15 customisable OKR examples for Project Efficiency
What are Project Efficiency 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 Project Efficiency 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 Project Efficiency 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.
Feel free to explore our tools:
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Our customisable Project Efficiency OKRs examples
You will find in the next section many different Project Efficiency 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 improve efficiency and effectiveness in project delivery
Improve efficiency and effectiveness in project delivery
Decrease project overhead costs by 5%
Identify and eliminate non-essential project expenses- Improve efficiency in project management practices
- Negotiate better rates with vendors/suppliers
- Reduce project delivery time by 10%
- Prioritize training of team members for improved productivity
- Streamline communication channels to hasten decision-making
- Implement advanced project management tools for increased efficiency
- Increase project completion rate by 15%
- Prioritize and streamline tasks based on their importance and deadlines
- Improve team communication and clarity on project objectives
- Implement regular progress monitoring and provide necessary feedback
2. OKRs to improve efficiency in meeting deadlines and deliverables
- Improve efficiency in meeting deadlines and deliverables
- Improve timely deliveries by delivering 90% of projects ahead of schedule
- Train staff on time management techniques
- Implement project management tools for effective scheduling
- Regularly monitor and adjust project timelines
- Reduce task completion time beyond deadlines by 40%
- Implement strict time management strategies
- Use project management tools for efficient tracking
- Streamline processes to eliminate unnecessary steps
- Enhance project management skills by completing a certified course in the quarter
- Research suitable project management certification courses
- Complete and pass the certification course
- Enroll in chosen certification course
3. OKRs to enhance project completion rate to boost awarded projects
- Enhance project completion rate to boost awarded projects
- Develop and implement a robust project tracking system by 20% to prevent delays
- Select system and devise implementation plan
- Research available project tracking systems
- Train team on new tracking system
- Increase team productivity by 15% through effective resource allocation and training
- Successfully allocate resources, balancing workloads for optimized productivity
- Identify gaps in team skill sets and implement targeted training initiatives
- Track progress weekly, promptly adjust strategies as needed
- Improve communication efficiency with clients to ensure 100% on-time submission
- Facilitate training on effective and prompt communication techniques
- Schedule regular follow-ups to ensure timely submissions
- Implement a system to track client communication and submission dates
4. OKRs to ensure timely completion of all designated projects
- Ensure timely completion of all designated projects
- Enhance project management efficiency by 30% using advanced tracking tools
- Train project managers on new tool usage
- Research and identify suitable advanced tracking tools
- Implement selected tracking tool into management process
- Reduce elapsed project timeframe by 20% through streamlining processes
- Implement efficient and automated work processes
- Train staff on new streamlined procedures
- Identify bottlenecks and unnecessary steps in current processes
- Complete 100% of projects without exceeding preset deadlines
- Prioritize tasks based on importance and deadline
- Implement effective project management strategies
- Daily review and update of project progress
5. OKRs to ensure consistent project progress
- Ensure consistent project progress
- Reduce project milestone delays by 15%
- Increase communication and collaboration among team members
- Regularly monitor and update task progression
- Implement a consistent, detailed project schedule
- Increase weekly deliverables completion rate by 20%
- Review existing workflows for areas of inefficiency
- Implement deadline reminders and progress check-ins
- Provide training for enhanced productivity tools
- Improve team communication efficiency by optimizing weekly meetings
- Allocate specific speaking time to each participant
- Implement clear post-meeting follow-up procedures
- Develop clear, concise agenda for each weekly meeting
6. OKRs to streamline project management for timely delivery
- Streamline project management for timely delivery
- Implement a project tracking system for real-time monitoring and status updates
- Install and configure selected tracking system
- Research available project tracking systems and select appropriate one
- Train team on using tracking system
- Reduce existing project completion timelines by 20%
- Streamline work processes to reduce time-consuming steps
- Utilize project management tools for efficiency
- Implement more focused, effective team meetings
- Achieve 100% completion of intermediary milestones within scheduled deadlines
- Implement efficient workflow strategies for timely task execution
- Monitor progress regularly to ensure completion within deadlines
- Develop a detailed project timeline with intermediary milestones
7. OKRs to enhance and streamline stakeholder management as a developer
- Enhance and streamline stakeholder management as a developer
- Increase stakeholder satisfaction by 20% through effective communication and project efficiency
- Improve project management tools to enhance efficiency
- Conduct regular feedback sessions to address stakeholders' concerns
- Implement weekly project status updates for all stakeholders
- Implement personalized weekly progress updates for all key stakeholders
- Schedule and send weekly email updates
- Develop a personalized update template
- Identify key stakeholders for weekly progress updates
- Resolve and document 100% of stakeholder queries or concerns within 48 hours
- Develop a streamlined process for addressing stakeholder queries
- Assign stakeholders concerns to relevant team members immediately
- Consistently update and maintain a query resolution documentation system
8. OKRs to enhance business analysis skills and strategies
- Enhance business analysis skills and strategies
- Improve current project efficiency by 15% using new business analysis techniques
- Implement effective techniques into current project workflow
- Monitor and measure impact on project efficiency
- Research latest business analysis techniques suitable for the project
- Deliver 1 impactful presentation on learned business analysis concepts to team
- Develop a presentation on key business analysis concepts
- Practice presentation for cogent verbal delivery
- Schedule a team meeting to present findings
- Complete 2 relevant professional courses in business analysis
- Identify two professional courses in business analysis
- Register for the selected courses
- Conscientiously finish and complete both courses
9. OKRs to enhance efficiency and productivity in development within the team
- Enhance efficiency and productivity in development within the team
- Improve problem-solving capabilities by 40% in resolving coding issues
- Seek mentorship from senior coders for guidance
- Practice resolving issues with more complex code
- Enroll in advanced coding and problem-solving workshops
- Deliver four high-quality projects within agreed upon timelines and standards
- Maintain continual progress monitoring for quality assurance
- Establish clear timelines and standards for each project
- Implement effective communication amongst project team members
- Increase engagement and participation in weekly team development reviews by 100%
- Send reminder notifications prior to weekly development review meetings
- Incentivize active participation with rewards recognizing valuable input
- Ensure agenda topics are relevant and engaging for all team members
10. OKRs to increase operational efficiency significantly
- Increase operational efficiency significantly
- Reduce processing time for all department workflows by 20%
- Train staff in time management techniques
- Analyze current workflows to identify inefficiencies
- Implement process automation where possible
- Increase on-time project completions by 30%
- Conduct frequent progress checks and adjustments if necessary
- Implement strict project scheduling and timeline management strategies
- Enhance communication between team members for better coordination
- Decrease operational errors by 15% through process improvements and training
- Implement and enforce new procedures to ensure compliance and accuracy
- Develop a comprehensive training program for all staff members
- Identify common operational mistakes through rigorous process analysis
11. OKRs to enhance IT operational efficiency through data-driven innovations
- Enhance IT operational efficiency through data-driven innovations
- Implement 2 new data-driven tools to ensure 10% faster project delivery
- Research top-rated data-driven tools for project management
- Train team on new tool integration and usage
- Monitor project delivery speed improvements regularly
- Increase the use of automated processes by 20% to reduce manual work
- Identify tasks that can be automated efficiently
- Invest in higher-quality automation software
- Train staff on implementing these automated processes
- Decrease IT incident response time by 15% through predictive analytics
- Regularly review analytics to optimize incident response
- Train IT staff on predictive analytics tools' usage
- Implement predictive analytics software in the IT department
12. OKRs to cultivate an environment encouraging autonomy, entrepreneurial spirit and swift decision-making
- Cultivate an environment encouraging autonomy, entrepreneurial spirit and swift decision-making
- Decrease decision-making time by 30%, as measured by project timeframes
- Utilize data-driven project management tools
- Implement a streamlined decision-making process
- Provide regular training to improve efficiency
- Launch an internal entrepreneurship challenge, with a minimum 50% staff participation
- Create incentive/rewards program to promote 50% staff participation
- Announce challenge and guidelines to all staff via company-wide communication
- Regularly track and report participation rates to encourage involvement
- Implement training sessions targeting autonomy and independent decision-making for 75% of the staff
- Develop skill-specific training sessions focused on independence
- Identify 75% of staff likely to benefit from autonomy training
- Schedule and execute training sessions for identified staff members
13. OKRs to enhance collaboration and performance in the marketing team
- Enhance collaboration and performance in the marketing team
- Increase the number of joint projects by 50% to promote collaboration
- Follow-up aggressively on project proposals until closure
- Identify potential partners for collaboration in shared fields
- Propose joint-venture ideas to potential partner organizations
- Improve overall project efficiency by 30% through streamlined team processes
- Implement a robust project management software for better task tracking
- Conduct workshops to enhance team collaboration and communication skills
- Regularly review and refine team processes to boost productivity
- Implement fortnightly team-building activities to enhance cooperation by 20%
- Schedule bi-weekly team-building sessions within work hours
- Monitor and measure cooperation progress post-activity
- Identify engaging team-building activities suitable for all team members
14. OKRs to enhance technical proficiency and efficiency in software development
- Enhance technical proficiency and efficiency in software development
- Improve code efficiency by reducing average debugging time by 25%
- Implement regular peer code reviews to catch errors early
- Provide training on more advanced debugging tools
- Adopt test-driven development practices
- Complete four advanced programming courses relevant to job role
- Enroll in the identified courses
- Identify four advanced programming courses relevant to job role
- Consistently engage in coursework until completion
- Implement at least three new features in the ongoing project, positively impacting user experience
- Identify three potential enhancements based on user feedback
- Code and test the new features thoroughly
- Deploy updates and collect user feedback
15. OKRs to enhance operational efficiency in workflows
- Enhance operational efficiency in workflows
- Train 80% of the team on new efficiency-focused strategies and tools
- Organize training sessions for team members
- Follow up on the progress and understanding of trained team members
- Identify appropriate efficiency-focused strategies and tools for training
- Cut down on unnecessary tasks by 15% through process reevaluation
- Identify and list all current tasks
- Evaluate necessity and efficiency of each task
- Implement changes to reduce unnecessary tasks
- Reduce process cycle times by 10% using automation tools
- Continuously monitor and optimize automated processes
- Implement appropriate automation tools
- Identify processes that can be efficiently automated
Project Efficiency 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 Project Efficiency 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
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 OKR-tracking tool for it.
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 Project Efficiency 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: What is the meaning of OKRs
- Blog posts: ODT Blog
- Success metrics: KPIs examples
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