We have been using OKRs for a while but it took a few rounds and reading The Team That Managed Itself to really understand how to stay aligned over the course of the quarter. We have two team meetings and each of them has a superpower activity that really helped us as a team.
- Meeting 1: Monday Commitments
- Superpower: OKR Confidence Level Poker
- Meeting 2: End of Week Celebration
- Superpower: Trophies for Team Mates
Don’t end up doing OKRs to set and forget, and don’t just let it be one person’s responsibility. We set OKRs together as a team and we try to achieve them as a team, so monitoring progress should also happen as a team.
Monday Commitments Meeting
I originally based this meeting exactly on what Christina Wodtke describes in The Team That Managed Itself.
As a team, you talk about priorities for the week as well as the next 4 weeks and check in about the confidence levels of the OKRs and the health metrics.
