Objectives and Key Results

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Definition

From the what matters website:

OKRs stand for Objectives and Key Results, a collaborative goal-setting methodology used by teams and individuals to set challenging, ambitious goals with measurable results. OKRs are how you track progress, create alignment, and encourage engagement around measurable goals.

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John Doerr has a free course on Coursera which is pretty awesome:

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If you want to understand the purpose and value of Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) - then starting with the book written by the person who introduced OKRs to Intel in 1971 is best starting point.

Andrew Grove’s Book - High Output Management is the canonical book, and as the person who taught John Doerr (the modern OKR leader) the book talks about the origins and the value to Intel.

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Management 3.0 have an interesting set of steps they use to define and use metrics in HR.

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This YouTube playlist from Weekdone is good - Objectives and Key Results 101 - YouTube

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One software option for managing your OKRs - Tability : Reclaim your productivity with AI-powered goal tracking

Found via this Medium article which was a good read - Here’s what’s wrong with most OKRs software (and how we fixed it) | by Sten | Tability | Medium. They also have more material at OKRs for Startups: A Simple and Complete Guide to OKRs

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OKR Training & Coaching | Peter Kappus has some online training and some interesting blog posts, including A guide to OKR check-ins | Peter Kappus.

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Home - Felipe Castro - OKR Trainer, Speaker, Author - and specifically OKR Tracking with the weeky check-in - Felipe Castro - OKR Experts and Common OKR mistakes - Felipe Castro - OKR Consulting

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Christina Wodtke (the author of Radical Focus) also has a load of material at OKRs – Eleganthack and a number of resources at Resources – Christina Wodtke

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And there’s OKRs.com - but I’ve not read the book or any of their posts

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This included a useful set of principles

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Resources for using OKRs in Product Management by Tim Herbig has some good stuff, specifically Measure the progress of OKRs using Leading and Lagging Indicators (herbig.co)

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Considered to be the modern thought-leader of Objectives and Key Results (OKRs), John Doerr’s book Measure What Matters is an easy, comprehensive read. He also has a lot if useful information on his website too - https://www.whatmatters.com/
Amazon.co.uk

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If you are at the beginning of your journey to learn about Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) then Felipe Castro’s the Beginners Guide to OKRs is a fantastic place to start

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metric based and we might want to move to another topic Agile Metrics: It's Not All That Complicated | PPT