Reawakening Agile with OKRs
summary
Argues that OKRs revive agile’s radical edge by replacing project backlog tyranny with outcome-driven, team-owned goals; tested over a year in a large financial institution and found to work, shifting teams to bottom-up “white space” OKRs that grant autonomy and align with management. Recommends a quarterly cadence, typically 3 objectives with 3 key results (ambitious targets, failure expected), and treating OKRs as the primary planner instead of a growing backlog.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Start
- 3:24The Agile virus
- 5:132 strains of Agile virus
- 6:35Corporate Agile
- 11:06Space for autonomy
- 12:44Management by Objective
- 20:36Purpose
- 21:58Supercharge prioritization
- 25:53The backlog?
- 29:32End the tyranny of the backlog
- 30:50Success?
- 32:12Reawaken agile ambition
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