- Engineering in tech companies plays a critical function. Engineering is responsible for developing the core product that is the crux of the business- what they are making and selling and what their customers are buying and using.
- Engineering is typically led by a VP (Engineering) along with the CTO. They are responsible for building the Engineering team, developing the Technology roadmap, assessing the time required to provide new features/products and delivering quality releases on that schedule.
- The Engineering department may include several functions – Data, Infrastructure, Reliability & Security, Developer Productivity, Enterprise Productivity, Project Management, Design, UX, Development, Integration, QA, Devops etc.
- The Engineering team ensures the realization of product vision through execution.
Here, we have showcased OKR examples for various domains within the Engineering department such as, Systems Integrations OKRs, Backend process OKRs, Mobile Applications OKRs, User Interface OKRs, Quality Assurance (QA) OKRs & Product management OKRs.
#1: Reliability & Security OKRs
Objective
Improve Product Stability
Target Date: Q3-2020
Visibility: All Employees
Key Results
Ensure APIs response time within 400 ms

Decrease production exceptions from 2000 to 200


Decrease TrackJS errors to 0


#2: Enterprise Productivity OKRs
Objective
Automate back-office business processes
Target Date: Q3-2020
Visibility: All Employees
Key Results
Launch customer feedback tool inside product


Capture billing operations in CRM

Decrease billing related complaints from 20 to 2


#3: Usability OKRs
Objective
Improve User Experience
Target Date: Q3-2020
Visibility: All Employees
Key Results
Increase task success rate from 70% to 90%


Achieve system usability Scale of at least 80


Reduce time on task for opening new accounts from 5 mins to 2 mins

#4: Engineering OKRs
Objective
Improve Localization Footprint
Target Date: Q3-2020
Visibility: All Employees
Key Results
Increase number of languages supported from 5 to 15


Ensure 90% of new features are maintained as part of the localization infrastructure


Create localization kit with documented project requirements


#5: Infrastructure OKRs
Objective
Improve Infrastructure Reliability
Target Date: Q3-2020
Visibility: All Employees
Key Results
Move to Google Cloud


Create a NOC to monitor every infrastructure component


Integrate Amazon SES for email communication


#6: Engineering OKRs
Objective
Implement Action Center for Notifications
Target Date: Q3-2020
Visibility: All Employees
Key Results
Design a user-friendly Action Center module


Increase customizable email notifications from 0 to 20 for Action Center events

Integrate at least 3 applications into Action Center


#7: Mobile OKRs
Objective
Engage Mobile Users
Target Date: Q3-2020
Visibility: All Employees
Key Results
Launch 3 voice assistant integrations (Siri, Google assistant, Cortana)


Increase Android & iOS installs from 500 to 2000


100% check new user interface

#8: QA OKRs
Objective
Increase Efficiency of QA Processes
Target Date: Q3-2020
Visibility: All Employees
Key Results
Increase unit test coverage from 75% to 90%


Decrease number of high priority bugs in production from 2 to 0


Maintain average automation test suite run time at most 15 mins after the build is deployed in Production


Improve overall QA process for a release


#9: Usability OKRs
Objective
Improve Product Usability
Target Date: Q3-2020
Visibility: All Employees
Key Results
Establish a usability score of 85

Decrease bugs from 25 to 0


Implement navigational improvements, consolidated boards to improve user experience


#10: QA OKRs
Objective
Improve Development Process Quality
Target Date: Q3-2020
Visibility: All Employees
Key Results
Maintain number of bugs identified in production at most 3 per week


Decrease mean recovery time from 48 hours to 24 hours


Decrease mean time to detection from 6 hours to 2 hours


Conclusion
Profit.co’s OKR software provides an intuitive interface to define your Engineering OKRs and also comes with 300+ predefined KPIs to make OKR adoption easy.
Please also check out our other OKR example pages, HR OKRs, Marketing OKRs, Procurement OKRs and Sales OKRs.