Agile OKRs Training

Course 5203

  • Duration: Less than a day
  • Language: English
  • Level: Foundation

Create alignment and engagement around measurable, ambitious goals to advance strategic priorities and realize your vision. In this course, you'll discover why objectives and key results are so effective and how they allow agile teams to measure progress toward goals while preserving their ability to pivot in unpredictable, changing environments.

This course helps you earn the Scrum Alliance Agile OKRs microcredential.

Train your whole team by bringing this course to your facility.

  • Team training is available online and in-person.

Agile OKRs Training Information

Course Benefits

  • Upskill in one of the most popular and fastest-growing goal-setting frameworks
  • Get up to speed on the goal-setting approach used by today's largest, most successful companies
  • Align day-to-day operations of employees with corporate targets and top priorities
  • Create transparency, alignment, and engagement with goal-setting that leverages objectives and key results.
  • Upskill teams to successfully deliver strategy with objectives and key results.
  • Drive continuous improvement and learning with objectives and key results — an agile goal-setting approach.
  • Transform strategic plans into outcomes that provide a competitive edge in today's fast-paced markets.

Prerequisites

  • None, although some basic familiarity with scrum is recommended

Necessary Preparation

  • None

Exam Information

  • None

Agile OKRs Training Outline

Module 1: Goal Setting Fundamentals

  • Analyze the strengths and weaknesses of SMART goals compared to non-SMART goals.

Module 2: Strategic Planning and Alignment

  • List elements of strategic planning. 
  • Associate cascading goals to various departments based on the strategy scenario.

Module 3: Objectives and Key Results (OKRs)

  • Create an OKR set based on the strategy scenario.
  • Compare different OKRs based on the alignment of team-level goals to enterprise strategy.
  • Summarize the need for aligning OKRs through at least three alignment mechanisms.

Module 4: OKRs in Scrum and Antipatterns

  • Analyze the strengths and weaknesses of using OKRs within a scrum framework.
  • Illustrate at least two OKR antipatterns in your organization.

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Agile OKRs Training FAQs

  • Agile teams
  • Professionals from any industry
  • Scrum teams
  • Product owners
  • Scrum masters
  • C-suite leaders
  • Managers
  • Business owners

No formal prerequisites are required. However, some prior familiarity with scrum is helpful.

Yes, the cost of the microcredential is included.

Not at all. While Scrum originated in software development, this course includes examples from education, law enforcement, manufacturing, and hospitality to show how Scrum applies across industries.