Setting goals and measuring performance to motivate continuous improvement and delivery.

Set goals, track progress and unleash a continuous cycle of delivery to increase performance all this enhanced by transparency. I got some learnings from the book “Measure what matters” by John Doerr and my own past experience with collaborators teams.

“Solve a problem. Build the solution. Talk to users”

Fine, fine, fine, ideas to solve a problem are important. However execution is everything, let’s explore an alternative methodology to structure yourself and team work to achieve a successful product and service delivery . A scalable method to be applied in the beginning of a venture and later stages: Measure what matters.

Translate the idea, vision and mission into actual actions that deliver the product and facilitate its development.

Methodology

Create Objectives, set goals:

• Set goals to achieve (realistic)
• Set goals to stretch (unrealistic)

*Note about stretch goals, only apply them if you lead high achievers otherwise good generate demotivation if constantly unmet.

Create Key Results to measure your progress and achieve the goals Divide into tasks. Update and track the progress and execution until achieved. Allow all participants to take part in each other's tasks or at least to acknowledge the colleagues focus of activity to give a hand as needed. Measuring something shows that you value it. Now you have learnt what OKR means.

At teamwork and when it comes to managing people and increasing performance also take a continuous approach tracking improvement and accountability:

• Conversations, exchange between manager and contributor aimed at driving performance.
• Feedback, bidirectional among peers to evaluate progress and guide future improvement.
• Recognition, appreciation to individuals for contributions of all sizes

Set goals, measure the progress through key results, create a continuous communication cycle and unleash the potential of ambition and transparency for competitiveness.

If you are looking for some tools for performance tracking check on Jira and Trello.