This document provides a light-weight overview of OKRs (Objectives and Key Results), including a brief history and comparison to MBOs. It emphasizes that objectives should be inspirational goals and key results should specify how objectives will be accomplished. An example template is given of "I will [objective] as measured by [key result 1], [key result 2], etc.". The document cautions that objectives should not be quantifiable goals on their own and should have logical connections to higher-level visions and strategies.

1. Webinar OKR & Business Objectives - April 2020 - Michelangelo Canonico
If you don’t know
where you are going
You might not be there

2. Why we are here
Align Business strategy and
Product Vision

3. 90%Aligning employee goals to the organisation’s
Top priority is critical for business success
(Betterworks Continuous Performance Management® Survey)

4. OKR
Brief History
1954
2014 Namely and “cascading OKR”

5. • MBO about the
what, OKR the
what and how
• annual vs
quarterly or
monthly
• private and
siloed vs public
and transparent
• top down vs
bottom up
• tide to
compensation vs
almost divorced
from
compensation
OKR vs MBO

6. Less Is More
Focus on what matters

7. This is all about truly transformational team
Combine their ambition
to their passion and
their purpose

8. Objectives are:
What I want to accomplish
Put a man on the
moon by the end of
the decade

9. Objectives
• Light Weight
• Memorable qualitative
description of what you want
to achieve
• Inspirational and engaging
• O and KR if O is well defined
KR can easily reach it
• Cascading bidirectionally
Light-weight informative overview of OKRs

10. From 0.1 to 0.6
Google

11. Key Results are:
How I will accomplish the
objective
Build a lunar module weighing under
40,000 pounds by December 1965

12. Key Results
• No more than 5 key results for
a single objective
• Explain the benefits

13. John Doerr recommendation
A template for OKR
I will objective as measured by
key result 1 , key result 2 , key result 3
He recommends a maximum of 5 Objectives in each
quarterly period, each with 5 or fewer Key Results

14. OKR example

15. OKR example

16. Product/Service
• Consistency in your narrative
Strategy

17. From Vision to Product
Product Strategy & Product Roadmap

18. Visual OKR Canvas
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19. An Objective
Does not quantify a Goal
It does not have a logical connection
with higher-level corporate
objectives and Vision by definition

20. The Qualitative Objective
• An Objective is a business goal
which is usually not
quantifiable:
• “write a light-weight
informative overview of OKRs”
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