OKRs at Google

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We are happy to have Matthias Marschall and Marianna Semenova from Google joining us on April 10 to share their thoughts on OKRs and how they are used at Google. Looking forward to it:

"This talk is about OKRs - Objectives and Key Results - as a goal setting and tracking approach which helps to connect company, team, and personal objectives to measurable results, making people move together in the right direction.

OKR methodology allows teams to make sure that everyone knows what they are doing and why which leads to better results and more successful business, teams, employees.

We will talk about benefits of OKRs, how to get started with OKRs, how to structure OKRs to make them achievable and will give some useful tips and advice. We will introduce OKRs as a planning tool and share our experience of using it at Google."

Speaker Bios:

Speaker 1: Matthias Marschall, Engineering Director at Google

Matthias is the Engineering Director for Corporate Engineering in Munich. His teams provide a variety of tools to every Googler ranging from intranet search to business travel to a globally distributed file system. Prior to Google, Matthias was Managing Director and CTO of Stylight (acquired by ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE), co-CEO/CTO of http://gutefrage.net and CTO of http://autoplenum.de (acquired by ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE). In the early days of his career he built a collaboration platform for the real estate and construction industry at conject (acquired by Aconex). He authored two books on agile software development and infrastructure automation and taught a master's level course at the University of Augsburg about agile methodologies for eight years. Matthias has a Masters Degree in Computer Science from Munich University of Applied Sciences.

Speaker 2: Marianna Semenova, PgM at Google

As a program manager at Google, Marianna facilitates project-related communications to team members, leaders and other stakeholders. She balances multiple objectives and collaborates with product managers, designers and engineering teams to plan projects, define milestones, assess risks, and help projects meet deadlines. Before joining Google, Marianna held a COO position at Dev-Pro.net Ukraine, and was in charge of operations management, responsible for development, implementation, maintenance and improvement of the processes to ensure effective and smooth company operations. Marianna earned a bachelor's degree in Computer Science and a master's degree in Intellectual Property from the National Technical University “Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute” in Kharkiv.