How it works

1. @Ishwar Gogineni runs this process every three months.
2. A couple of weeks before the end of the period, there is a meeting with all execs to come up with the objectives for each small team.
3. They will then propose draft key results for every team by creating PRs against the team pages, and there will be 1/1s with every team leader to discuss the context and to make edits as needed.
4. Each small team can change or propose alternate key results.
5. After the end of the period, each team should run a retrospective on their goals that includes a numerical score for each Key Result and a short reflection on both the Key Results and the overall Objective. This should be made public and shared with the whole company by creating PRs against the small team pages.

Why do we do this

• Sense of winning/losing - this bonds teams, increases urgency and creates satisfaction when we achieve things
• Clarifies our direction

Good goal setting

Use this template:

**## March/June/September/December 202x goals**

1. RootFi in the EU

Motivation: Unblock 1,000s of customers [link to data] who need to keep data in the EU but are not capable of self hosting.

**Key results**
  - 100 customers using EU cloud
  - 99% uptime
  - Time spent maintaining < 1 hour/week

• As few Objectives as possible - ideally, 1
• Motivation - explains why the objective is set
• Key Results that show if we're en route to achieving an Objective
• Objectives are simple
• Objectives are ambitious - they move the needle for RootFi
• Hitting an Objective is more important than hitting any Key Results