Objectives and Key Results (OKRs)

<aside> 💡 OKR (Objectives and Key Results) is a goal system used by Google and others. It is a simple tool to create alignment and engagement around measurable goals.

Resources 👉 **https://rework.withgoogle.com/guides/set-goals-with-okrs/steps/introduction/ 👉** https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MznhglECydZCndo23xiE7GdfujfRsxPV/view?usp=sharing (internal)

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The Components of OKRs

Objectives — are memorable qualitative descriptions of what you want to achieve. Objectives should be short, inspirational and engaging. An Objective should motivate and challenge the team.

Key Results —  are a set of metrics that measure your progress towards the Objective. For each Objective, you should have a set of 2 to 5 Key Results. More than that and no one will remember them.

Shared structure for tracking projects

Different teams need to work differently, but we all share a few needs:

Our project tracking process is a simple set of practices that addresses these needs. It doesn't prescribe how projects get done and can be tailored to how different people and teams need to work.

Where are the projects located

You can find a list of all company-wide projects on the top-level navigation section in Notion

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As described in our Slack communication guide, every Project should also have its own Slack channel of the format #proj-[projectname].

The components of a project

Every project has three important components:

Driver

The project’s point person that is directly responsible for making progress on the project and for keeping things moving.

Contributor(s)

People who have expertise, a voice in the project and that actively work on it.