We have a high degree of seasonality in our business model. Is it possible to have a schedule of OKRs that turn on and off depending where we are in the business calander year? Are there any bodies of knowledge or use cases for time series OKRs? Thanks
OKRs are normally set, and reset on a quarterly basis. As such they are transient, you work on one for a quarter and at the end of the quarter it is done. It might a success, it might be a failure or it might be something in the middle.
However it turns out it is history. You sit down and say “What is the most important thing to do now?” - because the world is not the same as it was 3 months ago.
So its not really a question of saying “Christmas is coming the therefore the Sales OKR is on and the Maintenance OKR is off”
It is more a question of saying “Today is September 30 and we need to set OKRs for October to the end of December. Christmas is our busy time and we need to serve our customers so OKR#1 should be about selling and shipping.”
You can play with the time frame so could say “For the coming quarter we will have 2 OKRs, one about fixing stuff up and one about the Christmas rush. For the first hals the fixing-up OKR is the priority but in the second half we will prioritise Christmas”
Does that help?
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That is a helpful calibration on what I was thinking, which was that OKRs could be turned on and off but you’re saying they are more or less perishable it sounds like.. and we should replenish rather than toggle them. thanks!
Yes, perisiable, transient, each one is written for now - they don’t repeat because in 3 months time it isn’t then+3 months