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NOkrs: The OKRs We Need
This is where Deborah Ko’s idea of “[NOKRs](https://www.thedecisionstack.com/r/f8121b6a?m=d3b56f53-a4f7-4f81-8602-71e6e9442206)” (“No KRs”) comes in—one of the simplest, smartest mental models I’ve seen in years. NOKRs ask: what are we *not* doing? What are we going to *remove*? What goals can we explicitly choose to *stop* chasing?
Why Less Really Is More: The Strategic Power of Subtraction
the Decision Stack
Based on this picture, these metrics can help you calibrate your progress:
- The total number of ideas evaluated per quarter (using, at minimum, ICE analysis and goals alignment)
- Number of ideas tested per quarter
- The number of ideas released per quarter
- Total number of tests and experiments conducted per month
- Percent of steps that generated learning (i.e., where we were able to rescore the idea and/or generate useful insights based on the evidence collected)
- Percent of ideas launched at least with a medium Confidence level (per the Confidence Meter)
- Percent of ideas released that generate measurable outcome improvements
The first four metrics are aligned with Linus Pauling’s observation that the way to have good ideas is to test many ideas.
Evidence-Guided
Itamar Gilad
The heartbeat of product discovery, the validated learning loop, is making sense of what we understand, exposing risks and building a test, testing, and then making sense of what we’ve learned.
The Continuous Product Improvement Cycle
jpattonassociates.com
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