If you conducted a company wide survey, how many employees would be able to correctly state the company’s goals and objectives? For that matter, how many do you think will be able to say they know their own goals and objectives? Are they aware in what direction should their efforts be directed? Are they making
While all companies try & put a lot of efforts in achieving the set goals, very few actually invest in setting the right ones. Goal setting is a powerful tool that can be used to motivate and challenge employees, towards achieving the company’s strategic targets. However, there is a right way and a wrong way
Program management is the process of managing several related projects, often with the intention of improving an organisation’s performance. In practice & in its aims it is closely related to systems engineering, industrial engineering, change management & business transformation.(Wikipedia) Program management is a sort of mysterious discipline, for many reasons. Some of them being it usually
UpRaise, an OKR app is an add-on for JIRA, a project management tool. One of the frequent questions that we hear from our evaluators is – how objective-key result relationship is different from project-task, epic-story (or whatever combinations you can think of) relationship. In this article, we address this potential source of confusion and how OKR methodology
“A vision without a plan is just a dream. A plan without a vision is just drudgery…but a vision with a plan can change the world.” – Old Proverb An old proverb but true nonetheless. Any company that fails to create plans on how to achieve its Vision is doomed from the very beginning. The
OKR methodology has become increasingly popular in recent years. Its monumental contribution to some of the Silicon Valley companies’ success, is a testament to how effective it can be. Interestingly, OKRs is a philosophy that is tweaked & adapted by most of the companies. Of the many advantages of OKR methodology, flexibility has turned out
Time is the only resource that is distributed equally amongst everyone. Yet some people seem to have received more time as they accomplish a lot more than others. For example, most employees may have seen that one employee who always seems to be more productive than the rest. That too despite having the same or
One of the major challenges while adopting any management framework is to figure out how to get started. Objectives & Key Results (OKRs), the agile goal setting framework is not an exception to this rule. We have already written a few articles around best practices in OKRs (listed at the end of this post), in
One of the major hurdles in adoption of Objectives & Key Results (OKR) is the lack of comprehensive body of knowledge. We have already discussed whether OKRs are compatible with scrum. Here we take that discussion a step further, by revealing 8 similar responsibilities that Scrum masters & OKR champions shoulder. As opposed to OKRs, Scrum has been written
Andy Grove is often credited as the father of OKR methodology, which has helped transform the likes of Intel, Google, LinkedIn and many others. However there is very little written material available that provides step by step instructions for setting OKRs. In this light, we have written numerous articles about the history of OKRs,