/okrs-from-strategy
OKRs from Strategy
Convierte una estrategia anual en OKRs trimestrales: 3-5 objetivos, 3 KRs medibles cada uno.
SKILL.md
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name: okrs-from-strategy
description: Translate a written annual strategy into quarterly Objectives and Key Results. Each Objective is qualitative and ambitious; each Key Result is quantitative and verifiable. Limit to 3-5 Objectives per quarter, 3 KRs each. Reject vanity metrics. Pairs with Andy Grove's HPM and the Doerr/Wodtke OKR practice.
---OKRs from Strategy
OKRs done right are not "goal lists" — they're a forcing function to translate vague strategy into something a team can execute and stakeholders can measure.
When to use this skill
- Start of a quarter, after a board offsite or strategy doc.
- When a team is "busy but not aligned" — usually a symptom of missing OKRs.
- Re-aligning after a pivot.
The rules
- Objective: qualitative, ambitious, time-bound, memorable. "Make the onboarding world-class" — not "Increase activation rate to 60%".
- Key Result: quantitative, verifiable, deadline-bound. "Activation rate from 38% to 55% by end Q2" — not "improve activation".
- 3-5 Objectives per quarter, 3 KRs each. More than that = no priority.
- 70% achievement is success. If you hit 100%, the targets were too soft.
- No vanity metrics as KRs. Page views ≠ a KR. Sign-ups without activation ≠ a KR.
Process
- Read the strategy doc.
- Extract the 3-5 most important bets for this quarter.
- For each bet, write one Objective in user/customer language ("we will…").
- For each Objective, ask: "What 3 numbers would be true if we won?"
- Each number = one Key Result. Include start value, target value, deadline.
- Verify: every KR has an owner, a tracking source, and a check-in cadence.
- Verify: cutting any KR doesn't change whether we'd say the Objective was a win.
Output format
# Q{N} {YEAR} OKRs · {Team}
## O1 — {qualitative objective}
{1-sentence why}
KR1 — {metric} from {start} to {target} by {date} · owner: {name}
KR2 — {metric} from {start} to {target} by {date} · owner: {name}
KR3 — {metric} from {start} to {target} by {date} · owner: {name}
## O2 — ...
...
## Out of scope this quarter
- {explicit list of important-but-not-this-quarter}Anti-patterns to reject
- "Improve X" without target → not a KR.
- "Launch Y" without metric → that's a project, not a KR. (KR could be "Y delivers $50K ARR within 30 days of launch".)
- 7+ KRs per Objective → priority diluted.
- KR-as-task ("Hire a CRO"). Hiring is the input. The KR is the outcome the hire enables.
- Top-down OKRs the team didn't shape → no commitment.
Cadence
- Weekly: each owner posts a 1-line progress note.
- Monthly: full review, recolor red/yellow/green.
- End of quarter: write the post-mortem before writing the next quarter's OKRs.
Constraints
- Output in the user's language.
- Don't invent metrics — flag missing data instead.
- If the strategy doc is too vague to derive OKRs, return early and ask the 3 sharpest questions needed.