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Re:The Google incentive mismatch: Problems with promotion-or... by nine_zeros on Wednesday May 04, 2022 @01:13PM (#31263242)
Missing OKRs means that the team cannot set achievable goals. It is a signal that the team has terrible foresight.

I know the argument is that by being more ambitious and achieving 70%, you are setting ambitious goals. But then the goals are never met. The work doesn't finish. The projects falter. The users are unhappy. Engineers leave.

Re:The Google incentive mismatch: Problems with promotion-or... by xmprt on Wednesday May 04, 2022 @04:52PM (#31265720)
In my experience, people make 10 goals during planning and then later decide on the 7 that they're going to hit. I wouldn't mind if the goals were ambitious but efforts were made to achieve 70% of them. However, in practice it seems like there's no vision during planning and instead they change course midway through the half. What's the point of planning if you can't stick to the plan.