3 OKR examples for Strategy Developer
What are Strategy Developer OKRs?
The Objective and Key Results (OKR) framework is a simple goal-setting methodology that was introduced at Intel by Andy Grove in the 70s. It became popular after John Doerr introduced it to Google in the 90s, and it's now used by teams of all sizes to set and track ambitious goals at scale.
Crafting effective OKRs can be challenging, particularly for beginners. Emphasizing outcomes rather than projects should be the core of your planning.
We have a collection of OKRs examples for Strategy Developer to give you some inspiration. You can use any of the templates below as a starting point for your OKRs.
If you want to learn more about the framework, you can read more about the OKR meaning online.
Best practices for managing your Strategy Developer OKRs
Generally speaking, your objectives should be ambitious yet achievable, and your key results should be measurable and time-bound (using the SMART framework can be helpful). It is also recommended to list strategic initiatives under your key results, as it'll help you avoid the common mistake of listing projects in your KRs.
Here are a couple of best practices extracted from our OKR implementation guide 👇
Tip #1: Limit the number of key results
The #1 role of OKRs is to help you and your team focus on what really matters. Business-as-usual activities will still be happening, but you do not need to track your entire roadmap in the OKRs.
We recommend having 3-4 objectives, and 3-4 key results per objective. A platform like Tability can run audits on your data to help you identify the plans that have too many goals.
Tip #2: Commit to the weekly check-ins
Don't fall into the set-and-forget trap. It is important to adopt a weekly check-in process to get the full value of your OKRs and make your strategy agile – otherwise this is nothing more than a reporting exercise.
Being able to see trends for your key results will also keep yourself honest.
Tip #3: No more than 2 yellow statuses in a row
Yes, this is another tip for goal-tracking instead of goal-setting (but you'll get plenty of OKR examples below). But, once you have your goals defined, it will be your ability to keep the right sense of urgency that will make the difference.
As a rule of thumb, it's best to avoid having more than 2 yellow/at risk statuses in a row.
Make a call on the 3rd update. You should be either back on track, or off track. This sounds harsh but it's the best way to signal risks early enough to fix things.
Building your own Strategy Developer OKRs with AI
While we have some examples below, it's likely that you'll have specific scenarios that aren't covered here. There are 2 options available to you.
- Use our free OKRs generator
- Use Tability, a complete platform to set and track OKRs and initiatives
- including a GPT-4 powered goal generator
Best way to track your Strategy Developer OKRs
OKRs without regular progress updates are just KPIs. You'll need to update progress on your OKRs every week to get the full benefits from the framework. Reviewing progress periodically has several advantages:
- It brings the goals back to the top of the mind
- It will highlight poorly set OKRs
- It will surface execution risks
- It improves transparency and accountability
Spreadsheets are enough to get started. Then, once you need to scale you can use a proper OKR platform to make things easier.
If you're not yet set on a tool, you can check out the 5 best OKR tracking templates guide to find the best way to monitor progress during the quarter.
Strategy Developer OKRs templates
We've covered most of the things that you need to know about setting good OKRs and tracking them effectively. It's now time to give you a series of templates that you can use for inspiration!
You'll find below a list of Objectives and Key Results templates for Strategy Developer. We also included strategic projects for each template to make it easier to understand the difference between key results and projects.
Hope you'll find this helpful!
OKRs to develop and implement an efficient cloud strategy
- Develop and implement an efficient cloud strategy
- Identify and analyze potential cloud service providers by the end of month 2
- Research potential cloud service providers
- Prepare a comparative analytical report of all providers
- Evaluate providers based on features, cost-effectiveness and reliability
- Define key requirements and desired outcomes of the cloud strategy by month 1
- Outline desired outcomes from implementing the cloud solution
- Identify critical objectives for adopting the cloud strategy
- Determine primary requirements for the cloud strategy
- Design, test, and execute cloud migration strategy achieving 90% transition by quarter end
- Develop comprehensive cloud migration plan, including cost and risk analysis
- Execute the cloud migration, closely monitoring process and resolving issues promptly
- Conduct exhaustive testing on pre-migration process and continuity plans
OKRs to improve Advisory NPS through baseline measurement and analysis
- Improve Advisory NPS through baseline measurement and analysis
- Develop and implement targeted improvement strategies based on Advisory NPS insights
- Implement the planned improvement strategies systematically
- Analyze Advisory NPS feedback to identify areas for improvement
- Develop strategies to address identified weaknesses
- Conduct customer satisfaction survey to gather Advisory NPS data
- Develop a comprehensive customer satisfaction survey
- Send survey to existing advisory customers
- Analyze survey results for NPS data
- Analyze and compare Advisory NPS scores across different customer segments
- Analyze Advisory NPS scores for each segment
- Categorize customers into different segments
- Compare NPS scores across all segments
OKRs to penetrate the French environmental market
- Penetrate the French environmental market
- Secure at least 3 partnerships with key French environmental organizations
- Initiate contact for potential partnership discussions
- Prepare and present partnership proposals
- Research reputable French environmental organizations
- Launch successful marketing campaign leading to 15% customer conversion rate
- Implement analytics to monitor conversion rates
- Develop a targeted, compelling marketing message
- Conduct thorough market research to understand customer preferences
- Increase brand awareness to achieve 25% market recognition
- Develop a creative, engaging social media marketing campaign
- Collaborate with complementary businesses for cross-promotion opportunities
- Launch a targeted PR initiative within our demographic
More Strategy Developer OKR templates
We have more templates to help you draft your team goals and OKRs.
OKRs to improve efficiency and accuracy of Salesforce data migration process OKRs to scale the startup to achieve unicorn status OKRs to enhance financial operations for continuous improvement OKRs to establish an effective goal-setting framework OKRs to boost client engagement in our analytics services OKRs to tackle technical debt
OKRs resources
Here are a list of resources to help you adopt the Objectives and Key Results framework.
- To learn: Complete 2024 OKR cheat sheet
- Blog posts: ODT Blog
- Success metrics: KPIs examples