Improve Product Stability

In this example, we’re going to build the OKR “Improve Product Stability”. This objective gives no detail about the strategy for improving your product, however it is clear and simple, ensuring that you and others helping with this OKR will keep the end goal in mind.

The Key Results that will help us measure this Objective are:

• Ensure APIs respond within 400ms
• Decrease production exceptions from 2000 to 200
• Decrease TrackJS errors to 0

Using the form, we’ll input our first key result: “Ensure APIs respond within 400ms”.

This key result gives a clear, quantitative goal. Depending on your timeline for this OKR, you’ll want to set the target date accordingly– here, we’ll choose the end of this quarter.

Because this key result is metric-based with an upper limit, we’ll select “control KPI”. Using the magnifying glass, we can see all the suggested KPIs in the Engineering category. Select API Response time, and adjust the settings so it meets your specifications.

Now, you have a key result that is specific to your product’s need, impactful of user experience and requires all involved employees to keep you, and one another updated on this key result’s progress.

Here, we have a few more great examples of key results for this objective.

With clear metric values and demanding timelines, these three key results are well-formulated to help you improve the stability of your product. Profit’s easy-to-use interface simplifies communication, goal-setting, and most importantly, staying on track.