OKRs
The popular Objectives and Key Results framework (OKRs) can be a powerful tool, provided it’s understood and used correctly. But how do you write good Objectives and Key Results and, more importantly, how do you stick to them? Browse our collection of OKRs content for lots of ideas and inspiration.
📈 OKRs Focus Week 📉
In November, you joined us for OKRs Focus Week, thank you! Scroll down to explore the content we released. Delve into actionable insights, expert advice, and keep the conversation going.
- OKRs: Implement well, ensure transparency and drive progress: Four product managers share their different experiences of OKRs in.
- Connecting Strategy to OKRs: To maximise the effectiveness of OKRs, teams must connect them to their overarching business strategy. Learn how from Nacho Bassino, Director of Product at XING.
- Let’s talk about OKRs: Product leader, Federico Iglesias delves into the elements of OKRs in product management, and discusses how they can be utilised best for teams.
- OKRs can be simple: In this episode of The Product Experience podcast, ‘Storm Fagan, Chief Product Officer at BBC, joins our hosts Randy and Lily to talk about implementing OKRs.
- In an exclusive panel for Mind the Product members, our experts cover ’Defining your 2022 OKRs’. Watch the recording
- A case study: crafting OKRs at Printify: Learn how Printify, a successful, fast-growing tech start-up measured and tested OKRs against the fluctuations of the print-on-demand eCommerce industry.
- OKRs in product management: Watch leading product management expert, Roman Pichler, at ProductTank on World Product Day 2021.
- How to Write OKRs That Don’t Suck: In this Sunday Rewind, we look back to a MTP Engage Manchester talk by Adrian Howard.
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Radical Focus 2.0 — an excerpt from Christina Wodtke
When I published Radical Focus in 2014, I had high hopes that the audience of entrepreneurs for whom I wrote it would see the value of using Objectives and Key Results (OKR) to manage goal-setting and achieving—and indeed, I was amazed by how many thousands did. What surprised me was the attention my book received from […] Read more »
Putting OKRs at the Centre - Natalija Hellesoe on The Product Experience
We all know what OKRs are. Most of us use them or have tried to at some point. But it’s a much smaller group that have used OKRs well, and for their intended purpose. Natalija Hellesoe, co-author of OKRs at the Center, joins us on the podcast to chat about taking your practice to the […] Read more »
OKRs: So simple! So then why isn’t everyone using them?
OKRs are supposed to be clear, simple & constructive – yet they’re often just unhelpful or frustrating. Kim offers expert advice for getting back on track. […] Read more »
How Real Product Teams Make OKRs work: Extended Report
The popular Objectives and Key Results framework (OKRs) can be a powerful tool, provided it’s understood and used correctly. With this in mind, we recently undertook a survey to understand how companies are using OKRs in the wild. Our survey was run in collaboration with Timm Richter, CEO of NEO Culture and former chief product officer at […] Read more »
How Real Companies Make OKRs work: Mind the Product and Neo Culture Investigate
Like all tools, OKRs can be powerful if they’re understood and used correctly and so, in an attempt to help you get the most from the process and to better understand the benefits, effects, and challenges of OKRs, we’ve decided to investigate. In collaboration with NEO Culture, Mind the Product is conducting a short survey, […] Read more »
AMA with Christina Wodtke: Encouraging Autonomy and Writing Awesome OKRs
In this Prioritised AMA, Christina Wodtke – the amazing author, speaker, and lecturer at Stanford, answers questions on her books, how to encourage autonomy, writing OKRs successfully and even reviving them when they’ve failed. If you’re a Prioritised member you can watch again now and read the full recap. Not already a member? Sign up to […] Read more »
How to Write OKRs That Don't Suck by Adrian Howard
Consultant, coach and trainer Adrian Howard has, over the years, seen many organisations attempt to implement Objectives and Key Results (OKRs), generally in response to a sense that “everything is wrong” and with a hopeful attitude of “these seem simple and clear”. In this MTP Engage Manchester talk, he explains how to write OKRS that, […] Read more »
Using OKRs to focus on customer problems
You need to set your team’s OKRs (objectives and key results) for the next quarter. What should go in there? What shouldn’t? What are you going to focus on? Here’s a quick look behind the curtain at what we’ve learned while setting them and making it effective at YPlan. […] Read more »