Introducing Teams and Cycles in OKR Dash

In July 2024, we introduced two foundational concepts to OKR Dash: Teams and Cycles.

These additions were about more than structure. They were about making OKR Dash better reflect how organisations actually operate.

Teams: clarity of ownership

As organisations grow, ownership becomes harder to see. OKRs can exist, but it is not always clear who is responsible for moving them forward.

Teams solve this by grouping users together and allowing OKRs to be assigned directly to those teams. This makes it immediately clear:

• Who is working on an Objective or Key Result
• Which group owns progress and outcomes
• How work is distributed across the organisation

Teams bring accountability and visibility without forcing work into artificial hierarchies.

Cycles: flexible time horizons

Cycles define the time period in which OKRs live.

Rather than hard-coding a specific cadence, cycles are fully configurable by each customer. Most organisations use quarterly cycles, but OKR Dash supports any structure that fits how you plan and review work.

Cycles make it easy to:

• Group OKRs by planning period
• Compare progress across cycles
• Maintain a clean separation between past, current, and future work

Modelling the real world

Together, Teams and Cycles allow OKR Dash to model reality more closely.

Work happens within teams. It happens within time-bound planning periods. By making both first-class concepts, OKR Dash provides a clearer picture of what is happening, who is involved, and when outcomes are expected.

These structures laid the groundwork for many features that followed, and continue to shape how organisations use OKR Dash to track progress with confidence.

Teams and Cycles have been available to all OKR Dash customers since July 2024.