5 customisable OKR examples for Cross Functional Project Management
What are Cross Functional Project Management OKRs?
The OKR acronym stands for Objectives and Key Results. It's a goal-setting framework that was introduced at Intel by Andy Grove in the 70s, and it became popular after John Doerr introduced it to Google in the 90s. OKRs helps teams has a shared language to set ambitious goals and track progress towards them.
Crafting effective OKRs can be challenging, particularly for beginners. Emphasizing outcomes rather than projects should be the core of your planning.
We've tailored a list of OKRs examples for Cross Functional Project Management to help you. You can look at any of the templates below to get some inspiration for 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 Cross Functional Project Management OKRs examples
You will find in the next section many different Cross Functional Project Management 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 ascend to a prominent leadership position within the company
- Ascend to a prominent leadership position within the company
- Lead a cross-functional project showcasing collaboration and leadership acumen
- Foster teamwork through regular meetings and progress updates
- Identify and assign responsibilities to cross-functional project team members
- Develop and communicate project goals and timelines to all stakeholders
- Complete advanced management training course to enhance leadership skills
- Enroll in a suitable advanced management training course
- Diligently participate in all course sessions and activities
- Implement learned leadership strategies in daily management practices
- Exceed current KPIs by 20% to showcase potential for greater responsibility
- Implement and track progressive success of strategy
- Review and analyze current KPIs performance
- Develop a strategy to boost efficiency by 20%
2. OKRs to attain the position of Technical Program Management Director
- Attain the position of Technical Program Management Director
- Increase team's KPI achievement by 15%
- Boost employee motivation through incentives
- Implement regular team goal-setting and tracking sessions
- Enhance training programs to improve skillset
- Successfully lead five cross-functional projects, improving completion rate by 20%
- Identify and assemble cross-functional project teams
- Implement and monitor project management strategies
- Establish clear project goals and timelines
- Complete advanced leadership course for relevant career development
- Enroll in a suitable course based on relevance to career
- Research available advanced leadership courses online
- Complete all coursework and assessments on schedule
3. OKRs to enhance the product management skills of our team
- Enhance the product management skills of our team
- Increase successful project delivery rate by 20%
- Enhance communication and collaboration between teams
- Implement clearer project timelines and benchmarks
- Regularly monitor and adjust project strategies
- Conduct 2 comprehensive product management workshops
- Identify and reserve suitable locations for both workshops
- Develop a comprehensive curriculum for product management
- Schedule experienced speakers to present during workshops
- Complete 5 cross-functional team projects for product management practice
- Review, document and evaluate project results
- Identify and schedule 5 cross-functional team projects
- Assign roles and oversee project execution
4. OKRs to establish 2024 as the milestone target year
- Establish 2024 as the milestone target year
- Cultivate cross-functional alignment and involvement with monthly progress towards the 2024 goal
- Organize weekly discussions to share updates on the 2024 goal
- Implement an online platform for real-time progress tracking
- Facilitate cross-departmental brainstorming sessions for strategy formulation
- Prioritize and initiate at least three major projects aligned with the 2024 vision
- Develop a detailed action plan for each project
- Identify three critical projects aligned with the 2024 vision
- Assign resources and initiate execution of projects
- Define and outline a comprehensive strategic roadmap geared towards 2024
- Draft detailed plans for each prioritized activity
- Prioritize and sequence roadmap activities based on strategic objectives
- Identify key business goals for the 2024 strategic roadmap
5. OKRs to strengthen cross-functional team collaboration
- Strengthen cross-functional team collaboration
- Reduce resolution time for team conflicts by 30%
- Define clear process for handling disputes promptly
- Implement conflict resolution training for all team members
- Regularly review and adjust the conflict resolution process
- Implement two new communication tools to aid team interaction and engagement
- Identify top two communication tools suitable for team engagement
- Purchase and install chosen communication tools
- Conduct training sessions on using new tools
- Achieve a 20% increase in collaborative projects compared to last quarter
- Initiate regular brainstorming sessions for project ideas
- Develop incentives for collaborative project participation
- Formulate strategies to strengthening team cooperation and communication
Cross Functional Project Management 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.
Tip #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.
Tip #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 Cross Functional Project Management OKRs in a strategy map
Your quarterly OKRs should be tracked weekly in order to get all the benefits of the OKRs 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
We recommend using a spreadsheet for your first OKRs cycle. You'll need to get familiar with the scoring and tracking first. Then, you can scale your OKRs process by using a proper OKR-tracking tool for it.
If 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 Cross Functional Project Management OKR templates
We have more templates to help you draft your team goals and OKRs.
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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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