Thread by @perfexcellent

Checkin to #OKRForum2022

Looking forward to learning a lot. @meetfelipe is up first with

"Who do some companies success with #OKRs while others fail?"

Note: Felipe is militantly "outcomes over outputs"

"OKRs are plumbing as well as poetry" - @meetfelipe

Plumbing is messy and takes time, not as 'cool' as poetry. So most organisations neglect plumbing.

Plumbing means changing the traditional ways of working to suit OKRs.

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OKRs took off in companies that

🔸focus on outcomes
🔸autonomous teams
🔸understand customer/business needs
🔸data-driven
🔸run experiments

This is different from the traditional Goals → Projects approach of traditional model of working.

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"For every one of our failures, we had spreadsheets that looked awesome" - Scott Cook

That's why OKRs focus on outcomes rather than projects/activities (which our brains love)

I created The SIPPR Canvas to help teams identify and distinguish activities from outputs from outcomes, so they can create better #OKRs

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For OKRs to work, a senior leader MUST lead by example:

🔸Setting OKRs
🔸Tracking OKRs weekly

In small companies, that has to be the CEO, it larger ones, a VP.

That's a big determinant of whether OKRs succeed or fail according to @meetfelipe

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