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Exploring the Connection Between Business Agility, OKRs and Private Equity – Interview w/ Yuval on the Quantive Dreams with Deadlines Podcast

By |2023-01-10T14:30:14-05:00January 10, 2023|Business Agility, Media, OKRs, Private Equity|

If you're here, you might be interested in OKRs. If so you should check out the Dreams with Deadlines podcast published by Quantive (formerly Gtmhub). I was delighted to accept an invitation to come on the podcast to discuss OKRs, Business Agility, Agile, Evidence-based management and the connection to increasing value creation e.g. in the Private Equity space. Check out the podcast here or in the embedded audio below. Dreams with Deadlines Podcast Interview with Yuval Yeret We discuss the role [...]

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Fix Your OKRs – Back to First Principles

By |2022-12-10T12:00:40-05:00December 7, 2022|Agility, Business Agility, Evidence-based Management, OKRs|

Context OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) have become the latest management framework to suffer the fate of becoming popular too quickly, to the point where in many organizations, OKRs are a theater/charade with little useful substance or benefits. That’s a shame because OKRs have huge potential if used effectively. So let’s go about fixing your OKRs!  Why OKRs Let’s start with the basics. What are OKRs even about?  OKRs aim to help you execute effectively on what matters most (your [...]

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Connecting OKRs, KPIs, OVSs, and DVSs in SAFe® — Scaled Agile

By |2022-12-02T13:06:55-05:00December 1, 2021|OKRs, SAFe|

The title of my post may read like acronym soup but all of these concepts play a critical role in SAFe, and understanding how they’re connected is important to success. After exploring some connections, I will suggest some actions you can take while designing, evaluating, or accelerating your implementation.KPIs and OKRsThe SAFe Value Stream KPIs article describes Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) as “the quantifiable measures used to evaluate how a value stream is performing against its forecasted business outcomes. “That includes:Health [...]

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Improving Focus and Alignment by Organizing around OKRs and managing OKR Flow

By |2022-12-03T17:11:09-05:00November 29, 2021|Agility, Business Agility, OKRs|

Improving Focus and Alignment by Organizing around OKRs and managing OKR FlowToday, I wanted to share two quick observations about OKRs.Too many teams working on each strategic OKRI encounter many organizations that use OKRs. Too many of them have this crazy matrix where the high-level OKRs — those that aim to achieve the organization’s strategy — map to too many teams/functions in the organization. This creates a need to cascade the OKRs, create sub-OKRs, or other techniques which eventually create a larger and larger distance [...]

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Organizing around Outcomes with OKRs and Scrum

By |2022-12-14T17:20:01-05:00November 22, 2021|Agility, Business Agility, OKRs, Scrum|

Aligning Scrum Team Topology to Strategy with OKRs and Product GoalsYeah, I know. Could I squeeze more buzzwords into the title? I guess I could include Digital Transformation, Cloud, AI, and Machine Learning for effect. But seriously, I wanted to share some insights around how to align your Scrum Teams to your strategy leveraging OKRs and Product Goals.Driving Change Using OKRsWe maintain performance by tracking the health of Key Performance Indicators(KPIs). We use Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) to drive performance change. [...]

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Fixing OKR Theater Using Scrum

By |2022-12-03T17:11:41-05:00November 22, 2021|OKRs, Scrum|

The OKR TheaterI encounter many organizations that are trying to improve the alignment between strategy and execution with the OKRs framework (Objectives and Key Results). There’s good intent there, but more often than not I see anti-patterns like:OKRs that look more like tasks than strategic objectives — especially by the time they reach working teamsOKRs used to micro-manage teams and individuals rather than empower and enable them.Too many OKRs that are set without any respect/consideration of the ability to actually deliver them in [...]

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Entrepreneurial Operating System® / Traction®- How does it relate to Agile/Scrum?

By |2023-01-12T09:46:01-05:00January 18, 2021|Business Agility, OKRs|

I’m hearing from more and more companies that are using the Entrepreneurial Operating System® (EOS®) and are also looking at or practicing Agile e.g., using Scrum. In discussions with these companies, two key questions surface time after time: My teams want to use Agile/Scrum — is that aligned with the fact that we’re using EOS® in the organization? My teams use Agile/Scrum; can we use EOS®? The short answer is that Agile and specifically Scrum and EOS®are mostly complementary. EOS®, as well [...]

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