{"id":2838,"date":"2019-04-19T17:49:08","date_gmt":"2019-04-19T21:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog-alexis.monville.com\/en\/?p=2838"},"modified":"2019-04-19T17:56:30","modified_gmt":"2019-04-19T21:56:30","slug":"okrs-ok-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog-alexis.monville.com\/en\/2019\/04\/19\/okrs-ok-what\/","title":{"rendered":"OKRs! OK What?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OKRs! OK, What? Joseph Contreras, Scrum Master at Fidelity, proposed this Open Space session on the third day of <a href=\"https:\/\/agilegamesnewengland.com\/\">Agile Games 2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Joseph invited the participants to contribute to a short presentation of what Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) are.<\/p>\n<p>In a nutshell, Objectives are where we want to go, and Key Results tell us when we get there. Key Results are aspirational and not reaching 100% is not a problem.<\/p>\n<p>I really liked the first example he used, and the invitation he made to the participant to challenge the formulation.<\/p>\n<p>The example was:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Objective: I want to be healthy\n<ul>\n<li>Key Result: I eat less sugar<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We challenged the Objective by pushing to have it stated the destination. Something like: I am healthy.<\/p>\n<p>We challenged the Key Result by saying that eating less sugar is an activity. Yes, it is a healthy one because as human beings we store the excess sugar as fat. So maybe the Key Results should be a measure of the proportion of fat in our body.<\/p>\n<p>Joseph then shared is own personal OKRs, and invited us the same way to challenge them. He told us that the previous version of his OKRs where really bad, and that we can expect to fail the first time, and improve the next one. I think it gave freedom to people in the room to challenge that second version.<\/p>\n<p>The result was a great social learning experience. It was the perfect way to have all the participants think about measuring the impact of activities, and not the activities themselves.<\/p>\n<p>The participants were able to build upon what the others just said and proposed better objectives and better key results in just a few minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Does this inspire you to invite your peers to challenge your OKRs?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>More about OKRs in the Chapter 12 of <a href=\"https:\/\/blog-alexis.monville.com\/en\/changing-your-team-from-the-inside\/\">Changing Your Team From The Inside<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Featured image is by<span class=\"photographer-profile\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/gratisography.com\/photo\/author\/ryan-mcguire\/\" rel=\"author\" title=\"Posts by Ryan McGuire\">Ryan McGuire<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OKRs! OK, What? Joseph Contreras, Scrum Master at Fidelity, proposed this Open Space session on the third day of Agile Games 2019. Joseph invited the participants to contribute to a short presentation of what Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) are. In a nutshell, Objectives are where we want to go, and Key Results tell us [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[804],"class_list":["post-2838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","tag-okrs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog-alexis.monville.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/gratisography-141H-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1707&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paNjQG-JM","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":445,"url":"https:\/\/blog-alexis.monville.com\/en\/2023\/10\/24\/introducing-objectives-and-key-results-okrs\/","url_meta":{"origin":2838,"position":0},"title":"Introducing: Objectives and Key Results (OKRs)","author":"Alexis","date":"October 24, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"\ud83d\udc4b Hello Software Engineers, Team Leaders, and Visionaries! 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