Measure What Matters: Did OKRs Actually WorkBusiness & Finance
Last update 2 mo. agoCreated on the 26th of April 2026
We Ran OKRs for One Quarter and Here Is What Happened
John Doerr's book about the objective and key results framework reads like a case study collection held together by a simple system. I convinced my team to try OKRs for a single quarter after reading it. Three months later I had a clear answer about what the framework fixed, what it made worse, and which parts we kept after the experiment officially ended.
320Pages
OKRs tracked this quarter
1/3
Team OKRs we actually completed that quarter
3/4
journey·4 Sections
Reading Measure What Matters
Usefulness
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Section
Concrete enough to apply immediately
Done
Define three objectives with no more than five key results each
What We Kept After the Experiment
50%
Weekly check-ins on key results instead of monthly status updates
Writing objectives as outcomes rather than activities
Public visibility of all objectives across the whole team
The scoring system, still debating whether 0.7 is truly a success