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Think of the OKR hierarchy as a family tree for your company's goals. It shows how big, ambitious goals (like the company vision) break down into smaller, more achievable steps taken by different teams. The OKR Hierarchy view helps everyone see how their work contributes to the bigger picture.
Here's how you can use it:
Company view
By default, you’ll see all the top-level OKRs from the period you have selected on the Overview. (If no teams are selected, you’ll see the whole structure.) Now, you can dive deeper by expanding the tree to see everything that is planned for the selected period. You can zoom in and out using the buttons on the screen or your mouse/trackpad.
To explore the contributing elements of a top-level OKR, click the Show button on its card. The number of elements available for expansion is indicated. Collapsing the structure is achieved by clicking the Hide button.
Team view
You may want to consider selecting just one team or a few teams that work closely together to see how their OKRs are interconnected. To do this, simply choose one or more teams in the Team selector located at the top of the page.
After selecting a specific team, you will only see the OKRs belonging to this team within the chosen period. If you select multiple teams, all their top-level OKRs will be displayed on the same level. Check out some examples below:
Higher-level objectives of displayed OKRs are not visible unless the assigned team is also selected. In the future, we plan to provide an option to display higher-level and contributing elements of the filtered OKRs.
You can further refine your view by selecting a Label in the Label selector at the top, in addition to period and team. This will allow you to see only OKRs from a chosen period and team that are tagged with a specific label.
Exporting the View
Right now, the easiest way to export this view is by taking screenshots of the desired section of the page. We plan to provide an easy PDF export of this view this year. Please let us know via chat if you’d like to have this feature.