Agile has lost its shine, “corporate agile” has stripped away all the fun, passion, excitement and learning. Adding Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) just makes it worse: a reinvention of top-down management by objective with added metrics to mislead and distort reality. Such OKRs are little more than a return of return to command and control. That is what this former OKR cynic thought, but after using OKRs with multiple Agile teams, he got a surprise: they work. Used right, OKRs fit well with agile. OKRs offer the tantalizing prospect of reawakening agile’s radical side, aligning management with teams, improving communication and resolving the tyranny of the product backlog.
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Further reading: Introducing OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) in Agile