# Learn the method. Then run your OKRs on it.

> Learn the method, then run your OKRs on it. The OpenOKR handbook, one company's year of OKRs step by step, the documentation, the API reference and every release note.

This is the Markdown version of https://okrgoal.com/resources

*Resources*

Everything we know about running OKRs well, written in plain English, and everything you need to install, run and extend OpenOKR.

*Learn the method*

## The OKR handbook.

For the people running your organisation's OKRs, not the people building the software. The thresholds on its numbers page are checked against the product on every change, so those numbers cannot drift from what OpenOKR enforces.

### [Writing objectives and key results](https://github.com/open-okr/open-okr/tree/main/docs/handbook)

What a good one looks like, and the checks that fire on a bad one.

### [The weekly rhythm](https://github.com/open-okr/open-okr/tree/main/docs/handbook)

The four-step session, blockers, commitments, and what happens between sessions.

### [The quarterly cycle](https://github.com/open-okr/open-okr/tree/main/docs/handbook)

Eight phases, the publish gates, scoring and the closing diagnostic.

### [The numbers](https://github.com/open-okr/open-okr/tree/main/docs/handbook)

Every threshold the method runs on, and where each comes from.

### [Ways of working](https://github.com/open-okr/open-okr/tree/main/docs/handbook)

Four shapes of organisation, mapped onto spaces, cycles and initiatives.

[Read the handbook](https://github.com/open-okr/open-okr/tree/main/docs/handbook)

**Go further with OKR Institute.** For the people who lead OKRs in your organisation, OKR Institute's certification path goes from Foundation to Practitioner (C-OKRP®), Leader (C-OKRL®), Chief OKR Officer (C-OKRO®) and Professional (C-OKRPro®).

[See the courses](https://okrinstitute.org)

*See it in use*

## A year of OKRs at Northwind.

One invented company's full year in OpenOKR, from a pilot in the autumn to the year-end close, with a rollout, a competitor, a crisis, a reorganisation and a leader on leave along the way. Read it straight through, or sign in to the demo and see it live.

[Read the Northwind year](https://github.com/open-okr/open-okr/tree/main/docs/scenarios/northwind-year) · [Open the demo](https://demo.okrgoal.com/)

*Run the product*

## Documentation.

### [Install](https://github.com/open-okr/open-okr/tree/main/docs)

One server, Kubernetes, the first run, upgrades and the air gap.

### [Administer](https://github.com/open-okr/open-okr/tree/main/docs)

People, security, settings, backups and operations.

### [Use](https://github.com/open-okr/open-okr/tree/main/docs)

A guide for members, champions, coordinators and facilitators.

### [Integrate](https://github.com/open-okr/open-okr/tree/main/docs)

Tokens, scopes, the REST API reference, the command line and the agent surface.

**Also:** [METHOD.md](https://github.com/open-okr/open-okr/blob/main/docs/specification/METHOD.md), the full method. The specification, for anyone who wants to know why it is built the way it is.

## What is new

### Changelog

Every release and what changed, from the release notes on GitHub. Subscribe with the repository's [release feed](https://github.com/open-okr/open-okr/releases.atom).

Latest release **v0.5.0** [Changelog](https://github.com/open-okr/open-okr/releases)

### Blog

Method, product and releases. Three kinds of post: how to run OKRs better, how a feature works and why, and what shipped.

*For machines*

## Readable by your agent, too.

### [`/llms.txt`](https://okrgoal.com/llms.txt)

A plain-text map of this site and the docs, for AI agents and search tools.

### The OpenAPI document

Served live by every instance, so it describes the version you run.

### [METHOD.md](https://github.com/open-okr/open-okr/blob/main/docs/specification/METHOD.md)

The whole method as one document an agent can read.

## Questions the docs do not answer?

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OKRGoal, from OKR Institute. A map of this site for AI agents: https://okrgoal.com/llms.txt