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The hierarchy

On the OKR overview, you can see all of the OKRs objectives in your company in a hierarchy, including hierarchical structure. The hierarchy includes also the KRs of each objective. Thanks to the flexibility of the structure, you can create a multiply repeatedly nested hierarchy that will reflect the structure of your company’s OKRs, no matter the size.

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How to create hierarchical OKRs?

It’s the easiest if you The easiest way to do it would be to start from the top-level OKRs, but and then choose the higher-level objective when creating the sub-objectives. Of course, you can rebuild the structure later in other stages as well. Go through the example to get a picture of how can you use the hierarchy.

Example of an OKR hierarchy:
The Owner of company E. has set 3 top-level OKRs. The company OKRs for the company for next quarter. Company E. consists of the Tech tech department, operations department, and business department. Each department that have their own goals proposed by the managershas its own OKRs that contribute to the company’s OKRs. Each of them the department consists of 2-4 teams that have their goals proposed by team members and team leadersown goals that contribute to the department-level OKRs. People in the business department decided to have personal goals (that contribute to the team-level OKRs) as well, while members of tech and operations were skeptical and decided not to introduce them.

You can probably already see the structure of OKRs in company E. in your head. So how could you create such a structure in OKRs for Jira?

1. Create the top-level OKRs first. Create KRs for them if there are metrics that are not dependent on the lower goals.add screenshot

2. option A
   Add sub-objectives and KR’s directly underneath created objective in one go on the Created OKRs page.
   

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   option B
   Add sub-objectives and key results later on, from the OKR Overview. Simply hover over a top-level objective and click on the 3-dot menu. “Add sub-objective” and “Add key result” are one of the options avaialble.
   

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   option C
   Open each objective’s page. Click on the “Add child a new sub-objective” button on the top right side of the screen. Create child sub-objectives and add KRs for this level. Repeat the process level by level until you get the hierarchy you need.
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Filtering the

OKR overview by period

You can filter the OKR overview to look only at specific at the OKRs from the current period or to look at the past or planned OKRs. You can search for:

• your team’s top-level OKR to see all OKRs in your team

• objectives that have a percent of completion less/more than a certain % to identify what’s going well and where are you behind

• objectives of a certain status

• objectives of a certain owner

and more.

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You can also filter the Overview by any column Filtering the OKR overview is described further here.

Using the OKR overview in everyday work with OKRs

1. Meetings
   You can clearly see all dependencies between the OKRs on each level, the progress on each objective, as well as which KR is not being worked onand current statuses (provided that you update them on a regular basis). That makes it a perfect view to display or share on a bigger screen during the OKR review meetings on each level and as well as on planning sessions of the individual teams.
   

2. Planning the work
   Start planning your team’s work by looking at the OKRs overview. It will help you choose the right things to do firstfocus on.