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Objective alignments

Objective alignments

Concept

Objective alignment in OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) is a crucial concept that ensures that all the goals and efforts within an organization are coordinated and aligned toward a common goal. It involves setting clear objectives at different levels of the organization that cascade down from top-level strategic objectives to departmental or team-level objectives.

UpRaise allows this top-down/bottom-up approach with respect to objectives along with different views like hierarchy, explorer and roadmap view so users can see the bigger picture.

Create alignment

  • Navigate to an objective details page (by clicking on the objective title that needs to be aligned)>> Scroll down to the Alignments section.

  • Click on Add new >> Click on Contributes to/Receive contribution from

Contributes to

Contributes to means, the current objective is contributing to the progress of other objective/s.  

  • With above given navigation, click on Contributes to pop up, Search for a relevant objective/pick one from suggestions. New objectives can also be created to be aligned right there.

  • Define weightage >> Save (if weightage is turned off, it won’t be asked from you)

Receives contribution from

Receives contribution from means, the current objective is receiving the contribution from the progress percentage of other objective/s. 

  • With above given navigation, click on Receives contribution from pop up, Search for a relevant objective/pick one from suggestions. New objectives can also be created to be aligned right there.

  • Define weightage >> Save (if weightage is turned off, it won’t be asked from you)

#BestPractices

Create alignemnts from different places/navigations -

  • Objective details page - Both alignments can be added from the objective details page.

  • Hierarchy view - Receiving contribution alignment can also be created from hierarchy view.

  • Add new objective pop -up - Contributes to alignment can be created while creating a new objective.

Weightage

Read how Weightages and their calculations work in UpRaise.

Progress roll up

What is progress roll up?

When OKRs are aligned at different as well as same levels, objectives at a lower level contribute to the ones at a higher level i.e. when progress is made on lower-level objectives, depending on the alignment weightage it impacts the progress of all objectives that directly or indirectly receive a contribution from it.

In the example above, progress update in company 4 objective impacts the progress of company 2 as well as company 1. This roll up can go up to as many levels as required. 

Calculation Example

Exact progress calculation formula will depend on the weightage of links involved as well as presence/absence of children key results & alignments.

Alignments views (Hierarchy tab on OKRs page)

Hierarchy tab provides a quick view of alignments with three different views listed below -

  • Hierarchy view

  • Explorer view

  • Roadmap view

In all the above views, one can see objective to objective alignments along with Key results, Jira issues as KRs and actions associated with objectives at all levels. Navigate Hierarchy tab on OKRs page from the UpRaise main menu.

Hierarchy view 

Once objectives are aligned, one can view these alignments in a broader and better way from hierarchy view. 

Notice the image below, "Company Objective 2" receives contribution from other 3 team objectives. Whereas, "Company objective 1" receives contribution from two different levels. One directly from “Team objective 1” and another indirectly from “Individual objective 1” since it contributes to "Team objective 1"

Explorer view

In explorer view, one can see the same objectives but in a different format. Here, objectives are displayed in a list view that can be expanded further for relevant objectives. As shown in the image, notice the same objectives can be viewed differently. 

Roadmap view

Roadmap view is yet another of looking at objective alignments. As you can notice in below image, objective heirarchy is available and at the same time you can see the objective timespan accross the calendar. This way it helps users to tack the objective roadmap on the calendar type view.

 

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