Your team's OKRs are probably broken (and how to fix them)

Most engineering teams are doing OKRs wrong. Spectacularly wrong.

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You've probably seen it: teams setting a dozen objectives, cascading OKRs to every individual developer, and then forgetting about them until the quarter ends in disappointment. After reading Christina Wodtke's Radical Focus, I've realized why most OKR implementations fail - and more importantly, how engineering leaders can fix them.