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OKRs vs KPIs
Many organisations have set up existing KPIs that help them to track the state of key measures across their organisation, with these either being transparent to all or shared at regular townhalls. The temptation would be to use these in their entirety within Viva Goals to power the key results of your OKRs but that would be a mistake. One of the super powers of OKRs is to have Focus and to share that Focus from the strategy of the organisation at the top down to each level. Empowering each layer in an organisation to define their own metrics for success for the top level objective brings a more personal goal that is aligned to what the organisation is striving to achieve. You can read more about my thoughts on this in a recent article I shared through Reworked - Why You Need Both OKRs and KPIs (reworked.co). What have you done in your organisationRe: Best practices around how to set up goals if you are a large parent company
I’d be interested to hear experiences with using different organisations in Goals in the same tenant. I have heard that many look to break up into different orgs by department or region but this seems a break with the full alignment and transparency that would be ideal. Is this driven by performance, permissions or manageability?Re: A question about licensing for the topics function in Viva Engage/Yammer
Some good news for you Roman_Handl - a fellow Viva Explorer noticed that there is a change coming to have a lightweight Topics license for use in Viva Engage. According to the roadmap, this should be rolling out shortly so worth you or your admins keeping an eye on the updates. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/sarafennah_microsoftviva-vivaexplorers-activity-7082971402462449664-0KDo?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktopRe: OKRs vs KPIs
That's a really great post, thanks for sharing. Particulary like that headline of "don't forget the K", referring to the fact that they are KEY results. It becomes too easy to try and measure everything but that focus to actually get things done is what needed. I know my own natural way is to try and do too much and I have really loved setting my own OKRs to keep me on track.An introduction to starting your organisation’s OKRs
The Viva Explorers wanted to understand what success looked like for us and we also knew that OKRs were a great way to do this. Rather than just do it ourselves, we thought we would film the process and share with everyone. Stale Hensen and myself sat down, talked a bit about the OKR framework and then worked out how that would fit the Viva Explorers. https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7037713349920333824?updateEntityUrn=urn%3Ali%3Afs_feedUpdate%3A%28V2%2Curn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7037713349920333824%29Re: What are your Goals?
I’ll start with my own internal OKR: Objective: grow our internal workplace community initiative Key results: - post to the Team or Viva Engage community at least twice per week - attend 80% of workplace community bi-weekly sessions - attend 80% of workplace community leadership meetings - present at least once per quarter at the bi-weekly community meetings At the moment, I track these in a spreadsheet but looking for ways to automate this with Graph into Power BI as I have done with my meeting attendance by category to track time spent on business development vs client work vs other initiatives (another OKR to achieve the right balance of work)Re: Introductions
Hi Melissa! My name is Kevin McDonnell, I'm a Microsoft MVP, member of the Viva Explorers, co-host of the GreyHatBeardPrincess podcast and Solutions Architect at Avanade. This gives me the fortunate position of being able to not only live the Microsoft world for a day job but also be able to share my passion for it outside of work as well. I love being able to have the time to keep up with the latest changes in the Microsoft space, especially with Microsoft Viva, and then share that with others to help them be more productive and collaborate more effectively. Many of the Viva Explorers have a persona and mine is the Viva Transformer as I like to be able to take the implementations of Viva and help organisations make that happen, getting the adoption and change in place to realise the value of the investment. Outside of the work and MS passion, I am the father of three boys and two cats who keep me busy enough but just about leave enough time to also volunteer as a Cub Scout Leader, sharing skills for life to 8 to 10 1/2 year olds in the UK.Re: Home site search not working as expected
Mel_C13 something strange is going on today! As you can see from the attached screenshot, the Home Site can definitely return bookmarks. However, it didn't the first time but worked fine after a refresh. It may be worth checking the Search scope on that site with PowerShell - you can get it with PnP PowerShell using this command Get-PnPSearchSettings (PnP.Powershell) | Microsoft Docs or set the values if they are not correct with Set-PnPSearchSettings (PnP.Powershell) | Microsoft Docs. If that PowerShell makes no sense, check out the PnPPowerShell intro page at PnP PowerShell | PnP PowerShell. Hope that helpsRe: Search no longer finds people
Lloyd Adams your mind is definitely not playing tricks on you. I've been running a conference session for over a year and had my notes having it do this but this week it is definitely not doing that any more. It still returns all the details if you use the People vertical but something has definitely changed in the All vertical.TeamsAdding OneNote Tab using Microsoft Graph doesn't start
I have a Teams Template that should be adding a OneNote tab to a channel. However, in our production environment, it doesn't. All the other elements get created just not the OneNote. If I take a look at the Operations in Graph, the status is showing as Not Started for the tabs. Is there anyway to force it? Or do you just have to manually configure the Tabs? Any hints much appreciatedRe: Building a custom app that install a PowerBI tab with report
Omri-ActivTrak you can should be able to do add Power BI with Microsoft Graph. However, you won't be able to add your report at this stage, just a tab where someone can configure that report First you need to add an app (in your case Power BI) to the team using Add app to team - Microsoft Graph v1.0 | Microsoft Docs. If you don't have the channel you want then you'll need to add that with Create channel - Microsoft Graph v1.0 | Microsoft Docs Then add a tab to that channel Add tab to channel - Microsoft Graph v1.0 | Microsoft Docs To add Power BI, see the app ID at Configuring the built-in tab types in Microsoft Teams - Microsoft Graph | Microsoft Docs but you'll see that you can't set any configuration at the moment. I'd recommend voting up this in the Teams User Voice to boost the chances of being able to configure Power BI reports - Configure POWER BI tab if we have the report ID – Microsoft Teams UserVoiceRe: Bot application for a small group of people
Hi Max, You can still install a Teams Bot using the manifest you have created. Take a look at the final section of this page from Microsoft Docs: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/platform/bots/how-to/create-a-bot-for-teams Hope that helpsRe: Azure function Site Design Site Script CSOM code for Site Creaion
Yes you can, here’s some details on my blog: http://www.mcd79.com/2018/07/21/exploring-creating-sharepoint-teamsites-using-sitedesign-and-the-rest-api.html The key is posting this JSON with the implicit formula value the same for every tenancy. { "displayName":"@{triggerBody()?['Title']}", "alias":"Project-@{triggerBody()?['ID']}", "isPublic":false, "optionalParams":{ "Description":"", "CreationOptions":["implicit_formula_292aa8a00786498a87a5ca52d9f4214a_03dac6d2-3e91-4f43-9163-953ce1bf7616}"] } }
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