Overview
By using the KR cascading feature, multiple team members can contribute to the achievement of one key result.
Cascading down a key result allows you to select in which child objective you want to create a contributing key result and also define the size of the contribution.
Prerequisites
The key result that you want to cascade down must be of type Should increase to or Should decrease to.
The Cascading and Contributing KRs need to of the same type (Should increase to or Should decrease to) and have the same Unit.
The Objective that you want to cascade into must be in the same session, or be a child objective.
Note: The objective does not need to be a child objective if it is in the same session
Procedure
Perform the following:
In the navigation pane, under OKRs, click All sessions.
Click the session whose key result you want to cascade down.
Click the Alignment tab.
In the VIEW section, select Include key results.
Expand the menu of the key result that you want to cascade down.
Click Cascade and a new screen appears.
Select the +Add Key Result button and in the first field choose the contributing OKR.
In the second input field, select the contributing key result.
In the third input field, notice the owner field will auto populate with the owner of the contributing child key result.
In the fourth target field, enter the amount you think the key result of the child objective will contribute to this key result.
For example, if the key result Should increase to 40 and you enter 20, this means that the contributing key result will only contribute 20% to the 40% target.
Click Cascade. Now when you update the contributing KR you will see the current progress of the contribution when hovering over the cascading icon.
NOTE: You can cascade down one key result into multiple objectives. The total of the contribution of all cascading key results should sum up to 100%, although you can configure it to be more.
