3 OKR examples for Disaster Recovery
What are Disaster Recovery OKRs?
The OKR acronym stands for Objectives and Key Results. It's a goal-setting framework that was introduced at Intel by Andy Grove in the 70s, and it became popular after John Doerr introduced it to Google in the 90s. OKRs helps teams has a shared language to set ambitious goals and track progress towards them.
OKRs are quickly gaining popularity as a goal-setting framework. But, it's not always easy to know how to write your goals, especially if it's your first time using OKRs.
We've tailored a list of OKRs examples for Disaster Recovery to help you. You can look at any of the templates below to get some inspiration for your own goals.
If you want to learn more about the framework, you can read more about the OKR meaning online.
Best practices for managing your Disaster Recovery OKRs
Generally speaking, your objectives should be ambitious yet achievable, and your key results should be measurable and time-bound (using the SMART framework can be helpful). It is also recommended to list strategic initiatives under your key results, as it'll help you avoid the common mistake of listing projects in your KRs.
Here are a couple of best practices extracted from our OKR implementation guide 👇
Tip #1: Limit the number of key results
Focus can only be achieve by limiting the number of competing priorities. It is crucial that you take the time to identify where you need to move the needle, and avoid adding business-as-usual activities to your OKRs.
We recommend having 3-4 objectives, and 3-4 key results per objective. A platform like Tability can run audits on your data to help you identify the plans that have too many goals.
Tip #2: Commit to the weekly check-ins
Having good goals is only half the effort. You'll get significant more value from your OKRs if you commit to a weekly check-in process.
Being able to see trends for your key results will also keep yourself honest.
Tip #3: No more than 2 yellow statuses in a row
Yes, this is another tip for goal-tracking instead of goal-setting (but you'll get plenty of OKR examples below). But, once you have your goals defined, it will be your ability to keep the right sense of urgency that will make the difference.
As a rule of thumb, it's best to avoid having more than 2 yellow/at risk statuses in a row.
Make a call on the 3rd update. You should be either back on track, or off track. This sounds harsh but it's the best way to signal risks early enough to fix things.
Building your own Disaster Recovery OKRs with AI
While we have some examples below, it's likely that you'll have specific scenarios that aren't covered here. There are 2 options available to you.
- Use our free OKRs generator
- Use Tability, a complete platform to set and track OKRs and initiatives
- including a GPT-4 powered goal generator
Best way to track your Disaster Recovery OKRs
Your quarterly OKRs should be tracked weekly in order to get all the benefits of the OKRs framework. Reviewing progress periodically has several advantages:
- It brings the goals back to the top of the mind
- It will highlight poorly set OKRs
- It will surface execution risks
- It improves transparency and accountability
We recommend using a spreadsheet for your first OKRs cycle. You'll need to get familiar with the scoring and tracking first. Then, you can scale your OKRs process by using a proper OKR-tracking tool for it.
If you're not yet set on a tool, you can check out the 5 best OKR tracking templates guide to find the best way to monitor progress during the quarter.
Disaster Recovery OKRs templates
We've covered most of the things that you need to know about setting good OKRs and tracking them effectively. It's now time to give you a series of templates that you can use for inspiration!
You'll find below a list of Objectives and Key Results templates for Disaster Recovery. We also included strategic projects for each template to make it easier to understand the difference between key results and projects.
Hope you'll find this helpful!
OKRs to implement disaster recovery plan with RTO under one hour
- Increase disaster recovery efficiency
- Provide training on disaster recovery procedures to all relevant staff
- Evaluate effectiveness of training and adjust as necessary
- Identify key stakeholders for disaster recovery training
- Develop customized training plan and materials
- Schedule and conduct training sessions
- Conduct disaster recovery test bi-monthly
- Conduct test scenario walkthrough with all relevant stakeholders
- Prepare disaster recovery plan documentation
- Analyze results, identify gaps, and update disaster recovery plan accordingly
- Execute disaster recovery test to validate plan and processes
- Reduce RTO to under one hour
- Improve network bandwidth and reliability
- Implement automated backup system
- Test Disaster Recovery Plan regularly
- Increase server redundancy
- Ensure all critical systems are covered in the recovery plan
- Identify all critical systems
- Develop recovery strategies for critical systems
- Determine the impact of system downtime
- Test the recovery plan for critical systems
OKRs to enhance stability and resilience in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)
- Enhance stability and resilience in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)
- Improve disaster recovery success rate to 95% by enhancing resiliency plans
- Develop and implement improvements to increase plan resiliency
- Regularly test and adjust plans as necessary
- Perform a thorough assessment of current disaster recovery plans
- Reduce average client-side VDI errors by 20% through software updates and troubleshooting guides
- Train clients on using troubleshooting guides
- Develop comprehensive troubleshooting guides for common errors
- Implement regular software updates on client-side VDI systems
- Decrease system downtime by 30% through infrastructure optimization and redundancy implementation
- Conduct a comprehensive assessment of the existing infrastructure
- Optimize system operations for improved functionality
- Implement redundancy systems to assure uninterrupted operation
OKRs to improve the Disaster Recover process
- Have a world class DR process
- Increase the number of DR tests from 1 to 3 per quarter
- Reduce recovery period from 24h to 12h
- Reduce recovery point objective from 12 business hours to 4 business hours
More Disaster Recovery OKR templates
We have more templates to help you draft your team goals and OKRs.
OKRs to boost the company's overall revenue OKRs to develop paid acquisition channels OKRs to deepen WIMU penetration in Latin America using the marketing-influenced deals approach OKRs to enhance efficiency and speed of the help desk process OKRs to drive stakeholder UX comprehension and increase customer engagement in decision-making OKRs to develop and implement an efficient cloud strategy
OKRs resources
Here are a list of resources to help you adopt the Objectives and Key Results framework.
- To learn: Complete 2024 OKR cheat sheet
- Blog posts: ODT Blog
- Success metrics: KPIs examples