Frame Objectives to reflect the audacious goals
- Engineering Objectives are challenging goals that inspire the team to achieve solid progress within the desired period, typically a quarter
- Objectives are qualitative directional statements - Eg. Improve the overall performance of the mobile app developed
- Engineering Objectives typically include areas like - Design & Production, Quality Assurance, Integrations, Backend Processes
Become an expert at setting Key Results with relevant KPIs
- Key Results are the means to achieve an objective (The “How to achieve”)
- Key Results should be measurable, tracked regularly, ambitious, yet achievable
- An Engineering Key Result example would be, “Improve the delivery process and make it reliable”
Engineering OKR Examples
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Improve Product Stability
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Ensure that all APIs respond within 400ms
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Bring Production exceptions down to 0
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Bring trackJS errors down to 0
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Automate Back Office Team Business Processes
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Launch Cases App for In-App customer service
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Rollout upgrade integrations with existing customers app
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Rollout at least 20 new customer support actions
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Ensure Mobile Apps are in Sync with Web App
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Document and rollout APIs for mobile developers
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Decrease the number of clicks from 15 to 5
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Roll out localization for newly implemented features
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Improve Localization Footprint
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Rollout 20 new languages
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Ensure 90 Of new features are maintained as part of localization infrastructure
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Complete creation of localization kit with documented project requirements