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Engineering OKR example

Pay down the tech debt that slows us down

Free up engineering time lost to legacy code.

Suggested timeframe: Set with your team1 objective · 3 key results
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OBJECTIVE

Free up engineering time lost to legacy code

  1. KR 1

    Reduce build time from 25 minutes to 8 minutes

  2. KR 2

    Cut time spent on unplanned maintenance from 35% to 20% of sprint capacity

  3. KR 3

    Remove 3 deprecated services and their dependencies

Example targets. Adapt to your baseline before you start.
USE THIS WHEN

Everyone agrees debt is a problem but it never gets prioritized. Tie each key result to time saved.

KPIs to watch alongside this OKR

Keep these measures in view as you review progress.

  • Build time
  • Unplanned work share
  • Services retired
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Make it work for your team

01

Set your baseline. Check where you are today, then choose targets that stretch your team.

02

Agree on ownership. Give each key result a clear owner and a source of data.

03

Check in every week. Review the numbers, share confidence, and decide what needs attention.

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title: Pay down the tech debt that slows us down
objectives:
  - title: Free up engineering time lost to legacy code
    outcomes:
      - title: Reduce build time from 25 minutes to 8 minutes
        initiatives: []
      - title: >-
          Cut time spent on unplanned maintenance from 35% to 20% of sprint
          capacity
        initiatives: []
      - title: Remove 3 deprecated services and their dependencies
        initiatives: []
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Test what matters

Catch the bugs customers would see before release.

Objective

Catch the bugs customers would see before release

  1. Reduce bugs found in production from 40 to 15 per month
  2. Raise automated test coverage on critical user flows from 45% to 85%
  3. Cut flaky test rate from 8% to 1%
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Delivery

Ship faster without breaking things

Increase delivery speed while keeping failures low.

Objective

Increase delivery speed while keeping change failure low

  1. Increase deploys to production from 2 per week to daily
  2. Reduce lead time for changes from 8 days to 2 days
  3. Keep change failure rate under 10%, down from 18%
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Reliability

Cut production incidents

Make the product something customers can rely on.

Objective

Make our product something customers can rely on

  1. Reduce customer-facing incidents from 12 to 5 per quarter
  2. Cut mean time to recovery from 3 hours to 45 minutes
  3. Complete post-incident actions for 100% of major incidents within 2 weeks, up from 50%
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Copy the template below, then open Tability. In your plan, choose Import goals from CSV or text and paste it into Import from text.

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