OKR Board for Jira & Confluence Reviews

I'm absolutely delighted with the application! The assistance provided by [sensitive content hidden] has been invaluable, and I'm thrilled with the continuous improvement of the app. The overall experience has exceeded my expectations. Thank you for your dedication to enhancing user satisfaction.

It needs more costumization and implementmore features, but they are working on it!

Hi Youns, We truly appreciate your insightful feedback and kind words about our customer success efforts. Thank you for choosing OKR Board for Jira!

It is a very intuitive add-on, it allows you to create objectives underneath objectives with their own key result. Being in a company with a big objective ladder due to the areas, it gave us the freedom to create as many as needed to represent all the different areas and teams.

When we create lots of sub-levels the value does not add up into the main objective.

Hi Gabriela, We greatly appreciate your feedback. Understanding when OKR Board for Jira proves beneficial to you and where it could improve is invaluable to us. Thank you for sharing your insights!

The handling is pretty intuitiv. The management of KPI is easy.

It's a little bit expensive. The interaction with Jira could be more intensiv.

We appreciate your kind words and valuable feedback, Michael. Thank you for choosing OKR Board for Jira!

OKR Board for Jira is an overall great app that allows our teams to treat OKR's as their own entities vs nested as a Jira issue within the ecosystem. Not all of our KR's warrant a Jira issue and this app allows for that flexibility.

The only thing that we least like is being about to set a negative objective for KRs. We had to rewrite a couple of our KR's as greater than 10% vs less than 90%.

Hi James, we appreciate your review and are thrilled to hear that OKR Board for Jira became a game-changer for you and your company. Thank you for choosing us! Cheers, Oboard Team

One of the biggest things that kept drawing us back to OKR Board, when considering our options, was that it intuitively made sense to everyone we showed it to. We wanted something that didn't introduce a brand new platform that would be difficult to integrate into our existing ecosystem, but also still offered a valuable means of managing OKR maintenance, tracking, and reporting, to facilitate the entire organization adopting an OKR-based system of measuring and striving for success. OKR Board was clear as the best contender for this purpose, when considering all aspects: features, cost, and support/service.

The only area that we've noticed that we'd like to see a bit more improvement on is the amount of available reporting features. We'd like to see additional means of generating and presenting valuable reports for all levels of the organization. The dashboards and the ability to use JQL to query OKR items assists with this, but I believe that the product would benefit greatly by including some high-value, high-impact reports that can be generated and delivered as-is, or with customizations.

Thank you for sharing your positive experience, Ryan! Our team is committed to going the extra mile for our customers, and we’re glad to hear that it made a difference for you.

1.) The alignment view allows to visualize which OKRs (e.g., on team level) contribute to OKRs on the company level. Progress on the lower levels automatically shows on the higher levels if definied as such. 2.) Teams can share OKRs by contributing with individual KRs each pointing to the same objective. That enhances the strategy alinment throughout the whole organization.3.) OKR can be linked to tasks in JIRA. That helps to monitor if your everyday work really contributes to your goals.

The new options for custom dashboards in the app are quite cool, but currently they can not yet be shared with other users. We use the confluence-add on to monitor filtered sets of OKRS in shared dashboards for each team until that's the case.

We appreciate your kind words, Claudia. Thank you for taking the time and share your experience with OKR Board for Jira! As for the Custom Dashboards cons you've mentioned - we've updated this feature and now it's available for sharing, export (.pdf), and as a macro for OKR Board for Confluence. Cheers, Oboard Team

+ Easy to use+ Runs smoothly+ Easy to explain

- Integration of tasks (issues) below key results is tricky. It is necessary to do many clicks to get from the OKR board to the task and move it to next column/step in the process. Would be better if everything would be managed in one view, not a new tab for each task- from day 1 all indicators are red; naturally you're not going to fulfill all objectives right away; teams are confused that their key results lack behind. Should look less critical- The overview gets cluttered real fast when opening company objectives, team objectives, key results and initiatives. We are a small team but the view is impossible to keep track off when opening everything. We use filters but a bit more order would be great

Markus, thank you for taking the time to leave a review! We carefully read all the pros and cons you wrote and would like to offer you some workarounds for the inconvenience you experienced. Someone from our support team will contact you soon =) Best regards, Julia

- the tool is very well connected with OKRs Framework- insightful dashboards- nice UI/UX experience

There are no significant downsides.

Thank you very much for your review! We are glad to hear that our app is meeting your needs =)

I like the ease of use, the design and the way you can link Objectives and Key Results and Jira issues. I use it in my team, but also I always recommend it to our clients who are using Jira and would like to streamline OKR tracking and evaluation, and have great transparency.

There are minor improvements that can be done to multiple linkage, and what is great is that Oboard team is getting in touch and trying to implement changes.

Your positive review means the world to us! Thank you for choosing our app and for taking the time to share your feedback with others.

It's easy to use and implement, and provides alignment with goals to R&D stakeholders. Also, once implementing timelines, the gantt view really helps.

Filters can be improved, as if you select timeline H1, you don't see items marked with only Q1. Reporting would be great, for example, to see pies and charts based on labels provided.

Isaac, thank you for taking the time to share your feedback with us. From what we understand, you refer to the Alignment view, which indeed shows the whole OKR tree - parents and children together. If you need only the filtered OKRs to be shown you can switch to the List view. You can always search for answers on our helpdesk or reach out to support@oboard.io. Best regards, Julia

OKR Board helps us to visualize our objectives and we can follow up their progress easily. Low effort needed and easy UX. We use it on different levels within the company.

We don't have a negative experience with OBoard.

We appreciate your kind words about our app and are so glad to hear that it's meeting your needs. Thank you for sharing your positive experience!

We implement our strategy framework into it and start using from the first date. It is very beneficial to be able to see the our framework from high level to deepest KPI. Employees can easily see whatever information they want to see within the scope of their responsibilities.

Some performance problems: slowdowns after using for a certain period of time. (30 mins average) We believe this is because of about the browser cache.

Hi Kutlu, we appreciate your review and are thrilled to hear that you enjoyed OKR Board for Jira. Thank you for choosing us! Julia

The alignment view makes it easy to navigate through objectives

It is super difficult to manage, from an UX perspective, moving objectives around is cumbersome. Difficult to find the right parent once looking, it is slow when searching, it does not support proper comments, it generally takes a lot of work to maintain.

Hi Enrique, thank you for taking the time to leave a review. We're sorry to hear that you find the app hard to use. We would like to discuss your concerns further, so please expect an email from us shortly to address the issues you mentioned. Julia

We use it to track our company's objectives per quarter. The tool allows us to hierarchically define and track all our most important goals.

We have found it very confusing to use (UI/UX) and customize.

Hi Alejandro, thank you for your feedback. It is crucial for us to know when OKR Board for Jira is helpful for you and when it can perform better. If you have trouble customizing the board for your needs, please ping us at support@oboard.io and we will offer a solution or a workaround. Cheers, Julia

I like the revamped GUI. It's easy to get an overview of how your team's OKR are progressing. The GUI works well.Nice integration with existing Jira tickets.

GUI updates are a tad slow. I (still) miss a bulk update function, for instance update the due dates for 100 OKRs all at once, or after copying an OKR from one team member to someone else, change all assignees at once. These operations are very time-consuming.Also, when using a Jira ticket as a KR, the grade can be 0 or 100%, there is no space for partial progress.

Hi Joris, thank you very much for your feedback! In case, you need to change Jira issue grade manually we have a couple of workarounds described in this knowledge base note - https://oboard.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/OBPFJ/pages/896860161/How+to+change+Jira+issue+grade+manually Alternatively, you can always reach out to support@oboard.io and we will help you.

User friendly and easy to navigate and understand

cannot save default filters if you are not admin

Hi Vaheeda, this is Julia with Oboard. We really appreciate your positive feedback and are glad, that OKR Board for Jira brings value to you and your company. Regarding the filters - we are working now to add more options when working with filters, like saving or exporting the filter view into a pdf. Stay tuned for new updates coming soon 😊

The UX is very nice, and the feature set is pretty much what we currently need. Once we get settled, I'm sure we'll use more features that it offers - like the Roadmap feature. Getting started was incredibly easy! You can find the status of your OKRs in multiple places. You can nest Objectives and you can apply weights to your OKRs...that's HUGE for us!! Finally, this tool is the ONLY one that we trialed that has a Jira Dashboard Gadget...THANK YOU!

Mainly three things:1. The General Dashboard pretty useless. You want to click the summary tiles and drill down into the data, but you cannot. Instead, you need to use the Performance Report to really see what you want. Again, however, the UX makes you think you can click the summary tiles on the Performance Report...but you cannot and you have to use the clickable links in the data set below the...

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Hi Jeffrey, thank you for your valuable feedback! We are glad you are happy with OKR Board for Jira and that it satisfies most of your needs. You are right, our product documentation needs work, so we are creating an extensive knowledge base for our clients now. Best regards, Oboard Team