Engineering OKRs

Engineering OKR Examples to Build Better Products Faster

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Engineering OKR Examples

  • Engineering builds and maintains the core products your customers rely on every day.
  • From product stability and UX to infrastructure, QA, mobile, and development quality — clear OKRs keep engineering focused on measurable progress.
  • Use these engineering OKR examples to set aspirational objectives with specific key results your team can check in on every week.
Improving Product Stability

Improving Product Stability

Stable products keep customers trusting your platform quarter after quarter. This OKR helps engineering teams improve product stability by tracking API response times, production exceptions, and TrackJS errors, so issues are caught early and releases stay reliable for every user.

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Automate Back-Office Business Processes

Automate Back-Office Business Processes

Manual back-office work slows internal teams down and often frustrates customers. This OKR helps engineering automate back-office business processes by launching an in-product feedback tool, capturing billing operations in the CRM, and reducing billing-related complaints across the entire customer base.

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Improve User Experience

Improve User Experience

Great user experience turns first-time users into loyal, long-term customers. This OKR helps engineering and design teams improve user experience by tracking task success rates, System Usability Scale scores, and the time taken to open new accounts across the product.

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Improve Localization Footprint

Improve Localization Footprint

Expanding into new global markets starts with speaking your customers' language. This OKR helps engineering teams improve localization footprint by increasing supported languages, keeping new features inside the localization infrastructure, and creating a documented localization kit for all future projects.

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Walt Disney

“If you can visualize it, if you can dream it, there’s some way to do it”

Walt Disney
Improve Infrastructure Reliability

Improve Infrastructure Reliability

Reliable infrastructure keeps every product, team, and customer running smoothly without interruption. This OKR helps engineering teams improve infrastructure reliability by moving to Google Cloud, building a NOC to monitor every component, and integrating Amazon SES for reliable email communication.

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Implement Action Center for Notifications

Implement Action Center for Notifications

An action center keeps users on top of daily tasks and updates in one place. This OKR helps engineering teams implement an action center for notifications by designing a user-friendly module, adding customizable email notifications, and integrating key business applications.

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Engage Mobile Users

Engage Mobile Users

Mobile users expect fast, convenient, and intuitive experiences on every device. This OKR helps engineering teams engage mobile users by launching voice assistant integrations, increasing Android and iOS installs, and completing checks on the new user interface before every release.

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Increase Efficiency of QA Processes

Increase Efficiency of QA Processes

Efficient QA processes help teams ship faster without sacrificing quality. This OKR helps engineering teams increase QA efficiency by improving unit test coverage, reducing high-priority production bugs, keeping automation test suite runs short, and strengthening the overall QA release process.

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Michelangelo

“The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark.”

Michelangelo
Improve Product Usability

Improve Product Usability

Usable products help customers get value faster and need far less support. This OKR helps engineering teams improve product usability by establishing a target usability score, reducing bugs, and implementing navigational improvements and consolidated boards across the entire product experience.

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Improve Development Process Quality

Improve Development Process Quality

A high-quality development process means fewer incidents and faster recovery when they happen. This OKR helps engineering teams improve development process quality by limiting production bugs each week, reducing mean time to recovery, and cutting the mean time to detection.

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Also check out our other OKR example pages: HR OKR Examples, Marketing OKR Examples, Sales OKR Examples.

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