Engineering OKRs
OKRs are quickly gaining popularity as a goal-setting framework. But, it's not always easy to know how to write your goals, especially if it's your first time using OKRs.
To aid you in setting your goals, we have compiled a collection of OKR examples customized for Engineering. Take a look at the templates below for inspiration and guidance.
If you want to learn more about the framework, you can read more about the meaning of OKRs online.
Examples of OKRs for Engineering
The examples have Engineering Objectives and Key Results, but they may also include the tasks that can help you get there.
You'll find 5 OKRs examples for Engineering 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 reduce technical debt
- Reduce significantly the technical debt in our platform
- Dedicated 20% of our sprint effort to tackling technical debt
- Close 40 issues tagged as technical debt
- Boost application performance by 40% as a result of the debt culling
OKRs to improve the quality of the data
- Significantly improve the quality of the data
- Reduce the number of data capture errors by 30%
- Reduce delay for data availability from 24h to 4h
- Close top 10 issues relating to data accuracy
OKRs to reduce the cost of integrating data sources
- Reduce the cost of data integration
- Decrease the time to integrate new data sources from 2 days to 4h
- Migrate data sources to Segment
- Create a shared library to streamline integrations
- Reduce the time to create new dashboards from 4 days to <1h
- Adopt BI tool to allow users to create their own dashboards
- 10 teams have used successfully a self-serve dashboard creation system
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
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How to track your OKRs?
It's important to establish a cadence of check-ins for your OKRs for Engineering.
OKRs without regular progress updates are just KPIs. You'll need to update progress on your OKRs every week to get the full benefits from the framework.
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.
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