Succeeding with OKRs in Agile

Succeeding with OKRs in Agile

Amazon #1 Best seller in “Agile Programming” and “IT Project Management”

OKRs are about goals bigger than the next story, or even epic. OKRs prioritise purpose and strategy over backlogs. Objectives are big goals. Key results are smaller goals that build towards the objective.

OKRs and agile work well together. Both outcome oriented and results focused. Used right OKRs give purpose, power and authority to teams. Used poorly OKRs can re-introduce command-and-control and hinder agile working.

Succeeding with OKRs is a short guide to writing OKRS, organizing to deliver OKRS and the pitfalls of using OKRs. The book doesn’t try to sell OKRs. Rather, this book describes Allan’s practical experience with teams working agile and adopting OKRs, day-by-day, quarter-by-quarter.

Initially sceptical, Allan found OKRs highly effective in practice. They became a way to focus teams, expose problems, communicate with senior managers. OKRs became a powerful means of asking bigger questions about product strategy and value.

“OKRs” is the acronym of “Objectives and Key Results.” This is a collaborative goal-setting tool used by teams and individuals to set goals with measurable results. In his book “Succeeding with OKRs in Agile”, Allan Kelly explains why he considers that “OKRs have the potential to reawaken the early ambition and drive inherent in agile. This time managers can join in too, not as obstacles to change, or change drivers, but as partners focused on the same outcomes for a greater purpose.”
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