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Re:OKRs Are Bullshit by riku_iki on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @04:55AM (#39272617)
> "I know I should do X to actually benefit the product, but I do Y because this is what gets us to the Key Result.".

it just means you think you are smarter than person who decided on Y, which may be true or maybe not true regardless of OKR process.

> You can only pretend to know what is a good number, and people do pretend as if it can be done and everyone plays along with this bs.

there are many business decisions based on educated guesses, not just OKRs.

Re:OKRs Are Bullshit by mewpmewp2 on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @06:11AM (#39273087)
> it just means you think you are smarter than person who decided on Y, which may be true or maybe not true regardless of OKR process.

The whole premise of deciding on Y or the methodology how it was decided was invalid in the first place.

> there are many business decisions based on educated guesses, not just OKRs.

Yes, but you can present ideas much better with simple words than forced numbers. You should take educated guesses, but you shouldn't force things into some sort of measurable numbers, unless they specifically make sense in that context.

Essentially goals and tasks should be what they are, specific to those goals and tasks and not forced into some specific format of a measurable number.