Comments on: OKRs and Product Roadmaps https://www.romanpichler.com/blog/okrs-and-product-roadmaps/ Expert Training & Consulting in Agile Product Management Thu, 04 Jul 2024 08:56:15 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 By: Roman Pichler https://www.romanpichler.com/blog/okrs-and-product-roadmaps/#comment-177982 Wed, 17 Apr 2024 07:30:11 +0000 https://www.romanpichler.com/?p=26944#comment-177982 In reply to Dana V Baldwin.

You’re welcome, Dana, and thanks for sharing your feedback and experience with OKR-based roadmaps. It’s great to hear that you enjoyed the article and that combining OKRs and roadmaps worked well for you.

]]> By: Dana V Baldwin https://www.romanpichler.com/blog/okrs-and-product-roadmaps/#comment-177941 Tue, 16 Apr 2024 18:31:02 +0000 https://www.romanpichler.com/?p=26944#comment-177941 Love this and thanks for sharing. A few years ago I was lucky to be part of a massive transition of a very large airline moving from project-based work to product-based work. One of the things we introduced is similar to, but not quite as tidy as your proposal above. We called it OKRoadmaps.

Business defined Objectives and Key results were laid out. Then the product teams collaborated on ideas (experiments) they could run to address these Key Results. We evaluated these experiments with the stakeholders (including customers) to determine which bets we thought had the highest chance of paying off.

We then separated them into buckets (Qnow, Q+1, Q+2, Q+++). We’d meet quarterly to evaluate our progress on the KRs and determine if the KRs were achieved or not and if we should continue focusing on them. We generally agreed that Objectives should have a yearly scope but this was not a rule. We then determined which of our experiments were complete, which should be abandoned, which should be added and which should move left.

We would then meet briefly, each month (or as needed at any time), to discuss our learnings and any pivots we should make to the plan.

I really enjoyed working in this fashion, and I’ve secretly hoped that “OKRoadmap” would catch on!

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