How to set up tasks
Objectives and key results are relatively abstract, while tasks are specific. They are for achieving the key results, and the specific actions to be taken。
Key result: Reduce weight from 70 kg to 60 kg. Therefore, your tasks can include:
Doing 25 minutes of high-intensity interval training every day.
Having a vegetable salad for dinner on xx month xx day (a specific date within the period).
Swimming 1 kilometer every two days.
Unlike objectives and key results which need to be created uniformly at the start of the period, tasks can be created at any time during the ongoing period.
💡 Tip
In Vis, tasks are a concept outside of OKRs, meaning that tasks do not have any direct relationship with key results. The progress of tasks will appear in the periodic review, so it can serve as an important reference for scoring.
Attributes of the task
The task includes the following attributes:
Completion status: Completed and Not Completed
Completion time: The time when the task is checked off
Planned time: The time when the task is planned to be completed, and used for sorting the task list
Description of the contribution to key results
Repetition
The relationship between tasks and key results
The task is the specific thing to be done; the key result is the outcome you want to achieve by the end of the period.
Tasks are used to plan specific actions and times to achieve key results.
Tasks can have their own quantification methods, but they usually do not align with the quantification methods of key results.
The completion of tasks will not directly impact key results.
The status of task completion is an important basis for scoring key results.