15 customisable OKR examples for Technical Team
What are Technical Team 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.
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 Team. 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 Team 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 Technical Team OKRs examples
You will find in the next section many different Technical Team 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 enhance HR capabilities in conducting technical interviews
Enhance HR capabilities in conducting technical interviews
Increase HR team's interview-to-offer ratio to 60% by end of next quarter
Implement a thorough screening process before scheduling interviews- Organize structured interview training for HR team
- Review and improve job descriptions for clarity
- Provide training to HR team on 10 technical concepts per month
- Identify essential technical concepts for HR team
- Schedule regular training sessions for HR team
- Develop engaging training materials for these concepts
- Develop and implement a standardized technical interview process by week 6
- Identify core competencies needed for technical roles
- Create a standardized interview structure
- Train interviewers on the new process
2. OKRs to attain the position of Technical Program Management Director
- Attain the position of Technical Program Management Director
- Increase team's KPI achievement by 15%
- Boost employee motivation through incentives
- Implement regular team goal-setting and tracking sessions
- Enhance training programs to improve skillset
- Successfully lead five cross-functional projects, improving completion rate by 20%
- Identify and assemble cross-functional project teams
- Implement and monitor project management strategies
- Establish clear project goals and timelines
- Complete advanced leadership course for relevant career development
- Enroll in a suitable course based on relevance to career
- Research available advanced leadership courses online
- Complete all coursework and assessments on schedule
3. OKRs to enhance communication and technical proficiency in customer interactions
- Enhance communication and technical proficiency in customer interactions
- Complete advanced customer communication training with 90% score
- Register for advanced customer communication training course
- Successfully achieve 90% score on the final test
- Dedicate time to study and practice the coursework
- Resolve 95% of technical issues faced by customers within first contact
- Hire and train skilled technical support specialists
- Implement effective customer issue tracking system
- Develop comprehensive resolution procedures
- Receive a customer satisfaction rate of at least 85% on tech-related queries
- Develop a reliable and efficient customer query response system
- Implement extensive tech training for all customer service representatives
- Regularly update FAQs and guidelines based on common tech-related queries
4. OKRs to improve efficiency in client and team management
- Improve efficiency in client and team management
- Increase client satisfaction by 10% as evidenced by quarterly survey responses
- Implement regular client follow-ups to address potential issues
- Evaluate and streamline communication processes for client efficiency
- Provide staff with customer service training to improve interactions
- Enhance team output by 15% through implementation of structured weekly check-ins
- Train team on effective check-in strategies
- Monitor and measure output increase weekly
- Establish a weekly check-ins system for the team
- Achieve a 20% decrease in resolution time for client-reported software issues
- Provide ongoing technical training for the customer service team
- Establish a priority-based resolution system
- Implement more efficient issue-tracking software
5. OKRs to improve efficiency in design and technical drawing management
- Improve efficiency in design and technical drawing management
- Reduce drawing approval time by 25% through process optimization
- Streamline communication between teams
- Implement faster digital drawing approval software
- Train staff in efficient drawing approval practices
- Implement a new drawing management platform, achieving 90% user adoption rate
- Launch an internal marketing campaign promoting new platform usage
- Research and select an appropriate drawing management platform
- Develop comprehensive user training and onboarding materials
- Complete 100% of design projects without exceeding initial budget
- Prepare precise budget breakdown before starting projects
- Review and approve all purchasing decisions carefully
- Continually monitor and control project expenses
6. OKRs to launch a functional business intelligence platform
- Launch a functional business intelligence platform
- Develop a prototype with minimum viable features in 6 weeks
- Identify and outline key minimum viable features
- Allocate tasks among team members
- Start rapid prototyping and iterative testing
- Define and finalize technical specifications within 3 weeks
- Review, adjust, and approve final technical specifications
- Prepare draft of detailed technical specifications
- Identify necessary technical aspects and requirements
- Gain initial user feedback by conducting testing with 20 people
- Identify 20 people willing to participate in product testing
- Prepare and administer a feedback questionnaire post-testing
- Analyze and report the feedback gathered from participants
7. OKRs to implement Cloud-Ready Applications
- Implement Cloud-Ready Applications
- Achieve 99% uptime in cloud environment across all migrated applications
- Conduct regular preventive maintenance and system audits
- Implement redundant systems to prevent a single point of failure
- Monitor and resolve issues promptly with a 24/7 technical support team
- Complete successful migration of 1 pilot application to cloud platform
- Develop and document cloud-focused architecture for 3 current key applications
- Develop cloud-focused architecture for each application
- Identify three key applications for cloud-based transformation
- Document the newly developed architectures
8. OKRs to enhance technical design standards supervision for the team
- Enhance technical design standards supervision for the team
- Increase the team's compliance with technical design standards by 30%
- Develop regular technical design standards training sessions
- Implement a robust standards compliance check process
- Regularly update team on new/adjusted design standards
- Conduct weekly audits, ensuring 100% coverage of all design projects
- Schedule consistent weekly audits for all design projects
- Check completeness of each design project during audits
- Document and report any discrepancies or issues found
- Implement an updated set of design standards by 20% within the quarter
- Develop a comprehensive update plan for design standards
- Assess current design standards for potential improvements
- Implement newly enhanced design standards
9. OKRs to mitigate potential technical vulnerabilities in our system
- Mitigate potential technical vulnerabilities in our system
- Identify and record a 30% decrease in system vulnerabilities by implementing regular audits
- Document all identified vulnerabilities
- Establish routine system vulnerability audits
- Monitor and record any 30% decrease in vulnerabilities
- Reduce incident recovery time by 25% through improved contingency planning
- Regularly train staff on incident response procedures
- Monitor and revise the plan based on incident feedback
- Develop a comprehensive contingency plan for various incidents
- Enhance system resilience by successfully completing 100% of planned technical upgrades
- Develop a comprehensive schedule for all planned technical upgrades
- Execute technical upgrades as per the schedule
- Conduct post-upgrade system checks and maintenance
10. OKRs to improve Stability of E-commerce Platform
- Improve Stability of E-commerce Platform
- Achieve a 95% uptime rate for payment processing services by collaborating with reliable payment service providers
- Decrease platform downtime by 20% through infrastructure upgrades and proactive monitoring
- Upgrade critical infrastructure components to ensure better performance and increased reliability
- Establish regular maintenance and testing schedules to minimize unexpected downtime occurrences
- Implement improved monitoring systems to detect potential issues and address them proactively
- Conduct infrastructure analysis to identify areas requiring upgrades for minimizing downtime
- Increase average page load speed by 15% through performance optimization techniques
- Optimize and compress images to reduce their file sizes
- Enable cache settings to store static content and speed up page loading
- Reduce server response time by optimizing database queries and code efficiency
- Minimize the number of HTTP requests by combining CSS and JavaScript files
- Reduce customer support tickets related to technical issues by 25% through bug fixes and system improvements
- Conduct thorough analysis of customer support tickets to identify common technical issues
- Collaborate with development team to prioritize and address identified bugs for resolution
- Implement regular system maintenance and updates to prevent potential technical issues
- Enhance user interface and provide clear instructions for self-help troubleshooting on customer portal
11. OKRs to enhance the effectiveness of vulnerability management services for customers
- Enhance the effectiveness of vulnerability management services for customers
- Increase customer satisfaction rate by 20% through improved service response time
- Adopt a robust customer relationship management software
- Implement efficient customer service training for all staff members
- Regularly review and improve service protocols
- Train 90% of the team on advanced vulnerability management techniques to improve service quality
- Identify team members lacking in advanced vulnerability management skills
- Arrange training sessions on advanced vulnerability management techniques
- Evaluate and track the team members' progress post-training
- Implement a new vulnerability detection tool to reduce undetected threats by 15%
- Train relevant staff on tool operation and interpretation
- Monitor and periodically evaluate tool efficacy
- Research and select a suitable vulnerability detection tool
12. OKRs to successful migration of accounts to the new portal
- Successful migration of accounts to the new portal
- Train 90% of customers on the new portal's usage and features by end of the quarter
- Follow up with customers post-webinar to assess learning and reinforce training
- Develop comprehensive training materials for the new portal's usage and features
- Schedule and conduct training webinars for customers on new portal
- Achieve 70% accounts migration within the first month of the quarter
- Monitor migration process, rectify any issues promptly
- Identify all transition-ready accounts for migration
- Develop and implement a comprehensive migration strategy
- Minimize migration-related customer complaints to less than 5%
- Provide detailed migration guide to customers
- Implement comprehensive pre-migration customer communication
- Enhance post-migration customer support services
13. OKRs to enhance efficiency of chargeback recovery process
- Enhance efficiency of chargeback recovery process
- Reduce chargeback dispute resolution time by at least 20%
- Streamline internal communication processes
- Conduct regular training for resolution team
- Implement automated dispute management software
- Increase the percentage of successful chargeback recoveries by 30%
- Optimize communication with customers during disputes
- Implement rigorous dispute management procedures and policies
- Train staff on efficient chargeback handling strategies
- Implement a new chargeback automation system reducing manual tasks by 50%
- Research and select a suitable chargeback automation system
- Coordinate system installation and configure settings
- Train staff on new system usage and procedures
14. OKRs to enhance Webhooks Experience and Address Technical Debt
- Enhance Webhooks Experience and Address Technical Debt
- Increase webhook delivery success rate by 10% through optimized error handling
- Enhance webhook monitoring and alerting system to promptly identify and investigate delivery failures
- Improve error response messaging to provide clear instructions for troubleshooting and resolving issues
- Analyze webhook error logs to identify common errors and create specific error handling strategies
- Implement automated retry mechanism to resend failed webhook deliveries in case of temporary errors
- Reduce webhook response time by 20% by streamlining and optimizing the underlying technology
- Reduce technical debt by resolving 50% of identified issues through prioritized backlog refinements
- Implement automated testing for webhooks to ensure compatibility and reduce regression issues
- Integrate the automated testing framework with the existing webhook infrastructure
- Continuously monitor and analyze test results to identify and address any compatibility issues
- Research and select a suitable automated testing framework for webhooks
- Develop a comprehensive test suite for webhooks to cover all possible scenarios
15. OKRs to elevate my technical execution proficiency
- Elevate my technical execution proficiency
- Complete at least 4 industry relevant certification courses
- Deliver 3 complex projects using learned technical skills without major issues
- Monitor progress closely, solving issues promptly
- Allocate resources and teams for each complex project efficiently
- Establish a comprehensive project timeline and checkpoints
- Get positive feedback on improved technical skills from 5 different team members
- Actively utilize improved skills in team projects
- Request feedback from team members
- Enhance technical skills through training or self-learning
Technical Team 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
Focus can only be achieve by limiting the number of competing priorities. It is crucial that you take the time to identify where you need to move the needle, and avoid adding business-as-usual activities to your 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
Having good goals is only half the effort. You'll get significant more value from your OKRs if you commit to a weekly check-in process.
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 Technical Team OKRs in a strategy map
Quarterly OKRs should have weekly updates to get all the 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 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 Technical Team OKR templates
We have more templates to help you draft your team goals and OKRs.
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- OKRs to enhance collaboration and stimulate thought leadership
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- OKRs to improve Security Operation Centre Incident Response
- OKRs to enhance performance and efficiency of SharePoint Online Storage service
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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