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Incase others like me don’t know - OKR is Objectives and Key Results. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OKR https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OKR I honestly have never
by spydum 8y ago
Incase others like me don’t know - OKR is Objectives and Key Results. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OKR https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OKR
I honestly have never seen that acronym but apparently popular from Intel management practices?
- mattnewport 8y agoI hate it when people use TLAs without defining them.
- mifreewil 8y agoHTML has an <abbr> tag - please use it.
- Cthulhu_ 8y agoThat takes effort though, and people use TLAs to reduce effort.
- tlasAsEffort 8y agoNo, people use TLAs to increase exclusivity, and seem smarter than they are by creating artificial outsiders.
- regulation_d 8y agoIsn't it great that TLA is a TLA and FLA is a TLA, but FLA is not an FLA?
- anotherevan 8y agoDon't forget ELTAs. https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=ETLA https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=ETLA
- dandare 8y agoETLA :p
- anonlapwarmer 8y agoDitto. Head-scratching, elitist jingoisms tend to signal an antipattern of business theater. Plainspeak > newspeak.
- seanmcdirmid 8y agoTranslation look ahead buffers? That brings back a lot of memories from my computer architecture course.
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- 2muchcoffeeman 8y agoIs that not tlb?
- seanmcdirmid 8y agoHmmm, that actually makes much more sense.
- black-tea 8y agoMe too. It seems like every other week people will be spouting some three-letter acronym that you've never heard of. This forces you to ask what it means, and they will always look at you like "what? You don't even know?"
- pleasecalllater 8y agoThis is a good indicator of a team I don't to work with.
- quickthrower2 8y agoIf you work in ICT, it's unavoidable.
- netsharc 8y agoI added "what_the_fuck_are_okrs_craig" to the end of the URL in the hopes he gets the message when he looks in his 404 logs...
- majewsky 8y agoAre there people who do this?
- _asummers 8y agoI look at 404s (and other errors) in prod. Helps find front end bugs and any malicious requests. A 404 should be exceedingly rare in a mature application (depending on the application of course and users' ability to create AND delete data) so it's often a useful metric for figuring out if something's wrong. I don't usually tail the logs and use monitoring instead, but same effect. After a certain scale, I imagine this becomes harder to do and requires different tooling.
- netsharc 8y agoAdmittedly I'm grumpy today. I sometimes do this "404 trolling" to yell at people.
- Quarrelsome 8y agothe knowledge of this has made me happy. :) Thanks.
- chii 8y agounless you keep spamming it to make up a significant amount of logs for the site, i doubt anyone would notice...
- theandrewbailey 8y agoIt might be useful to include a link so people from here can spam it. Like this: http://www.craigkerstiens.com/2019/03/29/okrs-arent-going-to-fix-your-communication/what_the_fuck_are_okrs_craig http://www.craigkerstiens.com/2019/03/29/okrs-arent-going-to...
- spxcxlxxs 8y agoI feel like everyone missed the joke
- falsedan 8y agono jokes on HN, this is serious mum
- eplanit 8y agoThey're in the same bucket as those who use light gray text on a white background.
- 6nf 8y agoI think Google or one of the other big tech companies also use OKRs instead of the more traditional KPIs (Key Performance Indicators)
- dilyevsky 8y agoOKRs are Conjoined Triangles of Success irl. Lots of companies use it around the bay (including Google). They think it’s a godsend because suddenly they can measure their progress in some way that is not just “story points per sprint” ignoring the fact this measurement only makes sense within the system itself and may not reflect the reality at all.
- alexandercrohde 8y agoA good thought exercise is to ask yourself, "Is it possible an engineer achieves every OKR yet is the worst employee at the organization?" and "Is it possible an employee achieves NO okr and is the best?" I feel I could think of examples. There are so many dimensions of valuable work (no security holes, being nice, not reinventing the wheel, documenting well, long-term stability/refactorability, code being reusable by other teams) but I imagine OKRs can't cover all those facets. It almost seems as fruitless as trying to measure friendship by OKRs.
- dilyevsky 8y agoWhich is why okrs are untied from promos at Google for instance (in theory that is =))
- joshuamorton 8y agoWell most people don't set personal okrs, or at least not formally, so it's probably true that theory matches practice.
- sanderjd 8y agoBoth are possible, yep. But OKRs tend to be written down pretty often (quarterly is what I've seen, but maybe monthly is a thing too). If a bad employee is cruising or a great employee's work is not being recognized quarter after quarter, that's a direct managerial problem and not really what OKRs are trying to solve.
- nkrisc 8y agoMy company uses them in a cargo-cult sort of way. I have yet to find anyone at my company who can explain to me what an OKR really is, but apparently I'm supposed to have them entered in to our HR system. Previous jobs have used them too. They're pretty popular I think.
- artsyca 8y agoNumber one way for management and so-called leadership to befuddle their way into the arms of Goodhart's law