A 1-day interactive workshop examining OKRs with Agile.
OKRs – Objectives and Key Results – are rapidly becoming a standard addition to the agile toolkit. But while enthusiastic authors claim OKRs can deliver “superpowers” most teams face a more prosaic question of “How do we implement OKRs?”
When Agile teams use OKRs they need to reconcile the OKR cycle with sprints and backlogs. And while Agile teams embrace autonomy and self-organizing some interpret OKRs in a top-down command-and-control fashion which undermines agile.
This short interactive workshop aims to equip attendees to write, understand, and deliver OKRs when working in an agile style. A combination of exercise, discussion and lecture are used to explore the use of OKRs while OKR history and background is minimized.
Attendees will write OKRs and learn how to make them quantifiable. Participants will explore the OKR cycle and how to integrate sprints to the best effect. Additionally participants will learn to recognize, and manage the tension that exist between the ideas of ambition present in OKRs and predictability expected in many businesses.
Familiarity with agile and scrum/XP sprint style working.