From the course: Measure What Matters: Succeeding with Objectives and Key Results (OKRs)

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The OKR cadence

The OKR cadence

From the course: Measure What Matters: Succeeding with Objectives and Key Results (OKRs)

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The OKR cadence

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- As a system, OKRs can be flexible. We've seen many different organizations successfully tailor this goal setting system to their unique needs. One choice you have to make is cadence, setting the length of your OKR cycle. The most popular OKR cadence is quarterly. That gives you four cycles to achieve your annual North Star OKRs with each of those cycles just 90 days long. That's long enough to get meaningful work done, but short enough to adapt to changing circumstances with a new set of goals and milestones. Our advice, choose the length that best aligns with your organization's natural rhythm. For example, we know a major league baseball team that uses OKRs and they split their cycle into three, the preseason, the season itself and the postseason. At Kleiner Perkins where I work, we also use trimesters, because it makes sense for us to approach the year as the start, the middle and then everything else we need to get done before the end of the year. We see other organizations…

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