// anti-pattern

"Launch the feature" is not a Key Result.

Task-based Key Results (e.g. "launch the feature") are an anti-pattern, they measure activity, not outcome (the Activity Trap). Tasks belong in Initiatives, Process Commitments and Experiments instead.

To convert a task into an outcome, ask: What would be different if we succeed? How would we know we've made an impact? What problem are we really solving? Or: "It's 3 months from now and we've succeeded, what changed, what metrics moved?" See Outcome Thinking.

Martin's Law II is the sharpest argument here: The Customer Is the Only Judge, "initiative completion" is internal theatre unless customer behaviour changes.

From the ZOKRI OKR Handbook, the methodology we install and maintain.

// connected concepts
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// put it to work

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