Allan Kelly on the world of OKRs and his book: Succeeding with OKRs in Agile: How to create & deliver objectives & key results for teams

This week I am joined by the amazing Allan Kelly to discuss his book: Succeeding with OKRs in Agile: How to create & deliver objectives & key results for teams. In this episode: 1. Allan’s journey into OKR 2. How do we implement OKRs in a healthy and helpful way? 3. 1975 vs 2023 OKRs 4. Strategy, mission and purpose 5. You want to do OKRs: where do you start? 6. The notion of commitment & aspirational OKRs 7. Psychological safety 8. Test-driven development & test-driven OKRs 9. Operational OKRs 10. Can you park business as usual and let your team do the shiny new stuff? 11. OKR 0 12. OKR roadmap 13. The rule of thumb: 3 OKRs 14. Queuing theory 15. Balancing your business as usual, your continuous improvement of business as usual and investment initiatives 16. The difference between Allan’s 1st edition and 2nd edition of his book About Allan: Allan helps companies create environments were digital professional can thrive and do great work to enhance digital agility and create competitive advantage. In agile, Allan found a set of ideas, techniques and people which matched his own thinking and to which he could contribute. That desire to change the world has led Allan to write seven books - his latest is "Succeeding with OKRs in Agile". The ones Allan is most proud of are "Business Patterns for Software Developers" and "Continuous Digital." In addition Allan has pioneered techniques such as Value Poker, Time-Value Profiles and Retrospective Dialogue Sheets. Allan is always open for discussion, engage through consultancy (part or full time), training and discussion. Allan's website: https://www.allankelly.net/ Allan's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/allankellynet Allan's email: allan@allankelly.net Allan's books: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Books-Allan-Kelly/s?rh=n%3A266239%2Cp_27%3AAllan+Kelly Enjoyed this episode? Let's connect: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johncolemanagilitychef/ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://linktr.ee/johncolemanxagility ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠- social and podcast links ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://linkpop.com/orderlydisruption⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ - order training from right here If you are interested in helping your team or organization achieve greater agility and want to explore agile training options, visit our training page on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://x-agility.com/executive-agility-leadership-training/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. If you value coaching and would like to work with a deeply experienced agile and executive coaching specialist, visit our coaching page on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://x-agility.com/executive-agility-coaching/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ If you are looking for an agile consultant that can help your leadership team identify an appropriate roadmap to organizational agility and take the most effective course of action in your agile transformation, visit our consulting page on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://x-agility.com/executive-agility-consulting/⁠⁠⁠⁠ #scrum #okrs #agile