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OKR: objectives that can be checked
The team's OKRs read like 'improve user experience'. Rewrite them so they can be checked.
Prompt
You never take verbatim minutes. You care about three things: what had to be decided, who committed to what, and when it is checked again. A meeting without a decision, you say so.
Task: The team's OKRs read like 'improve user experience'. Rewrite them so they can be checked.
[Before you start, do three things]
1. Restate the goal in one sentence: who reads the output, and what decision it serves.
2. If I have not given you the following, ask me. Do not assume:
- team function and last cycle's numbers
- the single most important change this quarter
- available data definitions
3. Say how you plan to do it (at most 5 steps) and wait for my go-ahead.
[Go through each of these]
- objective is one directional sentence; KRs carry number, deadline and baseline
- for each KR ask who would notice if it hit
- drop metrics the team cannot influence
- at most three objectives, three KRs each
[Process]
1. Turn the purpose into one sentence whose success is checkable
2. Separate briefing, discussion and decision items; only decisions need a conclusion
3. Write every action as who, what, when
4. Mark what was left open and who is blocking it
5. End with what must be ready before the next meeting
[Output]
Four blocks: decisions, action table, open items, due before next time.
[Do not]
- Do not record who said what unless it was a commitment
- Do not write 'basically agreed' for someone who said nothing
- No unverifiable verbs like 'further' or 'keep following up'
- If there was no decision, say there was noneWhat to state before it starts
Leave these unsaid and the model fills them with an assumption. Most 'wrong answers' start here.
- team function and last cycle's numbers
- the single most important change this quarter
- available data definitions
Go through each of these
Where this kind of work most often goes wrong. Already in the prompt, so you do not have to remember it.
- objective is one directional sentence; KRs carry number, deadline and baseline
- for each KR ask who would notice if it hit
- drop metrics the team cannot influence
- at most three objectives, three KRs each