Measuring performance is an important aspect of any organisation and goals are important to measure and track employee performance, as well as provide motivation for employees since its results are available at shorter intervals. OKRs are therefore extremely essential to ascertain goal setting and achievement. OKRs can be applied across all departments of an organisation, the engineering team being no exception.
When building a product for growth, using Engineering OKRs is a great way to provide focus and align priorities with the rest of the company. Software development is an extremely dynamic environment. Therefore setting OKRs for the Engineering team can balance the limitless aspects of innovation with the ensuing constraints to ensure that the teams’ creativity can yield tangible outcomes consistently.
Sample OKRs For Engineering Team
Software Engineer
Objective – Improve The Overall Performance Of The Application Developed
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| Key Result 1: Reduce the number of bugs by 10% |
| Key Result 2: Achieve 30% reduction in run time warnings |
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Objective – Improve Procedure For Testing
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| Key Result 1: Increase unit test coverage to 75% of code |
| Key Result 2: Revisit all open issues from 6 months and reduce the number by 10% |
| Key Result 3: Limit the number of bugs reported by end-users per release to 3 |
Technical Architect
Objective – Monitor The Smooth Working Of The Company’s Computer Network
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| Key Result 1: Check and update company software every fortnight |
| Key Result 2: Reduce start up time by ___ seconds |
| Key Result 3: Reduce the number of technical issues by 10% |
| Key Result 4: Introduce atleast one new innovation every quarter to the existing technology |
Product Manager
Objective – Increase Quality Of Releases And Ensure They Maintain Timelines
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| Key Result 1: Ensure that there are 2 or less bugs during production release |
| Key Result 2: Increase unit test coverage from ___% to ___% |
| Key Result 3: No releases to go beyond the planned date of release |
Tester
Objective – Increase Efficiency Of QA Process
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| Key Result 1: No critical bugs to be open 1 week before release date |
| Key Result 2: Improve testing coverage from ___% to ___% |
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Objective – Implement 0 Bugs Policy
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| Key Result 1: Ensure 0 critical issues on production |
| Key Result 2: Write detailed report for every high severity issue found during production |
Chief Technical Officer
Objective – Launch The New Project Architecture
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| Key Result 1: Design 3 tests with QA team |
| Key Result 2: Ensure that all contributing teams have maintained records of the processes |
| Key Result 3: Upgrade database and complete data migration |
Network Administrator
Objective – Increase Infrastructure Reliability
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| Key Result 1: Maintain up to date software so as to increase productivity by 30% |
| Key Result 2: Reduce break down during peak hours by 75% |
| Key Result 3: Conduct training programs every 6 months to educate employees regarding best practices in infrastructure configuration |
Cyber security engineer
Objective – Increase Data Security
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| Key Result 1: Reduce occurrences of data breach to zero |
| Key Result 2: 100% data recovery due to daily backup of critical data |
| Key Result 3: 50% decrease in data migration and backup time |
Objective – Improve Company’s (Cyber) Security
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| Key Result 1: Ensure 100% attendance of staff for security awareness training |
| Key Result 2: 50% increase in security using new protocol for addressing product security issues |
| Key Result 3: Implement a new antivirus system across the company |
VP Engineer
Objective – Build World Class Engineering Teams
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| Key Result 1: Hire ___ new engineers by end of quarter of ____(year) |
| Key Result 2: Ensure atleast 30% of the new hires comes with exceptional references |
| Key Result 3: Document performance measurement metrics for individual contributions |
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