Marco Alabruzzo
Engineering Manager @ Cazoo
http://marcoala.com - marco.alabruzzo@gmail.com
Cazoo - Yard Vehicle Location Team - Q4 planning
7 September 2022
Understanding what OKRs are
Planning
Collaborating
Tracking
Sizing
Prioritising
What a good use of OKRs in a team look like is the team expressing their plans in term of OKRs, and referring to them during execution.
Understanding how to use OKRs
Objective
Key Result
WHAT we want to achieve.
It’s significant, concrete, action-oriented and inspirational.
HOW we progress towards an objective.
Key results should represent measurable milestones and not an activity.
Key Result
"Key Result must have numbers"
Merissa Mayer - former Google executive and Yahoo CEO
“{objective} as measured by {key result}”.
Bill Davidow - former Intel executive
WHAT + HOW = PLAN
Mission
Objective
Objective
Objective
Mission
“to create a world where every person has the opportunity to live a healthy, productive life.”
Objective
Global Eradication of Malaria by 2040
Key Results
How much can we do in quarter?
Weeks in quarter
Bank holiday
Holiday
Sickness
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-
-
=
Work
13
8 / 4
25 / 4
4 / 4
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-
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=
11
Weeks
Days
Days
Days
Weeks
Limits
A team should not have more than 3 Objectives
An objective should have between 3 and 5 Key Results
Priority
Objectives and Key Results can have priorities to limit the work in progress
Committed
represents the maximum priority, and if not archived at 100% will require a post-mortem and the end of the cycle.
In Google, they originate from Senior Management.
Aspirational
represents a push for innovation that can start from every point of the company.
In Google, 40% of the aspirational OKRs are expected to fail.
Google has 2 kinds of OKRs: Committed and Aspirational
Objective
Win the Indy 500
Key Results
Key Results allow us to track our progress against the Completion of the Objective
At Google is recommended that completing all the Key Results imply the completion fo the Objective.
After writing the Key Results, check them by asking:
Intel Corporate Objective
Objective
Establish the 8086 as the highest-performance 16-bit microprocessor family
Key Results
Having a concise representation of our objective, plan and progress will allow us to share with other teams.
Company OKRs can be cascaded to Department, department can be cascade to teams.
Horizontal
Vertical
Objectives and Key Results can have deadlines different from the end of the cycle
Engineering Department - cascading from previous
Objective
Deliver 500 8MHz 8086 parts to CGW by May 30
Key Results
“If you want your car to get fifty miles per gallon, fine. You can retool your car a little bit.
But if I tell you it has to run on a gallon of gas for five hundred miles, you have to start over.”
Eric "Astro" Teller, Director of Google X
2006
2008
WHAT + HOW = PLAN
Mission
Objective
Objective
Objective
Objectives fulfil the Mission
Mission
Objective
Objective
Objective
Key Result
Key Result
Key Result
Key Result
Key Result
Objectives fulfil the Mission
Key Result measure the Objective
Mission
Objective
Key Result
Objectives fulfil the Mission
Key Result measure the Objective
Commits
Emails
Meetings
Daily Activities move the Key Results
What a good use of OKRs in a team look like is the team expressing their plans in term of OKRs, and referring to them during execution.
Understanding how to use OKRs
By Marco Alabruzzo
