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Make Your Goals a Reality with OKRs and New Capabilities from Microsoft Viva Goals

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Jan 13, 2023
As we enter a new year, more gyms are packed, more books are read, but within the first month, about a third of individuals will see a dissolution of their goals. Setting goals and sticking to them i...
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Jan 30, 2023

We use OKRs to build Azure DevOps! OKRs give us a better continuous planning capability than something like a Gantt Chart or a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) - because we never know all of the requirements up front, and we cannot predict the future. How Microsoft plans with DevOps - Azure DevOps | Microsoft Learn

 

Another really good article in this series about planning in general - including the avoidance of micro-managing work (line of autonomy, trust, and check-ins) - Scaling Agile to large teams - Azure DevOps | Microsoft Learn

 

Even our Cloud Adoption Framework recommends this. Set your organizational goals at the top, and lower teams align their goals upwards, never downwards. Measure business outcomes by using objectives and key results - Cloud Adoption Framework | Microsoft Learn

 

Great post!