WorkBoard 
(https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=2737864-1&h=660552359&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wo
rkboard.com%2F&a=WorkBoard ), the Enterprise Strategy and Results Management 
market leader, today announced native integration with Microsoft Azure DevOps 
for its Enterprise Results Platform, further deepening its interoperability 
across the Microsoft suite of products.

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Already integrated with Microsoft Office favorites' Teams and Outlook, this new 
integration now empowers developers using Azure DevOps to take advantage of 
WorkBoard's leading Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) software within the 
software development and issue tracking solution.

As development teams manage their work in Azure DevOps, they can use 
WorkBoard's OKRs to quantify how they contribute to the organization's 
strategic priorities, clarify the "why" in their work and quantify its impact. 
WorkBoard gives everyone visibility into how development efforts align with 
company strategy and the progress toward measurable business outcomes.  

"Products are the core of any company's value to customers so it's crucial to 
align development and innovation efforts with the organization's strategic 
priorities. Of course, product teams are hungry to make a real impact on 
customers and their company as well -- so aligning and bringing objectives and 
key results into line of sight day to day is a real win for them as well as 
customers and the company," said Deidre Paknad, CEO and co-founder of 
WorkBoard. "This new integration with Azure DevOps brings OKRs and a structured 
way of really measuring the near-term business value of work into developers' 
experience as they manage that work in Azure DevOps."  

While the sprints and tasks in Azure DevOps help track what work needs to be 
done and team output, OKRs in WorkBoard measures and manages teams' business 
outcomes that work should drive. WorkBoard provides a common, transparent 
structure to align, define and measure results within product teams and across 
the array of teams in the customer value chain.   

With the new integration, WorkBoard provides a native user experience of OKRs 
inside the Azure DevOps product and allows users to identify work being tracked 
in Azure DevOps to update progress toward a key result automatically. Product 
team users can now:

    - Display OKRs defined in WorkBoard as a tab in the Azure DevOps 
      experience. 
    - See, navigate and comment on OKRs within Azure DevOps. 
    - Quickly update progress toward key results from within Azure DevOps. 
    - Automatically update key result progress in WorkBoard as work is 
      completed in Azure DevOps. 
    - Give the rest of the organization transparency on the objectives and 
      key results every product team is driving.

The Azure DevOps integration builds on WorkBoard's close relationship with 
Microsoft: 

    - Microsoft uses WorkBoard's Enterprise Results Platform for OKRs. 
    - WorkBoard's Enterprise Results Platform is also integrated with 
      Microsoft Office apps, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Planner and 
      Microsoft Teams, as well as GitHub. 
    - WorkBoard's deep integration with Teams is popular with both companies' 
      enterprise customers and allows management of OKRs through 
      conversations and brings WorkBoard views into Teams.M12, Microsoft's 
      venture capital arm, is an investor in WorkBoard and participated in 
      its last three rounds of funding.

WorkBoard is used by large enterprises and fast-growth companies to 
communicate, align, measure and achieve strategic priorities faster. While it's 
typically used across the entire enterprise, the capabilities development teams 
use most enable: 

    - Development teams to set clear and impactful objectives and key results, 
      including OKRs for the products, pods and squads that better match how 
      technology teams really work. OKR alignment and mirroring key results 
      across teams to continuously surface dependencies and see how work 
      contributes to the overall company growth and customer objectives. 
    - Automation of tedious operating and product review preparation, giving 
      everyone continuous transparency on the progress to strategic 
      priorities without the heavy reporting burden. 
    - Smarter and more productive group meetings and huddles with objectives 
      and key results on the agenda and tracking of decisions meeting to 
      meeting.

About WorkBoard:
WorkBoard enables large enterprises to thrive and respond in fast-changing 
markets by providing an Enterprise Results Platform that helps them align, 
measure, and drive strategic priorities rapidly. Comcast, Cisco, Cision, 
Microsoft, Samsung, Workday, Zuora, and others use  WorkBoard's OKR software 
and expertise to amplify and accelerate business results. WorkBoard also 
pioneered OKR coaching to help companies collapse time to success with the OKR 
methodology and has certified 1500 coaches using its proven playbook. Backed by 
Andreessen Horowitz, GGV Capital, Workday, and Microsoft's M12, and based in 
Redwood City, CA, WorkBoard is the enterprise standard for results. For more 
information, visit www.workboard.com or follow the company on Twitter 
@WorkboardInc ( 
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).

SOURCE: WorkBoard

CONTACT: Brad Hem for WorkBoard, brad@thedialoglab.com, +1 (281) 543-0669