OKRs in Software Engineering - by Abi Noda

This is the latest issue of my newsletter. Each week I cover the latest research and perspectives on developer productivity. This week I read Objectives and Key Results in Software Teams: Challenges, Opportunities and Impact on Development, a study by Microsoft researchers Jenna Butler, Thomas Zimmerman, and Christian Bird. The paper explores the challenges engineering teams face with the OKR framework and offers strategies for their successful adoption. The Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) framework is a goal setting methodology that aligns the objectives of an organization, team, and individual by establishing clear, measurable key results to measure progress towards. The idea for this study originated from a request by a VP at a large multi-national company. The authors write, “the Vice President asked the first author [Jenna Butler] to analyze why decisions made at the top level of the organization often took a long time to yield changes in the code and why some cross-group projec

This is the latest issue of my newsletter. Each week I cover the latest research and perspectives on developer productivity. This week I read Objectives and Key Results in Software Teams: Challenges, Opportunities and Impact on Development, a study by Microsoft researchers Jenna Butler, Thomas Zimmerman, and Christian Bird. The paper explores the challenges engineering teams face with the OKR framework and offers strategies for their successful adoption. The Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) framework is a goal setting methodology that aligns the objectives of an organization, team, and indivi