6 customisable OKR examples for Product Market Fit
What are Product Market Fit OKRs?
The Objective and Key Results (OKR) framework is a simple goal-setting methodology that was introduced at Intel by Andy Grove in the 70s. It became popular after John Doerr introduced it to Google in the 90s, and it's now used by teams of all sizes to set and track ambitious goals at scale.
Creating impactful OKRs can be a daunting task, especially for newcomers. Shifting your focus from projects to outcomes is key to successful planning.
We've tailored a list of OKRs examples for Product Market Fit to help you. You can look at any of the templates below to get some inspiration for your own goals.
If you want to learn more about the framework, you can read our OKR guide online.
Building your own Product Market Fit 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.
Our customisable Product Market Fit OKRs examples
You will find in the next section many different Product Market Fit Objectives and Key Results. We've included strategic initiatives in our templates to give you a better idea of the different between the key results (how we measure progress), and the initiatives (what we do to achieve the results).
Hope you'll find this helpful!
1. OKRs to achieve Product-Market Fit (PMF)
Achieve Product-Market Fit (PMF)
Acquire 50 new active users weekly to validate market demand
Improve referral program to incentivize existing users- Optimize website for user accessibility and engagement
- Develop and implement a strategic social media marketing plan
- Improve key product feature based on feedback to increase user retention by 20%
- Develop and implement the improvement strategy
- Analyze feedback for ideas to enhance the key product feature
- Monitor user retention rates for improvements
- Conduct 25 customer interviews to understand product usage and satisfaction
- Develop a comprehensive interview questionnaire
- Identify 25 customers who actively use the product
- Conduct and record customer interviews
2. OKRs to achieve product-market fit and expand market reach
- Achieve product-market fit and expand market reach
- Increase customer satisfaction level by 30% through product improvements
- Conduct surveys to identify areas of the product needing improvement
- Implement improvements and track customer satisfaction levels
- Develop a roadmap for product enhancements based on customer feedback
- Establish partnerships in two new markets and secure initial contracts
- Initiate business proposals with potential partners
- Identify potential partners in target markets
- Negotiate and secure initial contracts
- Increase product usage by 25% in the newly penetrated markets
- Offer promotional trials to entice initial usage
- Implement product training sessions for new consumers
- Launch targeted marketing campaigns to promote product awareness
3. OKRs to achieve product market fit under the Sean Ellis framework
- Achieve product market fit under the Sean Ellis framework
- Achieve 20% increase in customer retention due to added product value
- Improve customer service response times
- Implement customer feedback to enhance product features
- Develop loyalty programs for repeat customers
- Scale to secure 100 new weekly active users experiencing must-have product experience
- Foster referrals through an attractive incentive program
- Enhance user experience with spot-on must-have features
- Implement targeted online marketing to reach potential users
- Define and measure the primary product value metric by reaching 75% positive customer ratings
- Identify primary value metric of the product
- Develop a system to track customer ratings
- Implement strategies to achieve 75% positive feedback
4. OKRs to achieve Product-Market fit
- Achieve Product-Market fit
- 40% of new users are still active after 2 months
- Identify and build core missing features
- Talk to 20 leads and users
- Get a 40% score on Product-Market fit survey
- Send survey to existing beta users
- Create a product-market fit survey on Typeform
- Get 100 new leads every week
- Build a sustainable growth channel
- Establish referral program to turn successful users into advocates
5. OKRs to enhance product-market fit by conducting customer research and implementing user feedback
- Improve product-market fit by leveraging customer research and user feedback
- Measure the impact of the improvements on product-market fit by tracking user metrics
- Conduct in-depth interviews with 50 potential and existing customers
- Implement the top 3 product improvements within 3 weeks
- Analyze user feedback and identify the top 3 product improvements
6. OKRs to attain product market fit for our offering
- Attain product market fit for our offering
- Conduct 150 customer interviews to gather feedback about the product
- Conduct interviews and gather feedback
- Identify 150 customers willing to give feedback
- Prepare comprehensive interview guide
- Achieve a monthly churn rate lower than 5%
- Implement effective customer retention strategies
- Regularly monitor and analyze churn data
- Enhance customer service interactions
- Increase product active usage by 20%
- Launch a targeted in-app promotional campaign
- Develop engaging features based on user feedback and preferences
- Implement a comprehensive user onboarding program
Product Market Fit 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
The #1 role of OKRs is to help you and your team focus on what really matters. Business-as-usual activities will still be happening, but you do not need to track your entire roadmap in the 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
Don't fall into the set-and-forget trap. It is important to adopt a weekly check-in process to get the full value of your OKRs and make your strategy agile – otherwise this is nothing more than a reporting exercise.
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 Product Market Fit OKRs in a strategy map
The rules of OKRs are simple. Quarterly OKRs should be tracked weekly, and yearly OKRs should be tracked monthly. 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
Spreadsheets are enough to get started. Then, once you need to scale you can use a proper OKR platform to make things easier.
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 Product Market Fit OKR templates
We have more templates to help you draft your team goals and OKRs.
- OKRs to secure series A financing
- OKRs to enhance quote follow-up process
- OKRs to enhance Support Systems and Tools for data-driven decisions
- OKRs to enhance quality in document management processes
- OKRs to enhance technical design standards supervision for the team
- OKRs to implement robust third-party risk management system
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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