Re:OKRs Aren't Going to Fix Your Communication Issues
by james_s_tayler on Monday April 01, 2019 @11:38PM
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It's more like helping set and monitor goals in a distributed way. It's a framework which to operate in.
You can be on slack or email or around the water-cooler all day long. I don't think that makes that much difference. It's not like as soon as you bring Slack into an organization all this structure emerges that helps you focus your efforts on what to do. Chat app or no chat app, people are always coordinating with each other to complete task-level work.
OKRs help you think first strategically (longer than 1 year) then tactically (between 1 month to 1 year) and then operationally (day to day, week to week). Chat apps don't do that for you.
You can be on slack or email or around the water-cooler all day long. I don't think that makes that much difference. It's not like as soon as you bring Slack into an organization all this structure emerges that helps you focus your efforts on what to do. Chat app or no chat app, people are always coordinating with each other to complete task-level work.
OKRs help you think first strategically (longer than 1 year) then tactically (between 1 month to 1 year) and then operationally (day to day, week to week). Chat apps don't do that for you.
They just aren't related.