We are delighted to announce that you can now link your Key Results to work items such as Stories or Epics from your project tracking tools. 🥳
Why is this important?
OKRs are not meant to be static, nor should they be considered in isolation. The day-to-day work done by the team should be linked with the organization goals as well.
Teams and individuals already use their tools of choice to update their progress. It is unfair to expect them to update KR status additionally.
Keeping this in mind, Axon now supports linking your KRs with work-items. As an when the work-item progress, the linked KR also progresses proportionally. With no additional input needed.
How do I use this?
You can link the KR with an work-item when you create the KR or at any later point. The short clip below shows one such example...
As you can see it takes a few seconds!
FAQs about Linking OKRs with Jira
What can I link with?
At this point you can link OKRs with JIRA tickets such as an Epic, Story, or Task. Sub-tasks are not supported. Support for work-items from other tools will be added shortly.
Note that the work-item should be in "open" state. Closed tickets will not appear in the list of tickets to link with.
How is the progress calculated?
Can I link an Objective as well?
Can I manually change the progress for a linked KR?
Can an Objective have a combination of linked and manually updated KRs?
Can I link a KR with some Jira Metrics like no. of Open Defects?
How do I know that a KR is linked?
Can I link multiple KRs with the same work-item?
I don't see the option to link a KR. What may be the problem?