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by nivertech 1304 days ago
OKRs are nice for tracking and measuring them, but they do not explain how to achieve them.

Trying random product ideas will generate a lot of waste, and will have a very low probability of success.

You need a highly-skilled and entreprenerial people to be able to fill the gap from the goals with measurable metrics to strategy, plan and execution. Basically you work like a research scientists, making a series of experiments, until you find an idea which moves your KRs.

This is how I see it:

  Mission
    Objectives
      KRs                            (= goals + measurable metrics)
        Problems/Jobs/Opportunities  (Problem-space, JTBD, OST)
          Ideas                      (Solution-space, Strategy, how to achive KR)
            Step-Projects            (Validation/De-Risking/Experiment or feature delivery)
              Scopes                 (list of related tasks)
                Tasks                (TODOs)

Terms & Abbreviations:

  KRs:  Key Results
  JTBD: Jobs-To-Be-Done
  OST:  Opportunity Solution Tree
 
Also see GIST (Goals-Ideas-Steps-Tasks) framework:

https://itamargilad.com/gist-framework/

1 comments

This is really helpful, thank you for sharing.