Succeeding with OKRs in Agile Extra

What is this book?

1. What happens next?
2. Spelling, grammar and all that
3. Why read this book?
4. IExtra

1.Strategy v. change

1. 1.1Ambitious v. achievement
2. 1.2Stretch v. predicability
3. 1.3Autonomy v. authority

2.Inovation

1. 2.115% own project time
2. 2.2Hackathons
3. 2.3Golden ticket
4. 2.4Minimally Viable Team
5. 2.5OKRs
6. 2.6Portfolio approach
7. 2.7Dating agency
8. 2.8Summary

3.Deming

4.Teams TODO:Edit

1. One team or three?
2. 4.1Stable long lasting teams
3. 4.2Dependencies
4. 4.3Split for BAU?

5.Value in plain sight

6.What is value?

7.Outcome, value, benefit

1. 7.1Benefit
2. 7.2Value
3. 7.3Nature of value
4. 7.4Outcomes not to-dos
5. 7.5Summary

8.Incomplete information and trade-offs

9.Iterate doing and planning

10.Moon shot

1. 10.1Quality goals

11.Managers

1. 11.1Managers?
2. 11.2Managers role
3. 11.3Managers and OKRs

12.Management

1. 12.1Simultaneously tight and loose
2. 12.2Day-1 mentality
3. IIEssays and Blog posts

13.OKRs: a return to command and control?

1. 13.1What is there not to like?
2. 13.2The Connection to Today’s World
3. 13.3Thinking About Structuring OKRs
4. 13.4At the end of the day

14.Key Results

15.Why OKRs require a strategy rethinking

1. 15.1Is strategy a kind of planning?
2. 15.2Emergent strategy is more agile

16.Cascading OKRs and White Space OKRs

17.The difficulties of cascading OKRs

18.Focus is not divisible so limit you OKRs

19.Objective Driven Agile in 7 steps

20.The OKR cycle goes wide-narrow-wide

1. IIIOrganizational Structure

21.Top-down? bottom-up? or ripples in a pond?

1. 21.1Solar system
2. 21.2Autonomous

22.Programmer’s Rorschach test

23.A company is not a tree

24.Pull, don’t push: Why you should let your teams set their own OKRs

1. 24.1Cascading OKRs
2. 24.2Distributed OKRs
3. 24.3Pull don’t push

25.OKRs create strategy alignment but not in the way you think they do

1. IVQuestion and Answers

26.Scrum or OKRs first?

27.How many OKRs should a team have?

1. 27.1Prioritise
2. 27.2Can a bigger team have more OKRs?

28.Topic: Can you keep Agile and OKRs separate?

29.How can we set an OKR if we don’t know the baseline?

30.The Backlog Q&A

1. 30.1Q: If the backlog isnt a reflection of what we need to do in order to move towards our vision what is it for?
2. 30.2Q2: Backlog needs reviewing to align with OKRs, surely?
3. 30.3Q: Isn’t OKR then a guidance to create Backlog? or prioritize it?
4. 30.4Q: How have you approached the removal of backlogs? small experiment?

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