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Almost every experience with OKR’s has been an unmitigated dumpster fire. Leadership sets some goal, usually something insane and physically unachievable. Some
by FridgeSeal 3y ago
Almost every experience with OKR’s has been an unmitigated dumpster fire.
Leadership sets some goal, usually something insane and physically unachievable. Some inane key result -usually no closer to reality- gets set. Management and PM’s spend inordinate amounts of time and effort faffing over the metrics and relentlessly asking “why hasn’t the number gone up by 2% today????????” No attempt is made at doing any actual work, or god forbid, actually contributing.
End of quarter comes and lots of numbers and reasons are thrown around. Leadership either celebrates nothing because “if you hit it, we weren’t trying hard enough” or berates you for not hitting the objective. Another, equally improbable goal is set for the next round. Beatings continue until morale improves.
- wioota 3y agoBad leadership will make a meal of any approach to work, its true. OKRs are not easy - they take good leadership, discipline and a culture which is open to feedback and committed to learning and adapting to what it learns. I wouldn't even say OKRs is the best way to work this way, just the most popular (hence why I wrote about the complimentary things we paired with it).
- FridgeSeal 3y agoThey just feel like “busywork for objective setting”. If they involved candles and a pack of tarot cards, I wouldn’t even blink. > they take good leadership, discipline and a culture which is open to feedback and committed to learning and adapting to what it learns Those things that are notoriously reliable and common: discipline, good leadership and a culture of adaptation. Anything _relying_ on discipline is doomed from the start.
- charlie0 3y agoI've observed that discipline always takes a backseat to more $$$.