10 customisable OKR examples for Technical Developer

What are Technical Developer OKRs?

The OKR acronym stands for Objectives and Key Results. It's a goal-setting framework that was introduced at Intel by Andy Grove in the 70s, and it became popular after John Doerr introduced it to Google in the 90s. OKRs helps teams has a shared language to set ambitious goals and track progress towards them.

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 Technical Developer. Take a look at the templates below for inspiration and guidance.

If you want to learn more about the framework, you can read our OKR guide online.

Building your own Technical Developer 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:

• Use our free OKR generator
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Our customisable Technical Developer OKRs examples

We've added many examples of Technical Developer Objectives and Key Results, but we did not stop there. Understanding the difference between OKRs and projects is important, so we also added examples of strategic initiatives that relate to the OKRs.

Hope you'll find this helpful!

1. OKRs to enhance Webhooks Experience and Address Technical Debt

2. OKRs to become a proficient Front End technical lead

3. OKRs to minimize technical debt across all 100 crawlers

4. OKRs to achieve production readiness for MassBalancer ISCC EU feature

5. OKRs to develop a functional and user-friendly MVP

6. OKRs to tackle technical debt

7. OKRs to conduct website audit to fix technical SEO issues

8. OKRs to enhance the performance and usability of the technical website

9. OKRs to enhance Developer Quality

10. OKRs to enhance technical proficiency and efficiency in software development

Technical Developer 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

Having too many OKRs is the #1 mistake that teams make when adopting the framework. The problem with tracking too many competing goals is that it will be hard for your team to know what really matters.

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 OKRs

Tip #2: Commit to weekly OKR check-ins

Setting good goals can be challenging, but without regular check-ins, your team will struggle to make progress. We recommend that you track your OKRs weekly to get the full benefits from the framework.

Being able to see trends for your key results will also keep yourself honest.

Tability's check-ins will save you hours and increase transparency

Tip #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 Technical Developer OKRs in a strategy map

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. 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 OKRs

If 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 Technical Developer OKR templates

We have more templates to help you draft your team goals and OKRs.

• OKRs to enhance the efficiency and reliability of IT services
  it-efficiencycustomer-satisfactionit-managerservice-delivery-leadit-maintenance-teamcustomer-service-team
• OKRs to successfully scale up metering points for improved efficiency
  scalable-metering-pointserror-reductionmetering-point-managerscaling-process-supervisormetering-point-implementation-teamscaling-error-reduction-team
• OKRs to finalize and launch our product
  product-launchteam-coordinationproject-managersales-representativeproduct-development-teamsales-team
• OKRs to successfully launch and break-even via pre-sales
  pre-salesproduct-testingsales-and-marketing-managerproduct-testing-managersales-and-marketing-teamproduct-testing-team
• OKRs to enhance design skills and output
  design-skillstime-efficiencygraphic-designercourse-instructordesign-teamclient-service-team
• OKRs to boost brand recognition and awareness in desired market
  brand-recognitionseo-optimizationseo-specialistsocial-media-managermarketing-teamcontent-team

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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