6 customisable OKR examples for Application Quality
What are Application Quality OKRs?
The OKR acronym stands for Objectives and Key Results. It's a goal-setting framework that was introduced at Intel by Andy Grove in the 70s, and it became popular after John Doerr introduced it to Google in the 90s. OKRs helps teams has a shared language to set ambitious goals and track progress towards them.
Formulating strong OKRs can be a complex endeavor, particularly for first-timers. Prioritizing outcomes over projects is crucial when developing your plans.
To aid you in setting your goals, we have compiled a collection of OKR examples customized for Application Quality. Take a look at the templates below for inspiration and guidance.
If you want to learn more about the framework, you can read our OKR guide online.
Building your own Application Quality OKRs with AI
While we have some examples available, it's likely that you'll have specific scenarios that aren't covered here. You can use our free AI generator below or our more complete goal-setting system to generate your own OKRs.
Feel free to explore our tools:
- Use our free OKR generator
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Our customisable Application Quality OKRs examples
You'll find below a list of Objectives and Key Results templates for Application Quality. We also included strategic projects for each template to make it easier to understand the difference between key results and projects.
Hope you'll find this helpful!
1. OKRs to achieve consistent delivery of a high-quality application
Achieve consistent delivery of a high-quality application
Increase weekly cadence of successful application releases by 20%
Integrate automated testing for faster bug detection- Implement more efficient software development methodologies
- Enhance collaboration among development teams
- Decrease application issues reported post-release by 30%
- Implement a comprehensive quality assurance and testing process
- Prioritize regular updates and patches post-release
- Enhance pre-release user acceptance testing
- Enhance user satisfaction ratings on the application by improving it by 25%
- Develop and launch new desired features
- Prioritize and address reported bugs and glitches
- Implement frequent customer surveys to gather user feedback
2. OKRs to enhance mobile app quality through effective mobile testing
- Enhance mobile app quality through effective mobile testing
- Increase our mobile app's user-interface test coverage to 90%
- Implement and regularly update these tests
- Identify gaps in current user-interface test coverage
- Develop comprehensive testing procedures for missing areas
- Reduce app crash rates by 30% through rigorous stress tests
- Conduct extensive stress tests on the application
- Implement improvements and verify effectiveness
- Identify and fix underlying app instability issues
- Improve bug detection by 40% with automated test scripts implementation
- Measure improvement in bug detection regularly
- Develop and implement appropriate test scripts
- Identify critical modules that require automated testing
3. OKRs to integrate two applications seamlessly
- Integrate two applications seamlessly
- Improve user experience by reducing the average response time by 15%
- Increase data transfer accuracy between applications by 20%
- Conduct regular performance testing and optimization measures on the applications
- Optimize network infrastructure for faster and more reliable data transmission
- Implement data validation checks in the application code
- Improve error handling and logging mechanism for data transfer failures
- Reduce integration errors by implementing automated testing, resulting in a 30% decrease in bugs
- Analyze and address the root causes of integration errors to prevent future occurrences
- Regularly update and maintain the automated test suite to match system changes
- Implement a continuous integration process to detect integration errors early on
- Develop automated tests for integration scenarios to ensure proper functionality
- Achieve a 95% success rate in processing transactions between the integrated applications
4. OKRs to successfully build a simple React app
- Successfully build a simple React app
- Complete a comprehensive React video course in its entirety
- Choose a comprehensive React video course
- Actively follow and complete course assignments
- Dedicate daily time for studying the course material
- Apply learned knowledge to construct a working React application
- Code application in React using learned knowledge
- Outline desired functionality and user interface of the React application
- Test, debug and refine React application
- Detect and handle at least three software bugs in the developed React application
- Debug and fix identified software issues
- Test the application for functionality after the changes
- Identify and document problematic areas in the React application
5. OKRs to secure FDA approval for our new pharmaceutical product
- Secure FDA approval for our new pharmaceutical product
- Resolve all FDA queries or issues regarding the application within six weeks
- Research and compile thorough responses to each issue
- Submit all responses and corrections to FDA within six weeks
- Identify all FDA queries or issues on the application
- Submit a complete and compliant application to FDA within the first month
- Review FDA guidelines to ensure application compliance
- Submit the completed application to the FDA
- Gather all necessary documents and data for application
- Successfully pass the FDA's inspection and audit of our production facilities
- Ensure all documentation and records are accurate, updated, and easily accessible
- Provide thorough training to staff on FDA regulations and requirements
- Maintain the facility's cleanliness and safety according to FDA standards
6. OKRs to achieve quicker releases of the real estate application through automation
- Achieve quicker releases of the real estate application through automation
- Reduce bugs by 30% using automated testing tools and practices
- Train the team on effective automated testing practices
- Regularly review and improve testing procedures
- Implement automated testing tools in the development process
- Increase deployment frequency by 50% by optimizing the CI/CD pipeline
- Implement performance monitoring for continuous optimization
- Review and streamline the existing CI/CD pipeline
- Automate tests to reduce bottleneck issues
- Implement an automated roll-back system to minimize downtime by 40%
- Select and purchase appropriate roll-back system software
- Research available automated roll-back system platforms
- Train staff on roll-back system operations and procedures
Application Quality OKR best practices to boost success
Generally speaking, your objectives should be ambitious yet achievable, and your key results should be measurable and time-bound (using the SMART framework can be helpful). It is also recommended to list strategic initiatives under your key results, as it'll help you avoid the common mistake of listing projects in your KRs.
Here are a couple of best practices extracted from our OKR implementation guide 👇
Tip #1: Limit the number of key results
Focus can only be achieve by limiting the number of competing priorities. It is crucial that you take the time to identify where you need to move the needle, and avoid adding business-as-usual activities to your OKRs.
We recommend having 3-4 objectives, and 3-4 key results per objective. A platform like Tability can run audits on your data to help you identify the plans that have too many goals.
Tability's audit dashboard will highlight opportunities to improve OKRsTip #2: Commit to weekly OKR check-ins
Having good goals is only half the effort. You'll get significant more value from your OKRs if you commit to a weekly check-in process.
Being able to see trends for your key results will also keep yourself honest.
Tability's check-ins will save you hours and increase transparencyTip #3: No more than 2 yellow statuses in a row
Yes, this is another tip for goal-tracking instead of goal-setting (but you'll get plenty of OKR examples above). But, once you have your goals defined, it will be your ability to keep the right sense of urgency that will make the difference.
As a rule of thumb, it's best to avoid having more than 2 yellow/at risk statuses in a row.
Make a call on the 3rd update. You should be either back on track, or off track. This sounds harsh but it's the best way to signal risks early enough to fix things.
How to turn your Application Quality OKRs in a strategy map
Your quarterly OKRs should be tracked weekly in order to get all the benefits of the OKRs framework. Reviewing progress periodically has several advantages:
- It brings the goals back to the top of the mind
- It will highlight poorly set OKRs
- It will surface execution risks
- It improves transparency and accountability
Most teams should start with a spreadsheet if they're using OKRs for the first time. Then, once you get comfortable you can graduate to a proper OKRs-tracking tool.
Tability's Strategy Map makes it easy to see all your org's OKRsIf you're not yet set on a tool, you can check out the 5 best OKR tracking templates guide to find the best way to monitor progress during the quarter.
More Application Quality OKR templates
We have more templates to help you draft your team goals and OKRs.
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- OKRs to enhance and scale up pilot training programs
- OKRs to enhance benefits promotion for higher utilization rates
- OKRs to design and operationalize robust measurement system
- OKRs to increase Atlassian partnership conditions by region
OKRs resources
Here are a list of resources to help you adopt the Objectives and Key Results framework.
- To learn: What is the meaning of OKRs
- Blog posts: ODT Blog
- Success metrics: KPIs examples
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