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# Measure What Matters: Did OKRs Actually Work

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- By [KaiRenner](https://slatesource.com/u/KaiRenner)
- Business & Finance
- Created on Apr 26, 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.

**320** Pages

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

- [x] Define three objectives with no more than five key results each (done)

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