Concepts - OKRs & objective cycles

OKRs - Objectives & key results

Objectives & Key Results is a goal-setting methodology, popularized by its incredible success at Google & Intel. UpRaise makes use of this philosophy and helps teams set goals at different levels of the organization. 

Difference between an objective & a key result

Most of the  OKR software available treat objective and key results the same way. UpRaise treats them a little differently from each other. Key results are sort of unit building blocks, they cannot be further distributed to multiple people neither they can receive a contribution from another objective. Whereas objectives are at a higher level than key results and can be easily further distributed into multiple key results as well as contributing objectives. 

OKR levels

Objectives & key results exist at different levels in UpRaise - company, team & individual. Depending on your need, users can be assigned OKRs at any of these levels. 

Alignment

Alignment is of vital importance in OKRs. By creating alignments amongst different levels of objectives, one can ensure better visibility and automatic progress roll up from the lowest level to the highest. 

Objective cycle

Objective cycles act as containers for all levels of OKRs. We recommend quarterly objective cycle cadence for best results. Start & end dates of the objective cycle, along with the additional settings dictate behavior of objectives which belong to the corresponding objective cycle.

At the time of installation, system automatically creates some default objective cycles, you can, of course, edit or delete them to set them as per your requirements.