WWG@School is the project through which WWG and a group of teachers at the Niccolò Machiavelli Institute in Pioltello, near Milan, brought OKRs, the goal-setting method used in technology companies, to third-year students: "Let's learn how to use OKRs" is a programme in which students learn to set an objective, measure it with key results and review it over time, applying it to school and personal projects. This page, published in July 2021, collects the press coverage; in 2026 we updated it with a summary of the project and a link to how WWG uses OKRs internally.
TL;DR
- OKRs, Objectives and Key Results, are a method for setting ambitious goals and measuring them with a few key results, reviewed at regular intervals.
- WWG uses them to define company goals bottom-up, starting from the teams, and in 2021 brought the method to a secondary school in Pioltello.
- The "Let's learn how to use OKRs" project is dedicated to third-year students and is part of the school's transversal skills and guidance pathways.
- It was covered by Repubblica Milano, ExpoFairs and Nuevo Periodico, and is documented on the school's website.
What is the "Let's learn how to use OKRs" project?
It is a programme for third-year students at the Machiavelli Institute in Pioltello in which WWG and the teachers teach students to use OKRs: choose an objective that matters, describe two or three measurable results that say whether it is being reached, check them at regular intervals and correct course. The method is applied to school projects and, if the students wish, to personal goals.
The project grew out of the experience of WWG, a software house with more than twenty years of activity that uses OKRs to turn strategy into daily actions, and out of the idea that learning to set and measure goals is a useful skill at any age. It is part of the institute's transversal skills and guidance pathways, documented on the school's website. (iismachiavelli.edu.it)
Why teach OKRs at school?
Because OKRs teach three things school rarely makes explicit: telling an objective from an activity, measuring progress with a few indicators rather than with the amount of work, and accepting that an ambitious goal reached at seventy per cent is a good result. They are the same things a development team learns by applying the method.
How WWG uses OKRs, and the most common mistakes of those who adopt them, are explained in our article on what OKRs are not. The school project is part of WWG's social commitment, formalised in 2023 when the company became a benefit corporation.
Would you like to bring a project like this to your school or company? Write to a WWG engineer at business@wwg.it.
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Objectives and Key Results: a goal-management method in which you set a qualitative, ambitious objective and measure it with two or three quantitative key results, reviewed at regular intervals, usually quarterly. Born in technology companies, it is used by WWG to define company goals starting from the teams.
It is the "Let's learn how to use OKRs" project, started in 2021 with a group of teachers at the Machiavelli Institute in Pioltello and dedicated to third-year students: they learn to set goals, measure them with key results and review them, applying the method to school and personal projects. It is part of the school's transversal skills and guidance pathways.
Repubblica Milano in its events section, ExpoFairs and Nuevo Periodico; the project is also documented on the transversal skills and guidance page of the Machiavelli Institute's website. The links are at the bottom of this page.
