18 OKR examples for Developers
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 OKR meaning online.
Best practices for OKR
Your objectives should be ambitious, but achievable. Your key results should be measurable and time-bound. It can also be helfpul to list strategic initiatives under your key results, as it'll help you avoid the common mistake of listing projects in your KRs.
Building your own OKRs with AI
While we have some examples below, it's likely that you'll have specific scenarios that aren't covered here. There are 2 options available to you.
- Use our free OKRs generator
- Use Tability, a complete platform to set and track OKRs and initiatives – including a GPT-4 powered goal generator
How to track OKRs
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.
We recommend Tability for an easy way to set and track OKRs with your team.
Check out the 5 best OKR tracking templates to find the best way to monitor progress during the quarter.
Developers OKRs templates
The examples have Developers Objectives and Key Results, but they may also include the tasks that can help you get there.
OKRs to eliminate high-risk tech debt over the next year
Reduce high-risk tech debt to improve system stability
Conduct a thorough analysis to measure the impact of eliminating each high-risk tech debt item- Outline and prioritize initiatives to eliminate each high-risk tech debt item
- Complete the elimination of at least 50% of high-risk tech debt items
- Identify top 10 high-risk tech debt items
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 enforce coding standards to prevent new tech debt
- Standardize coding practices for debt reduction
- Conduct training sessions to educate all team members
- Reduce tech debt backlog by 50% through enforcement of standards
- Develop and implement updated coding standards
- Conduct quarterly reviews to ensure adherence to standards
OKRs to reduce app loading time by 20%
- Improve app loading time
- Identify key performance bottlenecks
- Conduct app performance analysis
- Implement code optimization techniques
- Test app performance after optimizations
OKRs to develop and launch a new API for the CAD company
- Develop and launch a new API for the CAD company
- Receive positive feedback and testimonials from beta testers and early adopters
- Share positive feedback and testimonials on social media platforms and company website
- Offer incentives, such as discounts or freebies, to encourage beta testers and early adopters to provide feedback and testimonials
- Create a feedback form to collect positive experiences and testimonials from users
- Send personalized email to beta testers and early adopters requesting feedback and testimonials
- Complete the API design and documentation, incorporating all required functionalities
- Successfully implement API integration with multiple CAD software applications
- Provide training and support to users for effectively utilizing the integrated APIs
- Test the API integration with each CAD software application to ensure seamless functionality
- Develop a comprehensive documentation for the API integration process with each CAD software application
- Identify and research the CAD software applications that require API integration
- Achieve a minimum of 95% API uptime during the testing and deployment phase
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 successfully launch the tech startup
- Successfully launch the tech startup
- Secure funding from at least three investors by increasing company visibility
- Enhance online presence through social media and optimized website
- Participate in industry networking events
- Develop a compelling investor presentation
- Develop, test and launch the MVP (minimum viable product) targeting user validation
- Design and develop the minimum viable product
- Carry out rigorous testing and fixing of the MVP
- Launch MVP and collect user validation data
- Hire and onboard five skilled developers to establish the product team
- Create a detailed job description for developer positions
- Promote vacancies on targeted recruitment platforms
- Develop a comprehensive onboarding program
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 improve content conversion rates through A/B testing
- Increase content conversion rates through A/B testing
- Reduce bounce rate by 10% on tested content
- Run 10 A/B tests on website content
- Achieve a 15% increase in conversion rate
- Implement winning variations on all website content
OKRs to enhance product quality and decrease bugs
- Enhance product quality and decrease bugs
- Increase customer satisfaction survey score by at least 10 points
- Regularly ask for customer feedback and make improvements
- Train customer service reps in empathy and communication
- Implement a strategy for efficient after-sales customer service
- Implement automated testing for all critical functionalities
- Identify all critical functionalities requiring automated testing
- Execute tests and troubleshoot issues identified
- Develop automated testing scripts for these functions
- Decrease bugs by 25% compared to current version
- Enhance debugging tools to identify hidden bugs
- Implement rigorous testing procedures before code deployment
- Encourage developers to regularly perform code reviews
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 improve mobile app reusability throughout the organization
- Improve mobile app reusability throughout the organization
- Conduct training for 100% of developers on efficient app component reusability practices
- Develop a comprehensive reusability practices training program
- Monitor and evaluate the training's effectiveness
- Schedule training sessions for all developers
- Reduce app feature duplication by 80% through consolidation efforts
- Implement the consolidation plan in the app
- Create a concise plan for feature consolidation
- Identify features with duplication in the app
- Implement shared framework to universalize 75% of mobile app functionalities
- Integrate framework into 75% of mobile apps
- Develop a shared framework integrating these commonalities
- Identify common functionalities across existing mobile apps
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
More OKR templates
We have more templates to help you draft your team goals and OKRs.
- OKRs to establish comprehensive voice of customer reports
- OKRs to raise Customer Score and Customer Engagement Rate
- OKRs to enhance accuracy of AI bot through quarterly FAQ updates
- OKRs to enhance customer engagement and satisfaction in the existing client base
- OKRs to improve Employee Retention
- OKRs to improve lead generation through effective lead capture strategies
OKRs resources
Here are a list of resources to help you adopt the Objectives and Key Results framework.
- To learn: Complete 2024 OKR cheat sheet
- Blog posts: ODT Blog
- Success metrics: KPIs examples