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Quarterly OKR Planning Doc

OKRs set in isolation drift from the company's actual priorities. This planning doc fixes that by starting where good planning starts: scoring the quarter that just ended, restating the company priorities the team must support, and only then drafting. Use it live in the planning session so the retrospective, the debate, and the final commitments all live in one place anyone can trace later.

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Quarterly OKR Planning

OKR Planning

Team: ____________________
Quarter: Q__ ______
Use this live in the planning session
Retrospective, draft, debate, and commitments all in one place
Start with last quarter's scores, restate company priorities, then draft

Step 1

Last Quarter Review

Objective	Final score / 1.0	What we learned
Make onboarding effortless	0.7	Self-serve worked; docs lagged
____________________	____	____________________
____________________	____	____________________
Carry over? (yes/no, why)		____________________

Step 2

Context for This Quarter

Company priorities this team must support:
Example: Hit 1,200 active accounts company-wide
Priority: ____________________
Known constraints (capacity, dependencies, risks):
Example: Two engineers out on leave in month two
Constraint: ____________________

Step 3

Draft Objectives

Brainstorm candidates, then cut to the 2 to 3 that matter most
Candidate: Make activation feel instant for new admins
Candidate: Turn pilots into paying accounts faster
Candidate: ____________________
Candidate: ____________________
Cut to the few that matter: ____________________

Step 4

Candidate Key Results

Objective	Key result	Baseline	Target
Activation feels instant	Day-1 activation rate	48%	70%
Activation feels instant	Time to first plan	3 days	1 day
____________________	____________________	____	____
____________________	____________________	____	____

Step 5

Dependencies and Alignment

Each Objective links up to which company priority?
Example: Activation Objective supports the 1,200 accounts priority
Link: ____________________
Any Key Result with no work behind it yet? ____________________
Cross-team dependency to confirm: ____________________

Step 6

Commitments

Objective	Owner	Confidence
Activation feels instant	A. Lee	Medium
Pilots convert faster	R. Diaz	High
____________________	________	________
____________________	________	________

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How to use this template

Start with last quarter's scores. Planning without a retrospective repeats the same mistakes at a higher confidence.
Write the company priorities this team supports before drafting, so the OKRs are aligned by construction, not by hope.
Brainstorm broadly, then cut hard to two or three Objectives. The cut is the planning, not the brainstorm.
End on the alignment check: every Objective links up to a priority, and every Key Result has work behind it.

Frequently asked questions

How long should OKR planning take?

For a single team, a focused 90-minute session using a doc like this is usually enough once last quarter is scored beforehand. Company-level planning that others cascade from needs longer.

Should OKRs be top-down or bottom-up?

Both. Leadership sets the company priorities; teams draft their own OKRs that support them and negotiate back any that are unrealistic. That negotiation is what creates real ownership.

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