keep an eye out for blind spots! If you’re setting key results to validate whether users are getting value from a new feature, it’s likely not enough to verify that th...

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Choosing Your Own OKRs

By choosing your own objectives and key results, you use the context you have from the frontlines to decide the best way you can generate value for your customers and your organisation. And in the mid-term, inputs that employees on the frontlines feedback to leadership can influence the top-level...

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Don’t Forget Your OKRs

To get full value from OKRs, post them where you’ll see them every day, or adopt a dedicated OKR management solution and refer to it on a regular basis. Capture product OKRs in a product management solution like Productboard where you can use objectives to prioritise and plan supporting feature i...

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Life Beyond The Factory

OKRs bring the promise of greater focus, alignment, and measurable progress toward exciting outcomes. They require an upfront investment and ongoing attention, but hopefully with the tips we’ve reviewed here you’ll be well on your way.

As with all things, sometimes your best bet is to start...

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Defining Objectives And Key Results For Your Product Team

Objectives And Key Results (OKRs) are credited for the rise and dominance of companies like Intel and Google, where it has helped them move mountains while maintaining alignment and agility at scale. And it’s been employed by thousands of smaller organisations that are plenty agile, yet looking t...

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GENERAL PATTON

Don’t tell people what to do; tell them what you need accomplished, and you’ll be amazed at the results

GENERAL PATTON

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Whether you’re new to objectives and key results (OKRs) or just brushing up, this stash aims to help you feel more confident about driving your product team toward clear, measurable outcomes in 2021

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