OKR Planning Cycle

1 MONTH BEFORE YEAR–END

Company Annual OKRs planning

• This is mostly a top-down activity
• Senior leaders start thinking about company OKRs. based on the company strategy for the year

15 DAYS BEFORE QUARTER

Team quarter planning

• As soon as company priorities are made clear
• Product teams start thinking about their team OKRs
• They try and align their work to company goals and priorities.

WEEK 1 OF THE QUARTER

Announce Team quarter OKRs

• Product managers announce team OKRs to everyone
• Cross-functions look at each departments OKRs to resolve dependencies

Through the Quarter

• Throughout the quarter, teams measure and share their progress via weekly check-in with their managers.
• During check-ins, they assess how likely they are to achieve their OKRs.
• If things are flagged behind or at risk, OKRs may need to be reviewd.

15 DAYS BEFORE QUARTER

Team quarter closing and retrospective

• Goal and KR owners close quarters OKRs cycle
• Add goal outcomes to such as Goal completed, Partial, Missed, or Dropped
• Teams do retrospectives on how the quarter went and what were the learnings

15 DAYS BEFORE QUARTER

Company OKRs Quarterly review

• Every quarter, senior leaders review the company OKRs
• This is to make sure they are still relevant and progress has been made towards them