Avinash Rao is a Blackblot certified Master Product Management Professional (Master BPMP) with deep experience and expertise in DevOps and Lean Agile Transformations. Avinash is Kanban University KMP-2 Certified, a DASA Certified DevOps Coach, RF OKR certified Coach and DOI SRE Foundation certified. Avinash has 20+ years of demonstrated competencies in transforming client and internal organizations, leading and coaching for results, and in using Lean, Agile and Kanban techniques to deliver business value.

Avinash is a thought leader who speaks frequently in industry forums and has deep expertise in achieving Enterprise Agility

OKRs, Fast and Slow

OKRs are now a well established mechanism of keeping attention on Outcomes, and linking them to the activities performed by individuals, teams and departments. This sessions starts by introducing OKRs, covers how OKRs complement work tracking via Kanban boards and the LEAN mode of execution, and proceeds to ponder a key question that is on the minds of many OKR practitioners: how do we prevent short timeline Key Results taking over management attention, and capturing all the time available for optionality?

A variant of the 'urgent taking precedence over the important' problem, we see that critical long term Objectives suffer while attention is focused on Objectives driven by KRs with short timeframes. We will also look at how we can deliberately engage with the longer term Objectives (using Kahneman’s famous System 1 and System 2 framework), and how these should be modelled on Kanban boards.