The Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) framework provides a great way for engineering orgs to cascade important goals through every level of the company.
Strategic themes – such as cost control and platform resilience enhancements – can be materialized in operational objectives such as reducing logs and implementing timeout policies.
The system creates a huge opportunity to get engineering teams contributing to a company’s wider objectives. But often, getting engineers engaged with OKRs is easier said than done.
At Farfetch, our executives set their goals, and how they’ll be measured, at the beginning of every half for the next six months.