This guide is your comprehensive walkthrough on adding and aligning your OKRs within Quantive. We'll navigate through the why and the how, ensuring that by the end, you're not just equipped with OKRs but are poised to make them the driving force behind your SaaS venture's success story. Video walkthrough The video below steps you through the process of adding and alining your OKR. If you'd like to know how to set up a session (a container) for the OKR, scroll to the beginning. Note that if you're working with us, it's likely we've already set this up for you! Step by step instructions ..read more

Running a SaaS company? It's exciting but tough. Two big concerns are usually on a founder's mind... How to bring in new business and how to increase the value of existing customers. These aren’t just passing worries. They are critical for growth and stability. You’re not the only one facing these challenges. Many SaaS founders are in the same boat. They juggle daily tasks, manage teams, and face tough competition. On top of that, customer expectations are always climbing. It’s a lot to handle. But, there’s a method to turn this chaos into a clear path forward. It’s called Objectives and Ke ..read more

In the heart of Silicon Valley, amidst a culture steeped in innovation and relentless pursuit of excellence, the narrative of a pioneering SaaS venture unfolds. At a juncture where growth seemed to plateau, the venture discovered a compass that reoriented its trajectory towards the zenith of success - the compass of Objectives and Key Results (OKRs). The SaaS landscape is a realm of endless possibilities, yet it comes with its fair share of challenges. Aligning cross-functional teams, maintaining a laser focus on long-term objectives amidst the whirlwind of day-to-day operations, and ensurin ..read more

No one likes being told what to do. Yet so often in business, that's exactly what we do. We talk to people in terms of what we’d like them to do. The problem is this drives a compliance mindset and a lack of ownership from the people who are taking on the work. There is a simple way around this that so many failed to use. It's called the problem statement. Problem statements are simply the articulation of what we need to solve. This passes the responsibility onto the individual team to solve that problem and drive a successful outcome. It’s a fundamental shift in mindset from just doing the w ..read more

Intuitively, you know it’s the right move. Aligning the entire business on specific key measurable outcomes delivers outsized return on the metrics you value most. Each team’s radical ownership of the outcomes flips them into a mode of constant value delivery. This mindset is what drives the value within some of the world’s largest organisations such as Intel, Google, LinkedIn, and many others. Unfortunately, while the decision is clearly logical, on occasion you’ll need to substantiate this for the purpose of government grants and other bureaucratic processes. A reality of business. So, if y ..read more

Coordinating work between teams is hard. We’ve all been there. We’re working towards a key priority for the business. To achieve it, we need multiple teams to work towards the same outcome. Sure, OKRs can help identify what teams are working on the OKR, but how do they actually coordinate their efforts. This is where the Scrum of Scrums ceremony comes in. It’s a forum we like to hold weekly or twice weekly with the leads of teams working towards the same mission or outcome. The leads include people like scrum masters, products managers, engineering managers and other senior stakeholders. This ..read more

Having worked with many clients across multiple industries, one of the big things I see teams struggle with is how best to slice stories. Effectively sliced stories improve story flow, increase value delivered, reduce rework, remove the assumed scope, and increase predictability. Many of these benefits come from the team collaboratively working together on customer-focused stories which deliver tangible business value. Getting this right is tough, with teams often splitting stories by layers of the system, such as into UI and APIs. With a little bit of knowledge of effective story-splitting p ..read more

We all know how important it is to foster the right culture at work. No doubt you've heard a lot of people talking about the need to set meaningful Values and Principles. But what does this actually mean and how does it impact your teams behaviours? No doubt you've been looking around for a clear answer and landed here hoping to find an answer!  Well we have you covered. Here's a simple comparison of the difference between Company Values, Principles and Behaviours. Use these guidelines to set the right values for your business and turn them into action with clear principles. First, some ..read more

What if you had the power to predict the future? Well, it might be closer than you think! Today I wanted to talk about a relatively complex topic: leading vs lagging indicators. The purpose of this article is to go a little deeper. What are leading indicators and why is it important to have them in your goal setting toolkit? What is a Leading Indicator? In plain English, a leading indicator is a short-term measure that predicts a future outcome. Think of it like the speed of your car towards a destination. While you don't know the exact time you'll arrive for sure, you can make an educated ..read more

Working together to achieve what matters most should be a priority for everyone right? Without alignment that's quite often not the case. Teams end up solving problems in isolation or are reliant on other teams to make progress and end up waiting endlessly. This challenge is a common reason why organisations turn to OKR. Particularly as they scale and the work becomes more complex. The problem is that OKR does not in itself solve the issue of alignment. It's the forums and discussions which draw out the right discussions which build alignment. Misalignment raises it's head in 3 ugly ways: Wa ..read more