Follow-up from Ally Training
Action Items
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upload training deck -
post training videos -
share training videos -
offboard Ally features/bugs to @brhea
Updating Ally Resources
Our How to Use Ally section contains useful resources, but it could be better organized to help a new user learn about OKRs, Ally, and GitLab's processes in a human-friendly, learner-focused manner.
Brian's Notes from Training
- Syntax checker
- Understanding that a parent's KR can be a child's O in the Duality model
- Automatic alignment from the Top Down
- Our process is not doing cascading very well
- learn.ally.io
- Ally Knowledge Base
- Socialize the understanding that hitting 70% of an OKR is success. It means you were aspirational. If you always get 100%, you aren't stretching.
OKR fundamentals
Objectives are:
- Actionable
- Aspirational
- Meaningful
KRs are:
- Focused
- Time Bound
- Measurable
- Ambitious
Write and then Edit:
- Review OKR Superpowers:
- Focus
- Alignment
- Tracking
- Transparency
- Stretch
- Perform the Necessary and Sufficient Test
- Are all these Key Results necessary to achieve my Objective?
- Will accomplishing my Key Results be sufficient enough to achieve my Objective?
Four Cs of OKRs
- Cascade
- Create
- Check in
- Close
Edited by Brian Rhea