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Category: How to set team goals

How we define OKRs and its impact on our priorities

When work started using OKRs to plan for our quarters a few months after I started with the team, I had a minor panic moment. I didn’t know how to define OKRs nor use them.  I knew roadmaps. But roadmaps, as we’ve discussed before, have only caused us problems with the other teams that we work with. Unfortunately though, so do OKRs when they are not done correctly. Note: The guys over at Google can do a better work at explaining what OKRs are than me.  When we first started using it, our problems with OKRs manifested in several ways: Our OKRs…