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OKRs and Agile process

Does your organization use Objectives and Key Results (OKRs)?  How do OKRs work in an Agile development process? Lets think and blog about this. Objectives and Key Results recap:  an Objective is "a clearly defined goal and 3-5 key results - specific measures used to track the achievement of that goal" - wikipedia A key result must be measurable e.g. %, $, number and easy to answer if it was achieved or not. Objective vs goal? basically the same but Objective has added specificity. But its what you want to achieve Originated at Intel, popularized at Google and now lots of other companies including where I work for years. Objectives are often defined by senior company & product leadership and then cascade down to be decomposed by departments and groups and ultimately teams/squads. Often the Objective is for multiple quarters. A key part of the Agile process is frequent delivery of software (often every day or week), learning from releases and being flexible (agile) to new