Succeeding with OKRs in Agile
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Last updated on 2020-09-01
About the Book
Popularised by Google and Intel OKRs - objectives and key results - are an increasingly popular approach to agreeing goals in, and across, teams. In this book we look what OKRs are and how the approach can be combined with agile.
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Table of Contents
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- Work in Progress
- About you, my reader
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I Why OKRs
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1. Why use OKRs?
- 1.1 Focus
- 1.2 Mid-term planning
- 1.3 Test Driven OKRs
- 1.4 Communication
- 1.5 Warning
- 1.6 Summary
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2. Strategy is more important in agile
- 2.1 Agile makes strategy more important
- 2.2 Opportunity cost
- 2.3 What not to do
- 2.4 Not forgetting the technology
- 2.5 Shared mental model
- 2.6 Team cohesion
- 2.7 Summary
- 3. A little OKR history
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1. Why use OKRs?
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II Writing OKRs
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4. Outcome, value, benefit
- 4.1 Benefit
- 4.2 Value
- 4.3 Nature of value
- 4.4 Outcomes not to-dos
- 4.5 Summary
- 5. What is value?
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6. Writing OKRs
- 6.1 Team setting
- 6.2 Limited number
- 6.3 Priority
- 6.4 Effort
- 6.5 Avoid planning by OKR
- 6.6 Trouble with pre-work
- 6.7 When to set
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7. Objectives
- 7.1 Background analysis
- 7.2 Value
- 7.3 Obvious value
- 7.4 Wide objectives
- 7.5 Feature factories
- 7.6 One for the team
- 7.7 Testing trouble
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8. Key results
- 8.1 Example
- 8.2 Test driven
- 8.3 Binary or analogue?
- 8.4 Summary
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9. Key result tricks
- 9.1 Experiments
- 9.2 Time-boxed
- 9.3 Survey
- 9.4 Knowing when to stop
- 9.5 Summary
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10. OKR planning cycle
- 10.1 When to set
- 10.2 Start late
- 10.3 End of quarter review
- 10.4 Product Owner
- 10.5 Summary
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4. Outcome, value, benefit
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III Working with OKRs
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11. Organizing to deliver OKRs
- 11.1 OKRs everywhere
- 11.2 Sprint planning with OKRs
- 11.3 Traffic lights and status
- 11.4 Summary
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12. OKRs and The Backlog
- 12.1 OKRs not backlogs
- 12.2 Backlog First
- 12.3 OKRs First
- 12.4 Return of the Sprint Goal
- 12.5 Summary
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13. BAU “Keeping the lights on”
- 13.1 Option 1: Suppress BAU
- 13.2 Option 2: Reduce/remove BAU
- 13.3 Option 3: Make BAU better
- 13.4 Option 4: Objective Zero, add BAU
- 13.5 Downside
- 13.6 Summary
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14. Executing against OKRs
- 14.1 Keeping focus
- 14.2 Prioritise
- 14.3 Visual display
- 14.4 Revisit often: Sprint planning
- 14.5 Time slice
- 14.6 Summary
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15. Going off-piste
- 15.1 Unplanned but valuable
- 15.2 Prepare for the unexpected
- 15.3 Track distractions
- 15.4 Summary
- 16. Joining up OKRs and other planning TODO
- 17. Measuring OKRs TODO
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11. Organizing to deliver OKRs
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IV Problems with OKRs
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18. Aspirations
- 18.1 Utility mode
- 18.2 Creating aspirations?
- 18.3 Leaders and culture
- 18.4 An OKRs adoption route
- 18.5 Exercise: Where are you?
- 18.6 Summary
- 19. Pitfalls TODO
- 20. Culture TODO
- 21. Finally
- About this book
- Version history
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18. Aspirations
- Notes
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