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Growth threshold

Your engineering org hit 50 and <strong>informal alignment broke.</strong>

Hallway conversations worked at 30. Now you're at 50 heading to 150, and teams are shipping <strong>past each other.</strong> You need visible alignment before the next planning cycle.

For: CTOs & Engineering Leaders Company size: 51–200 Time to ship: One afternoon Reading time: 8 min
TL;DR

At 50 engineers, informal alignment breaks. You used to know what every team was building. Now you're finding out about conflicts in retros. OKRs give you <strong>visible priorities</strong> without adding meetings. Set up this quarter, get 60% adoption in 30 days, or your money back.

The situation

<p>You hired great people and gave them autonomy. That worked beautifully at 30 engineers across 4 teams. Everyone knew the priorities. Conflicts got resolved over lunch.</p><p>Now you're at 50, heading to 150. You have 8 teams, 3 engineering managers, and a platform team that keeps getting blocked by feature work. Last sprint, two teams built overlapping functionality. You found out in the demo.</p><p>The instinct is to add more syncs. More standups. More Slack channels. But you know that kills velocity. What you actually need is <strong>visible alignment</strong> — priorities everyone can see, with clear owners, updated weekly without you chasing anyone.</p>

Your four <strong>options</strong>

The <strong>playbook</strong>

    Real example · Sensys Gatso
    We were running OKRs in Confluence and it was a mess. Updates got buried, nobody could see what mattered. Moving to OKRs Tool gave us the visibility we needed without adding complexity.
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    Rudy
    VP Engineering, Sensys Gatso · came from Confluence
    What this looks like in OKRs Tool

    Built for engineering leaders who <strong>ship without meetings</strong>

      60% adoption in 30 days — or your money back

      Get visible alignment this quarter

      Set up in an afternoon. No procurement. No IT tickets.

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