How much good work have the people reading this thread had to trash because it didn't align with Q3 OKRs? How much time and energy did they put into garbage solutions because they had to hit a KPI by the last day of June?
This is a great point. We work with CERN on a project, and we're all volunteers, but we work on something we need, and contribute back to it wholeheartedly.
At the end of the day, CERN wants to give away project governance to someone else in the group, because they don't want to be the BDFL of anything they help creating. It allows them to pursue new and shiny things and build them.
There's an air consisting of "it's done when it's done", and "we need this, so we should build this without watering it down", so projects move at a steady pace, but the code and product is always as high quality as possible.
How much good work have the people reading this thread had to trash because it didn't align with Q3 OKRs? How much time and energy did they put into garbage solutions because they had to hit a KPI by the last day of June?