Engineering Manager OKRS

OKRs

Goal: Improve your management skills

KRs:

Give at least 1 piece of actionable feedback a month to every direct report
Get at least 1 piece of actionable feedback a month from every direct report
Have at least one career conversation with each report per month
Action on the feedback you received and review your progress with your team
Meet with a management coach/mentor this quarter

Goal: Be a great manager

KRs:

Put people over process (E.g. organize a quarterly party to celebrate milestones)
Put action over analysis (E.g. Ensure retro actions are followed)
Put performance over presence (E.g. Ensure every reportee has documented OKRs and check in meetings scheduled)
Put listening over speaking (E.g. 50% of agenda items from direct reports, arrrange area wide leads catchups)
Put will over skill (E.g. Arrange a monthly coaching session with your team)

Goal: Execute with high output and quality

KRs:

Bugs reported down to 10% for the team (or other quality metrics)
Unit test coverage at 85% for all new code
Velocity at 50 story points per sprint
Release to production every week

Goal: Coach and develop the team

KRs:

Increase sprint capacity by 15%
Ensure the burndown chart is accurately sloping downward each sprint avoid cliff hangers
Have individual developers improve their code review turn-around time by 25%
Help promote 1 of your direct reports to the next level on their career development journey

Goal: Build a team of high performing engineers

KRs:

Attend 1 technical meetups a year to find and attract top talent
Hire and onboard 2 intermediate-to-senior engineers this quarter
Have performance review check ins with each of your direct reports by the end of the quarter
Ensure no engineering team member is low performing
Schedule monthly coaching sessions with each of your direct reports eg joining working groups, tech talks etc

Goal: Ensure team’s technical proficiencies

KRs:

Ensure the platform infrastructure has 100% uptime for the quarter eg Kibana dashboards
Complete infrastructure migration to Kubernetes
Each project should have 100% technical documentation aka readMes with implementation diagram completed
Ensure that each team member has contributed in migration a projects onto new CI/CD pipelines