Rerun: OKRs can be simple - Storm Fagan on The Product Experience

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Aug 16, 2023

Storm Fagan, Chief Product Officer at the BBC and formerly at JustEat, shares her insights on implementing OKRs effectively. She discusses the challenges of scaling OKRs in a big company, the importance of simplicity, and the effectiveness of OKRs for different projects. She also explores strategies for setting effective objectives, collaboration within organizations, and improving diversity in product teams.

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Introduction

00:00 • 3min

Implementing OKRs in a Large Organization

02:34 • 13min

Developing Product Management Skills and Setting Effective Objectives

15:19 • 4min

Setting OKRs Within an Organization

19:27 • 10min

Strategies for Diversity and Inclusion in Product Teams

29:26 • 3min

The Power of Simple OKRs

32:45 • 2min

Rerun: OKRs are a simple concept — but deceptively hard to get right. There’s an awful lot of horror stories about implementations gone wrong, along with any number of gurus and guides on how to get it right. Storm Fagan — now the Chief Product Officer at the BBC, formerly at JustEat — joined us on the podcast to break down how she made OKRs scale at a big company by keeping them simple. (Hint: that wasn’t her first approach.)

Featured Links: Follow Storm on LinkedIn and Twitter | Work with Storm at the BBC | Just Eat | 'How to write OKRs that don't suck' MTP piece by Adrian Howard

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Lily Smith enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. She’s currently Chief Product Officer at BBC Maestro, and has spent 13 years in the tech industry working with startups in the SaaS and mobile space. She’s worked on a diverse range of products – leading the product teams through discovery, prototyping, testing and delivery. Lily also founded ProductTank Bristol and runs ProductCamp in Bristol and Bath.

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