I encounter this same problem. My teams do OKRs but they always end up using it as a way to confirm what they wanted to work on. In fact if something they wanted to work on is not reflected in the OKR, they modify the list of OKRs.
I like your suggestion. I’ll add one more, if management incentivized achieving business goals instead of project metrics (eg velocity, on-time delivery), then I think OKRs would be much more meaningful.
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I encounter this same problem. My teams do OKRs but they always end up using it as a way to confirm what they wanted to work on. In fact if something they wanted to work on is not reflected in the OKR, they modify the list of OKRs.
I like your suggestion. I’ll add one more, if management incentivized achieving business goals instead of project metrics (eg velocity, on-time delivery), then I think OKRs would be much more meaningful.