If you’re not familiar, the Stacks Foundation works off the OKR model (Objectives and Key Results). These are meant to be ambitious and difficult to achieve in the time allotted;
completing ~50% of the total work is considered successful in this model.
In general, there were several efforts we didn’t anticipate work on in Q3 that took time away from some of our original OKRs:
- Work to address congestion on the network and support communication/collaboration among various entities and core devs
- Work to support Stacks teams looking for liquidity options.
- Allocated more time for auditing and audit matchmaking to account for teams that needed some review, but did not need a formal 3rd party review by an external firm.
We’re pleased with the decisions to pivot, believe this work is greatly benefitting the ecosystem, and have rolled over any work that was impacted into Q4 and beyond.
As a team, we also reflected on the way we set OKRs this past quarter and realized we over-corrected to include likely too much specificity. The intent was to make sure work was captured and shared with all of you very transparently and in advance, but in reality many efforts evolve as work begins, so checking these off didn’t necessarily look how we initially imagined anyway.
Next quarter, we plan to dramatically simplify the KRs and capture related projects, campaigns, etc. under each major Objective instead of making them all a KR line item. We believe this will make it easier for everyone to follow as well as leave more wiggle room in terms of
how we end up approaching moving the needle on these efforts.
In the continued interest of transparency, we’ve shared details about ALL of the OKR-related work below. We realize this is a lot of information, but opt to share for those that want it and believe this is an important exercise to go through as one citizen in a much larger decentralized ecosystem. We look forward to reading similar updates from other Stacks entities, organizations, and individuals as we all seek to best collaborate openly.
For those looking for something quickly digestible, you’ll find this quick overview helpful: