11 customisable OKR examples for Code Quality
What are Code Quality OKRs?
The Objective and Key Results (OKR) framework is a simple goal-setting methodology that was introduced at Intel by Andy Grove in the 70s. It became popular after John Doerr introduced it to Google in the 90s, and it's now used by teams of all sizes to set and track ambitious goals at scale.
Writing good OKRs can be hard, especially if it's your first time doing it. You'll need to center the focus of your plans around outcomes instead of projects.
We have curated a selection of OKR examples specifically for Code Quality to assist you. Feel free to explore the templates below for inspiration in setting your own goals.
If you want to learn more about the framework, you can read our OKR guide online.
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Our customisable Code Quality OKRs examples
You will find in the next section many different Code Quality Objectives and Key Results. We've included strategic initiatives in our templates to give you a better idea of the different between the key results (how we measure progress), and the initiatives (what we do to achieve the results).
Hope you'll find this helpful!
1. OKRs to improve code quality through effective code reviews
Improve code quality through effective code reviews
Reduce average time taken to complete code reviews
Set clear expectations and guidelines for code reviews- Use automated tools for code analysis and review to enhance efficiency
- Implement a peer review process to streamline code reviews
- Provide regular code review training sessions for team members
- Implement and track improvements in code review feedback incorporation rate
- Conduct a survey to collect feedback from developers on barriers to incorporating code review feedback
- Analyze the survey results to identify the common barriers to incorporating code review feedback
- Implement a tracking system to monitor and measure the improvements in code review feedback incorporation rate
- Develop a training program to address the identified barriers and improve feedback incorporation rate
- Increase team members' satisfaction with code review process
- Increase average number of bugs caught through code review per week
2. OKRs to elevate overall test coverage across all features
- Elevate overall test coverage across all features
- Implement a process for monitoring and increasing test coverage on an ongoing basis
- Implement a continuous test coverage monitoring system
- Develop strategies to continuously improve test coverage
- Identify existing areas lacking sufficient test coverage
- Identify and address 30% of areas with low test coverage across existing features
- Prioritize these features based on importance
- Identify features with less than 70% test coverage
- Develop and implement tests to increase coverage
- Achieve 70% code coverage for all new features developed in the next quarter
- Conduct reviews and refactoring sessions to improve coverage
- Implement mandatory unit tests for all newly developed features
- Monitor code coverage regularly using suitable tools
3. OKRs to foster rapid and secure high-quality code development
- Foster rapid and secure high-quality code development
- Increase code reviews to ensure 100% implementation of security protocols
- Implement automated code review tools for security compliance
- Schedule regular code review sessions with team members
- Provide training on security protocol standards during code reviews
- Implement a standardized coding style guide across all projects by quarter end
- Develop a comprehensive coding style guide
- Enforce guide compliance in project reviews
- Communicate the guide to all developers
- Decrease the development cycle by 30% through effective work methodologies
- Regularly update and optimize software tools for improved efficiency
- Adopt test-driven development to reduce debugging time
- Implement agile project management for quicker iteration cycles
4. OKRs to substantially reduce technical debt across all projects
- Substantially reduce technical debt across all projects
- Achieve 95% test code coverage to identify and correct hidden bugs
- Use a code coverage tool to measure efficiency
- Refactor poorly covered code sections
- Write comprehensive unit tests for each function or component
- Decrease codebase complexity by 25% using refactoring techniques
- Implement effective refactoring techniques to simplify code
- Regularly review and optimize code to maintain simplicity
- Identify redundant and inefficient code for elimination
- Conduct bi-weekly code reviews to identify and solve 30% of debt issues
- Schedule bi-weekly code review sessions
- Identify issues contributing to code debt
- Implement solutions for 30% of identified issues
5. OKRs to enhance Developer Quality
- Enhance Developer Quality
- Foster collaboration by establishing cross-functional teams to deliver one successful project
- Clearly define the roles and responsibilities of each team member to ensure clarity
- Facilitate regular communication and meetings among team members to encourage collaboration
- Identify key individuals from different departments to form cross-functional teams
- Provide the necessary resources and support to enable teams to successfully deliver the project
- Enhance technical skills through monthly training sessions with at least 90% attendance
- Monitor and track attendance of each team member for training sessions
- Provide relevant and informative training materials for each session
- Communicate the importance of attending training sessions to all team members
- Establish a monthly schedule for training sessions
- Increase code quality by implementing code review process and achieving an average rating of 4 out of 5
- Establish a designated code review team to review and provide constructive feedback on code submissions
- Implement a systematic code review process and ensure all code changes undergo thorough review
- Define clear coding guidelines and standards to be followed during the code review process
- Regularly measure and track the code review ratings, identifying areas of improvement and addressing them
- Improve efficiency by decreasing average bug fix time to less than 24 hours
6. OKRs to increase code quality
- Demonstrate incredible standards in code quality
- 100% of pull requests are reviewed by 2 developers
- 75% of the developers have gone through QA training
- 100% of repositories are using code linting and static code analysis
- Reduce the percentage of QA-related broken builds by 60%
7. OKRs to implement automation testing across development platform and code
- Implement automation testing across development platform and code
- Identify and list 100% of testable features within the existing code base
- Review entire code base to identify testable features
- Create a comprehensive list of these features
- Confirm all identified features are indeed testable
- Create and document comprehensive automated test scripts for 70% of identified features
- Develop comprehensive automated test scripts
- Identify key features requiring automated test scripts
- Document tested features and script process
- Achieve a 95% success rate in detecting and reporting bugs through automation tests
- Implement automated testing tools to highlight software errors
- Train team members on analyzing automated test results
- Regularly update and refine automated test scripts
8. OKRs to enhance efficiency and productivity in development within the team
- Enhance efficiency and productivity in development within the team
- Improve problem-solving capabilities by 40% in resolving coding issues
- Seek mentorship from senior coders for guidance
- Practice resolving issues with more complex code
- Enroll in advanced coding and problem-solving workshops
- Deliver four high-quality projects within agreed upon timelines and standards
- Maintain continual progress monitoring for quality assurance
- Establish clear timelines and standards for each project
- Implement effective communication amongst project team members
- Increase engagement and participation in weekly team development reviews by 100%
- Send reminder notifications prior to weekly development review meetings
- Incentivize active participation with rewards recognizing valuable input
- Ensure agenda topics are relevant and engaging for all team members
9. OKRs to conduct regular penetration testing and code reviews
- Improve security through regular penetration testing and code reviews
- Ensure all critical vulnerabilities found in penetration testing are remediated within 2 weeks
- Conduct code reviews for all new features and major changes before deployment
- Implement at least 80% of code review recommendations within the next release cycle
- Increase the frequency of penetration testing from once a quarter to twice a month
10. OKRs to implement unit-testing in Mid-Office
- Implement unit-testing in Mid-Office
- Develop a comprehensive unit testing plan within 4 weeks
- Schedule and delegate testing tasks
- Identify all functionalities for testing
- Draft a detailed unit testing procedure
- Train the team on unit-testing best practices and tools by 6 weeks
- Schedule and conduct weekly team training sessions for 6 weeks
- Develop a comprehensive training program on unit-testing practices
- Identify appropriate unit-testing software and tools for training
- Achieve 80% code coverage with unit tests by the end of the quarter
- Write effective tests for identified sections
- Identify sections of code lacking unit tests
- Regularly run and adjust tests for improvement
11. OKRs to efficient and secure completion of Wiz Rollout Secure Code2Cloud phase 2
- Efficient and secure completion of Wiz Rollout Secure Code2Cloud phase 2
- Perform and pass robust stress-testing on Code2Cloud without any system breakdowns
- Identify potential weak points in Code2Cloud architecture
- Execute a series of rigorous stress-tests on Code2Cloud
- Analyze results and make necessary improvements to code configuration
- Attain 100% coding completion with zero vulnerabilities identified in code reviews
- Regularly conduct rigorous code review sessions
- Implement strict protocols for quality assurance in coding
- Train team in advanced security-centric coding practices
- Ensure 100% team training on the updated system and data security measures
- Implement updated data security measures training
- Monitor and confirm everyone’s participation in training
- Schedule comprehensive training sessions on updated system
Code Quality OKR best practices to boost success
Generally speaking, your objectives should be ambitious yet achievable, and your key results should be measurable and time-bound (using the SMART framework can be helpful). It is also recommended to list strategic initiatives under your key results, as it'll help you avoid the common mistake of listing projects in your KRs.
Here are a couple of best practices extracted from our OKR implementation guide 👇
Tip #1: Limit the number of key results
The #1 role of OKRs is to help you and your team focus on what really matters. Business-as-usual activities will still be happening, but you do not need to track your entire roadmap in the OKRs.
We recommend having 3-4 objectives, and 3-4 key results per objective. A platform like Tability can run audits on your data to help you identify the plans that have too many goals.
Tability's audit dashboard will highlight opportunities to improve OKRsTip #2: Commit to weekly OKR check-ins
Don't fall into the set-and-forget trap. It is important to adopt a weekly check-in process to get the full value of your OKRs and make your strategy agile – otherwise this is nothing more than a reporting exercise.
Being able to see trends for your key results will also keep yourself honest.
Tability's check-ins will save you hours and increase transparencyTip #3: No more than 2 yellow statuses in a row
Yes, this is another tip for goal-tracking instead of goal-setting (but you'll get plenty of OKR examples above). But, once you have your goals defined, it will be your ability to keep the right sense of urgency that will make the difference.
As a rule of thumb, it's best to avoid having more than 2 yellow/at risk statuses in a row.
Make a call on the 3rd update. You should be either back on track, or off track. This sounds harsh but it's the best way to signal risks early enough to fix things.
How to turn your Code Quality OKRs in a strategy map
OKRs without regular progress updates are just KPIs. You'll need to update progress on your OKRs every week to get the full benefits from the framework. Reviewing progress periodically has several advantages:
- It brings the goals back to the top of the mind
- It will highlight poorly set OKRs
- It will surface execution risks
- It improves transparency and accountability
Most teams should start with a spreadsheet if they're using OKRs for the first time. Then, once you get comfortable you can graduate to a proper OKRs-tracking tool.
Tability's Strategy Map makes it easy to see all your org's OKRsIf you're not yet set on a tool, you can check out the 5 best OKR tracking templates guide to find the best way to monitor progress during the quarter.
More Code Quality OKR templates
We have more templates to help you draft your team goals and OKRs.
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- OKRs to expand brand reach through innovative marketing practices
- OKRs to enhance innovation manager's mastery of business requirements
- OKRs to improve efficiency and satisfaction in stakeholder management
- OKRs to enhance the quality of prospective business leads
OKRs resources
Here are a list of resources to help you adopt the Objectives and Key Results framework.
- To learn: What is the meaning of OKRs
- Blog posts: ODT Blog
- Success metrics: KPIs examples
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