goal-setting

Validate metric movability and analyze trade-offs to produce goal statements with milestones.

1|2|Updated Dec 3, 2025
One-click install
npx skills add https://github.com/jayhjenkins/ProductOSv0.2 --skill goal-setting-jayhjenkins
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Skill: goal-setting
Source: https://github.com/jayhjenkins/ProductOSv0.2/tree/main/.claude/skills/workflows/goal-setting
Command: npx skills add https://github.com/jayhjenkins/ProductOSv0.2 --skill goal-setting-jayhjenkins

SYSTEM DOCUMENTATION & REQUIREMENTS

What problem does it solve?

This Goal Setting Workflow helps product teams translate strategic ambitions into precise, measurable targets by validating movability and analyzing trade-offs, ensuring alignment across leadership, product, and engineering.

Core Features & Use Cases

  • Aligns metrics with the company North Star to maximize strategic impact.
  • Validates movability of a metric and estimates initiative impact across roadmaps.
  • Evaluates target scenarios (conservative, ambitious, moonshot) and generates a final goal with milestones and dependencies.
  • Use Case: A PM defines an OKR for user engagement and maps initiatives to achieve a clear, testable target within a quarterly horizon.

Quick Start

Define your metric and baseline, then run the three-step workflow: align north star, assess movability, and evaluate trade-offs to produce a final goal with milestones.

Frequently Asked Questions about goal-setting

High-intent search queries and answers about installing and using this skill.

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How do I set OKRs that align with my company's north star metric?▼

OKR alignment with your north star metric requires validating metric movability and evaluating target trade-offs across product roadmaps, generating a final goal statement with milestones and dependencies.

What is metric movability and why does it matter for goal setting?▼

Metric movability validation assesses whether planned initiatives can realistically impact a chosen target metric, preventing teams from committing to goal-setting targets that engineering roadmaps cannot actually shift.

How do I evaluate trade-offs between conservative and ambitious target scenarios?▼

Evaluating target trade-offs involves comparing conservative, ambitious, and moonshot scenarios against initiative impact estimates and resource assumptions, ensuring the final goal balances strategic ambition with engineering accountability.

Can I use this goal-setting workflow for quarterly product and engineering milestones?▼

Yes, this goal-setting workflow applies to planning quarterly milestones across product, engineering, and leadership teams, mapping initiative impact and dependencies to ensure accountability within a quarterly horizon.

What's the best way to structure a goal statement with clear dependencies?▼

Structuring a goal statement with clear dependencies requires running the three-step workflow to align north star metrics, assess movability, and evaluate trade-offs, outputting a final goal statement with milestones and defined resource dependencies.

When should I use proxy metrics instead of north star metrics for OKR planning?▼

Proxy metrics are selected for OKR planning when the north star metric is too broad for quarterly movability, allowing teams to define a testable target that validates initiative impact and maintains strategic alignment.