OKR Methodology
Basics
6_ENTRIES- Basic of OKR
Basic concepts about OKRs.
- Worksheet OKR template
A worksheet for starting the planning of OKRs
- Use a weekly status email
How to set a weekly status email towards your OKRs.
- How to set OKRs
A quick list for how to set OKRs in your company.
- Monday's and Friday's: The commitment square
The commitment square used to analyze progresses and roadblocks againsts the OKRs.
- Fundamentals of OKR
Great article describing the fundamental of OKR with real examples from Uber and Youtube.
Slides
12_ENTRIES- OKR: A guide
What are OKRs and what's in it for me?
- The Basics of OKR
Nice presentation presenting basic concepts of OKR.
- Organizing and engineering Team on Asana
How Asana uses Key Results in their engineering team
- Executioner's tale
The slides from the talk "Executioner's tale" by Christina Wodtke.
- How to implement OKRs to drive company performance
Learn how to implement the OKRs goal-setting process to drive company performance
- The 6 major benefits of OKR
A description of the major benefits when using OKRs in your company
- OKR - Objectives and Key Results
A great overview about OKRs by WeekDone
- Power your business with OKR
An overview about OKR and how to power your business by Wrike
- The Guide to Objectives and Key Results
A light-weight and informative overview of OKR by Benchify
- How to define good OKRs
Great slides describing how to set good OKRs
- From Intel to Google
How to achieve your targets with the methodology invented at Intel and used by Google
Videos
3_ENTRIES- How google sets goals objectives and Key results
The most famous video on OKR by Rick Klau@Google
- The Executioner's Tale
The Executioner's tale by Christina Wodtke
- Warm Gun Talk
Another talk about OKR by Christina Wodtke
Books
2_ENTRIES- Measure What Matters
A handbook for setting and achieving audacious goals by John Doerr.
- Objectives and Key Results: Driving Focus, Alignment, and Engagement with OKRs] ([https://www.wiley…
) : A thoroughly readable guide to implementing OKRs that is relevant to large, corporate environments as well as digital start-ups.
Articles
30_ENTRIES- John Doerr on success using OKR
Keys to OKR Success: A Q&A with the Man Who Introduced OKRs to Google, John Doerr
- How Google Grew from 40 to 40,000 Employees
How OKR helped a company like Google to grow from 40 to 40,000 employees
- Implementation and challanges at Pusher
Implementation, challenges and results at Pusher
- How we make OKRs work at Pusher
A great article regarding alignment and trasparency of OKR and how it helped at Pusher
- How to Easily Set Quarterly Team Objectives with OKRs at Pusher
Another article by Pusher regarding how they set quarterly team objectives
- How we set goals at Upstart
How Upstart set OKRs and set goals for the entire company
- Manager OKRs, Maker OKRs: How I’d Change Google’s Goal Setting Process
How Sasha Lubomirsky envisions the future of OKRs
- Are You a C.E.O. of Something?
An interview with Mark Pincus and how OKR helped at Zynga
- How to set & achieve meaningful OKRs
This article describes how to set & achieve meaningful OKRs
- How to Make OKRs Actually Work at Your Startup
A story about how OKRs helped at Swipely
- OKR Mistakes
This is an important article that descrives the most common mistakes while writing OKRs and how to fix them.
- ORK Worksheet
A great worksheet for getting started with OKRs
- List of companies that use OKRs
A list of the top companies using OKRs
- How Google grades employees, and how you can use the same system at your company
How Google grades employees, and how you can use the same system at your company.
- What are OKRs?
Basics about what OKRs are.
- 15 great insights from the Google OKR video
Great insights from the most famous video about OKR
- Full Transcription of Google OKR Video – How Google Sets Goals Using OKRs
The full transcript from the most famous video about OKRs
- How to Use KPIs with OKRs
How to connect KPI and OKRs together.
- What Twitter’s CEO Learned from Google
An interview with Dick Costolo about OKRs at Twitter
- OKRs: The New Solution to Managing Your Freelancers
How to hire and align freelancers using OKRs
- Google Releases a New Guide to Setting Goals with OKRs
Great insights from the new Google's guide about OKRs
- The biggest pitfalls of OKRs and how to avoid them
Some common issues while adopting OKRs
- This Is The Internal Grading System Google Uses For Its Employees — And You Should Use It Too
Another article from Business Insider regarding OKR and great insights from the Kris Klau talk at Google
- We are starting to implement OKRs in our company for the first time. Do any of you have experience …
Interesting discussion in Quora about how people implement OKRs.
- What's a use case where a company uses both OKR and KPI?
How to connect OKRs and KPIs.
- How does the process of developing and prioritizing OKRs (objectives and key results) work at compa…
Some interesting answers about how companies like Google are prioritizing their OKRs.
- A journey through OKRs] ([https://www.hotpmo.com/blog/a-journey-through-okr
) : An introduction to OKRs and their application in portfolio project management.
- Being helpful isn’t the same as being clear
A useful note to understand the local culture when implementing OKR.
- Learnings from implementing OKRs
A great guide on implementing OKRs.
Guides
4_ENTRIESThese are free ebooks and guides about OKRs.
- Set goals with OKRs by Google
Official guide about OKR by Google
- Definitive guide to OKRs (Ebook) by Atiim
Ebook describing how to set OKRs
- How to Set OKR Goals like Google: Top 10 Tips by Atiim
10 tips about how to set OKRs like Google
- The Smart Way to Set OKR
Simple checklist about how to set OKRs
Research
2_ENTRIESThese are interesting research papers connected to OKRs
- The Determinants of Goal Commitment
The concept and measurement of commitment to goals, a key aspect of goal-setting theory, are discussed. The strength of the relationship between commitment and performance is asserted to depend on the amount of variance in commitment.
- Goal Setting and Task Performance: 1969-1980
Goal setting is most likely to improve task performance when the goals are specific and sufficiently challenging, the subjects have sufficient ability (and ability differences are controlled), feedback is provided to show progress in relation to the goal, rewards such as money are given for goal attainment, the experimenter or manager is supportive, and assigned goals are accepted by the individual.
Templates
8_ENTRIESA list of word template for setting OKRs.
A list of excel templates for setting OKRs.
- OKR report document example by WeekDone
A word template for setting your OKRs.
- OKR report document template by WeekDone
An example of OKRs using the word template above.
- Startup OKRs Template
A word template describing how to set OKRs
- OKR Scorecard by Google
The OKR Scorecard from the re:Work site a Google.
- OKR report word template by WeekDone
An excel template for setting your OKR.
- OKR report spreadsheet example by WeekDone
An example of OKRs using the excel template above.
- OKR Template for your startup
A public excel template for setting OKRs.
- OKR Scorecard by Google
An excel template for setting OKRs. It is the same that you can find in the re:Work site at Google
Examples
8_ENTRIESA list of examples about how to implement OKRs. Useful when you want to get start with OKRs. These are not real examples and I am not related with the companies below.
- Uber
A case study of OKRs for Uber.
- Youtube
A case study of OKRs for Youtube.
- Sample Company
An example of OKRs for an imaginary company.
- Photo Editing App
A case study of OKRs for an a fake company creating a photo editing mobile app and using OKRs to reach their goals.
- OKR Goals Examples
A comprehensive list of OKR goal examples for all kind of teams and levels.
- 25+ Site Reliability Engineering OKR examples
A comprehensive list of OKRs for Site Reliability Engineering Teams.
- GitLab: Objectives and Key Results (OKRs)
A comprehensive guide and real OKRs at GitLab.
- Measure What Matters: Examples & Resources
A list of OKR examples.
Software
15_ENTRIESList of software for managing your OKRs. This list was made using this Product Hunt collection: PH Colletion