> teaching all devs on how to do devops within 2 months
Estimation based on initial guts should be quadrupled and rounded to the nearest quarter... so 9 months. This should provide a 90% percentile chance of success.
At my company, management has repeatedly said OKRs should target failure. So like if you think you can get a major feature set done in 15 weeks they want you to target 10.
I’m not a fan of it myself. The idea feels like growth hacking, but over many quarters it doesn’t feel great to always be falling short of goals. I always assumed this is part of the OKR model, but maybe it’s just my company.
By the next stage, you'll have products being delivered made up of 50 JIRA tickets with 250 bug tickets being moved to whatever your long term Maintenance and Support team is... but someone will get to play with themselves over the thought that it was delivered on time.
Estimation based on initial guts should be quadrupled and rounded to the nearest quarter... so 9 months. This should provide a 90% percentile chance of success.