This workshop aims to practice the creation of OKRs. You will learn how to create OKRs for yourself and how they contribute to the other levels in an organization. OKR (Objectives and Key Results) is a goal setting framework that seeks to ensure employees work together, focusing their efforts to make measurable contributions. created by Intel and adopted by several Silicon Valley companies. Google is the most famous case, having adopted OKR in its first year. Twitter, LinkedIn, Dropbox and Oracle are among other adopters. As an Agile Coach, I work with 250 people in 7 tribes (26 squads/teams) and 11 Guilds, in 4 different locations in the R&D department. We choose OKRs a goal setting framework created to clarify the following question in the organization: How to be focused on such scaled multi-team product development? How to align all these teams in different locations? How to make this process to be transparent?

1. Practicing setting OKRs
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Deliverables and Organisational
Improvements
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Say hello
Make team
Warm up + Conceptual map
OKRs 101
Practicing
Wrap up
Agenda

3. Say hello...
On an A4 paper, write down the following in nice readable BIG letters
● First name and last name
● City of origin
● Company you work for / industry you work in
● Your role / what you do
● Hobby
● Write one question you want answered, or one thing you want to be
able to do as a result of the training.

4. Make teams
Find someone who works in the same (type
of) company
Or find someone who has similar
expectations

5. Warm up!
Think about what you already know about OKRs.
Write three of these facts on a sticker, and be ready to state them when
asked.
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6. Team work
Use stickers from the warm up
exercise to create an OKR
mindmap.
10 minutes
A volunteer form each team
presents a mind map.
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7. What’s an OKR?
I will (Objective) as measured by
(this set of Key Results).
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Definition

8. OKRs should be SMART
OKRs help to reduce noise and focus on the essentials
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Definition

9. Challenging
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Feasible
OKRs

10. Objectives
The “what”
● Aspirational
● Challenging
● Qualitative
● Time bound
● Unambiguous
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Key Results
The “how”
● Measurable &
Quantifiable
● Objectively gradable
● Achievable
● Usually numerical
● Actionable
● Tangible
● Outcome related
Tips&tricks

11. Benefits why use OKRs
● Disciplines thinking (the major goals will surface)
● Communicates accurately (let’s everyone know
what is important)
● Establishes indicators for measuring process (show
how far along we are)
● Focuses effort (keeps organisations in step with
each other)
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12. Objective 1: Increase the number of
stores by 20%
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Key Results
1. Select 40 new franchise candidates by March
2. Train 30 of them before June
3. Sign contracts with 25 of them before
September
4. Open 20 stores before December
Example

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Name R&D O OKRs Progress Score
QA Guild
O1: Streamline
release across
tribes
O: Apply agreed common test procedure and practices 45% 0.8
K1: Implement test-driven development in 3 new
development teams 66%
K2: Create consolidated REST API report 70%
K3: Make sure satisfaction score of product management and
PS to testing is at least 75% 0%
Architecture
Guild
O1: Streamline
release across
tribes
O: Review and improve our data security procedures 70% 0.9
K1: For learning, review security policies of 5 other companies 100%
K2: Contact external penetration testing at least 2 different
software packages 50%
K3: Document out backup policies and make sure they are
implemented in 7 tribes 60%
CX tribe
O2: Deliver the
whole
Backbase 6 to
the first
customer
O: Ensure Backbase 6.10 is ready to go live with a first
customer 80% 0.6
K1: Documentation is uniformly available on my.backbase.com 50%
K2: Security requirements met (owasp top 10), no high or
medium issues 90%
K3: Passed penetration testing 100%

14. R&D
Objective &
Key Result
Tribe’s
Objective &
Key Result

15. Best practices
2-3 Objectives per level
Set quarterly
Update bi-weekly or monthly
3-5 Key Results per each objective
Archiving 70% of set key results is already a success
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16. Best practices
Archiving 70% of set key results is already a success
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WHY?

17. Brainstorm "Set OKR for this workshop
by your team”
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Workshop
1. Create ideas on sticky-notes (5 minutes),
2. Pitch each idea (10 minutes), 3 idea per
person
3. Group them in logical areas & name groups
(5 minutes),
4. Create Objective per group and vote to
choose the best objective(s) (5 minutes)
5. Create 3 Key Results

18. Present
One representative per a team to
present team’s OKR
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19. Align
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20. Update progress
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21. Take aways
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22. Thank you!
Contact:
Maiia Syta, Principle Agile Coach at R&D
https://www.linkedin.com/in/maiiasyta/
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