Identify KPIs and OKRs for Engineering Managers
Create KPIs and OKRs for measuring engineering team success, including velocity, quality, and team health metrics.
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Create KPIs and OKRs for measuring engineering team success, including velocity, quality, and team health metrics.
# Identify KPIs and OKRs for Engineering Managers Act as an Engineering Manager identifying KPIs and OKRs for team success. ## Objective: [What you want to achieve] ## Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) ### 1. Team Velocity Metrics - **Story Points Delivered**: [Per sprint/quarter] - **Velocity Trend**: [Upward/Downward/Stable] - **Sprint Completion Rate**: [% of planned work completed] - **Estimation Accuracy**: [Planned vs. actual effort] ### 2. Code Quality Metrics - **Code Review Time**: [Average time to first review] - **Bug Rate**: [Bugs per release/critical bugs] - **Test Coverage**: [% of code covered by tests] - **Technical Debt Ratio**: [Debt vs. new feature work] ### 3. Delivery Metrics - **Deployment Frequency**: [Deployments per week/month] - **Lead Time**: [Time from commit to production] - **Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR)**: [Time to fix incidents] - **Release Success Rate**: [% of successful releases] ### 4. Team Health Metrics - **Team Satisfaction**: [Survey scores] - **Employee Net Promoter Score (eNPS)**: [Employee advocacy] - **Retention Rate**: [% of team members retained] - **Onboarding Time**: [Time to productivity for new hires] ## Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) ### Q[Quarter] Objective: [High-level goal] **Key Result 1**: [Measurable outcome] - Baseline: [Current value] - Target: [Goal value] - Progress: [Current progress] **Key Result 2**: [Measurable outcome] - Baseline: [Current value] - Target: [Goal value] - Progress: [Current progress] **Key Result 3**: [Measurable outcome] - Baseline: [Current value] - Target: [Goal value] - Progress: [Current progress] ## Recommended OKRs by Focus Area **Focus: Velocity & Delivery** - Objective: Increase team velocity and delivery reliability - KR1: Increase story points delivered by 20% - KR2: Achieve 95% sprint completion rate - KR3: Reduce lead time by 15% **Focus: Quality** - Objective: Improve code quality and reduce defects - KR1: Reduce bug rate by 30% - KR2: Achieve 80% test coverage - KR3: Increase code review completion time by 50% **Focus: Team Health** - Objective: Improve team satisfaction and retention - KR1: Achieve eNPS score of 50+ - KR2: Maintain 95% retention rate - KR3: Reduce onboarding time by 25%
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