OKR Clinic- November 3rd, 2022

*This clinic outcomes page will be posted in a confluence space available to all Federal and contractor employees in the CCSQ Community

Objectives use SMACIM (Short, Memorable, Aligning, Challenging, Inspirational, Motivational)

“Ideas are easy, execution is everything.” Author of the book: "Measure What Matters" How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKR's 
— John Doerr

Original OKR 1:

Objectives: Remove obstacles/blockers/annoyances from engineering team to allow them to focus on developing     

Kr1: Improve reporting processes that allow people to report 3 blockers 

Kr2: 3 Blockers mediated for success    

Objective # 2: Improve engineering team morale and efficiency

Kr1: Reduce meeting time by 20% 

Kr2: Decrease the number of unvaluable meetings to 20%

kr3: Retrospective events with the team 12 per quarter (No decrease in "How did you feel at work this week" over the 12-week period) 

Objective # 3: Foundation is NOT a bottleneck/blocker for HQR

notes: Implement measures to reduce the foundation team as a blocker

notes: (Coordination with other teams within the ART to identify dependencies)

Kr3: Ensure the foundational team doesn't become a blocker for more than 1 consecutive week, this will help to decrease the number of blockers time.

Objective # 4: Enable cross-team project coordination

Kr1: Developers and testers to work together on 1 project 

notes: (Coordination on how Dev and Testers can collaborate together) 

Objective # 5: No one is surprised by an upcoming deadline, project, or blocker

Note: (PI Planning coordination with ART in advance to identify dependencies/blockers)

Objective # 6: Github Migration completed smoothly 

Kr1: Ensure no reversal of the migration 

Kr2: The number of support tickets is less than 10. 

Kr:3 Ensure a successful dry run has been completed for testing 

Rewritten OKR(s):

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OKR Example: 

Objective: Improve Security within the Cloud

Key Results: Increase backend encryption to the web servers from 32% to 100%

Reworked OKR:

Objective: Completely secure all data moving through CCSQ's cloud systems

Key Results: Ensure all data traffic in and out of our network to 100 percent

Examples of Bad OKRs:

Add 7 new space lego sets

Update Application 27B/6 to be compliant with Regulation 3343

Update Quality Measures to include new provider type data

Inspirational

Simple

Memorable

Challenging

Helpful