Developers OKRs
Crafting effective OKRs can be challenging, particularly for beginners. Emphasizing outcomes rather than projects should be the core of your planning.
We have a collection of OKRs examples for Developers to give you some inspiration. You can use any of the templates below as a starting point for your OKRs.
If you want to learn more about the framework, you can read more about the meaning of OKRs online.
Examples of OKRs for Developers
The examples have Developers Objectives and Key Results, but they may also include the tasks that can help you get there.
You'll find 10 OKRs examples for Developers below, and some extra tips to write better quarterly plans at the end.
OKRs to improve engineering performance and reliability
Build a world-class infrastructure
Increase Apdex above 0.95
Cache requests wherever possible
Identify and resolve to 5 application bottlenecks
Reduce build time to be under 5 minutes
Audit test suite to reduce duplicates
Switch to a more performing build infrastructure
Our stress tests show that we can support 10,000 concurrent users
OKRs to attain great security standards
Attain great security standards
All developers score 90+ in our security awareness training
100% of devices are enrolled in a Mobile Device Management system
100% of our services have a threat mitigation system in place
Our policies cover 100% of the ISO 27001 requirements
OKRs to accelerate release cycles
Increase the velocity of our releases through automation
Increase production deployments from 1/week to 4/week
Create deployment pipeline on Github
Automate deployment scripts
Reduce build time from 20mins to 5mins
Review test suites and cut expensive tests
Enable parallel builds
Reduce the mean lead time for changes from 8 days to 72h
Set up dedicate code review time to accelerate PR reviews
100% of our services have a Continuous Delivery pipeline
OKRs to tackle technical debt
Tackle technical debt generated by feature rush
Migrate 80% of projects to new UI library to reduce UI debt
Reduce percentage of issues tagged as debt by 30%
Reduce debt-related contact rate by 50%
OKRs to accelerate development via automation
Accelerate development through automation
100% of repos have a Continuous Delivery pipeline
Use Github Actions/Bitbucket Pipelines to automate deployments on every commit
Create automated deployment scripts for all repos
Increase code coverage from 30% to 60%
Reduce cycle time from 8 days to 8h
Reduce build time from 20min to 5min
Audit tests to find areas of improvements
Split tests to run in parallel when possible
OKRs to improve engineering release cycles
Significantly increase the speed of our development cycle
Improve developer NPS from 20 to 60
Reduce build times from 25 to under 5 mins
Reduce cycle time from 28 days to 6 days
Implement CD pipeline for the staging environment
Automate all deployment steps
OKRs to migrate to a new technology
Our JS codebase has migrated to TypeScript
Reduce the use of "any" type by 30%
75% of our JS repositories are now using TypeScript
80% of frontend developers have gone through TypeScript training
OKRs to achieve great performance and reliability
Achieve amazing performance with a world-class infrastructure
Increase Apdex from 0.7 to 0.98
Add a CDN in front of resources
Implement caching wherever possible
Minify scripts and CSS
Improve crash free sessions from 75% to 95%
Reduce core pages load time to be under 3s
Reduce the number of paged issues by 40%
Identify and fix top 10 recurring issues
OKRs to increase code quality
Demonstrate incredible standards in code quality
100% of pull requests are reviewed by 2 developers
75% of the developers have gone through QA training
100% of repositories are using code linting and static code analysis
Reduce the percentage of QA-related broken builds by 60%
OKRs to deliver great user experience
Significantly improve the user experience through better performance
Decrease the number of production exceptions by 45%
Accelerate customer instance cold start time from 2min to 10s
Reduce API response time from 900ms to 450ms
Improve NPS from 15 to 35
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How to track your OKRs?
It's important to establish a cadence of check-ins for your OKRs for Developers.
Quarterly OKRs should have weekly updates to get all the benefits from the framework.
We recommend using a spreadsheet for your first OKRs cycle. You'll need to get familiar with the scoring and tracking first. Then, you can scale your OKRs process by using a proper OKRs-tracking tool for it.
Check out the 5 best OKR tracking templates to find the best way to monitor progress during the quarter.
OKRs resources
Here are a list of resources to help you adopt the Objectives and Key Results framework.
- To learn: Complete 2022 OKRs guide for Startups
- To implement: Flowing OKRs: 14 rules to simplify OKRs
- Blog posts: ODT Blog
- Success metrics: Success metrics examples