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My company is adopting this. They just gave a big company wide meeting/sales presentation on this. I ended up tuning it out after a few minutes. Maybe that was a mistake but I am just so sick of the corporate gobbledygook dog-and-pony show. At the risky of sounding ignorant, these corporate productivity systems feel like cottage industries invented by consultants to sell to management looking for a reason to justify their salaries to investors.

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The core concepts behind OKRs (and others like it) are pretty good. The problem is that almost all of these methods require managers to cede power and control over to the developers. And that rarely seems to happen. So as a developer it just becomes another layer of bullshit to deal with.

It pretty much boils down to: Set well defined, well reasoned, and slightly ambitious goals...communicate them to your developers...and then leave them the hell alone to try and accomplish them.

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