Ally

The user interface is easy to use and navigate. The features are focused on OKR methodology and it doesn't try to be a tool that does everything else too.

There's not a lot to dislike about Ally. I think there are some improvements that can be made in reporting, with the approval workflows, and private OKRs, but I fully expect that they will continue to invest and improve the product to make it even better than it is today.

Mostly getting the entire company aligned to promote business growth and profitability and leverage our resources in a way that is more strategic.

Ally allows us to align and connect our employees to our business goals.

This gives a clear direction to every team and individual. This great tool allows the business to see each other's goals and how we all are contributing to our company objective.

This gives us an increase in productivity through clear focused goals.

With this, we track regular progress towards goals, and allows us to intervene when prompted too rather than too late if there are issues or delays.

Having this visibility allows us to make more effective and informed decisions about the next steps.

Ally allows you to measure, create accountability, and give all transparency on progress & failings.

Nothing in terms of current functions. A few additional features such as rounded up KPI KR into Objectives would be beneficial plus mandatory comment fields. These are purely suggestive thou.

Ally.io is a great tool for any business. This tool allows you to boost engagement and empowerment through goal-setting.

In one place across the company, you can define and measure team performance against clear objectives that feed into goals.

Ally.io will help you increase transparency between management and teams, this helps create a greater sense of shared accountability, transparency, and purpose.

Ally gives you a clear focus on company-wide ambitious objectives and allows each employee to see how their actions contribute toward the company's goals.

The tool ensures we keep a strong link between the strategy of an objective but also the and execution of it.

We create this link using the language of OKRs. Having aspirational, business outcomes does a couple of things. It creates something for teams to strive for and it sets a measurable result to aim at.

Having well-defined sprint goals can help, but OKRs with regular check-ins can be even more successful. Measuring iterative goals provides a feedback loop that helps align action to the outcome, rather than output.

If your teams are measured by their attempt to achieve outcomes, some teams will sandbag. They’ll set goals that are too easy to attain. Keep in mind that while OKRs inform annual reviews, by no means should they be the only input.

Finding the metrics that presage our desired outcome is not easy. It takes collective skill and collective will. OKRs help teams understand why they are so important. The regular check-ins and periodic setting of the key results depend on defining lead measures.

The way we can have hierarchical structure in OKRs, coming rom top down and can be distributed to lowest levels, is what I like the best. Having views of monthly and quarterly, seeing aggregation of OKRS at each level, gives you an entire view how the entire company is doing on the goals they have set at the start of year.

It feels a little bit slow. But it's not of that worry as it's not to be engaged every second of the day kind of app.

Always use the top down approach. Create OKR on company level, then go down. Try to avoid creating individual's KRs.

Tracking of OKRs of mine and my team. It gives me a full picture on how me and my subordinates are doing. Also, it gives me the view of other teams and verticals on how are they doing.

The ability to provide full transparency across the organization. There was a disconnect and we were able to bring everything under one application for all to see what the company is doing from employee to manager to C level.

At first, the UI was a little unorganized, but as releases came out, the application became more fluid.

If you are looking for an application that provides your organization with full transparency and ease of use, then Ally.io is the one to use. At my organizations we would use Confluence or Google Docs across various departments and there was not a way to really provide a complete overview and connect it all. Ally.io does just this for your organization and more. The ability to track progress and make sound check-ins provide managers and employees with the ability to have valuable discussions.

Company and Departmental goal visibility across the whole organization.

Benefits:

* All employees can see how their work provides value

* Managers can speak better to their direct reports on goals

* Transparency for the whole organization

As a current user of the product, we find Ally really useful in helping us monitor our OKRs. It's really easy to set up the OKRs, whatever the size of the team and have people monitor it themselves. Ally is simple to use and has lots of cool features that you can turn on or off including reminders to update your OKRS and also an overall weekly summary email on the interactions that week, which our CEO likes to check on to see how much people are engaging with it. Ally has an option to view some templated OKRs which has been really useful when we've been stuck or on sure how to format our OKRs, especially as they are broken down into job and team roles. Another useful feature is the ability to easily edit OKRs as you are going through the quarter. On occasion we may have worded them incorrectly or chosen an incorrect KR but with Ally it's really simple to edit and refocus on what you want to achieve for the rest of the quarter.

You do have to make sure that you have checked the time frame that you're monitoring. Occasionally we have misread this and started to enter OKRs before realising that it was monitoring it on an annual basis so we had to go into the settings tab to change this back to quarterly. We haven't fully utilised all the features so aren't necessarily interested in seeing them displayed

A transparent way of seeing and achieving our OKRs.