OKRs for Engineering Teams: How to Set and Measure Development Goals
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McKinsey research on engineering effectiveness found that the highest-performing organizations share one trait: their engineering goals are explicitly connected to business outcomes. Yet most engineering teams write OKRs like "Improve code quality" with a key result of "Increase test coverage to 80%." That's not an OKR. That's a task with a number next to it. Good engineering OKRs connect technical work to business outcomes, and the right metrics make them actually measurable.