Objectives and Key Results guide - DRAFT

18F encourages the development of Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) as a way to define and track goals and the results that indicate you’ve reached those goals.

The lean movement encourages focusing team efforts on outcomes (the impact we’re trying to accomplish) instead of just outputs (what we’re doing). This is a quick guide to creating OKRs in that spirit.

This document is based on the 18F Guides Template, published using the 18F Pages platform. Please refer to the published Guides Template or the source repository, 18F/guides-template, for details on how to update this guide.

Cloning and serving the guide locally

To clone the guide and serve it locally:

$ git clone https://github.com/18F/objectives-and-key-results.git
$ cd objectives-and-key-results
$ ./go serve

The ./go script will check that your Ruby version is supported, install the Bundler gem if it is not yet installed, install all the gems needed by the guide, and launch a running instance on http://localhost:4000/.

Public domain

This project is in the worldwide public domain. As stated in CONTRIBUTING:

This project is in the public domain within the United States, and copyright and related rights in the work worldwide are waived through the CC0 1.0 Universal public domain dedication.

All contributions to this project will be released under the CC0 dedication. By submitting a pull request, you are agreeing to comply with this waiver of copyright interest.