Agile At Scale With OKRs: How To Use OKRs To Supercharge Agile Teams

"Objective Key Results or OKRs is a process of management by objectives used by some of the most innovative companies in the world such as Google, Intel, Oracle, Twitter, and LinkedIn. The OKRs framework has helped organizations connect employees with the business objectives, eliminate silos across departments, and help companies identify and focus on what matters most in their organization. We have created a guide to help understand the OKRs framework and give you the right tools to implement it in your organization.

This OKR comic book is particularly intended for executives who have taken on either disciplinary or professional responsibility for employees and are looking for unconditional focus in an increasingly complex work environment. But also ScrumMasters or Agile Coaches will find valuable tips for sustainable Agile goal development. Furthermore, team members discover agile approaches to increase personal productivity. Finally, this book provides the Top Management with alternative ideas for the targeted implementation of corporate strategies, taking into account constant environmental changes.

In this OKR comic book, the agile leadership technique Objectives and Key Results are explained clearly and step-by-step. In contrast to strictly cascading goal development systems, the OKR framework focuses on a ""loose coupling"" of teams and employees to the corporate strategy. Thereby the 3 OKR levels:

-Company OKRs

-Team OKRs

-Individual OKRs

are explained in a generally understandable way and the connections are made clear. The author begins with the introduction of personal OKRs at the employee level if there is little cooperation between the members of a unit (group). In a second step, the author shows the application of OKRs at the team level, where the team members work towards a common goal. Finally, the link to higher-level strategic initiatives is shown. "