Contract
- Input: team mission, company OKRs, current quarter / cycle.
- Output: team OKR document + initiative mapping.
- Side effects: none.
- Dependencies: none.
- Stop condition: OKR document saved; KRs measurable; initiatives mapped.
- Risk: low.
- Boundary: designs OKRs; does not execute initiatives.
OKR Planning
Design a quarterly OKR cycle — Objectives, Key Results, initiatives — with measurable outcomes and team alignment.
Process
1. Mission alignment
- State the team mission for the quarter.
- Align with company OKRs (copy relevant ones; ignore if not applicable).
- Identify what the team uniquely contributes that no other team can.
Completion criterion: mission statement saved.
2. Objectives
Rules for a good Objective:
- Ambitious and inspiring (motivates the team).
- Qualitative (not a number).
- Time-bound (one quarter).
- 2–4 Objectives per team per quarter.
Completion criterion: 2–4 Objectives saved.
3. Key Results
Rules for good Key Results:
- Measurable (has a number and baseline).
- Outcome-oriented (not output — not "we will build X" but "X will improve Y by Z%").
- Achievable (70% success is good — overconfident KRs demoralise teams).
- Relevant (directly supports the Objective).
- Time-bound (achievable within the quarter).
For each Objective: 2–4 Key Results.
Completion criterion: KRs saved with baseline and target.
4. Initiatives
For each KR: list the initiatives (projects, tasks, experiments) that drive it. Not every initiative maps to a KR — if an initiative has no KR, question whether it belongs.
Completion criterion: initiatives mapped to KRs.
5. Progress tracking
Define: how often (weekly / biweekly), who updates, what format (score 0–1.0 per KR), and what to do when off-track (adjust, escalate, drop).
Completion criterion: tracker template saved.
6. Retro
At end of cycle: score each KR (0.0–1.0); write retrospective: what worked, what didn't, what to carry forward.
Completion criterion: retro template saved.