If you complete all the tasks but there is no improvement, it is not a success.
Success is improving something: happier customers, more sales, reduced costs. If you accomplish all of the tasks and there's nothing they can do, it's not success.
OKR author and thought leader Christina Wodtke has a great tweet about success:
Success is not checking a box. Success is making an impact.
So, despite the existence of the "Project Management ivory coast mobile database Triangle", the fact is that it is not enough to deliver a project on time, on scope and on budget. Projects must be delivered successfully - and that means the objectives that originally inspired the project must be achieved.
Your action plan is just a series of assumptions
The Lean Startup methodology teaches us that an idea is just an unvalidated hypothesis. Similarly, in the real world, we don’t know if our action plan will improve our results or add value to the organization. An action plan is just a hypothesis, so you can’t attach OKRs to an unvalidated bet.
When setting OKRs, focus on the goal, not the means to get there.
Objectives, key results and initiatives
When focusing on value, we need to separate the OKRs from the activities and tasks we plan to do to achieve them. This leaves us with three components:
Goal: What we want to achieve.
Key Results: How will we measure our progress?