samir, a terminally deprecated method
May Likes TorontoFor the 80th time, OKRs are a team metric, not for individuals.
Please. Stop this.
You can either do OKRs wrong and waste a lot of time doing them, only to abandon them each round until the next time, or you can listen to May.
Come on, even HBR agrees with me. https://hbr.org/2020/12/use-okrs-to-set-goals-for-teams-not-individuals
(archived here: https://web.archive.org/web/20210112133621/https://hbr.org/2020/12/use-okrs-to-set-goals-for-teams-not-individuals.)
Use OKRs to Set Goals for Teams, Not Individuals
A popular goal-setting framework, Objectives and key results (or OKRs) are an effective method for planning and measuring success on a team level. They fall short, however, when companies attempt to apply them to individual contributors. Setting individual OKRs generally leads to goals that are either not true indications of meaningful progress or that are easily gameable. Instead, individual contributors should be assessed based on the extent to which their work contributes to team goals that add real value to the company and its customers.
I wish I cared less about nuances like these.
Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦@mayintoronto ignoring "nuances" like these is how workers get manipulated and burned out. 🙏
Chris Ford 
@mayintoronto Wow, it hadn't occurred to me that people would do this. It's quite obviously not the point of them.
@cford I'm so tired of people asking chatbots: "org broken what do?" And then just implement the bot's OKR framework, as copied from some bullshit HR OKR tool.
Cascades all the way down.
Scrivolical@mayintoronto Always listen to May.
Edwin G. 
b@mayintoronto always listen to may
@mayintoronto but really, how companies still make money while wasting so much time baffles me
@b They waste SO MUCH TIME.
Alex Ptakhin@mayintoronto no, no, listen to Alex, don't use OKRs at all. More harm, more damage. In my native language, OKRs have the same abbreviation as Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD). It explained everything!
mhoye@mayintoronto I wrote this a few months ago: https://exple.tive.org/blarg/2025/10/09/measuring-up/
"Give me one number" is the tell, one number is always the tell.
@mhoye OKRs aren't exactly that. Not in the way good product teams implement them anyway.
Jennifer Moore 😷Oooh, good points well made - thanks.
Jima 
@mayintoronto I have some bad news about how this is going to play out. 😑
@jima Yeah...