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Agile Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) - a self-paced online learning course

Description

This adaptive learning online course looks at the Objectives and Key Results framework.

The most important questions that Product Owners need to ask and get answered are;

·        What is the goal?

·        Why is it important?

·        How will we recognise when we have achieved the goal?

These questions are asked recursively at various planning levels in product development. The answers can be captured as OKRs. ‘Objectives’ are clear, ambitious, but feasible goals that inspire teams and organisations to deliver them. ‘Key Results’ are quantifiable results that indicate the achievement of goals.

Used properly, OKRs can be used to support Agile product development and enhance an organisation’s Business Agility. All too often, however, the ‘Key Results’ are interpreted as either interim milestones or, worse still, the completion of activities. This robs the OKRs of their link to outcomes and their ability to motivate professionals.

Why This Course?

·        Upgrade your Product Owners’ skills – understand how goal-led practices can be supported by the correct use of OKRs

·        Understand the need to focus on outcomes – and use them to motivate the Scrum Team and the product’s stakeholder community

·        Recognise the risks of misusing OKRs - in a way that can potentially present an illusion of progress

Who is This Course Suitable For?

Whether a Product Owner, Product Manager, Portfolio Manager, Program Manager or a Business Analyst, or someone who needs to understand Agile product development then this course is for them.

What They’ll Come Away With

After completing this adaptive learning course, attendees will have learned that OKRs can be useful in supporting goal-led Agile product development by concretising the strategic goals to be met.

They’ll be able to:

·        Define OKRs

·        Understand the evolution of the OKR framework from Peter Drucker’s Management by Objectives in the 1950s, through Andy Grove’s work at Intel in 1970s to John Doerr’s popularisation of OKRs and their application at companies like Google, Amazon, LinkedIn and Spotify

·        Explain how OKR’s support goal-led development

·        Recognise that misconceptions of ‘Key Results’ can distract from outcomes when applied, and restrict the adaptability of Agile teams

·        Determine ‘Key Results’ as the quantitative measure of outcomes

What Topics are Covered?

The ‘Objectives and Key Results’ course has one module, with a total of 7 learning objectives and 20 probes.

Objectives and Key Results

·        Roots of the OKR framework in Drucker’s Management by Objectives

·        Addition of Key Results at Intel, and the popularisation of OKRs by John Doerr

·        How KRs describe when a goal has been reached

·        How OKRs can support goal-led product development in Agile environments

·        The misuse of OKRS and the damage they can cause

·        The synergy between the OKR framework and Agile product development

What the Course Includes:

·        High-quality instruction with slideshows supported by an audible coach’s text, created by Agile expert and Certified Scrum Trainer, Alan O’Callaghan

·        Multiple probes for each Learning Objective

·        Immediate feedback to answers, including remediation where appropriate.

Different pricing models apply depending on the size of your organisation. Please contact maria@emerald-hill.co.uk to book a conversation.