4 customisable OKR examples for Disaster Recovery Team
What are Disaster Recovery Team 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.
OKRs are quickly gaining popularity as a goal-setting framework. But, it's not always easy to know how to write your goals, especially if it's your first time using OKRs.
We've tailored a list of OKRs examples for Disaster Recovery Team 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 Disaster Recovery Team OKRs examples
We've added many examples of Disaster Recovery Team Objectives and Key Results, but we did not stop there. Understanding the difference between OKRs and projects is important, so we also added examples of strategic initiatives that relate to the OKRs.
Hope you'll find this helpful!
1. OKRs to enhance infrastructure resilience and reliability
- Enhance infrastructure resilience and reliability
- Successfully implement and test disaster recovery plan on 100% of critical systems
- Formulate a detailed disaster recovery plan for critical systems
- Conduct tests to assess the plan's effectiveness and efficiency
- Implement the disaster recovery plan across all systems
- Achieve 99.9% system uptime by implementing robust failover mechanisms
- Monitor system uptime and troubleshoot issues immediately
- Develop robust, redundant systems to minimize single points of failure
- Regularly test failover mechanisms to ensure functionality
- Reduce infrastructure-related incidents by 75% through proactive maintenance and monitoring
- Regularly analyze system performance for improvements
- Introduce real-time infrastructure monitoring systems
- Implement a comprehensive proactive maintenance schedule
2. OKRs to improve the Disaster Recover process
- Have a world class DR process
- Increase the number of DR tests from 1 to 3 per quarter
- Reduce recovery period from 24h to 12h
- Reduce recovery point objective from 12 business hours to 4 business hours
3. OKRs to establish uninterrupted power supply for all cable and net nodes during blackouts
- Establish uninterrupted power supply for all cable and net nodes during blackouts
- Improve system efficiency to achieve less than 1% downtime in case of blackouts
- Implement a robust uninterruptible power supply (UPS) system
- Regularly test and maintain all backup systems
- Develop a comprehensive disaster recovery plan
- Secure procurement and installation deals of uninterrupted power supply (UPS) systems for 100% of nodes
- Finalize procurement contracts for necessary UPS systems
- Identify potential UPS system suppliers and initiate negotiation
- Organize installation of UPS systems across all nodes
- Implement and test successful failover to UPS for all nodes during simulated blackout events
- Schedule simulated blackout events periodically
- Set up and configure UPS systems on all nodes
- Monitor and document failover success during simulations
4. OKRs to enhance stability and resilience in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)
- Enhance stability and resilience in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)
- Improve disaster recovery success rate to 95% by enhancing resiliency plans
- Develop and implement improvements to increase plan resiliency
- Regularly test and adjust plans as necessary
- Perform a thorough assessment of current disaster recovery plans
- Reduce average client-side VDI errors by 20% through software updates and troubleshooting guides
- Train clients on using troubleshooting guides
- Develop comprehensive troubleshooting guides for common errors
- Implement regular software updates on client-side VDI systems
- Decrease system downtime by 30% through infrastructure optimization and redundancy implementation
- Conduct a comprehensive assessment of the existing infrastructure
- Optimize system operations for improved functionality
- Implement redundancy systems to assure uninterrupted operation
Disaster Recovery Team 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
Having too many OKRs is the #1 mistake that teams make when adopting the framework. The problem with tracking too many competing goals is that it will be hard for your team to know what really matters.
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
Setting good goals can be challenging, but without regular check-ins, your team will struggle to make progress. We recommend that you track your OKRs weekly to get the full benefits from the framework.
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 Disaster Recovery Team OKRs in a strategy map
Quarterly OKRs should have weekly updates to get all the 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
Spreadsheets are enough to get started. Then, once you need to scale you can use a proper OKR platform to make things easier.
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 Disaster Recovery Team 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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