8 OKR examples for Engineering Manager
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 Manager. 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 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
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.
Spreadsheets are enough to get started. Then, once you need to scale you can use a proper OKRs-tracking platform to make things easier.
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.
Engineering Manager OKRs templates
We've added Engineering Manager Objectives and Key Results, but also the initiatives that relate to the OKRs.
OKRs to allocate resources to refactor high-priority tech debt
Reduce technical debt by allocating resources effectively
Implement best practices to avoid future high-priority tech debt accumulation- Achieve a reduction in high-priority tech debt items by 25%
- Establish a clear plan for refactoring high-priority tech debt items
- Prioritize high-priority tech debt items for resource allocation
OKRs to reduce critical tech debt by 50% in six months
- Minimize tech debt
- Develop a plan of action to address targeted tech debt items
- Prioritize critical tech debt items
- Conduct a thorough tech debt analysis
- Implement new development standards to prevent tech debt accumulation
OKRs to enhance workflow efficiency and productivity
- Enhance workflow efficiency and productivity
- Implement at least 3 significant improvements identified from the workflow analysis
Develop strategies to implement these improvements efficiently- Evaluate success of implemented improvements periodically
- Prioritize the 3 top improvements identified from workflow analysis
- Reduce workflow steps or stages by 10% to streamline operations
- Implement new workflow and analyze for efficiency improvement
- Review and analyze current processes for unnecessary stages
- Develop a revised workflow eliminating redundant steps
- Increase process efficiency by 20% through process re-engineering
- Identify bottlenecks in the current process
- Train staff on newly engineered process
- Develop a streamlined process blueprint
OKRs to achieve optimal efficiency in engineering operations
- Achieve optimal efficiency in engineering operations
- Lower engineering error rates by 10% through enhanced quality control measures
- Regularly monitor and review error reports
- Conduct regular training for quality control measures
- Implement rigorous testing protocols for every engineering process
- Reduce operation downtime by 20% through improved preventative maintenance procedures
- Implement strict equipment servicing and inspection schedules
- Develop detailed preventative maintenance protocols
- Train personnel in efficient troubleshooting techniques
- Increase operational efficiency by 15% via process improvement initiatives
- Implement new strategies to streamline processes
- Regularly assess and adjust improvements for optimal efficiency
- Identify inefficiencies in current operational procedures
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 system availability to achieve 999% uptime
- Increase system uptime
- Improve system redundancy and failover capabilities
- Use load balancing to distribute traffic across multiple servers
- Create backup systems in different geographic locations
- Regularly test failover and recovery processes
- Implement automated failover mechanisms
- Implement proactive system monitoring
- Regularly review system metrics and identify areas for improvement
- Define and create alerts for critical system events
- Develop a process for reviewing and responding to alerts
- Set up monitoring tools for infrastructure
- Increase system performance by 25%
- Upgrade hardware and software components as per audit recommendations
- Conduct a system audit to identify bottlenecks and inefficient processes
- Optimize system settings and configurations to reduce resource consumption
- Implement a system monitoring and alert system to minimize downtime
- Decrease unplanned downtime by 50%
- Conduct regular equipment inspections
- Increase spare parts inventory
- Improve operator training on equipment maintenance
- Implement predictive maintenance program
OKRs to improve satisfaction and find improvements for engineering stakeholders
- Improve satisfaction and find improvements for engineering stakeholders
- Identify and initiate 3 actionable improvement opportunities from stakeholder feedback
- Analyze feedback for actionable improvement opportunities
- Formulate 3 improvement initiatives and implement plans
- Gather and categorize feedback from all stakeholders
- Increase stakeholder satisfaction rate by 25% as measured by quarterly surveys
- Develop a comprehensive customer feedback system
- Implement regular training sessions for customer service
- Enhance communication between teams and stakeholders
- Reduce issue resolution time by 20% to boost stakeholder content
- Invest in regular team training to improve technical skills
- Enhance team communication for quick problem identification and resolution
- Implement efficient project management tools for faster issue tracking
OKRs to improve software engineering skills through effective time management
- Improve software engineering skills through effective time management
- Increase the number of completed coding tasks by 20% each week
- Identify and address any obstacles or challenges that may hinder coding task completion
- Enhance collaboration and communication among team members for efficient task completion
- Provide regular feedback and support to assist in completing coding tasks
- Set clear and achievable coding task goals for each team member
- Improve adherence to project deadlines by delivering work on time in 90% of cases
- Implement effective communication strategies to address obstacles and ensure timely completion
- Set clear and realistic deadlines for each project task
- Prioritize tasks and create a detailed schedule to ensure timely delivery
- Regularly track progress and provide updates to stakeholders to maintain accountability
- Reduce time spent on non-essential activities by 15% during work hours
- Set specific time limits for non-essential tasks to ensure efficient completion
- Prioritize and eliminate non-essential activities based on their impact and importance
- Identify non-essential activities taking up significant time during work hours
- Regularly assess and adjust the allocation of time to non-essential activities as needed
- Attend and actively participate in at least 2 time management workshops or webinars
- Research and identify 2 time management workshops or webinars
- Apply the learned time management techniques in daily activities for improved efficiency
- Take thorough notes during the workshops or webinars for future reference
- Register for the selected workshops or webinars to secure a spot
More OKR templates
We have more templates to help you draft your team goals and OKRs.
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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