There are so many ways to do OKRs poorly, and I've seen many. I love the book in theory, but when I saw OKRs in practice, every company implemented this poorly.

There are so many ways to do OKRs poorly, and I've seen many. I love the book in theory, but when I saw OKRs in practice, every company implemented this poorly. > Let's not have objectives just yet, we are not ready to communicate our goals yet with you, let's come up with key results... More like tasks, really just Jira tickets, our team already had to commit with management for the next year, we have a release plan and everything, so there is very little wiggle room there. > And please, don't ask about any of those goals, you are just a code monkey, and you weren't there at all the meetings, but trust us, it's the most important and impactful thing we can do... > Anyway, What's in the next 6 sprints? Let's just put them somehow in this OKR spreadsheet. Let's hope we don't need to change anything in the next sprint... > Hmm, alright, it looks like we have some space there, let's come up with 2-3 extra projects that realistically would need a team effort and a month focused work to complete, but you will do it on your own... Just remember that you should only work on items in the sprint, and the next 12 sprints are already planned, and we can't add your tasks to any of the sprints. You also need to convince the team that it's important, but please don't bother the team with your tasks, they will lose focus on sprint items. > I remember the book said something about something-something measurable. Unfortunately, no matter how many analysts we hire, they all quit around 3-4 months after they join, I wonder why that is. Anyway, we don't really have "numbers", so we can't come up with metrics, and we can't measure our success in any way, and we don't know whether gigantic projects bring any improvement at all. > Oh, and I'm pretty sure I will not be your boss, whoops, sorry, "competency lead" in three months because I'm actively interviewing to get out of here. Cheerio!