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Microsoft Viva Goals and OKRs after retirement

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Microsoft Viva Goals and OKRs after retirement

Viva Goals is retired: what it did, what happened to the data, and how to run OKRs in Microsoft 365 now with Planner, Loop, Viva Engage, and Power Platform.

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What Viva Goals did

An OKR tool has a narrow job that's harder than it looks: a hierarchy of objectives (the qualitative ambition) and key results (the measurable outcome), owned by people and teams, cascading from the company level down,…

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What happened

Microsoft announced the retirement in 2024 with a run-off period; the service ended on 31 December 2025. Export was available through the product before shutdown — OKR hierarchies, check-in history, and dashboards as CS…

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The options now

There's no first-party OKR product. There are four credible patterns.

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Choosing

Ask what Goals was actually doing for you. If it was a visibility tool for leadership, Loop or Planner is fine. If it was a management system with cascading targets and measured KRs, build on the Power Platform or buy a…

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The Copilot angle

Microsoft's implied answer to "where do goals go now" is agents: a declarative agent grounded on a Planner plan, a Loop workspace, or a Dataverse table can answer "how are we tracking against Q3" without a dedicated pro…

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